Category: How To
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Ranking a What Is My IP Tool
I recently added a small tool to T.LY: What Is My IP Address . It does the obvious thing first. It shows your public IP address. Then it gives you the extra details people usually want after that: location, ISP,...
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Autonomous Standing Desk Won’t Go Down?
My Autonomous SmartDesk recently got stuck and would not lower. The display was acting weird too, which made it feel like the desk had lost track of its actual height. Luckily, the fix was simple. Autonomous support...
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How to Stop Gmail From Opening New Emails in Full Screen
Gmail has a setting called Default to full-screen for the compose window. If it is turned on, every new email opens in the larger centered compose view instead of the smaller box in the bottom-right corner. This...
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Free Live Speech Translator for Chrome
If you need to show translated speech on a screen during a meeting, presentation, church service, or event, I built a tool for that: Live Speech Translator . It is free, runs in Google Chrome, and is built to keep...
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Chrome Extensions Turn Shady
One of the best things about Chrome extensions is also one of the worst things about them: they sit directly inside your browser. That makes them incredibly useful, but it also means the extension can watch pages,...
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Marketing Is the Hard Part
It has never been easier to build software. With AI, a solo founder can design a landing page, scaffold a SaaS app, wire up billing, add analytics, and ship a usable product in days instead of months. That is a huge...
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How to Research Any Topic
When I want to learn a new topic quickly, I usually do not start with books or long courses. I start with YouTube. YouTube is one of the fastest ways to get up to speed on almost anything. The problem is that videos...
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How I Migrated This Blog from WordPress to Astro
For over 10 years, this blog has run on WordPress . It worked well for years, but recently I needed to migrate it to a new server, and it felt like too much for what is mostly a static site. This site does not need a...
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How to Get Free Email for Your Custom Domain
If you run a small business, side project, or SaaS, you probably want a professional email address like: support @ yourdomain.com hello @ yourdomain.com But most email hosting services charge $5 to $12 per user per...
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I Built a Tool to Help You Find Short Domains
If you’ve ever tried to find a short domain for your brand, you already know how this goes. You come up with a good, catchy domain name. You head to a registrar. It’s taken or crazy expensive. So you try another...
