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Markdown Guide
August 17, 2019 by cryan.com
Markdown is getting to be popular and most editors are now accepting the basic Markdown syntax. It's a good idea to get some fundamentals on how Markdown works. Soon you'll discover why more and more people are using it.
Matt Cone has put together an excellent Markdown Guide which makes it easy to understand the basic syntax . There's a section about the extended syntax which isn't supported in all platforms - but good to know the possibilities.
Website Description
The Markdown Guide is a comprehensive Markdown reference designed for novice and intermediate users. It was born out of frustration with existing Markdown references that are incomplete, inadequate, or both.
https://www.markdownguide.org/
Popular Playgrounds
If you want to play around with Markdown try https://dillinger.io/, it's a great way to get a real time view of how Markdown works.
BBC Sound Effects
August 10, 2019 by cryan.com
Having sound effects can go a long way to spice up a video. There are lots of places where you can get them, but many places lack quality sound effects.
The BBC Sound Effect is a great resource to for profession sound effects for your YouTube videos or Powerpoint slides.
Website Description
These 16,000 BBC Sound Effects are made available by the BBC in WAV format to download for use under the terms of the RemArc Licence. The Sound Effects are BBC copyright, but they may be used for personal, educational or research purposes, as detailed in the license.
For commercial use, you can license sound effects.
Access dataset metadata by visiting our dedicated LOD site. If you have any queries regarding usage, please contact jake.berger at bbc.co.uk
http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/
Now you can have an awesome howling dog for the Halloween video, or the laugh track when you want people to laugh.
Yoda Speak Generator
August 3, 2019 by cryan.com
Yoda spoke a funny way - inverses of a normal speak. A classic example:
The greatest teacher, failure is
Now you can translate any text into Yoda speak with the Yoda-Speak Generator.
Website Description
Yoda who? Our favorite little green friend from the Star Wars franchise, first seen in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, making a return in its sequel Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi. Learn how to talk like Yoda - just type or paste in a bunch of text and use the 'Convert to Yoda-Speak' button.
Try it with jokes, emails, song lyrics, card messages, whatever!
https://www.yodaspeak.co.uk
Have Fun and Try It
If try try again first you succeed not. Yes, hmmm.
Almost exactly the same, the road to success and the road to failure are. Hmmmmmm.
Robot.txt File
July 27, 2019 by cryan.com
If you have a website, you might be familiar with robot.txt file. This file that search engines use to determine what directories should get indexed.
Google has a robot.txt checker tool, which is pretty good. However, the folks over at websiteplanet.com created a useful robot.txt audit tool. Now you can see if your robot.txt file is up to specs! Simply enter the location of your robot.txt file and then go!
Website Description
It's never been easier to test the accuracy of your robots.txt file. Just paste your complete URL, with /robots.txt, click enter, and your report will be ready quickly.
Taking into account both the Robots Exclusion Standard and spider-specific extensions, our robots.txt checker will generate an easy to read a report that will help correct any errors you may have in your robots.txt file.
https://www.websiteplanet.com/webtools/robots-txt/
Robot.txt Tips
Three tips on using the Robot.txt file:
Put in a fake directory that only exists in the robot.txt file to indicate that it shouldn't be searched. Then check your logs to see if anyone has hit it. This is a good way to see if someone is harvesting the "forbidden search directories."
Yoast.com created The ultimate guide to robots.txt. This is useful to understand all the latest options that robot.txt files have.
Doesn't hurt to check out other websites on how they have their robot.txt file setup.
Robot.txt References
Useful Robot.txt Guides:
Canva Logo Design
July 20, 2019 by cryan.com
Canva makes it easy to create you own custom logo. You simply type in your company names, select some styles that you like, and within a matter of minutes you get some creative ideas.
They provide lots of cool styles and inspirational ideas to get you started.
Website Description
Make a custom logo for your brand in minutes.
Canva's logo maker is trusted by millions of businesses worldwide. Thousands of professionally designed logo templates. Share and edit your logo design seamlessly. Access millions of images, icons & illustrations. Artificial Intelligence generates custom logos Publish, share, download your high-resolution logo anywhere. Hundreds of professional font combinations.
https://www.canva.com/tools/logo-maker/
Typing Speed Test
July 13, 2019 by cryan.com
Do you think you're a good at typing at the computer? Why not take a test to see how good you really are. The Typing Speed Test at Live Chat Inc. is a good way to test your typing accuracy.
Why not take the test and start a foundation of your typing skills.
Website Description
Yes, this is a free typing test. As makers of LiveChat - customer service software for business, we wanted to provide the community of our customers and live chat agents with a free typing test. This way they can constantly practice typing and improve typing skills. You also can test your typing speed for free. Our test is a free typing test with WPM score, but it can be also used as a typing speed test for kids.
https://www.livechatinc.com/typing-speed-test/#/
When I took it, I was surprised how bad I did - I scored a 39 WPM with a 99% accuracy. Time to go back to typing school.
Blog Title Generator
July 6, 2019 by cryan.com
Creating the perfect Blog headline can be tricky. What headline in a Google Search will attract the largest possible target audience?
Title Generator has some good title ideas. While many of the titles are just keyword substitution, they are some good things to think about. Title Generator is also good when you have that post topic but need a way to organize the actual post.
Website Description
Title Generator: create 700 headlines with ONE CLICK: Content Ideas + Catchy Headlines + Ad Campaign, E-mail Subject Lines + Emotional Titles.
Simple - Efficient - One Click
https://www.title-generator.com/
Sample Headlines
Here are some suggested headlines for was the "Moon Landing was Faked" keywords. I can say I am not impressed with this top-15 results but it's some ideas to think about:
- How To Find The Right MOON LANDING FAKE For Your Specific Product(Service).
- Learn Exactly How We Made MOON LANDING FAKE Last Month
- MOON LANDING FAKE An Incredibly Easy Method That Works For All
- Being A Star In Your Industry Is A Matter Of MOON LANDING FAKE
- What Everyone Ought To Know About MOON LANDING FAKE
- Cracking The MOON LANDING FAKE Code
- What Make MOON LANDING FAKE Don't Want You To Know
- How To Quit MOON LANDING FAKE In 5 Days
- MOON LANDING FAKE: What A Mistake!
- The A - Z Guide Of MOON LANDING FAKE
- 5 Brilliant Ways To Use MOON LANDING FAKE
- The Truth About MOON LANDING FAKE In 3 Minutes
- How To (Do) MOON LANDING FAKE Without Leaving Your Office(House).
- 15 Lessons About MOON LANDING FAKE You Need To Learn To Succeed
- MOON LANDING FAKE? It's Easy If You Do It Smart
hilite.me
June 29, 2019 by cryan.com
Adding color coded HTML to websites shouldn't be tricky. Thankfully sites like hilite.me make it easy. You simply paste your code and then click on the 'Highlight' button. Then copy the HTML code to your website or HTML form.
This is great when you are code sharing and want it to look so it's easy to read. Unfortunately, this won't work in Slack or Jira.
Website Description
hilite.me converts your code snippets into pretty-printed HTML format, easily embeddable into blog posts, emails and websites.
Just copy the source code to the left pane, select the language and the color scheme, and click "Highlight!". The HTML from the right pane can now be pasted to your blog or email, no external CSS or Javascript files are required.
http://hilite.me/
Sample Source Code
This is one of the first Perl Scripts that I wrote. I basically copied another script functionality. This was created on February 6, 1996. Brian Exelbierd now works for Red Hat.:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
# joke-sub.pl
# By Brian Exelbierd (bex@ncsu.edu) 1-2-95
#
# This script appends a submitted joke to the joke submission file. It returns
# A note to the user telling them their joke will be reviewed.
push(@INC,"/disk4/web/cryan/cgi-bin");
require("cgi-lib.pl");
&ReadParse;
print &PrintHeader;
print "<HTML><HEAD>
";
print "<TITLE>Joke Acknowledgement</TITLE>
";
print "</HEAD><BODY>
";
print "Thank you ",$in{'name'},", your submission will be reviewed ";
print "when I get to it.<P>
";
print "</BODY></HTML>
";
open(JOKE,">>/disk1/web/user/cryan/joke.txt");
print JOKE "Name: ",$in{'name'},"
";
print JOKE "
";
print JOKE $in{'joke'},"
";
print JOKE "--------------------------------------------------
";
close JOKE;
Kapwing Meme Maker
June 22, 2019 by cryan.com
Creating Meme can be fun and entertaining. There's no shortage of websites that offer the ability to create Memes using all the popular graphics and layouts.
One popular site is Kapwing. They are unique because they have a lot of common images, and they make it easy for you to transform any image into a Meme. What's nice is that you can pick from seven different styles that fit your message.
One cool thing I like about Kapwing is that you can create Memes from any YouTube videos.
Website Description
Kapwing is a powerful online editor that you can use to create memes from images, GIFs, and videos online.
It all exists inside the browser, so there are no downloads necessary to make it work.
Kapwing is the only website that supports videos. Welcome to a powerful solution for your content creation needs, but easy enough for anyone to use! Kapwing supports most image, GIF, and video files including mp4, mov, gif, jpg, png, avi, and more!
https://www.kapwing.com/meme-maker
clipboard2markdown
June 15, 2019 by cryan.com
Markdown is getting more popular as the best way to handle text. It's super easy to use and allows users to focus on the content.
Getting non-markdown content into Notion, DayOne can be tricky. While sometimes a copy/paste will work, more often than not, the posted content needs a lot of touch up.
One solution is to use a clipboard converter, such as the Clipboard 2 Markdown tool over on Euangoddard's Github. Simply paste any clipboard content onto the browser window and you get an instant converter. Now you can take that text and safely place it in Notion or Day One for easy import.
https://euangoddard.github.io/clipboard2markdown/
I have the page bookmark so that I can access the tool whenever I need it. While it would be awesome if there was a Macintosh application, this works just as well. I don't always have to convert the text, but if it's just a click away, why not just use this tool?
For those using Slack and Atlassian Jira, this comes in handy!
