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Tapbots, the company behind the popular Tweetbot app designed for Twitter, is working on developing a new app called Ivory that integrates with the...

As the release of iOS 16 approached, I felt a strong sense of déjà vu. TestFlight betas with Lock Screen widgets came pouring in. It felt like 2020’s debut of Home Screen widgets all over again. This time, though, those betas have been all about Lock Screen widgets. As Federico covered in his iOS 16

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If you want to give your Mac the personal touch, try setting a custom login and lock screen background. Follow our guide to see how it’s done.

Example actions and other extensions for Drafts, the quick-capture notes app.

I love creating both sketchnotes and narrated sketchnotes, and helping students learn to create sketchnotes! I’m now teaching media literacy and robotics at Providence Day School in Charlotte…

Notion is a beastBut 98.9% of people are still unaware of the full potential of @NotionHQ.Here are the best free 30 Notion tools 🧵 👇— Atul Anand ⚡ (@AtulACleaver) December 16, 2022

Mastodon is a popular decentralized, open-source, social network. Drafts supports integration with Mastodon instances through actions that can be used to post status updates and more. Share Extensions If you use a client application (like the official Mastodon app, MetaText, Ivory, etc.) to interact with your Mastodon account, your client application likely includes a Share extension available in the system share sheet. Any of these options can be used with Drafts’ Share action, which opens ...

As much as I tried to resist the end, I had a breaking point, and the breaking point was this. The tweet just had it all – it was a remarkable intersection of bullying, malicious, and callous…

I made a custom syntax for @draftsapp to manage gifts and online orders. It’s a variant of TaskPaper with colorization and handling of tappable list items that cycle through three states: just an idea, ordered, and received. Perhaps useful to someone. https://t.co/KdnIhkdnar pic.twitter.com/H7IF2qzg2e— Greg Pierce (@agiletortoise) December 9, 2022

In this tutorial we will explore three ways for new teachers to create assignments as they design their courses - each way with its pros and cons. Feel free to view some of my interactive getting started Canvas tutorials: https://www.howtocanvas.com 0:00 - Intro 0:35 - Method #1 - assignments group 1:23 - parts of assignment 6:47 - Method #2 - modules page 12:18 - Method #3 - calendar 17:00 - assignment tips 21:34 - multiple class assignments in Calendar Missed my InstructureCon session? No worries! https://www.instructure.com/canvas/resources/instructurecon-2022/create-amazing-content-in-canvas Please consider subscribing for more Canvas tips and tricks: http://bit.ly/how2canvas​​​​​​​ Website: https://www.howtocanvas.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/howtocanvas Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/howtocanvas/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HowToCanvas

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In this tutorial we'll use some HTML with a bit of CSS, and some bootstrap for good measure. This will create a vertical scrolling timeline on your Canvas courses that looks great on any screen size, from large monitors to small smartphones. Grab my code and give it a spin in your own Canvas sandbox: https://www.howtocanvas.com/create-amazing-pages-in-canvas/timeline Feel free to view the page used for this tutorial: https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/2560052/pages/timeline 0:00 - Intro/should I comb my hair?? 1:24 - What is a CSS timeline? 2:20 - Overview 4:45 - Gradients 7:45 - Resizing 9:54 - Walking through the code 11:18 - Bootstrap 13:41 - Styling the horizontal rule (hr) 14:11 - copy - paste - repeat 15:00 - Final considerations Missed my InstructureCon session? No worries! https://www.instructure.com/canvas/resources/instructurecon-2022/create-amazing-content-in-canvas Please consider subscribing for more Canvas tips and tricks: http://bit.ly/how2canvas​​​​​​​ Website: https://www.howtocanvas.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/howtocanvas Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/howtocanvas/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HowToCanvas

I finally managed to hook up IFTTT to Mastodon to auto-post from another site! I use IFTTT as glue for linking several services together including sharing interesting links from Pocket when I’m offline: I can add a tag in the app on my tablet, and then when it syncs that tag up to the cloud, […]

As Elon Musk sends Twitter into chaos, we’re sharing what we picked up about Mastodon as we selected a server

Interested in trying the social network everyone's flocking to? Here's what you need to know to find your way around and build community.

Twitter is Going Great is a project inspired by Web3 is Going Just Great to track the latest examples of how Twitter is actively falling to pieces thanks to its current owner Elon Musk (with special guests Jack Dorsey and the Saudi Arabian royal family).

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This app helps you finds out which of the people you follow on Twitter are on Mastodon/in the Fediverse already and follow all of them easily.Try it: https://t.co/LitKPF11qH Keep checking it every few days to see if there are new people.— Robin DeRosa (@actualham) November 7, 2022

So how does Mastodon work: Its not one place. It's 'federated'. You pick a server to be on. That server by default will pull in some 'toots' (a silly word) from other servers it federates with into its timeline, and block some others.But YOU can follow anyone, on any server.— John Bull (@garius) November 5, 2022

I see several folks on here expressing confusion about how Mastodon works. As a relatively new lay user there, I thought I would share a few observations that help explain why I find that platform so rewarding:— Dr. Rajiv Jhangiani (@thatpsychprof) November 5, 2022