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I use Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets extensively at work. I love the tools and not having to track files or versions of files, and instead have everyone working on a single definitive cloud document. But the most annoying bug there is has to do with document sharing. Periodically, I write something that gets shared …
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So today this happened: With three clicks, I (accidentally) asked 1138 people to connect on LinkedIn using their import feature. Goddammit, I hate you LinkedIn. — Matt Haughey (@mathowie) March 6, 2013 And I feel like I should explain how this went down, because the event and the aftermath have been interesting. It started …
Mobile Twitter (m.twitter.com as opposed to twitter.com) bugs I wish were fixed: 1. Protected profiles give this confusing error shown above. 2. You can't favorite anyone's posts. 3. You can't block someone from their profile. 4. No link to begin a direct message on people's profiles.
Threadless is my favorite place to buy t-shirts, period (this includes any offline stores). I’ve bought dozens and dozens of them and I even subscribed to the shirt of the month club for a year, but every time I make the mistake of throwing a few shirts in my virtual cart and then remembering to …
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I’ve bought a handful of video games this year and my local Gamestop seems to have trouble getting new games on release day (“sorry, UPS didn’t show up yet, maybe tomorrow”) and for the popular games, they insist on pre-ordering with a deposit. Since Gamestop was a hassle, I started ordering stuff on Amazon instead, …
Gmail is the best web app there is, period. It’s also my sole interface to email. It’s close to perfect, but a couple things keep me from calling it as such. I get a ton of spam, in the low thousands per day, and gmail is pretty good about most of it, but it does …
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For the last 20 years of my life, I washed my face with regular body soap whenever I was in the shower. I was also plagued by oily skin (still am). Three years ago, a friend showed me the wonders of Kiehl’s products. I eventually found a face cleanser that became a life saver. I …
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