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Finding the Best Thing with Wirecutter and Sweethome
If you’re like me, when shopping for…well for almost anything…you can be paralyzed by choice. If you need a new set of headphones, there are just so many options out there, and so many blogs or forums...
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Analog Distractions: Cooperative Board Games Forbidden Island and Forbidden...
If you’ve ever read one of our ProfHacker holiday gift guides, you’ll know that lots of us are big fans of board games, and in particular of the new breed of smart board games that have appeared in...
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Save Money Bit-by-Bit with Digit
Disclaimer: the links to Digit below include my personal referral code, a feature available to all Digit customers. If you sign up for the service using those links, I will receive a small referral...
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What Software Does Your Institution Provide Free or Cheap?
The other day I was working on a project that required some image editing power. That’s not a typical requirement in my work, and so I didn’t have a good image editing program installed on my work...
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Get Started Exercising on a Tight Schedule with the 7-Minute Workout
We write about fitness quite a bit here at ProfHacker. I must confess, though, that until quite recently I was all excuses. Beginning in grad school and through my first post-grad-school job, I was...
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Revisiting Mailbox for Managing Emails
Just over two years ago, I wrote about my early experiences with the Mailbox email application. Since then a lot has happened with Mailbox: it was acquired by Dropbox, for one, and it has released...
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Weekend Reading: Snow is Gone Edition
Though many of you have been enjoying spring for awhile now, here in New England the snow is just now (mostly) melted, though a few of the storeys-tall piles will be around for awhile yet. In...
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Learn Another Language During Your Commute with Duolingo
I live in the Boston area, which means (as for many) I have a decent commute to work every day. I hate fighting traffic in the car, so I make this commute by train. I’ve written in the past about why...
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Find Your Lost Keys (and Other Things) with Tile
My wife loses her keys often. I don’t mean to cast aspersions; I have plenty of my own quirks and foibles, to be sure. It makes sense, too. We have busy lives, and it’s easy for keys to be thrown in...
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Weekend Reading: Then Came the Morning Edition
As we move into summer, so do we move into time (I hope) for more diverse reading. Which is my excuse for having no coherency in my selections this week. The following are just articles that I’ve found...
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Exercising with Anker’s Wireless Soundbuds
When Apple announced that its phones would no longer have headphone jacks, I was disappointed. I’d not yet explored the world of wireless headphones and I had no interest in carrying around a dongle...
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Get Free Private GitHub Repositories Through GitHub Education
We’ve written a fair amount about GitHub here at ProfHacker. To cite just a few examples, Lincoln described how to fork syllabi using GitHub, George outlined how to preserve your Twitter archive using...
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Build a Speedy, Dynamic Class Website Using Markdown, RStudio, and GitHub Pages
Last week I showed you how to apply for a free GitHub Education account. My next few posts will rely (somewhat) on using GitHub for hosting, though the outcomes I’ll describe could be achieved using...
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Organize Your Mac’s Windows on the Fly with Magnet
There are a few applications that I immediately install on any new (or newly refreshed) Mac. Many of these are utilities that I don’t really think much about, but that I set to launch when my computer...
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Build a class, project, or other website using Jekyll + GitHub Pages
A few weeks ago I wrote about how to get a free GitHub account for education, and then a week later I signal boosted a method for building a course website using R Markdown and Github. I like the...
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Test Driving the New Firefox Quantum
I’ll be honest: it’s been awhile since I’ve thought about Firefox. I keep it installed on my computer, mostly to test compatibility when I build course or project websites, but it’s been years since I...
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Keep Your Mac Awake (and More) with Amphetamine
It’s a small but frequent annoyance. I’m teaching class and I am projecting a resource using my Macbook—a writing prompt, perhaps, or an image we are discussing together—when my energy settings kick...
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Write in Markdown on Your Mac with Macdown
We have written quite a lot at ProfHacker about Markdown, a convention for writing in plain text while encoding the structure of your document—headers, block quotes, lists, footnotes, etc.—using...
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Testing Wavebox for Google Inbox (and More)
Back in 2015 Tim Lepczyk wrote about organizing email using Inbox, a new interface for Gmail. Since then (and since the demise of my previous favorite email interface, Mailbox), I’ve been using Inbox...
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Track RSS Feeds (Yes RSS) with Feedly
When Google Reader was retired in 2013, many people lost their favorite way to keep up with new posts from their favorite news websites and blogs. Some found alternatives, while many others replaced...
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