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Get a Better Reading Experience on the Web with Clearly

If you are among the ~30% of this blog’s viewers who use Google Chrome, you’ll want to get the Evernote Clearly Chrome Extension. When you click on the button provided with this extension, it will reformat the page you are … Continue reading

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Determining the Nutritional Value of Your Foods

While trying to identify the protein content of a couple of food items, I found the following very helpful resource on nutrition: SelfNutritionData. Here is an example of some information it provides for scrambled eggs: You can quickly see from … Continue reading

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Download and Check Your Facebook Data

In response to cries from various privacy advocacy groups, Facebook now allows you to download some of the data it stored on you. You can download the data by clicking the Account Settings link, and then clicking the Download Data … Continue reading

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Use a Text Editor to Detect Phishing in Emails

I received an email today that appeared to be from AT&T, suggesting that I owed about $100 on my phone bill. Since I stay up-to-date on my bills, I was suspicious, so I selected the “Save As” option in Apple … Continue reading

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The Benefit of Deferred Reading

Do you have a “Read Later” list, and/or a pile of printed articles that you plan to get to later? If you are sort of ADHD, like me and many others who live with a computer/smartphone/iPad, you probably have a … Continue reading

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Before Buying an Amazon eBook, Check the Sample

Today I decided to buy Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art using my Kindle. Mistake. The ebook is so poorly formatted as to make it not worth my time to read. Oh, no doubt the quality and value of what … Continue reading

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Waterlogged iPhone? Try Using Rice

If you drop your iPhone into water, as I did recently, you may think you killed it. Well, you may have. But, putting it into a box of rice for a few days might bring it back to life. While … Continue reading

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A Reminder: the Importance of Good Passwords

As detailed on the Twitter Blog via Twitter: even more open than we wanted and the TechCrunch post In our inbox: hundreds of confidential twitter documents, a lot of confidential Twitter material was hacked into via an e-mail account that … Continue reading

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Framebusters Break WordPress Theme Activation

If you manage a WordPress site, you probably need to know about this. If you use any “framebuster” javascript in your WordPress theme, and you deactivate that theme and then try to reactivate it, you cannot reactivate it. Well, you … Continue reading

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A Reminder: Your Email Boxes

Just a little reminder: If you haven’t cleaned up your email folders in a while, now is as good a time as any. This especially applies to your computer devices, but it also applies to your mobile devices. When I … Continue reading

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