Time to re-evaluate my browser strategy. Time to be Brave
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Tags: Brave, Browsers, Chrome, Edge, Firefox2023 Job Hunting Guide – Layoffs, pain, and treading water
Removing bad LinkedIn jobs live with a browser plugin (and Indeed too!)
In 2023, extreme layoffs sent people scrambling for new jobs. As a tough market with far too many seekers and not nearly enough positions, it became a daily grind to load up job options and apply. Best case, the online tools are helping you rapidly find good options – particularly when you're paying for the "Premium" feature.
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Tags: Indeed, Job hunting, Job Search, Jobs, LinkedIn, UXToday’s bad news: Microsoft Snip tool soon to launch with the PrintScreen Key
Changes like this always make me wonder about Microsoft's motto: "Empower every person to do more…" How am I "doing more" when I spend my time fighting with changes no one asked for and no one needs?
Granted, we probably needed a faster and more convenient method of opening the Snip tool than WIN+SHIFT+S, but what's wrong with .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Dont Move the Cheese, Gamers, Gaming, Microsoft, User HostilityWhat Golden Tree teaches us about listening
Japan's second-largest tourist agency was mystified when it entered English-speaking markets and began receiving requests for unusual sex tours. Upon finding out why, the owners of Kinki Nippon Tourist Company changed its name.(source)
The saga of the Golden Tree travel agency was a memorable lesson in my college marketing class. As was the Chevy "Nova"'s entry into .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Fail, Leadership, Listening, Marketing, Nova, Ugly SonicSIIG KVM and USB C hub – Managing remote work is so much easier now!
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So I put some effort into getting my home office put together. I have dual monitors nicely raised to the right eye height. I have a motorized standing desk, nice keyboard, mouse… the works! But the main issue was switching between my home computing and my work. I had one laptop for each .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Home Office, Remote Work, RPSJohn Oliver’s Breakdown of Data Brokering – What it is, why you should care, and a small side-order of Congressional blackmail
Of course John didn't actually blackmail anyone, but he made a valid point that sometimes the only way for things to get done is for Congress to feel the problem actually affects them. To prove his point of how vile and dangerous unregulated data-brokering is, he used completely legal and commonly used techniques to get data about several members of .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Congress, Identity Theft, John OliverRazer Cynosa V2 Gaming Keyboard – A risky buy, a regretful return
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A few years back, I bought a Razer mouse and was floored to discover that it required an online account signup with Razer just to download the drivers to make it work. Their extortive practices weren't the end as the rubber grip on the mouse fell off a while later while Microsoft and other brand mice lasted .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Corsair, RazerAsus ROG GM703 – Two year review
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At the time I bought this, ASUS and MSI were the two top contenders. Both were solid brands with good history and all the features I wanted, but MSI has a weird obsession with making the keyboard perfectly rectangular at the expense of shoving all .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Asus, Gaming, Gaming Laptop, Reviews, ROGNetflix Misses the Easy Marks
One of the reasons that Google because THE Internet search engine (though DuckDuckGo is better because it protects privacy) is because they have clean, no frills interface and they WORK. They get the job done. Those two key features made it the juggernaut that it is. Netflix is basically on the same path except for a few .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Netflix, Streaming TV