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Tab Cloud Chrome Extension

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How many tabs do you have opened in your browser?  Yes, I'm asking you right now; how many tabs? I personally have quite a few: Perhaps the Tab Cloud extension could be helpful to you.   Here is how it works: You are at work and you have several tabs opened on your Chrome browser that you are working on.  It's time to go home and you want to continue working with the same sites you have opened when you get home.  Or perhaps you are taking a night off and you want to come back to the same tabs the next day.  The Tab Cloud extension will save your opened tabs for you and allow you to reopen them another time and place.  Even on a different computer! To get the extension, visit the Chrome Web Store and search for Tab Cloud.  A quick way to find extensions is to click on the extensions tab at the top. Once installed, you simply need to click on the Tab Cloud extension in your extensions bar to save the tabs you have opened...

Turn off the Lights

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Have you heard about the Chrome extension called Turn off the Lights?  I just heard about this from my friend Tim Nielsen of Innovative Educator Consulting .  Thanks, Tim! Turn off the Lights is used with You Tube videos and it's purpose is to block out everything except for the video.   Usually your screen would look like this if you opened a You Tube video: With the extension it looks like this: or this: or this: Turn off the Lights allows the user to change the look and feel of how the background appears.  In the top screen capture I have a plain black background, in the middle one I have changed the background to pink, and in the next screen capture I have animated bubbles in the background.  I can also change the opacity of the background like this: or this: Turn off the Lights is very easy to install and use.  Simply visit the Chrome Web Store and search for Turn off the Lights .  After the extension is inst...