Google Educast #73: Holiday Edition
Google Educast #73: Holiday Edition
This week on the Google Educast: This week we’ll give you resources if you find yourself playing tech support while visiting family and friends, give you some cool tricks to amaze other people, provide you some diversions if you’re stuck in an airport and give thanks to Google for some of the things they are doing to make the world a better place.
Here’s our Show Notes!
- Segment 1: What’s New with Google Surviving The Holidays When You’re The Visiting Tech SupportTeach Parents Tech http://www.teachparentstech.org/
- Google Goggles for envy shopping and window shopping
- Comparison shop by using vs. [ Vizio 55 inch vs ]
- http://lmgtfy.com/ (KEVIN)
Segment 2: Tips and Tricks, Easter Eggs – Amaze Family and Friends
- Search [ do a barrel roll ]
- Search [ askew ]
- How to play snake on YouTube. KEVIN
- Search cheat sheet
- Go to http://google.com/maps Click on GET DIRECTIONS. In the starting location put [ The Shire ] and destination [ Mordor ] then choose walking directions.
- The wadsworth constant and YouTube. parameter: &wadsworth=1 KEVIN Right click on the scrubber to in YouTube to get a link that will start a video at that time.
- Search for [ Bacon Number Actor/Actress name] and get how many connections they are away from Kevin Bacon
- CTRL + Alt + A ( or command + Option + A if you’re on a Mac) in Google Earth for a flight simulator. Choice of planes. (FD)
- Search for [anagram] KEVIN
- Youtube Card Trick http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbEei0I3kMQ
- Batman vs Joker Break Dancing Interactive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR3ywoc2Cp4
- How to auto fill cells using Google Sets KEVIN
- Seach for [ sqrt(cos(x))*cos(300x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7)*(4-x*x)^0.01, sqrt(6-x^2), -sqrt(6-x^2) from -4.5 to 4.5 ]
- Google Sphere
Segment 3: Chrome and Android: Free games for your browser, tablet or phone
- Angry Birds Seasons https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/angry-birds-seasons/hkecdmjkomgnadjomghnjjccpdlinajl?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon
- On your Android device go to Settings application, in the About phone section, repeatedly tap the Android version section. The animation is different in every version of the OS.
- Screenshot on Android KEVIN
- Replay the Olympic Google Doodles http://www.google.com/doodles/search?query=olympics
- Free Full-length movies on Youtube KEVIN http://www.youtube.com/user/movies/videos?flow=grid&view=26
- Little Alchemy https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/little-alchemy/knkapnclbofjjgicpkfoagdjohlfjhpd?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon
Segment 4: Thank you Google for:
- Google Crisis Response http://www.google.org/crisisresponse/
- Google RISE Award http://www.google.com/edu/rise/index.html
- Google Earth Outreach Program http://www.google.com/earth/outreach/stories/showcase.html
- Moving us toward having a self-driving car before we die. http://www.ted.com/talks/sebastian_thrun_google_s_driverless_car.html
