Tag: browser
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Favorite Chrome Extensions (Nov 2022)
Google Chrome continues to be my preferred web browser in late 2022. For the past couple years, I’ve been using a school-provided MacOS M1 MacBook Air laptop as my “daily driver” computer. Back in June 2015, I wrote the post, “Seven Indispensable Google Chrome Extensions.” This is my update for November 2022, seven years later!…
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Friends Don’t Let Friends Use the Edge Web Browser (or Bing for Search)
This past week at school, I accidentally clicked a bad link while setting up a fresh installation of Windows10. This dramatically highlighted how easy it is for someone today to accidentally install malware or adware on a computer, and why friends shouldn’t let friends use the Edge Web Browser or the Bing search engine by Microsoft.…
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Seven Indispensable Google Chrome Extensions
For many years I’ve used multiple web browsers on my laptop computers because each one offers different advantages. My two primary browsers today, on both my Mac laptop as well as my iOS devices (iPhone and iPad) are Google Chrome and Safari. Since Safari is the default iOS browser, I end up using it the…
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Web Browser Options #gct
I have shared the following information as a resource page on my “Technology 4 Teachers” curriculum wiki. Internet Explorer is NOT the only software option when it comes to viewing websites on the Internet. Websites SHOULD be designed to be standards-compliant, but sometimes they are not and display content differently in different web browsers. The following 69…
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Podcast296V: Introducing and Explaining Travians, A Free Online Simulation Game (by 11 year old Alexander)
This podcast is a 57 minute screencast recorded by 11 year old Alexander, giving an in-depth introduction to the online browser game Travians.com. Travians is different from the singular Travian game, which he has discussed in two previous podcasts (linked in these shownotes) and is more of a simulation game rather than a team-based warfare…