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From the monthly archives:
I am always looking for new ways to make myself and those around me more productive (which makes me really popular), this urge combined with my unhealthy iPhone obsession inspired to make the following list.
Please let me know what you think of the list in the comments, I would also be really interested in hearing about the apps that make your life easier.
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Day by day, bit by bit your Mac has got slower and slower. You don’t really notice because it has happened so gradually.
Keep reading…
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If you want your site to reach its full potential it’s important that you have an understanding of how your visitors interact with it. Making your site easy to use can have a massive effect on conversions, sales or whatever goals you may have.
Here are a selection of excellent books covering the subject of usability and interaction design to get you started:
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While preparing a new post for chriswrites I had to rename around 50 files before uploading them to my ftp server, so instead of doing it manually I decided to give Automator a try. Although I had a rough idea what Automator was, I really wasn’t sure what it was capable of, so I was really pleased to discover that its a pretty powerful tool.
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Today I received an invite to the Hunch private beta, which was pretty exciting, usually when I apply for these things I never hear back from them : (
Anyway if you haven’t heard of Hunch, its a new take on the Questions and Answers format, instead of getting a written answer from another user, it takes you through a simple decision tree, basically it asks you multiple choice questions about the thing your looking for the answer to, after a number of steps it give you an answer.
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Recently I tried out friendorfollow a service that shows which of your followers are not following you back. Its a really simple well executed idea. However it’s lacks the ability to mass unfollow its results.
So after a bit of searching i discovered TwitterKarma, a simple web app to do just this task. Just enter your username and password (if your worried about giving the site these details you can always change your password before and after), choose only following from the drop down then go to the bottom of the page, click check all and hit the bulk unfollow button, then say goodbye to all those unwanted tweets!
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My name is Christopher Lee and I'm co-founder of the questions & answers community Blurtit.com. Here I intend to share my insights, knowledge and opinions on things that interest me. Read more at my about page
