Tech Tip: Bridgy Fed
This month’s Tech Tip helps you connect Mastodon and Bluesky, allowing you to interact across these decentralized platforms seamlessly.
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Tech Tip: Toggle ’em all
This month’s Tech Tip allows you to quickly check or uncheck all check boxes on a webpage in a single click.
Tech Tip: Omnivore
This month’s Tech Tip is a versatile and innovative open-source app designed to streamline your digital reading and research experience: Omnivore.
Tech Tip: Bean
This month’s Tech Tip is a super fast-to-load word processor for Mac: Bean. Aimed at providing a simple and fast writing experience, Bean features a minimalist interface and support for basic file formats like RTF, TXT, HTML, DOC, DOCX, and ODT.
Tech Tip: Merry Sky
Tech Tip: This month’s tip is a sleek and user-friendly weather website that provides hyperlocal forecasts with a focus on precipitation timelines.
Tech Tip: City of Ann Arbor Park Finder
Tech Tip: This month’s tip will help you discover the extensive network of parks and nature areas maintained by Ann Arbor’s Parks and Recreation department.
Tech Tip: Musopen
This month’s tip is a non-profit organization that provides free access to sheet music, royalty-free public domain music recordings, and other music resources: Musopen. They offer a wide range of musical content, including solo piano variations, introductions to great composers, and guides to specific musical pieces.
Tech Tip: Weather in Calendar
This month’s tip is a service that enables users to integrate weather forecasts directly into their calendar. Weather in Calendar uses emojis to display a 16-day forecast and works for all calendars supporting online .ics and emojis, such as Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook on iOS, Android, MacOS, and Windows. Users can enter their city, adjust according to… Read More »
Tech Tip: Bluesky
This month I’m highlighting a decentralized social app called Bluesky. It was developed by former Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey. It aims to create a new form of social media that is open, transparent, and community-driven. The platform uses an open-source framework and has a Twitter-like user interface with algorithmic choice, federated design, and community-specific moderation. Its goal is… Read More »
Tech Tip: Arc Max
This month, I’m highlighting some new, innovative AI features that were recently added to the already impressive Arc web browser: Arc Max. Rather than simply adding a sidebar for ChatGPT like many other browsers are doing, they identified five specific integrations that can make browsing the web easier and more enjoyable: Each of them may be individually enabled… Read More »
Tech Tip: Upscayl
This month’s tip is an AI tool for upscaling low-quality images with surprisingly good accuracy and detail: Upscayl. It’s an excellent app for those looking to enhance the quality of their photos, especially those taken with older digital cameras. Multiple settings are available, like selecting the type of image, how much to upscale, file type, and advanced users… Read More »
Tech Tip: Diffchecker
This month, I’m sharing a website that offers a simple and easy-to-use tool for comparing the differences between two pieces of text: Diffchecker. It can be used to compare two versions of a document, check for plagiarism or spelling mistakes, and much more. Diffchecker works by highlighting the differences between two pieces of text and allowing users to… Read More »
Tech Tip: Threads
This month’s tip is a new Twitter competitor that exploded recently: Threads. Having already surpassed 100 million users, it’s full of content and the creators you know and love are already there. While the web interface is not yet available, apps may be downloaded for iOS and Android. Once logged in with your Instagram account, a new account… Read More »
Tech Tip: Reclaim control of your digital life
This month’s tip is a comprehensive guide to help individuals reclaim control of their digital lives in an age where technology and social media have become pervasive in our daily lives. Written by the Center for Humane Technology, Take Control educates users on the negative effects of persuasive technology and social media, and empowers people to take action… Read More »
Tech Tip: Easily extract images from PowerPoint
For this month’s Tech Tip, I’m sharing a tip that I’ve found very useful over the years. It’s a simple technique to extract all images (and other content, such as the fonts used in the presentation) from within PowerPoint files just by changing its extension. You can do this with files you’ve saved directly from the Microsoft PowerPoint… Read More »
Tech Tip: Readwise Reader
Tech Tip: This month’s tip shares a customizable search engine: You.com.
Tech Tip: You.com
Tech Tip: This month’s tip shares a customizable search engine: You.com.
Tech Tip: Mastodon
Tech Tip: This month’s tip shares an alternative to Twitter: Mastodon.
Tech Tip: Use Scribe to create step-by-step guides
Tech Tip: This month’s tip shares an easy way to create step-by-step guides using Scribe.
Tech Tip: SwiftRead
Tech Tip: This month’s tip shares an RSS reader called Inoreader. It is an easy way to pull content from multiple sources into one place.