Highlight and annotate articles online with Hypothesis
In our age of reading everything online, do you ever miss underlining and annotating in print? Here’s a solution that I use.
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Forget titles, blog excerpts are what gets me to click
Everyone focuses on headlines. Optimize the headline! Make it enticing! Make it SEO friendly! But what often gets me to click is actually the excerpt. …
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How to view Google Home history
Google stores all the questions and requests you’ve made to your Google Home speaker. You can see your requests in your Google “My Activity” page. …
How to test the audio quality of your laptop speakers
How good are your laptop’s internal speakers? Here’s how to create visual chart of their performance.
Thinking idea to idea, instead of word to word
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 …
Can’t do thinking work while listening to podcasts? How to solve it.
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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How to keep track of books you’d like to borrow from your local library
You might have a list of books piling up that you’d like to read from your local library. Especially given these times of stay-at-home, your …
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Categorizing your blog by your passions
Because I work in the media industry, I started this blog in January 2011 to share my thoughts on how to use media better. On …
More sports content is needed to meet the demand
The content platform Parse.ly offers a new tool that tracks 10 million articles/month with 3 billion page views/month. This tool gives you free stats about …
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Use Downcast for your podcasting listening
Looking to replace iTunes as your podcast app? Downcast is really cool. It has both an iPhone iOS app and a MacOS desktop app. Four …
