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My two cents - Wikipedia
My two cents - Wikipedia
The expression is used to preface a tentative statement of one’s opinion. By deprecating the opinion to follow—suggesting its value is only two cents, a very small amount—the user of the phrase, showing politeness and humility, hopes to lessen the impact of a possibly contentious statement.
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How to Use Mastodon
How to Use Mastodon
The truth is that the hardest part of using Mastodon is creating your account — and even that is about as difficult as deciding where to set up your email address. In the end, actually using Mastodon is wildly similar to using Twitter. With that in mind, here’s everything you need to know about joining and using Mastodon. I promise: It’s not so bad.
Mastodon es como era Twitter hace diez años, un lugar en el que leías lo que querías leer, aquello que buscabas con cuidado, por cuentas, por temas, por listas, y no en función de la publicidad y el ruido que interesa a la empresa.
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MacSparky - Get More Productive with Your Apple Gear
MacSparky - Get More Productive with Your Apple Gear
For years I’ve been talking about how I cook ideas using MindNode. In this video, I walk you through the process of creating a new MindNode document. Then, I show you a fully matured MindNode that I built over the course of a year which led to me closing down my law practice. Enjoy.
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Another way to verify yourself in Mastodon
In this former post I wrote about verifying yourself with a blue checkmark Twitter style.
I found another tag that gives you a proper Mastodon verified badge. Just add :mastodon:to your Display Name in your user settings.
This is how it looks:
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How to follow Twitter accounts in Mastodon
bird.makeup defines itself as a Twitter to ActivityPub bridge.
This service lets you follow any Twitter account from Mastodon. The only thing you need to do is to add @bird.makeup to any Twitter handle you wish to add, and search for it in Mastodon. You will be able to add that user right away.
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How to verify yourself in Mastodon
There is one canonical way to verify your own blog in Mastodon: you need to write a rel="m2" attribute in your web page and Mastodon will read it, giving you a nice green checkmark on your profile page. The code for that rel="m2" attribute is in the ‘Edit profile`section of your Mastodon profile.
Nevertheless, there’s one easier way to look like you´re verified Twitter style.
You just need to write :verified: in your Display name.
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AI and cats
I need an AI tool that will rid me of every cat picture in the various apps and services I use. Silencing #cat tags and their many variations won’t cut it.
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Atajos para búsquedas en diccionarios
This post is in Spanish, and it might be useful for people who are learning the language, too.
Atajos para búsquedas en diccionarios.
It’s a bunch of Shorcuts to perform dictionary searches for Spanish definitions and synonyms and EN-ES translations.
They are all ruled by one main shortcut that it’s actually a selection menu. You need to download all of them into you Shortcuts app but you will only need to run the main menu selection.
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iCloud Gets a Security Upgrade - MacSparky
iCloud Gets a Security Upgrade - MacSparky
The following features [will, by early 2023] have end-to-end encryption on iCloud:
Device Backups Messages Backups iCloud Drive Notes Photos Reminders Safari Bookmarks Siri Shortcuts Voice Memos Wallet Passes End-to-end encryption means your data can’t be viewed on the server in these categories (if you opt in). Put simply, Apple will no longer be able to see the above categories of data.
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Negroni and Pedro Ximenez
Improvising a Negroni with ⅓ Seagram’s Gin, ⅓ Campari and ⅓ Pedro Ximenez Sherry. It’s not a Negroni, someone might say, but I’m not a cocktail hipster either. I just like tasty stuff, and this is delicious.
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A beautiful little story from New Zealand
A beautiful little story from New Zealand, by @miraz Take care for the Pied Stilt chicks - Wow Waikawa! our place at its best
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Finally settling down in Micro.blog
Well, I think I’m going to finally settle down in Micro.blog. I can host my blog and cross-post to Twitter, LinkedIn and Mastodon. And people are really nice here. I hope you take me in. I will mostly be publishing in Spanish, though.
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A Better Finder Rename is an essential tool
A Better Finder Rename is an astonishing tool for everything related to renaming files. I’ve been using it for years and years and have never found anything close to its power and versatility.
Here’s three not very long videos that will give you a good overview. From basic to medium to advanced features.
Introduction to A Better Finder Rename 11: The Most Powerful Batch File Renamer for macOS:
A Better Finder Rename - How to combine multiple rename actions:
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Sting: A Winter's Night... Live from Durham Cathedral
Sting: A Winter’s Night… Live from Durham Cathedral - YouTube
Winter is coming, brace yourselves, brace your kin, hope for Spring, and rejoice.
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James Webb Space Telescope - Wikipedia
James Webb Space Telescope - Wikipedia
The telescope is named after James E. Webb,[13] who was the administrator of NASA from 1961 to 1968 and played an integral role in the Apollo program
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LaunchBar lets you launch Shortcuts in macOS
From the LaunchBar 6.15 release notes:
Added support for shortcuts defined in the Shortcuts.app of macOs Monterey. Those shortcuts are indexed automatically and can be conveniently invoked from LaunchBar. If a shortcut requires text input, this text can be entered after pressing the Space bar or via Send-to. LaunchBar by Objective Development is an app launcher and much more.
With one single keyboard shortcut you can launch every app in your computer, move, copy or rename files, create folders, activate extensions, access contacts, send mails, make calculations, search the web, even enter events in your many calendars.
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A Wandering Mind, by @kouroshdini
Kourosh Dini has helped me so much with OmniFocus and DEVONthink that I can thankfully say that I owe him a big chunk of my adult productive life.
Yet there’s still that feeling that something is not working properly, because no matter how much I plan and review and work on my task management and document organization, work is overwhelming, tons of projects suffer big delays and the constant flow of new things to attend to feels like a non stopping flood.
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Cross-posting categories from Micro.blog
In the @monday podcast, I think @artkavanagh said that he didn’t find the way to cross-post a micro.blog category to Twitter. But there is. I found that you can go to the Categories page, select a particular Category and copy its xml feed. Then in the Account settings, under ‘Edit feeds and cross-posting’, it is possible to add the previously copied feed and link that to Twitter. That way, only posts included in that category will be cross-posted to Twitter.