Take car, bicycle, or walking trip suggestions and add them to a custom map. See how to best navigate between places on your map with only a few clicks
Author: Mark
Drawing Lines and Shapes In Google Maps
Make areas on a custom map stand out with lines and shapes. Change the color, line width, and transparency to organize and present information on your map.
Save Directions in Google Maps
You can save directions in My Maps to view later or share with others in email or to embed on a website.
Bike Directions In Google Maps
With Google Maps you can plan a route for a bicycle trip with bike friendly roads, dedicated lanes and trails.
Microsoft In The Cloud
Like Google, Microsoft has made a major investment in web applications. Beyond “Outlook” its web-mail client they now have “Office” apps on the web. Office 365 is the online version of “MS Office”. 365 has all of the applications that enterprise users have grown to love including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. Office 365 also includes;…
Samsung ChromeBook
October 18th of last year Samsung released the “New Chromebook“. A Chromebook is a small notebook computer that runs the Chrome OS. Chrome OS is simply a version of the Debian Linux that has no other function other than accessing the Internet using the Google Chrome web-browser. What good is a computer that only has…
Great Passwords For Your Google Account
Remember to always use a strong Google password or phrase just in case your Chromebook is lost or stolen. A really long pass-phrase using upper, lower case letters, at least one number and at least one special character. I sometime use song lyrics like; lyric – “One is the loneliest number“, password – 1istheL0neliest# (the o…
How To Use Paths
The “Paths Tool” is a great tool for making selections but you can’t really learn it on your own. Project File
Apps Offline
One difficult problem with living in the cloud is what do you do when you when you have no Internet connection. Many of the application today can be used offline. Gmail – You can use Gmail offline by using a Chrome app call “Gmail Offline” of course. This does not look like Gmail but more…
Chromebook and Chromebox
The Chromebook and the Chromebox are computer that don’t do much more than web-applications. These computers are running the Chrome OS, not Windows. Chrome OS is a highly modified version of Linux that most of it’s user interface is the chrome web-browser. there is no need for other programs because you use all web-applications.
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