The Playground

Check out what's new and brewing in the Playground.

 

 

Introducing Quik Slides - a web app - turn text into slideshows really really really fast. You can even use markdown syntax to quickly present tables and lists.

Bjorn's Quik Slides, a web app. Really really really quickly turn text into slideshows. Click here to launch the app (opens in a new browser tab). Read more. Watch a short video (in a new tab). Install app from the Microsoft app store?

Create beautiful photo collages in a few seconds. Use photos from local file system, GDrive or GPhotos.

Bjorn's Collage Studio, a web app. Quickly design photo collages. Click here to launch the app (opens in a new browser tab). Read more. Watch a short video (in a new tab). Install app from the Microsoft app store?

Barcodes has a nifty feature (requested by customers) that allows you to generate multiple labels for a selected row of data.

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Image Generator, a new app making it a piece of cake to generate batches of AI images.

Bjorn's Image Generator, a web app. Quickly generate batches of AI images. Click here to launch the app (opens in a new browser tab). Read more. Watch a short video (in a new tab).

Barcode Studio now supports template files, making your life a lot easier ;-).

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Word Clouds Studio now supports template files.

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3.1 supports background images to add a little touch to the clouds. This version also enables AI generated background images.

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Folder nodes now show size and sub-tree size. You can sort folders on size and largest folder is shown with a red border.

V3 is featuring a new layout type based on 2D clouds.

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A new web app for turning Google Photos into eye-catching slideshows using random photo order, custom background and border colors using color lists and various transition effects

Bjorn's Photo Slides, a web app. Better Google Photos slideshows. Click here to launch the app (opens in a new browser tab). Read more. Watch a short video (in a new tab). Install app from the Microsoft app store?

The Barcode Studio app is now available as an installable Windows app in the Microsoft store.

The Barcode Studio app and the Label Studio app (and add-ons) now has support for external custom sheet definitions. You can quickly load/save your own sheet definitions from/to the local file system.

Visualize your Gdrive folder structures in 3D.

Bjorn's Folder Trees 3D, a web app. Visualize your Gdrive in 3D. Click here to launch the app (opens in a new browser tab). Read more. Watch a short video (in a new tab).

Play classic marble balancing labyrinth games. You can even design and publish your custom game and share with friends or the world.

Bjorn's Labyrinths, a game. Play 3D labyrinth games. Click here to launch the app (opens in a new browser tab). Read more. Watch a short video (in a new tab).

Exercise your brain with this new 3D version of the classic gomoku game. You can even design and publish your custom game and share with friends or the world.

Bjorn's 5-in-a-row-3D, a game. Play 3D-ish Gomoku-like games. Click here to launch the app (opens in a new browser tab). Read more. Watch a short video (in a new tab).

Fire up your creative side and design bucket ball toss games. Publish your unique designs and start to collect Likes and Clicks.

Bjorn's Bucket Ball Toss Studio, a game. Create and publish 3D bucket ball toss games. Click here to launch the app (opens in a new browser tab). Read more. Watch a short video (in a new tab).

Unleash your creative side and design chutes and ladders as perpetuum mobiles. Publish your unique designs and start to collect Likes.

Bjorn's Chutes & Ladders, a game. Create and publish perpetuum mobile 3D scenes. Click here to launch the app (opens in a new browser tab). Read more. Watch a short video (in a new tab).

Celebrate your creative self and have some fun designing and sharing 3D marble drop games.

Bjorn's Marble Drop Studio, a game. Create and publish your own 3D marble drop games. Click here to launch the app (opens in a new browser tab). Read more. Watch a short video (in a new tab).

Tons of new features like chutes, bridges, overpasses, staircases and color options.

Bjorn's dominoART, a game. Have fun with 3D dominoes. Click here to launch the app (opens in a new browser tab). Read more. Watch a short video (in a new tab).

Create some amazing Domino Art with this new Web3D game

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Bjorn's Fancy Charts now supports skybox effects

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Folder Trees now supports Shared (Team) Drives.

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Turn your Google Slides into animated and interactive Web3D worlds.

Bjorn's Slides-in-3D, a Google Slides extension. Turn your Google Slides into an interactive and animated 3D world. Read more.

Bjorn's Fancy Charts now also available as a Google Sheets add-on.

Bjorn's Fancy Charts, a Google Docs extension. Design and insert (web)3D charts. Read more. Watch a short video (in a new tab). Install app from the Google app store?

3D Galleries now supports 360 photos.

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Check out the new 3D scene style 'Islands' now available in 3D Galleries and 3D-decks.

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Turn your Google Photos into animated and interactive Web3D worlds

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Beta 3 of 3D-decks adds import of Google Slides presentations

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Beta 2 of 3D-decks brings in-scene navigation and a new scene style - the Forest

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Interactive 3D playbooks for coaches and players

Bjorn's Playbooks, a web app. Design, share, study and visualize 3D playbooks. Click here to launch the app (opens in a new browser tab). Read more. Watch a short video (in a new tab).

New version of 3D Word Clouds with support for cloud styles, animated light sources and more

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New app - make your data come alive using animated 3D charts

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Bjorn's 3D-decks now supports both 2D and 3D charts - check it out!

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Meet the new 3D-decks scene style - the Mirror Floor.

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Added an image gallery page for 3D-decks.

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Check out the new 3D-decks action styles.

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Please follow or like my Facebook page @bjornsplayground.

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Check out the new 3D-decks scene style - Dominoes

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Say aloha to the new scene style - the Slide Rain. Check it out!

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Meet the new scene style - the Ice Rink. Check it out!

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Bjorn's 3D-decks has a new 3D scene style - the Shuffleboard. Check it out!

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Checkout the new physics engine support in Bjorn's 3D-decks and the Aquarium scene style.

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Say hi to the scene style 'Jack-in-the-box'. What has a burger to do with slide decks in Bjorn's 3D-decks? Nothing of course ;-). But checkout the new 3D scene effect called 'Jack-in-the-box'.

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Meet the new 3D scene style 'Dancing Slides'

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Presentation software re-imagined using animated gaming 3D - introducing Bjorn's 3D-decks !

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A Google Slides add-on - generate eye-catching (animated) 3D slide animations (video, GIF, PNG).

Bjorn's slide-RAIN, a Google Slides extension. Turn your Google Slides into eye-catching animated 3D image rain videos. Read more. Watch a short video (in a new tab). Install app from the Google app store?

All Google Docs add-ons using a dialog as the main UI now support entering fullscreen mode.

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Available as web app and Google Docs add-ons, use this app to design truly eye-catching 3D tree diagrams.

Bjorn's 3D Diagrams, a Google Docs extension. Create 3D org charts and other tree diagrams. Read more. Watch a short video (in a new tab). Install app from the Google app store?

All web apps now support the new File System Access API for vastly improved integration with the file system

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Quickly generate eye-catching (animated) 3D slide cubes (video, GIF, PNG).

Bjorn's slide-CUBES, a Google Slides extension. Turn your Google Slides into cool animated 3D cubes. Read more. Watch a short video (in a new tab). Install app from the Google app store?

Quickly generate and export (animated) 3D word clouds (video, GIF, PNG).

Bjorn's 3D Word Clouds, a web app. Create 3D word clouds (video, PNG, GIF or Doorways art). Click here to launch the app (opens in a new browser tab). Read more. Watch a short video (in a new tab). Install app from the Microsoft app store?

Quickly design and publish classic memory games.

Bjorn's Memory Game Designer, a web app. Quickly design and publish classic memory games. Click here to launch the app (opens in a new browser tab). Read more. Watch a short video (in a new tab).

Quickly design and publish educational interactive drag'n'drop games and quizzes

Bjorn's DragDropStudio, a web app. Quickly design and publish interactive drag'n'drop games and quizzes. Click here to launch the app (opens in a new browser tab). Read more. Watch a short video (in a new tab).

Quickly create and share QR-codes - even have fun with animated ones.

Bjorn's QR Designer, an Android app. Quickly create QR-codes, even animated GIFs. Read more.

Design awesome word clouds, even as animated GIFs.

Bjorn's Word Clouds, an Android app. Quickly create word clouds, even animated GIFs. Read more.

Design awesome word clouds, even animated GIF versions.

Bjorn's Word Clouds, an Excel add-in. Use this add-on to create amazing word clouds. Read more. Watch a short video (in a new tab). Install app from the Google app store?

Use Excel to quickly print labels and badges.

Bjorn's Label Studio, an Excel add-in. Easy label and badge design. Read more. Watch a short video (in a new tab). Install app from the Google app store?

Quickly insert QR codes into slide decks - even animated ones.

Bjorn's QR Designer, a Google Slides extension. Create QR-codes, quickly, even animated ones. Read more. Watch a short video (in a new tab). Install app from the Google app store?

Have fun adding (even animated) sig pics to your Gmail messages.

Bjorn's Sig Pics, a Google Workspace extension. Design and insert (animated) sig pics. Read more. Watch a short video (in a new tab). Install app from the Google app store?

Visualize your Google Gdrive folder structures with this new add-on + web app.

Bjorn's Folder Trees, a Google Workspace extension. Visualize your Gdrive. Read more. Watch a short video (in a new tab). Install app from the Google app store?

Think mail merge but for pictures. Merge spreadsheet data (e.g. title, photo) with SVG template into sheets of (ID) badges.

Bjorn's Picture Merge, a Google Sheets extension. Print ID badges from within Google Sheets. Read more. Watch a short video (in a new tab). Install app from the Google app store?

Bjorn's Label Studio and my other web apps are now 'installable' in Chrome - you can add them to your Chrome home screen and they will continue to work when offline.

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Use Google Docs to author, published and track online ebooks. Ebook reader featuring Google-powered search; reader comments and ratings; and using the LEXEND font for maximized readability;

Bjorn's eBOOK-maker, a Google Docs extension. Author, publish and manage ebooks. Read more. Watch a short video (in a new tab). Install app from the Google app store?

Swiftly create online quizzes and forms using Google Docs. Use special markup in your documents to design quizzes then quickly convert the documents and publish to the cloud.

Bjorn's Quiz Designer, a Google Docs extension. Quickly create and publish online quizzes and forms. Read more. Watch a short video (in a new tab). Install app from the Google app store?

This Sheets add-on solves the problem joining two sheets of data on multi-column keys that are not 100% equal.

Bjorn's Data Join Studio, a Google Sheets extension. Easily join data from different sources. Read more. Watch a short video (in a new tab). Install app from the Google app store?

I'm running low on app and add-on ideas - got a great idea? - go to the portal and submit it, please!

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This Slides add-on allows you to quickly create thumbnail TOC slides, slides with thumbnail buttons taking the user to each of the other slides in the presentation.

Bjorn's THUMB-TOCS, a Google Slides extension. Spice up your slide decks with thumbnail TOC slides. Read more. Watch a short video (in a new tab). Install app from the Google app store?

Quickly create quizzes as Google Slides presentations

Bjorn's Quiz Decks Studio, a Google Slides extension. Create Google Slides quizzes. Read more. Watch a short video (in a new tab). Install app from the Google app store?

Spice up your slide decks with navigation thumbnail buttons

Bjorn's NAV-thumbs, a Google Slides extension. Spice up your slide decks with navigation thumbnail buttons. Read more. Watch a short video (in a new tab). Install app from the Google app store?

Quickly turn photos into animated carousel GIFs with this new web app

Bjorn's Carousel Lab, a web app. Convert photos to animated 'carousel' GIFs. Click here to launch the app (opens in a new browser tab). Read more. Watch a short video (in a new tab).

New YouTube video released on how to use Bjorn's Book Studio to create really large documents using Google Docs

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New Instagram video of Bjorn's GIF-text-ART-studio posted @bjornsplayground.

Train your brain with this Gomoku-like abstract strategy board game.

Bjorn's 5-in-a-row, a game. 5-in-a-row is an abstract strategy board game, also known as Gomoku. The game is played with different markers on a board of 20x20. Once placed, markers are not moved or removed from the board.. Click here to launch the app (opens in a new browser tab). Read more. Watch a short video (in a new tab).

New add-on for Google Slides and Docs making it easy to blur out parts of photos.

Bjorn's Pixelate, a Google Slides extension. Pixelate (parts of) photos and images. Read more. Watch a short video (in a new tab). Install app from the Google app store?

You can now use 'formatting columns' to custom format (some) labels

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New add-on for Google Sheets making it easy to sort cells in new ways, for example sort cells on the last name.

Bjorn's Super-SORT, a Google Sheets extension. More ways to sort data. Read more. Install app from the Google app store?

Thanks for trying my apps and add-on

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