Sites To Learn Stuff
Nice list from Medium: The 37 Best Websites to Learn Something New. Not much in the line of annotation, but lots of explore.
Unsending E-Mail: An App Roundup
TIME with a roundup of apps that can help you unsend e-mail. These go way beyond GMail’s unsend but bear this in mind: you can never really be sure you’ve deleted an e-mail after someone’s read it. They can always take a screen shot, no matter how you’ve encrypted or turned the text into an image.
See Your Google Contacts on a Google Map
From the ever-terrific Amit (also known as @labnol on Twitter), How to see your Google Contacts on a Google Map. “he all-new Map My Contacts app will help you quickly visualize the location of your Google contacts on a world map. It reads the postal addresses of people from your Google Contacts and puts them all in a Google Map using a simple Google script.”
Geographic Event Triggers on Your Smartphone Using IFTTT
Good stuff from How-To Geek: How to Create Geographic Event Triggers with Your Smartphone and IFTTT. I need to create one to remind me when I go to Sheetz: “Those Wisconsin cheddar bites will do you no good.”
Chrome Extension Lets You Mute Election News
This sounds awesome! A Chrome extension lets you mute mentions of the 2016 US elections. “The aptly-named ‘I haven’t got time for the ‘Paign’ is basic, but effective: it automatically scrubs popular news sites like the New York Times, Slate and The Atlantic of campaign news and tells you how many articles were hidden.”
How to Take Screenshots on a Chromebook
Maybe you’ll find this useful. I will definitely find it useful: How to take a screenshot on a Chromebook.
Web Tool Lets You “Deep Dream” Your Photos
Useful-for-a-given-value-of-useful: Google made a tool that trippified photos, then it open sourced that tool. Now thanks to Zain Shah you can try to “Deep Dream” tool for yourself. Note this article warns that the site is very, very slow in responding. I had the same experience; I suspect it’s getting a lot of traffic.
Ubergizmo: How to Download Your Facebook Photos
From Ubergizmo: How to download your Facebook photos. “Fortunately, Facebook makes it quite easy to download photos. You can easily download a single photo or all of your photos right from your Facebook profile. However, there is always some space for improvement and with the help of Third-party tools you can gain some great control over what you can download. In this tutorial, we are going to show you how you can download a single photo, an Album or all of your Facebook photos.”
Microsoft Open-Sources WorldWide Telescope
Microsoft has open-sourced WorldWide Telescope. “WorldWide Telescope began in 2007 as a Microsoft Research project, with early partners including astronomers and educators from Caltech, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, the University of Chicago and several NASA facilities. Over the past eight years, millions of people have downloaded and used WorldWide Telescope, coming to rely on its unified astronomical image and data environment for exploratory research, teaching and public outreach.”
Fold3 Offering Free Revolutionary War Collection Access Until July 15th
Fold3 is giving free access to its Revolutionary War collection until July 15th.
Ancestry Giving Free Access to 13 Colonies Records for July 4th
Ancestry is giving free access to records relevant to the original 13 US colonies. Free access ends Sunday.
Super Searcher Tricks from MEB
From the always-awesome Mary Ellen Bates, a couple of super searcher tricks. One of the tricks she mentions is restricting search to .gov sites only. If you want to search just government sites but want to search a slightly larger data pool than just .gov, check out this Google custom search engine I put together that restricts results to government Web sites (but it uses .gov and .us, so it’s got more resources to search. You can also narrow your results by city or county if the mood takes you.)
TNW on Interesting Twitter Chats
The Next Web has a roundup of 10 interesting Twitter chats. They seem to be mostly social media oriented. Which reminds me, as long as I’m complaining about things it’s hard to search for, let’s talk live Google Hangouts. Does anyone know of a good directory/calendar of live Google Hangouts? I know Google has a list of what’s live now, but I’m thinking about something where I can say, “Oh, I have a little time Friday, let’s see what’s going on.” I know I spend most of my time under this desk, but occasionally interacting with other humans has its appeal.