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How to Actually Open a New Google Doc Quickly
“I’m always doing some terrible workaround to try to get to Docs quickly,” our Senior Technology Editor Jake Peterson told me this morning. “It’s never quick.” But science has now accomplished what we all thought was impossible: an actually fast, simple way to open a blank Google document when you need one. And best of…
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This Chrome Extension Quickly Creates Flashcards Based on Any Article or Video
Flash cards are an effective memorization tool, as any test-taker well knows. And if making physical flashcards is useful, why not make them online? The next time you find yourself getting stuck while trying to glean the most important information from a long YouTube video, a dense PDF, or a bunch of articles, you can…
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Use Google to Translate Text in Any Image
Let’s say you have an image you need to translate. Maybe it’s a still from a show, and it uses subtitles in another language. Perhaps it’s a photo of a sign with instructions or directions that you can’t read. You might have a screenshot of an article on your phone that you’d like to learn…
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Why You Need to Stop Clicking Sponsored Google Links
We all google, so we’re all used to Google’s quirks, sponsored links being one of the most visible. These links appear at the top of any given Google search, depending on who pays the most to be there. Even though these links can be largely irrelevant to what you’re actually searching for, sometimes they’re right…