With the $200 million new funding for Reddit, they are planning a site redesign. (reports recode) Huffman’s plan for the new funding includes a redesign of reddit.com — the company is literally re-writing all of its code, some of which is more than a decade old. An early version of the new design, which we …
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See among your friends who gets the most steps in one work week. Fitbit has a great feature called “Challenges.” Every week, you can invite your friends to participate in the “Workweek Hustle.” Fitbit keeps track of the progress of all your friends throughout the week. Fitbit makes it fun to check in regularly to …
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Many people hate progress bars. You copy a bunch of files from one hard drive to another. Then you have to wait. And wait. And wait. However, I love progress bars. How far along is it? I love checking. Right now I’m moving a website over to a new host. That too, gets a progress bar. …
Did you update your WordPress website from http to https, and now your Facebook like button disappear? Chances are you are using WooTheme’s shortcode, woo-fblike, for the Facebook like button in your template. (Actually Woothemes is now WooCommerce, so let’s call them by their correct new name). When you update your site to https, the …
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Tired of hearing about a particular topic in the news? Would you like to be able to filter out particular topics? The Breaking News app allows you to micro-tune the exact news you want to get. Well, not any more. NBC/Comcast is shutting down the Breaking News app, laying off its entire 22-person staff. The …
The apps that make your phone’s home screen have special honor. The home screen can hold around 24 to 28 apps. You hand-pick them for easiest access. The other apps on your phone? Buried on secondary pages. Chances are, over the years you fine-tune this list of apps that appear on your home screen. Comparing your home …
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Through the past five years, 39 apps have appeared on my home screen. Tomorrow, I’ll post a short review about each of these apps. The list is the most essential iPhone apps of the past five years. This post was inspired by Abhay’s tweet: My #homescreen hasn't changed much in the last year pic.twitter.com/jMIIZcTvro — Abhay Shah …
Do you know someone who loves hot chocolate? Then you can give the Ultimate Hot Chocolate Package! The ultimate hot chocolate package is a collection of all the various hot chocolates you can find! In 2007, I gave my mom the Ultimate Hot Chocolate Package. The main influence behind me being a huge hot chocolate …
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What’s up with dudes and hot chocolate? write Mary Fons. “Dudes like hot chocolate. It’s a thing.” She gives four examples of guys liking hot chocolate in her Choco Case Studies. Well, make me the 5th!–actually the first–since 2008 I have been declaring on Twitter my love for the hot chocolate beverage. If other dudes …
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In 2016, I have taken 453 screenshots on my iPhone. 142 of them are Pokemon Go. Ahhh, 2016. And for no other apparent reason, here’s all my iPhone screenshots from 2016. If you are curious how I made all these, I did them in Adobe Lightroom. The instructions are below the images. I was able …
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With more and more people cutting their landline phones, you’d expect that searches on Google for landline would decrease in the past 12 years. Google searches for landline are actually increasing, because there are more people who don’t know what a landline is. Mentions of the word landline in books were pretty consistent starting in …
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The demographics of sports watching is changing. Young people are less interested in sports. Bloomberg reports, “When asked what type of content they enjoy watching, young people express less enthusiasm for sport than other genres” Media reporter Chris Thilk gives this analysis: What they found should be super-disturbing for the media world. Two of the …
Quark XPress still sends emails to designers trying to convince them to purchase their dated software. 20 years ago Quark was the premiere layout program for print designers. Then around 2000 Adobe released their Quark-Killer, Adobe Indesign. Since that time 15 years ago, designers quickly dropped Quark in favor of Indesign. We haven’t looked back …
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In Office 365 email, everyone has a default icon with their initials inside a circle. The icon is so boring that it makes you want to add a photo. However, nobody changes their icon. Everyone keeps the default icon. To use your photo makes you seem rather narcissistic. “Here’s a photo of me!” I have …
The New York Post made a funny and truthful video about how much New Yorkers hate slow walkers. People walk by this guy and give him evil stare-downs. How dare you walk so slow! However there are times in the video where the guy is on his cell phone. There’s a difference between a slow …
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Can you remember the last time you hurt your back? How long did it take you to recover? I can’t remember either of these things, and I should. I’m starting a health log to track whenever I feel sick or have a back ache. Then I can see how long it takes me to heal …
Just so you know, I’m the very first person on Twitter to ever use the hashtag #AllHailEmperorPalpatine. Rather surprising this hasn’t been tweeted yet, given Twitter’s 10-year history. I did so with my fictional twitter account, @atourriten, the Death Star librarian. While sitting at my desk in corporate America, I like to stare out the …
The thing with social log-ins is that I can never remember which network I use to log in. Whenever an email option is given, I always select that. I control my email address, so I know it will never go away. These other social platforms, we are at the whim of these third party companies. …
Everyone loves a good infographic, right? Especially when it’s based on true data and does some data mining. I’ve thought about getting into more data journalism. A couple articles that have helpful resources: From journalism.uk: Get with the program: The benefits of coding skills in the newsroom There’s no shortage of places to learn how to …
As of today, the mattmaldre.com blog will start to feature more short and quick blog posts. I was keeping this site mostly to tech and publishing thoughts. Often there are many topics that I simply want to write about that I find interesting. One of the blog formats I find inspiring is Dave Winer’s blog …