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Episode 1 of 6 -- Chrome Plug in—Taking Screenshots
Hey chaps, It's Deepak here from Get paid to Tutor.com. Welcome back to
Productivity Ninja. So this is going to be another 6 part series. Today what we're
going to be focusing on is looking at Chrome plug-ins. I was thinking about basically
going through them in sets by screen shot tools, by clipping tools and all that kind
of stuff, but then I thought it would probably more useful if I looking at the things
that I used in my day to day life and how I use them and why I use them.
So the first thing that I want to talk about today is awesome screen shot. If any of
you wanted to skip ahead, feel free to go to the link at the bottom left here, you can
see the image. Just go to that URL and you can see exactly how I use my Mac. So
feel free to skip ahead and just go and check that out.
One of the things I use an awesome screen shot. Let me show you why exactly it's
awesome. Usually what you need to do is obviously-- maybe print screen, copy copy
paste it to PowerPoint or try and edit it in Photoshop or do these different kinds of
things. There's a couple a tool that you can use now to actually take a picture of
your screen—let me just show it you in action—So one of the things I'm doing as
part of the Meet my Tutor at the moment is web design, so I shown screens by the
Front end web designer. So if you're showing something you wanted to take a note
of that, you have these three options he as you can see. Visible part of page left
the page and entire page. If I capture part of the visible part of page, this is what
it does for me, so it's called the visible part
of the page . Let's go back again—search the whole page—so
you see it. You can also capture the entire page, and there you go, opens up
in a new tab and then you can also, this is an ** , but you can still can use,
capture selected part page. So let's say I just wanted to look at this area there- click
capture and there you go. You see that bulk here isn't quite captured, just a specific
section. So I tend to use this a little bit less. So let's look at these two. This is
the the current screen. If I want to put a square
or something I literally just do that, I can stick a little arrow there and say....Now
you can probably imagine the kind of application this has in terms of speed, so
there's all kinds of things you can do we. We go arrows, we've got lines, we've got text,
we've got different colors that we can play with. Not just the reds, but we got
like a bunch of Starfish. You want to start circling or highlight different elements
to the page. So it's very, very simple and easy to use.
This is the beautiful part, you click done and now... you can save it in a bunch of
ways. Let go through them. I can either save it temporarily, which means it will
save as a URL--so let's do it with this one since we don't need the same thing-- your
** will be save up on Oceanscreenshot.com, which *** about three days. So if you only
need it for a couple days you can literally save, and there you go—you can
choose to share in a variety of ways. If you open up straight into an email, then you
open it up like that and it'll open up a new email and put it just so in the bottom if
you shoot someone straight away, so that's very, very cool.
The other way of course is by a URL. Let's just assume you send it to someone else
now, their you receive it and you Firefox is our browser, they literally do that, it
open it up and there it is. They can click on this
to expand it, there we go. So we can imagine that's the actual screenshot we took
with the squares and rectangles all that kind of stuff, that's one way.
Let's have a look at some of the other ways now . You can do the same thing with
Save it permanently on Diigo.com, Diigo the free all purpose collecting tool that
enables you to do like the following things—Pause the video here and check it out. If
you're interested in finding out more about Diigo, I don't use it so often myself. The
other format is which is very quite cool is... use Gmail, Google Drive. You can also
print it straight away. Save it as a regular file, then send it to someone. If you're
sending that as an image it saves as a PNG or JPG, I believe, one of the two to your
desktop. That's obviously very, very easy to work with.
Let me show you just on here. So we click done, Save this file on your desktop—
save it to my documents. Test file -- then let's go and find the ** --there you go, so
it saves as a PNG file, clearly. Going back to
this... you can save it on Google Drive— save as BBC homepage, save that—let's wait
for that to save. So as you can see just like a manner of ways in which you can use
this. So maybe, probably the most powerful is the actual URL it creates, because
you can always use a ** for very quick purposes with somebody. As you can see—open
up a new tab and share it as we're discussing, and I do believe over here
that it is saved as an image link in Google account, so that's going to be a permanent
link now. Now there it is, and obviously if you haven't used that, do use
that Google Docs. This is it, awesome screen shot folks. And
as I said if you do want to find out exactly how I use my Mac in a ton more depth,
if you want to see how I keep productive then check out this a link just
below here on the left. I'll see you in Episode 2, we will be going
through—Adblock. See you folks.