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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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Measure items on your screen

By on Wednesday, January 8th, 2014 | No Comments

Do you do any kind of graphics work?  Do you sometimes need to know the dimensions of something you’re looking at onscreen? Would you like an easy way to go from pixels to points to get these dimensions in pixels, points, inches, centimeters or millimeters? And would you like to be able get such a […]

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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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Windows Live Writer – a Real-time Evaluation

By on Saturday, June 9th, 2012 | No Comments

Unlike ScribeFire, Live Writer (part of Windows Live Essentials) does not require you to use Firefox. (It does require Windows.)  Downloading and installing Live Essentials includes Live Writer. I’m not saying it’s a good or bad thing. Just reporting. And obviously, I downloaded and installed Live Essentials. In this real-time evaluation, I will do the […]

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ScribeFire – A Real-time Evaluation

By on Saturday, June 9th, 2012 | No Comments

A Firefox extension called ScribeFire promises to make the life of a blogger better and easier. Here’s a real-time evaluation. Task: include an image. How about a scribe by a fire? Success! In the process of adding the image, I had to set up my API and FTP settings to create the handshake between ScribeFire […]

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How I Gained 2 Productive Hours a Day – For Free!

By on Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012 | No Comments

I have gained two hours a day in productive time – for free.  It was free and has made my life a lot easier. If you habitually waste time in the same way I do: spending time on websites (political sites, various “interesting” forums that have nothing to do with your goals, etc.), you will […]

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