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- FreeTube - a YouTube viewer
- Bebop - Quick capture notes for Obsidian
- Clipboard Managers - A comparison of Mac clipboard managers - Raycast won
- Blip - a cross platform file transfer app
- Applite - an app store for Homebrew
- Omnivore - a free read-it-later app
- Apparency - a Quicklook plugin for apps
- My Applications - gives you detailed info on your installed applications
- Zavala - a free universal outliner
- Scrap Paper - a menu bar notes app that syncs with iOS
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This Week's Bookmarks - Cool art gallery, Leftist purity, Beautiful streets, Music covers, NY Sandwiches, Landmarks, Biggest Dog
What the Failure of American Communism Should Teach the Left - The Atlantic (archive.ph)
Songs covered by artists of a different gender - Genderswap.fm
New York City’s Best Sandwiches - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Landmarks as they are not often seen
Kevin the Great Dane verified as tallest living dog: “He’s a gentle giant” | Guinness World Records
Today for #Junited2024 I am plugging the blog, Life Is Such A Sweet Insanity by J.P. Wing, a guy with an interests list a mile long: flying, hiking, storm chasing, vintage computers, space, Linux, Apple and evidently writing because I enjoy the hell out of his prose. Take a look.
I love it when someone interviews Bob Dylan and instead of asking him the same bullshit questions, he’s been asked a million times like “How did it feel to be the voice of a generation” they ask him questions about current events and music and his creative process. Bob Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy Ways
The Sopranos 25th Anniversary - an interview with the cast members from the iconic HBO show on the 25th anniversary of its premiere with a few surprising revelations.
Down With Southern Mythology, We’re Tired of It It sickens me that after the murder of George Floyd, across the south we managed to finally remove Confederate names from some schools and other public institutions, only to see MAGA loving right-wingers reinstitute them this year.
Today for #Junited2024 I’d like to suggest a GTD post from the blog of Ariadne, Noisy Deadlines, a Brazilian living in Canada who loves winter. Her blog is a good mix of sci-fi, GTD and Internet culture - just the kind of non-pretentious stuff I enjoy. @noisydeadlines@writing.exchange on Mastodon.
My favorite book about the Vietnam War is Dispatches by Michael Herr based on the reporting he did for Esquire. This article from 1968 about the battle for Hue was the foundation for the book. Hell Sucks
Murder in Mississippi - the most powerful artwork I have ever seen in person. Many right-wingers refuse to believe this painting is by Norman Rockwell, but it is. It depicts the Mississippi Burning killing of three civil rights workers by the Klan in 1964.
I’ve completed the /Slash Page Challenge and made as many as I could.
This Week's Bookmarks - Recipe finder, Excellent advice, Quitting Google, Mullets!, Miss AI contest, Driving cities, Bookshelf creator
Recipe Search with Typesense - Search 2 Million recipes -
25 Bits Of ‘Excellent Advice For Living’ That Apply To Adventure - Semi-Rad.com
How to Quit Google, According to a Privacy Expert | Lifehacker
The Worlds First AI Creator Awards (miss-ai.webflow.io)
Charted: America’s driving capitals (axios.com)
Bookshelf.so - Create your own beautiful book review page with an interactive 3D bookshelf
The Most Popular Apps I've Reviewed
I’ve been amazed since I started writing app reviews online at AppAddict Some of the reviews have been viewed thousands of times. I’ve had reviews mentioned on Lifehacker and The Verge. If you’re curious as to what’s been the most popular, here’s a list.
The suppression of speech which criticizes Israel or puts forth a Palestinian point of view is antithetical to what are supposed to be the values of higher education in specific and America in general Columbia Law Review taken offline for publishing an article by a Palestinian Law Student
Working on my /slash page homework from @robb@social.lol - Today I’ve updated my /defaults. There have been some additions since I created this is January, but no deletions. I can never have enough software.
This Weeks Bookmarks - Nickelback Hate, Kitchen Tips, Beach Reads, Best Sci-Fi books, Best Cities for Food, Most Expensive Paintings, 25 Era Defining Photos
Why Do People Hate Nickelback So Much? A Statistical Analysis (statsignificant.com)
91 Kitchen Tricks and Tips From Our Expert Cooks (realsimple.com)
51 Beach Reads for a Relaxing Summer 2024 (rd.com)
The 21 best science fiction books of all time – according to New Scientist writers | New Scientist
The World’s 20 Best Cities for Food Right Now (timeout.com)
List of most expensive paintings - Wikipedia
The 25 Photos That Defined the Modern Age - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Save the web by being nice by Andrew Stephens, my #Junited2024 entry
There are different levels of Niceness but roughly from least to most effort:
This Weeks Bookmarks - 50 things to know, Weird roadside attractions, Summer movies, Toxic reality TV, Recipes, YouTube games, Free money
50 things I know - by Sasha Chapin #1 is 1. I know what makes people grow more reliably than anything else. It is: taking on a difficult project with some amount of public accountability. This can be large or small: a lecture series, a business, a blog, a house, a child, etc.
Weird Roadside Attractions in Every State to Visit on a Road Trip - Thrillist - Thanks to Jarrod Blundy
The 31 Most Anticipated Movies of Summer 2024 | TIME - How may movies will you see at the theater this summer?
Is “Love Is Blind” a Toxic Workplace? | The New Yorker - You really don’t want to be on a reality show.
JustTheRecipe - Paste in a URL and this website will remove all of the fluff from the page and leave you with just the recipe to make it easier to read and cook.
YouTube - Everybody’s getting into gaming these days. YouTube joins the slowly growing list of companies with gaming initiatives, rolling out its Playables program across mobile and desktop. To play, simply visit YouTube’s website or Android / iOS app and look for Playables in the sidebar. YouTube will let players save their progress and keep track of high scores. There are over 75 games to choose from, including chess and crossword games to more popular casual mobile titles like Angry Birds Showdown!, Trivia Crack, and Cut the Rope.
MissingMoney.com | Search for Unclaimed Property MissingMoney.com is the official Unclaimed Property website of the National Association of State Treasurers
US State Governments and several Canadian Provinces, through their partnership with the leading, trusted authority in unclaimed property—the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators (NAUPA)—provide this free, safe, and secure site to the public. New properties are added daily, so start your search now and check back often!
10 Random But Helpful #Obsidian Tips
1. Sort All Your Attachments in A Folder That Mirrors Your Vault
With the Attachment Management community plugin, you can have all your attachments renamed to match the note they are attached to and arranged in a sub-folder that matches the folder arrangement of your vault.
2. Add a Web Page to Your Vault on iOS
This one is just an iOS shortcut [that works with any browser, not just Safar](RoutineHub • Clip Entire Web Pages to Obsidian in iOS 17). You’ll need Actions for Obsidian to make it work.
3. Create a Callout with Links to All the Notes You Created Today
This requires the Dataview community plugin
> [!abstract]Today's New Notes
> ```dataview
> LIST WHERE creation-date = this.creation-date
> ```
4. Have New Notes Give You a Popup To Name Them
This requires the Templater community Plugin. This snippet gives you a pop-up when you first create your notes asking you to name it at that point. You type the name into the resulting dialog box and that’s that taken care of. (Note: This snippet goes at the very top of your note at Line 1. It creates the three tick marks that are the beginning of the code block for your properties.)
<%*
let title = tp.file.title
if (title.startsWith("Untitled")) {
title = await tp.system.prompt("Title");
await tp.file.rename(title);
}
tR += "---"
%>
5. Automatically Download Images from Any Web Page You Import
The default behavior is for the web pages you download to link the images the original source, but you can automate having them downloaded so the links don’t get broken. All you have to do to make this happen is install the community plugin Local Images Plus and change the setting to “Automatically Processing”
6. Create a Map of Content Automatically for Any Folder or Subfolder That You Can Copy and Paste as Plain Text
If you use Dataview to create MOCs, good luck exporting or copying them. You need two plugins for to make that happen Folder Note and Waypoint.
7. Use Cool Icons With All of Your Obsidian Folders
If you’d like to visually enhance your folders like shown below, install the Iconize community plugin.
8. Import Entire Articles from Omnivore, Not Just Highlights and Notes
If you want to use the free red-it-later service to import the entire text of web pages instead of the default behavior which just brings in highlights and notes, you can tweak your article template like this.
> # {{{title}}}
> #Omnivore
>
> [Read on Omnivore]({{{omnivoreUrl}}})
> [Read Original]({{{originalUrl}}})
>
> {{#note}}
>
> {{{note}}}
> {{/note}}
>
> {{{ content }}}
9. Customize Your Sidebars
In Obsidian, you can drag and drop elements like notes, links, or files to the sidebars to move or create new links. Simply drag the element you want to move and drop it onto the sidebar where you want it to be placed.
10. To Add a Geotag and Timestamp to a Note on iOS
This one requires Drafts, which all Mac/iOS users should have any way. This action will append the info to your daily note but it is easy to edit to create a note instead of appending it.
This Week's Bookmarks- Learning guides, free transcription, A better Google, income info, YouTube transcripts, communication secrets, Apple's Top 100 albums
The Curricula is a website to help you learn “anything” by generating a guide and resources. I’ve been curious about the history ot the mountain town of [Morganton, NC](the Curricula) and what I was given was a summarized learning path and links to books, articles, and videos for each area of the past: Native Americans, European colonization, Civil War and reconstruction, Industrialization and economic growth, Key figures in its history
Check out notta.ai, which for heavy users is $8.25 per month and offers 1,800 minutes (30 hours) of transcription. Notta’s free plan provides 120 minutes, which should be sufficient for most people. I’ve also noticed that Notta is faster and just as accurate than other services.
You may have noticed that recent changes in Google searches are making things hard and not easier to find. If that’s your experience, this is for you. How I Made Google’s “Web” View My Default Search (tedium.co)
It’s interesting to see where our current family income places us in relation to the other people in our area, and even more interesting to see that played out at different spots nationwide. It makes a good case for people doing remote work..Upper, Middle, Lower Class in Charts: Percentages, Income by State (businessinsider.com)
The future is here. You can read YouTube now. YouTube Transcript - read YouTube videos
Why can some people effortlessly connect with anyone while others struggle to converse? Conversational skills can be learned, practiced, and mastered. The author sits down with Charles Duhigg, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author of Supercommunicators.
Watch / Listen Now
While I disagree vehemently with the results, especially the top 10, everyone should take a look at Apple’s version of the Top 100 Albums of All Time just to see where their opinions falls alongside the so-called experts. For the record, Aretha > Beyonce, All Green > Frank Ocean and where are Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and The Clash?
Apple’s Top 10 Albums are a joke, designed 100% to pander to the demographic their market study said would be most likely to subscribe after seeing it. Aretha > Beyonce. Al Green > Fran Ocean. Where are the Stones, Led Zeppelin, REM, The Clash, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan? GTFO
