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May 17

Great Tools For Importing RSS Feeds Into Your Feedly Account

Feedly Bookmarklet

For those of you still reeling from Google’s decision to axe its venerable Reader product, finding an RSS management replacement has been a top priority. Most of the digerati has seemed to settle on Feedly, and in the past few weeks, its developers have been continually innovating to ensure that its influx of new subscribers have all the bells and whistles they expect from a comprehensive RSS management solution.

If you are still finding your way around the product and would like to know a few easy ways of getting new RSS feeds into your account, check out these simple options. Read more

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May 15

Selectively Employ Facebook Chat For Your Closest Friends

Improve Facebook Functionality

The constantly changing interface and flippant attitude towards privacy that are hallmarks of the Facebook M.O. might irk you, but, unless your middle name ends with -ek and you are continually fantasizing about all the redonkulous ways you’d use Google Glass, it is probably your social network of choice. More importantly, it is also very likely where the majority of your friends reside.

One area that is seeing increased relevance with the inclusion of useful new features (e.g., video calls) is Facebook Chat. Maybe you’d like to better utilize it, but the prospect of making yourself available to all the people in your network finds you shutting that bad boy down fast.

Fortunately, there is a way to leave this feature on and selectively choose which buds/budettes can chat with you. Read more

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May 13

Get A Handle On Your Student Loan Debt With Student Loan Hero

Loan Hero

The specter of paying off massive student loan debt is a burden that weighs heavy on most of the Millennial generation. Trying to start a life, never mind a family, in today’s economic milieu with the additional burden of debt from a process that was, ostensibly, supposed to help you find gainful employment is a tough pill for many to swallow.

While technology cannot provide a panacea to address these grievous issues, it can make dealing with them a little more palatable. Read more

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May 10

Utilize Automator To Quickly Quit All OS X Applications

Automator

Sometimes, you need to quickly restart or shutdown your Mac, but if you have many applications open, or worse, if one of them is misbehaving and preventing the system from shutting down, you’re probably going to get very frustrated. What you might not know is that OS X has an incredibly handy (and often underutilized) application that helps you create automated workflows, and that can help you address this issue. Read more

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May 8

Export And Organize Your Gmail Messages With Gmail Print All

Gmail Print All

If you’re a Gmail/Chrome power-user, you probably utilize this combo to handle a variety of personal/professional correspondence to stay productive and organized. Even though Gmail has a fantastic built-in search functionality to help you find what you’re looking for, it is still sometimes necessary to export your messages outside of the Google ecosystem, either to print them for some kind of official documentation, or to save them to PDF for storage purposes.

Instead of doing this manually, one by one, you can utilize this excellent Chrome extension to automate the process. Read more

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May 6

Auto-Hide Visited Links With RapidReddit For Chrome

RapidReddit

The “Front Page of the Internet” (a.k.a., Reddit) is an excellent place to find interesting stories, heated debates, and to pass some free time. As you peruse the site, you may find yourself jumping back and forth between the various subreddits, so, in order to improve the quality of your experience, it may be useful if only novel links were shown each time you viewed a page.

The Interwebs love of Reddit has engendered just such a solution. Read more

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May 3

Clean Up Your Media Library With Filebot

If you’re anything like me, you have a hodgepodge collection of audio and video content that you’ve been collecting for many years from varied sources. When piped into slick media center software (e.g., XBMC, Plex), ripped CDs, DVDs, and digital purchases may not always have the correct meta information, and, therefore, may not be correctly displayed/recognized in your chosen media management software.

There are ways to obtain this information through the media management software itself, but these solutions don’t always provide the best results. Filebot is an open-source, cross-platform solution that gets the job done, with aplomb. Read more

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May 1

Gain Advanced Tab Management Options With OneTab Chrome Extension

OneTab

Chrome has built-in tab restoration and management options, but there are many available extensions that greatly expand upon its limited capabilities. If you’re looking for more powerful ways of working with your browser tabs, check out OneTab. Read more

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Apr 29

Find Your Perfect Laptop With Awesome New Web Service, Swogo

Swogo

If you’re feeling overwhelmed with the vast number of options available to you when choosing a new laptop, there are online tools at your disposal to help you whittle down the choices. I’ve covered some before, but new entrant, Swogo, offers an attractive, information-packed presentation that easily makes it the top contender. Read more

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Apr 26

Easily Re-Open Accidentally Closed Browser Tab With Keyboard Shortcut Jiu Jitsu

Reopen closed tab

When you live in your web browser most of the day, you are probably accustomed to managing numerous tabs. As you’re moving back and forth, getting your work on, it is inevitable that you will, at some point, accidentally close out an important browser tab.

There is a useful keyboard shortcut available to mitigate this annoying occurrence. Read more

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