Saturday, May 30, 2015

The Sparkly End of Facebook?


Facebook has made a change this week.  And not for the better.

It is now allowing animated gifs to be added to status updates.

The world is ending as we know it.

MySpace, the forerunner to Facebook, came to its bitter end due in part to the proliferation of animated gifs and autostart music that were used to decorate profile page.

Especially the animated Tinkerbells.

No offense Tink, but you are the messenger of social media death,

Facebook built its audience on a clean, simple interface and fast performance.

Maybe the world is ready for Sparkly Tink to show her stuff again.

But the OneCoolTip of the day is to be wary of this dark angel of social media death,

If you are interested in living on the wild side, you can add an animated gif by pasting in the URL.  Uploaded gifs are not currently supported.  The gif must be on an external website.  have fun!

UPDATE
The feature is still rolling out to users.  So you may not yet be able to add an animated gif to your timeline.  Also, animated gifs work on the web version of Facebook but not yet the mobile app.

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Friday, May 29, 2015

Google Photos is a New "Must Have" App

UPDATE 6/22/15: You can also upload photos from your desktop to Google Photos.  Learn more HERE.

Check out the new "must have" Google Photos app for Apple iOS and Android devices.  Released this week, the app offers free, unlimited cloud storage for all of your photos.


Google Photos Screen Shot - Automatically organize by what mattersGoogle Photos Screen Shot - One home for your photos


One cool new feature is the ability to search your photos by keywords.  Google Photos automatically organizes your photos by peoples, places and things.  At first it's a bit alarming but after being able to find photos quickly, you will come to appreciate the value of this technology.

In addition, there is basic photo editing and sharing within the app. 

Google Photos is a great new tool and we're excited to see what's next for this amazing app.

You can download the iOS version HERE and the Android version HERE.

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Amazon Echo Now Knows Your Google Schedule

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Amazon announced today that their Echo home device now will access your Google Calendar.

You can ask it simple commands regarding your Google calendar.
Just update your Google account in the Amazon Echo app on your smart phone.

Amazon Echo Details on Google Calendar

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Thursday, January 9, 2014

Mobile Ag Apps

Looking for a good resource of mobile ag apps?

Here's a good list of farm news apps, weather apps, ag management and crop-focused apps from TruffleMedia

Mobile Ag Apps

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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

iPhone Tips

Apple iPhone has a number tricks to get your work done faster.  And you may not know some of them.

For example, you can type in uppercase by double clicking the Shift key twice quickly.  To turn off, just click the Shift key again.

And to type a special character like #, you can press and hold the #+= key and then slide to the desired character.  That allows you to continue to use the normal alpha keyboard afterwards.

Finally, to use alpha with special characters, such as ~ , press and hold a letter and other alternatives will appear.  Just select the one you want to use!

For more iPhone tips, check out this helpful tip sheet from Apple:

http://www.apple.com/iphone/iphone-5/tips/



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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Google Hand Turkey

UPDATE 6/1/2015. - Updated with link to Google Doodle Archive
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Build yourself a share-able hand turkey via Google's Thanksgiving Day doodle.  (Now Archived)

https://www.google.com/doodles/thanksgiving-2011

You can share it after you customize it via an email link or through the new Google+ social networking site..

Google says this Google Doodle will stay up through Thanksgiving Day (Thursday).

Gobble Gobble.

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Friday, November 11, 2011

Sunrise, Sunset

Need to know when sunrise or sunset is?  Check out this handy site.  Just choose your location on the handy Google map, and it will tell you the times for both!

Check it out here:  http://www.sunrisesunsetmap.com/




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