Tech Tips: Creative Commons Browser

 For this week's tech tip, I added the Creative Commons extension to my Google Chrome. I've been pretty frustrated for a long time going to Google, find the image that I was looking for, download it, find the downloaded file, and then inserting it to the blog post! It's not too much of an ordeal, but it's definitely a hassle to do these steps over and over again. However, with this, it's just a whole lot easier for me to insert these images! I can simply download it from the extension and drag the image from the downloaded files here.


(Dragon. Source: T. Cohart)

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