This post is part of a two-part series on Inbox by Gmail, and my experience using the product. If you have not tried Inbox by Gmail, and you are a Gmail user, you should give it a shot. This service was released one year ago to the date of this post, and since then has gotten favorable reviews from the …
This post is a follow-up to The problem of link rot, and how you can fight it, which discussed the problem of link rot and how to prevent it. In a previous post, I discussed the problem of link rot, why it happens, and some ways you can fight link rot on your website. Fortunately, WordPress users are very lucky to have …
Websites don’t last forever. Even the most reputable of websites can go offline, change URL’s, or begin blocking their content through a paywall. If your site has a lot of hyperlinks to external websites, chances are that some of those links have become the Internet equivalent of a dead end. Rather than pointing to the intended website, these links can …
This year has been fairly quiet for The Thought Box. Looking back, I’ve only posted eight times since Jan 1, 2015. But 2015 is behind us. Welcome 2016! Let’s hope that a worthy president gets elected and that we’ll spend our leap day doing something meaningful. Right now, my blog sits at 388 posts published. My goal (and I guess …
I’m a big fan of keyboard shortcuts (see here, here, and here, and here). While they may take some time and effort to learn, I’ve found that they’ve greatly increased my productivity. Searching, pointing, and clicking a specific area on a screen can be slow (see Fitts’ law), but using your keyboard is always precise. Yes, no, maybe so Next time you …