Category: Technology
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Managing Multiple Drives and Managing My First Year
I’m well into the start of my first year teaching now, and things are crazy. I wanted to first share a tip I’m using to manage some of the work I’m doing on my own computer for work (I have a PC assigned to me by my school, but I’m working a lot outside of…
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I’m Not an Apple Fanboy
For the foreseeable future I plan to use some version of an iPhone for my cell phone, a Mac for my computer, and an iPad for my tablet. I plan to pick up an Apple Watch as my first and future smart watches, and I continue to sink more money into powerful apps that would…
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How I’m Consuming my Feeds
I’ve been very occupied lately with the job hunt, but thankfully have found work for the Fall. I’m excited to follow up with my previous post on using RSS feeds with my progress! I’ve improved the actual experience of getting news through RSS by organizing my feeds into more specific folders. I found through some searching that…
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My Relationship with my iPhone
My Smartphone History Smartphones ascended to being an indispensable tool that most people owned as I was in high school. After a few feature phones, I considered myself privileged enough to get my first one in 2010, an HTC Incredible. The primary appeal for me at first was not apps (though they were exciting and…
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My Journey to the Mac
I don’t remember when I first started using computers, but I know from my family it was before I could read. I eventually had “my” computer, which was the hand-me-down from the family computer. Out of these desktops, there was a WIndows 95, 98, and an XP. I had total reign over them, which usually…
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RSS in 2018
At the end of 2017 I decided to try using RSS for news. Previously I’d check Facebook and Twitter’s trending topics, and I followed a number of news accounts (whose biases in coverage aligned with my own). The bigger impetus for this was that I was on Twitter a lot less and was sick of…
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Using Sibelius on a Laptop
In my opinion, Sibelius has some decent and intuitive keyboard shortcuts on a full keyboard, with its heavy emphasis around the numpad. However, I find it to be essentially unusable on a Macbook Pro which lacks the numpad. It has a “notebook” shortcut set, but I find that to be just as unusable, and far from…
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My Tech Set-up
Here’s a quick break down of what I’m running to do what I do. Technology is an incredibly important part of what anyone in any field is doing, and education is no exception. It’s worth laying out what I use as an entire field before getting into any specific details in future posts. This is…
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