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How to improve a $10 headset/mic for video calls
Test the position of the mic, and use a microphone fuzzy.
Copy current YYYYMMDD_HHMM timestamp to your clipboard (using Applescript)
Whenever I need to type in a timestamp, I just click on my handy app in the dock.
How to force MacOS Spotlight to re-index a specific folder
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 has over 100 movies. Yet, the MacOS Spotlight was showing zero results. Here’s how you can force the MacOS to re-index a specific folder. Watch the video. This tip comes …
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Looking back at Adobe GoLive 6
When editing old html webpages, it cracks me up to see things like this line: This particular HTML webpage is a list of links to my family’s Christmas wish lists on Amazon (and yup, we still use this page to this day. Sorry, I’m not linking to the wish list page for privacy reasons). A …
Why your potential domain name is great, according to Godaddy
When you search for available domains on Godaddy, they immediately give you reasons why you should reserve the domain. I checked with Godaddy if “everydaypsalm.com” is available. Right next to the results was listed the reasons I should grab it now: Why it’s great.• “Everyday” is a high value keyword that has an average sale price …
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How generalists fill out the job function field
If you are a generalist, you probably wear lots of hats for your job—and you love it. Granted, it can have its days where your head has to be in lots of places. But isn’t that fun? I absolutely enjoy being able to fulfill a variety of roles. It keeps me constantly learning. I like …
Looking at your screenshots from ten years ago
Screenshots are such a handy way of capturing information on screen. Do you save your screenshots? I do. I save so many screenshots, it’s crazy. In the past 120 days, I have about 700 screenshots. Ten years from now we should play a game. Every day, look at random screenshot you made from exactly ten …
When a site has so many buttons, you don’t know what to do.
Have you ever visited a site looking to download something, but then the site is so completely covered with buttons, you don’t know which button to tap. That’s what happened to me today. I’m completely grateful for sites that give free resources for people to download. It’s wonderful. It’s great. It’s the age of the …
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My most popular questions on Quora
For what it’s worth, my answers on Quora have reach 10,000 views. I like Quora, but I’m not an everyday user. I’ve answered only 12 questions. Which of my answers is the most viewed? I didn’t know until now. Four years ago I answered a question about extracting CSS from a webpage. (5,600 views) Now, …
Easter egg in your email signature
Because I believe in the joys of online Easter Eggs, in my email signature I have a little hidden surprise. When you click on the email address link, the subject auto-fills to have a fun little message.
Tribune Publishing new logo, replacing the old tronc logo
The first time most Tribune Publishing employees (myself included) saw our new logo was on our Cisco phone display this morning. As a designer, I enjoy that my first experience with our brand was in 8-bit grayscale. For the Tribune employees who check their email on the way into the office, their first experience of …
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New privacy policy for mattmaldre.com and my other websites
So many companies emailing about their privacy policy! Wow. Well, it’s a good thing that the European Union is forcing everyone to publish simple policies on how each company uses cookies and data. All consumers should know what is each company’s policy. What happens when you sign up for an email list? Or when you …
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The classic sad tale about social media API.
A new platform launches. The platform needs users and growth. So the platform offers an API for developers to make super-cool apps and services. Why bother developing the innovation in-house when you can have other outside people do it for you? Third-party developers get excited about the API, because it lets developers access the platform’s …
Benefits of having a dinosaur phone
Do you have a dinosaur phone? There might be some benefits to having such an old phone. Battery life. Size. Companies ignoring your old model. All these apply to my iPhone 5s. The battery life is great. I love the smaller size. Apple, apparently doesn’t think this phone exists any more. You know the whole …
32-bit apps that won’t work on Mac OS 10.14
Apple announced that their next operating system (Mac OS X 10.14) will work only with applications that are 64-bit. Applications built as 32-bit won’t run on 10.14. Flat out. Won’t run. Do you have any 32-bit applications on your computer? MacObserver wrote a nice tutorial on how to see which Mac apps are 32-bit. Here’s …
Malware hiding in your Chrome extensions
Google regularly checks if any of your installed Chrome extensions contain malware. Today, Chrome disabled the “Bookmark Checker” extension because it contains malware. CRAP. I HAD THIS THING INSTALLED! Thankfully Google keeps on top of these things. Hopefully, Firefox and Safari does too. Three other people have tweeted about this “Bookmark Checker” extension having malware:
Molly and Owen of General Electric move to ABB
General Electric makes a lot of stuff. Refrigerators, light bulbs, windpower turbines, trains, aircraft engines, weapons, and much much more. So much stuff that GE runs TV ads to explain who GE is. Cute ads featuring Molly, the Kid Who Never Stops Inventing and Owen the Programmer of Turbines. Now General Electric will be making one …
Stages of football through my life
[Warning to American football lovers, you may not like this blog post. Also, this post is about American football, not the football known in America as soccer] Growing up as a baseball fan, football was never really part of my life, until 2004 when I joined a fantasy football league. Through the years I grew …