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Make Facebook Less Painful with FB Purity

By on Saturday, July 18th, 2015 | No Comments

I don’t know about you, but I have a like/dislike relationship with Facebook. I enjoy connecting to good folk and having good conversations. But I don’t much like being distracted by posts that I find annoying, distracting or even painful. I used to be a news and political junkie. If there was a news story, I […]

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Your Wish List is Amazon’s Command

By on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2015 | No Comments

How does a book lover part with precious books? A little more than a year ago, my better half and I decided to do just that. We both love books, and have special attachments to many of them. But over the years we had accumulated too many, and we needed the space for other things. […]

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Mutitask TV To Be Less Unproductive: Two Simple Ideas

By on Tuesday, May 19th, 2015 | No Comments

Just recently, NASA scientists discovered a galaxy 300 TRILLION times brighter than the sun probably caused by a massive black hole in the galaxy’s center. In other news, TV sucks too many people in like a black hole. How about you? Do you watch a lot of TV? Of course you do. Otherwise this page […]

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Slow vs Fast Reading – New Reseach

By on Monday, April 7th, 2014 | No Comments

Good Morning, Hopefully, the day finds you well. Today I will begin with a news article at the Washington Post. We have the ability to read in different modes. Slow vs fast reading is a relatively new area of interest to neuroscientists.

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Free Data and Calculations Per Your Whim

By on Saturday, December 21st, 2013 | No Comments

Search engines are fine for finding things related to subjects you are interested in. But what if you want to know which is deeper, Lake Ontario or Lake Superior (answer: Lake Superior – 1332ft versus 735ft).  Or what if you want to know the day of the week that Mt. Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii (August 24, […]

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Making Feedly Chrome’s default RSS reader

By on Saturday, May 4th, 2013 | No Comments

As I indicated last time, Google is retiring their RSS reader, and I recommended Feedly.com’s reader as a worthy replacement. One thing that bothered me was that I couldn’t automatically add new RSS feeds to Feedly. So I thought to myself, “Self – how does one find out simple stuff like this in the 21st […]

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Feedly! A Great Replacement for Google Reader

By on Saturday, April 6th, 2013 | No Comments

I logged into my account with Google Reader today and got a message that the service is being “retired” as of July 1. I found this somewhat annoying because, as you might imagine, I have subscribed to many RSS feeds over the years, and it’s always a comfort knowing where to research things when the […]

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Blogging: Video or Text with Graphic?

By on Sunday, July 8th, 2012 | No Comments

I’m getting better at creating videos for my blogs. But this blog is not and will likely never be a vlog (video blog). I will probably always keep it something of a mix. The main reason is that I like to mix things up. There are times when a video seems right; other times not […]

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Caution! Use Your Own Links

By on Friday, July 6th, 2012 | No Comments

In the last post, I included a link that would take you to where you could get a larger-than-usual Dropbox for under $10. To create that link, I used my bit.ly account. For anyone who doesn’t know, bit.ly is a service that enables you to create short-links to destinations you want to share. I have […]

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Firefox / YouTube Slow Video Blues – Solved

By on Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 | No Comments

I recently upgraded Adobe Flash to version 13.300.262. One unintended effect of this was that some sites loaded much more slowly, if at all, and I literally had to move the mouse cursor off the Firefox window for control to be returned to that window. Very weird. I’m not a techie, but I can some […]

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