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Slack Zero 2024
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Slack Zero 2024

An update to my 2021 post on getting the most out of your Slack application in the least amount of time.

SlackZero
Tutorials

SlackZero

A productivity lightning talk on getting the most out of Slack.

Productivity

Slack is my new RSS reader

I’ve finally found a solution to the vacuum created when my favorite RSS reader got the axe (RIP Google Reader). I loved being able to quickly browse…

macOS

Mac Automation: Quickly add to-dos/events to iCal- The Unofficial Apple Weblog TUAW

| Mac Automation: Quickly add to-dos/events to iCal- The Unofficial Apple Weblog TUAW | How many times have you been watching TV and wanted to quickly add a to-do or event maybe both to iCal? In this Mac Automation post, Im going to show you how to create both a to-do and an iCal event from within Automator. You will be able to add new items to iCal without ever having to open it. Lets begin.

Linux

SSH and SCP: Howto, tips & tricks

A basic tutorial about the Linux commands ssh and scp. It features explanation about the syntax, the possibilities and the differences between the two. It…

Tutorials

Screencasts of uncommon browser features [dive into mark]

| Let’s not and say we did [dive into mark] | # Introduction to tabbed browsing | # Opening links in a new tab | # Bookmarking a group of tabs | # Using a group of tabs as the home page | # Rearranging tabs | # Introduction to live bookmarks | # Introduction to spell checking | # Introduction to search engines | # Adding a search engine | # Removing a search engine | # Installing an add-on | # Changing add-on options | # Enabling and disabling add-ons | # Uninstalling add-ons | # Installing a new theme | # Switching between installed themes | # Uninstalling a theme | # Adding a Print button to the toolbar | # Rearranging buttons on the toolbar | # Removing buttons from the toolbar | # Changing the size of toolbar buttons

Tutorials

Rolling Your Own Online Office

I’ve done a lot of telecommuting in my life. My first real writing gig came when I was 16 as a freelancer for a computer magazine whose offices were 3,000…

Tutorials

Introducing the Hipster PDA | 43 Folders

| Introducing the Hipster PDA | 43 Folders | The Hipster PDA Parietal Disgorgement Aid is a fully extensible system for coordinating incoming and outgoing data for any aspect of your life and work. It scales brilliantly, degrades gracefully, supports optional categories and “beaming,” and is configurable to an unlimited number of options. Best of all, the Hipster PDA fits into your hip pocket and costs practically nothing to purchase and maintain. Let’s make one together.

Tutorials

Keyboard Shortcuts for Bash :: the How-To Geek


Ctrl + A Go to the beginning of the line you are currently typing on

Ctrl + E Go to the end of the line you are currently typing on

Ctrl + L Clears the Screen, similar to the clear command

Ctrl + U Clears the line before the cursor position.

       If you are at the end of the line, clears the entire line.

Ctrl + H Same as backspace

macOS

Gmail Notifier for Mac OSX

For those of you who don’t have a Gmail account yet go to gmail.com and get signed up. The new authentication process uses your cell phone to prove your a…

Tutorials

Spybot Search and Destroy 1.4

Another feature is the removal of usage tracks, which makes it more complicated for unknown spybots to transmit useful data. The list of last visited…