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- Showing a hit counter
- Showing kudos
- Showing uptime
- Showing the webring
- Showing countries
- Ignoring your own hits
In today’s WeblogPoMo2024 entry, I wrote about five times I’ve taken the streets with like-minded comrades over, well, things that people ought to be in the streets about.
Today on App Addict - ProNote - a plugin for Apple’s Notes App that allows you to use Markdown, a formatting toolbar or slash commands. It also features a backlinks highlighter.
Northern Ireland is like no other place in the English-Speaking World. It’s a beautiful country full of people friendly to outsiders and still suspicious about each other, twenty-six years after the end of The Troubles. What do you know about it? WeblogPoMo2024, Day 6
Today on AppAddict - The Battle of the Clipboard Mangers - I settled on using Raycast with the CopyQ extension installed after being a PastePal user for years. I still have access to Keyboard Maestro and Better Touch Tool’s clipboards, but I tried and rejected numerous others.
I know that VS Code is the most popular editor and has approximately 1 million features and plugins but I’ve never cared for its non-standard interface. As a power user, but non-programmer, I like the free version of BBEdit. Global search and replace is a killer feature. It can also open anything.
One Man’s Obsession is Another Man’s Passion - a multi-generational tale of compulsive lawn mowing, incinerated rifles, talking birds and art galleries.
This Week's Bookmarks - Mostly Music and Photographs, Defending tech from overanxious parents, lessons for writers
โช David Byrne | Radio | David Byrne Presents: The Power of Song to Give Voice is Eternal
โช The Nostalgia Machine - Find the Top Hits From Any Year
๐ท Earth Day 2024: Witness our changing planet in 12 incredible satellite images | Space
โช When Do We Stop Finding New Music? A Statistical Analysis
๐ฅ๏ธ Struggling with a Moral Panic Once Again - The Unfortunate Technology Blame Game
๐ท Explore NASA’s Best Photos of the Year (gizmodo.com)
๐ David Mamet’s Brilliant Memo for Writer
๐ 9 Memorable Lessons from David Mamet’s Writing Staff Memo - ScreenCraft
It’s Saturday again, so I have updated my /now page where I talk about WeblogPoMo2024, some good TV, links to the 19 (!) blog posts I wrote this week and one of my favorite subscriptions, Trakt.
The battery on my M2 MacBook Air lasts so long it seems like it’s from a science fiction novel. To maximize the lifetime of the battery and to protect the environment and my wallet, I use AlDente Pro to keep my charge below 80% and to automatically run a full cycle once a month.
Everyone has their favorite moments, their favorite memories. These are mine. None of them are particularly monumental and thankfully some of them are downright commonplace. Lucky me.
Free and Cheap Web Tools For Bloggers: Graphics, Design Tools, Editors, Analytics and More
Who doesn’t like free stuff? As horrible as the web is supposed to be these days, you can still find an amazing variety of tools to help you accomplish a bunch of different things. Since I started blogging a few months ago, I’ve discovered or been turned on to several useful online services that I use to compose, illustrate and publish on the web.
Picyard
Picyard isย a free online tool that allows you to create images for social media, blog posts, presentations, and more. You can use Picyard to create images, testimonials, code snippets, QR codes and then download them as png or jpeg files.
Simple Page Builder
Simple Page Builderwill do everything you need to design a web page, up to and including helping you register for one the free hosting sites Glitch or Neocities. It explains design principals, basic coding and file management.
Hemingway Editor
The Hemingway Editor cuts the dead weight from your writing. It highlights wordy sentences in yellow and more egregious ones in red. Hemingway helps you write with power and clarity by highlighting adverbs, passive voice, and dull, complicated words. It even shows you the reading level required to understand your writing style.
Tinylytics
Tinylytics is an analytics tool for small websites. It’s designed to be simple to use and self explanatory. There is documentation on the site covering:
Canva Color Wheel
If you are advanced enough to write your own CSS, you will probably need a color reference from time to time. The Canva Color Wheel provides not only colors for your code, it also advises you on what colors work well together. I’ve even used it to help with the settings in Obsidian.
Unsplash
Unsplash is my go to web site for royalty-free stock photography. There is no need to steal graphics from Google when so much is available for free from Unsplash. The images are easy to download and they have a huge assortment for you to search by keyword.
Lex
Lex is your AI editor for Google Docs. Not only does it check your spelling and grammar, Lex also brainstorms ideas, helps to come up with titles and will do rewrites of your work in a different style. It features versioning if you need to save what you’ve already written while contemplating the edited version. Like anywhere on Google Docs, you can work with collaborators without them needing to download an app.
Free online service upscales images for you
A story from thirty years ago when I was trying to figure out how to keep three adolescents fed without going bankrupt. For WeblogPoMo20224 - Feeding Children
Today on AppAddict - Forget all the fancy apps, Raycast, the Google Gemini website, all the AI stuff on SetApp, because my favorite way to conduct a Q&A with a LLM is using this free Apple Shortcut that has a customizable prompt, transcripts and more.
Today on AppAddict - a bargain if you can find it on sale, Alarm Clock Pro has multiple alarms, world clocks, timers, stopwatches, and automates emails, texts, program launches, web pages, sleep, wake, restart and shutdown. See the full review
I decided to start off my participation in WeblogPoMo2024 with a bit of humor, so I wrote A Treatise on Office Decorations. If you are a golfer and sensitive about it, you may want to skip this one. Same for hangers of cheesy posters.
I retired in 2020 and it was a huge mistake. I didn’t have a plan to make use of my time and consequently, tried to set a record for the most hours spent napping in a single calendar year. I took a low-key job in a field I enjoy to rescue myself from the torpor. It worked and I’m glad! The story.
Today on App Addict - Toy Viewer a fast, free and dependable replacement for Apple Preview when viewing graphics or making minor edits. See my review