Adin, this is that recipe for easy sweet potatoes in an air fryer
Adin – If you’re tired of waiting on mashed sweet tater deliveries, here’s all you need to do to make them on your own.
How-To Guides
Posts from Amedeo’s Typings blog that focus on how-to guides. It’s his volunteer effort to play a part in building an internet that is helpful, factual, and focused on solving people’s problems, rather than engendering conflict or producing revenue-generating online behavior.
Bookmark shortcut to clean up recipes for cooked.wiki
I stumbled into cooked.wiki, a lovely service that allows you to turn chaotic recipe web pages into clean and usable directions by adding “cooked.wiki/” in front of the URL. Rather than typing that out repeatedly, I made a bookmarklet to handle the work. If you don’t know, a bookmarklet is a browser bookmark that uses … Read more
How to archive Supernote e-notebook files as PDFs on a Mac
Update September 10, 2024: After a long journey of trying to find a good electronic handwriting solution that turned most recently toward an iPad Air, Apple Pencil, and Paperlike screen covers, I have returned to the Supernote universe with the purchase of a used Supernote Nomad. I stumbled across it on Facebook Marketplace, and that … Read more
How to make it easier to use Amazon Smile
Amazon.com makes it a bit difficult to use the e-commerce company’s donation service, AmazonSmile (or Amazon Smile) that gives 0.5 percent of shoppers’ purchases’ value to charity. My bookmark fixes the problem.
COVID-19 crafts: How to make a coronavirus no-sew mask with a t-shirt, coffee filter and bendable rubber gear tie
In the much mask era of the new coronavirus, we’re all getting crafty to protect ourselves against the spread of COVID-19. My how to guide to making a mask involves no sewing and requires simple and cheap materials. It’s not an N-95 defender, but it might help with droplets.
How to instantly create a new Google document in a specific Google Drive folder with a URL
A guide to using a URL to create a new Google Doc in a specific folder in Google Drive.
The 7 rules of making your content stand out in today’s media ecosystem
Wading through today’s media universe, you may think there’s no way for your content to stand out. Worry not. The 7R media strategy will put an end to the cruel reign of the cat GIF.
How to add a drafts link to your WordPress posts menu with a plugin
WordPress fails to give you a quick link to your draft posts out of the box. My plugin fixes that.
13 statements to help you go deeper into the meditation zone
Just like you get your body into a certain position to make meditation more effective, so too can you position your thoughts to move more easily into the Zen zone. Here are 13 statements that help me.
Prevent automatic footer insertion with Adobe Acrobat HTML to PDF conversion
I often make HTML files that I drag directly into Adobe Acrobat in order to convert them to PDFs. The program inserted a very annoying footer each time that showed the location of the file on my hard drive. Something like “file:hardrive/folderfolder/etc/etc.lah…”. I could delete it manually, but never was there an option in the … Read more