If you wish you could have someone next to you to read your emails or read an article as you were eating, then give this tool a try. It can convert texts from different kinds of places into speech.
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There are many Chrome extensions that are competing to be added into our new tab. This one now can be used to help you learn new things such as programming, by showing you a quick code snippet with a short description of it right inside your new Chrome tab. It can be used to learn JavaScript, CSS, Interview Questions, React, PHP, Python, Ruby, Ramda and C++.
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What can you do in 30 seconds or less? Maybe scroll on Facebook or Reddit, or maybe send a funny picture to your friend on WhatsApp. You can also invest those precious seconds in something valuable such as learn something new in Javascript.
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Sometimes you may be curious about the subdomains of a particular domain. Sometimes, you may need to see all the URLs that are hyperlinked on a website. If that’s the case, JSFinder is a helpful tool that can help you with that.
If you had no time or interest to watch a long YouTube video but were only interested in seeing a short portion of it, where a particular word is mentioned, Invideo can help you. It is a light extension that once is installed, it is shown on the video page, on the right side of the video that you are currently watching. There you can type any search term that you want to find out in the video transcript and then hopefully get that same match inside it.
There are many Chrome extensions that give you the ability to block certain sites from not visiting, including having a fixed number of minutes, or during a certain period of time. However, until today, I did not see any extension that allowed you to hide results from certain pages, so that you are not going to see anything even on your Google searches from that particular domain.
I have already written about a really cool option that you can use to capture screenshots in Google Chrome without using any third party extensions. If you want to level it up and have a tool that allows you to not only capture or record a particular portion of your screen, but also edit it, then AwesomeScreenshot is a good alternative.
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I recently learned a really nice tip on how to quickly find out the time in your local timezone and you do not need any plugin or perform several steps to reach the answer.
I was recently using ActiveAdmin and came up to a particular case when the index page for a particular resource was loading really slow. After trying to search up and down, trying to figure out what was the issue, I finally found that the issue was with a filter.
I have previously written about a really great Ruby gem called RailsAdmin which allows you to quickly prepare admin dashboards from your models. However, it comes with a disadvantage when you are dealing with large files. Let’s say that you want to export a large file from your RailsAdmin, like having 100 000 rows. This export will take a while and if you are using Heroku, chances are that you will actually have a timeout. Luckily, here comes ActiveAdmin.
