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Looking at your screenshots from ten years ago

February 25, 2020 March 6, 2020 / 1 minute of reading

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. …

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Where did you reach your 10,000th step today?

February 12, 2020 March 5, 2020 / 1 minute of reading

If you wear a Fitbit (or Apple Watch), it’s fun tracking where you reached your 10,000th step of the day. The default daily goal on …

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Facebook Page invites waiting to be accepted

February 4, 2020 March 5, 2020 / 3 minutes of reading

Did you know there is a section on Facebook that lists all the pending invites for Pages you’ve been invited to? Apparently over the years …

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Screenshot of pending Facebook Page invites

More sports content is needed to meet the demand

January 7, 2020 January 7, 2020 / 1 minute of reading

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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Screenshot of Parsley top ten categories for January 7, 2020

Doing more with the links you share

November 1, 2019 March 5, 2020 / 3 minutes of reading

A linkblog. Do you remember those before social media? On my spudart.org blog, I had a sidebar of links. The earliest version of my linkbar …

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Idea: a script to find Flickr photos being used online

October 28, 2019 March 5, 2020 / 3 minutes of reading

Flickr is a great place to find photos to use. Many photographers assign their photos with a Creative Commons license, so any can use the …

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When a site has so many buttons, you don’t know what to do.

October 24, 2019 March 5, 2020 / 2 minutes of reading

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 …

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screenshot of page with nine buttons

Use Downcast for your podcasting listening

August 27, 2019 August 27, 2019 / 2 minutes of reading

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 …

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How do you listen to music on Spotify?

August 22, 2019 August 22, 2019 / 3 minutes of reading

Do you listen to albums? Or maybe you like curated playlists. Or sometimes you might just want to hear an artist, not a specific album, …

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In a Google search, WP is a shortcode for Wikipedia

August 19, 2019 March 5, 2020 / 2 minutes of reading

If you do a Google search that starts with the letters “wp”, Google will automatically bring you to a Wikipedia page. (WP is a shortcode …

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