Send automatic birthday emails with this Automator workflow, daily, without lifting a finger. This Mac OS app is easy to use if you just follow these steps.
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This guide to the parts of a book will ensure you don’t mix up your prologue, preface and introduction and that you put them all in the right order.
Self Published Author’s Guide to the Parts of a Book More »
Create the best cover for your self-published book with this guide, from DIY options to hiring a designer.
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There are two types of writers of novels: plotters and pantsers. Plotters (sometimes called outliners) are plot focused — they outline their entire novel, often scene by scene, before beginning to write it. Pantsers, on the other hand, “fly by the seat of their pants.”
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People often criticize the Romance fiction genre for being formulaic — containing conventions that can make stories predictable — but the truth is it’s not just Romance titles that possess this problem.
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An in-depth iOS 13 review concludes there’s more to be excited about in new OS (a free upgrade) than the new hardware in the iPhone 11.
iOS 13 Review: OS upgrade is More Impressive than the New Hardware accompanying it More »
The digital media revolution has been a game changer for movie watchers. Physical media like Blu-Ray discs still exist, of course, but digital media, whether streamed or downloaded, is the future. The benefits of digital media are plentiful.
All your Digital Movies, Together at Last More »
Starbucks, the Seattle-based coffee shop chain, may not have invented free Wi-Fi, but they sure did popularize it. Starbucks rolled out the service back in 2010, and since then so many restaurants have followed suit it feels at times that the U.S. is blanketed in Wi-Fi (it’s not).
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Until fairly recently, the 3.5 mm headphone jack was ubiquitous, a nearly-universal standard in portable audio equipment. It had been that way for decades, until September 2016, when Apple announced that none of its phones going forward — starting with the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus — would include an audio headphone port.
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We’ve all heard it said before: Mac users and PC users are just different. But is it true? Before we get to the crux of the argument, let’s get some housekeeping out of the way: we’ll define a “PC” as a computer manufactured by any of a dozen companies that runs on the Microsoft Windows operating system, and a “Mac” as a computer manufactured by Apple Inc. that runs on Apple’s macOS operating system.
It’s no coincidence that the opening credits of season one of the Netflix series The Rain are reminiscent of AMC’s The Walking Dead. The two shows are strikingly similar. Both are post-apocalyptic character-driven dramas in which humankind has been decimated by a virus. Both center on a group of disparate strangers struggling to coalesce into a functional group. Both have themes about the difficulty of retaining one’s humanity in an amoral world. I could go on.
An Apocalypse to Die for More »
Americans love Amazon, and have demonstrated this affection with their wallets, making the Seattle-based online superstore extremely profitable. Each year, in fact, Amazon gets bigger relative to other online retailers, as consumers award it a larger share of their total online shopping budget.
The Curious Case of the Local Hardware Store with Lower Prices than Amazon More »
Amazon’s prices aren’t always lowest, but they use a dirty psychological trick to make you believe they are. This is how Amazon tricks its customers.
How Amazon Tricks its Customers into Believing its Prices are Lower than they Actually are More »
Coloring apps (sometimes called “coloring book apps” or “coloring apps for adults”) are having a moment. For the uninitiated, coloring apps are exactly what they sound like: coloring books, but without the book part. These app simulations of coloring books run on your mobile device of choice but are especially well suited to tablets.
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Prior to its launch, the iPhone X was being called “the most highly-anticipated version” of the phone to date, and with good reason. Almost two years before the iPhone X’s release, back when people still called it an iPhone 8, rumors of Apple’s plans for a major iPhone design overhaul began to emerge.
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