Tested: Should You Unplug Chargers When You’re Not Using Them?
How much energy do your smartphone, laptop, and tablet chargers really use? Should you unplug them when you aren’t using them to save power and money? We measured exactly how much power a variety of common chargers use, and how much keeping them plugged in will cost your each year…
Source: Tested: Should You Unplug Chargers When You’re Not Using Them?
Sharing a published MailChimp Newsletter
Sometimes you may want to get more readers to a newsletter by publishing a past one to your Facebook page, website etc. Here is a fairly easy way to accomplish this with MailChimp.
For those of you that use Mailchimp for your newsletters, you can easily share that newsletter here on Facebook by doing the following:
- Go to your list of campaigns that have been sent.
- Click on the campaign.
- There are tabs at the top, click on details
- in the next window click on Campaign Archive. This gives you a preview of the full campaign (If you personalize it, it will say Dear First Name)
- Click on Share and you can share it directly to FB, Twitter and you can get a shortened URL to paste into those places too.
Easy Peasy!
reverse image search – Google Search
Did you know you can do reverse searches for an image?
If you have an image that you found and want to know where it came from, you go to google, click on the images tab. Then you will see a little camera icon on the right side before the search icon. upload the image you want to know about and you’ll get a listing of all the places (or the one place) that the image lives. You could use this to find who’s been using images you have the ownership of, or to find a website explaining something or even find out where you can buy a copy of it if you’d like to use it for your website! Cool huh?
Windows 10 is Out Today: Should You Upgrade?
Windows 10 is finally out — kind of. Microsoft initially promised that everyone could take advantage of the free upgrade offer on July 29, but you may have to wait a while before Microsoft offers the upgrade to your PC.
Sources such as How to Geek say, hold off and see. It’s best to get the kinks out of a new Operating System before you plunge in. I have to agree. If you want to read what they say, please click the link below.
To Aid In Maintenance Urban Planners In Melbourne Australia Assigned Email Addresses To What City Feature?
Think you know the answer? Click through to see if you’re right! This is pretty fun.
Source: To Aid In Maintenance Urban Planners In Melbourne Australia Assigned Email Addresses To What City Feature?
The Life and Untimely Death of Technology’s Weirdest Logo
In 1988 Timothy Wilkinson, a British designer at frog design in Silicon Valley, was tasked with creating a logo for the biggest peripheral maker in the world: Logitech. The company kept Wilkinson’s logo around for almost 30 years. And while it long seemed weird to me, it’s also completely brilliant.
Source: The Life and Untimely Death of Technology’s Weirdest Logo
No, Windows 10 Won’t Require a Subscription
Well, that’s a relief!
Microsoft’s Windows 10 message hasn’t always been clear. They’ve declared the Windows 10 upgrade will be free for the first year and that going forward they’ll be pushing “Windows 10 as a service.
Source: No, Windows 10 Won’t Require a Subscription: Here’s How Microsoft Plans on Making Money Instead
“What Font Should I Use?”
For many beginners, the task of picking fonts is a mystifying process. There seem to be endless choices — from normal, conventional-looking fonts to novelty candy cane fonts and bunny fonts — with no way of understanding the options, only never-ending lists of categories and recommendations. Selecting the right typeface is a mixture of firm rules and loose intuition, and takes years of experience to develop a feeling for. Here are five guidelines for picking and using fonts that I’ve developed in the course of using and teaching typography. Many of my beginning students go about picking a font as though they were searching for new music to listen to: they assess the personality of each face and look for something unique and distinctive that expresses their particular aesthetic taste, perspective and personal history. This approach is problematic, because it places too much importance on individuality.
Source: “What Font Should I Use?”: Five Principles for Choosing and Using Typefaces – Smashing Magazine
PagesSizesDimensions
I’m often advising clients that they should make sure that they have a business page on Facebook. If they have information that they want people to know about, it’s another handy avenue to generate interest and business.
I just stumbled upon a page that helps you to know what size the images that you use for the profile and cover sections should be. And now that you want to be aware of smartphones too, they also show where images will be cut off on smaller devices too, so you can plan accordingly. Check out https://www.facebook.com/PagesSizesDimensions