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Amazing song recommendations by speaking gibberish to Google speakers

March 8, 2021 March 8, 2021 / 4 minutes of reading

What happens when you say: “Ok, Google please play tootily doot-doot, da-toot-doot, da-tootily doooooo.”

How to test the audio quality of your laptop speakers

March 5, 2021 March 5, 2021 / 5 minutes of reading

How good are your laptop’s internal speakers? Here’s how to create visual chart of their performance.

Is it possible to think too much about your audience?

February 11, 2021 February 11, 2021 / 3 minutes of reading

When considering your audience on Twitter, there are two main considerations: Don’t annoy your readers. Attract readers by being focused. Let’s start with the first …

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Thinking idea to idea, instead of word to word

February 4, 2021 February 4, 2021 / 4 minutes of reading

Scripting your presentation makes you think word to word rather than idea to idea. Ever sit in a meeting where the presenter sounds like a …

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With every term, the White House on Flickr gets archived

January 27, 2021 February 5, 2021 / 6 minutes of reading

[UPDATE: The previous title for this post was “With every term, the White House on Flickr gets deleted”. But that is too negative, and misleading. …

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Can’t do thinking work while listening to podcasts? How to solve it.

January 13, 2021 January 13, 2021 / 4 minutes of reading

I used to never be able to have podcasts playing while doing thought-intensive work. If I’m doing monotonous monkey-work, then yeah, I can listen to …

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Use Twitter threads to keep a list of blogs and podcasts you follow

January 6, 2021 January 6, 2021 / 2 minutes of reading

Throughout this year, I’m using Twitter to keep track of every time I subscribe to a new blog or podcast. Normally when I find a …

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Archiving Yahoo Groups

December 9, 2020 December 10, 2020 / 11 minutes of reading

I’m a little sad that Yahoo is ending Yahoo Groups, one of the world’s largest collections of online discussion boards. Most times I used it …

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You can say “rad” only 50 times in a Facebook comment

December 8, 2020 December 8, 2020 / 2 minutes of reading

Go ahead and type “rad” in a comment on Facebook. The word “rad” will automatically be be colored pink by Facebook. Apparently, Facebook really wants …

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How to force MacOS Spotlight to re-index a specific folder

November 15, 2020 November 15, 2020 / 1 minute of reading

Ever do a search on your hard drive, and some you know the results are missing some files? Today I was searching a folder that …

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