A workaround in Facebook to use lists again
Facebook has slowly been killing a long-time efficient feature, lists. Now with the updated Pages UI, you kinda have some of the functionality of lists back.
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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. Here’s how to see all your Google Home history 1. Go to myactivity.google.com 2. Click on “Filter by date & product” 3. Check ON “Assistant” “Assistant” is the name of …
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.
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 podcasts. But the moment when I need to think through things, the podcasts just get in the way. To get my mind to focus, I pause the audio. Most times …
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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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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 list might be growing longer. How do you keep track of these books? Sure, a simple written list would work. Or maybe a digital note saved on your computer. I …
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How to make your numbered lists look normal in Microsoft Word
If your numbered list goes past nine items in Microsoft Word, you’ll need this trick to get your list to look professional. By default, Microsoft Word will align your numbered list by the first digit in the number. You’ll end up with an ugly list like this one: Notice how the periods after the number …
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How to cut the noise out of Facebook (use a friends list sorted by most recent)
Spend less time on Facebook, and enjoy it more. Tired of all the junk on Facebook? Do you find yourself scrolling and scrolling forever? Only a couple items out of hundreds look interesting? Cut down all the garbage you see on Facebook and take control of your timeline. The method is simple and employs two …
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How to make the Facebook like button reappear after upgrading to https SSL
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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How to make a collage from all your iPhone screenshots
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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How to search your friends’ tweets
Overwhelmed by the randomness of your Twitter stream? Are there times you wish you could search within your Twitter stream? With a little setup, you can! I was curious how many times the people I follow on twitter use the word “fun” in their tweets. You can search twitter for the word “fun”, but that …
How to upgrade Google Play from individual plan to family plan
Everyone loves Spotify for its unlimited music. But imagine if you could have unlimited music and no ads on Youtube videos–for the same price as Spotify. That would be Google Play. The Spotify individual plan is $9.99/month. You get music. The Google Play individual plan is $9.99/month. You get music and no ads on Youtube. …
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How to force Facebook to show posts from certain Pages
Tired of how Facebook doesn’t show you posts from your friend’s Facebook Pages? Crazy, right? You are friends with someone, yet you never see what’s on their Facebook Page in your news stream. Here’s how to fix it so Facebook will show you posts from Facebook Pages that YOU specify. Use lists in Facebook–wait–Facebook has lists? …
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How to turn off Twitter’s algorithm timeline
When Twitter rolls out their algorithm timeline to everyone, it looks like there won’t be a way to turn this feature off. However, I will have my own method of turning it off. Turn off Twitter altogether–which I might be doing more of. Twitter has become too much of a consumption thing for me–I spend …
How can you automate more of what you do?
It can be a scary prospect to some–they don’t want their job automated. But really, if you know how to build a script, why not automate tasks of your job? Get things done faster, move onto other projects. I’ve always wanted more workers to be able to code–to write scripts to make regular tasks go …
How to handle content overload
With overloads of content being produced, it makes you wonder who’s reading all this content. One of the solutions is to have better curators. People picking interesting content and packaging it together to make it more relevant to each reader’s interests. Another solution would be for us to be willing to learn more. I hope …
How to archive all your Kindle notes and highlights
Would you like to be able to download all your notes and highlights from your Kindle books? Amazon doesn’t make it easy, but here’s the workaround way to get your notes and highlights. 1) Sign into your online kindle account. Go to: https://kindle.amazon.com and sign in. 2) Find the book you want to copy your …
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Keeping track of how you discovered books
Goodreads has a poll asking about where you heard about the previous book you read. Here are the results: I voted for “blog post” because I heard about “Shape of Design” from Craig Mod’s post “Hack the Cover.” Although I had to think about it for awhile, because I read a bunch of books at …
How to use Google to distribute niche content
Do you have too many interests? Is your blog all over the place? Mine is. It’s hard to promote my spudart blog when I cover such a wide random range of topics. Same thing with Google Plus. I use Google Plus to share articles. But those articles are so random. But now I’m started to …
How to be collaborative on Pinterest
Things are more fun when you do it with a group. Over on my art blog, I cover 8 ideas for using collaborative boards on Pinterest. Here’s a teaser with one of the ideas: start a love board with your girlfriend.