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visme.co

There a lot of websites that are provide online desktop publishing made easy. Visme.co is another company to check out.

They offer Presentations, Infographics, Documents, Printable, Web Graphics, Social Graphics, and more. Perfect for anyone with a Blog that is looking to add content and promote it.

Many of the designs are free, but if you want more power you can sign up for the Individual standard plan for $14/month billed annually.

Website Description

Visme is an all-in-one content creation tool empowering individuals and organizations to quickly create and share beautiful content they can be proud of in the form of engaging presentations, infographics, documents, videos, and graphics ' with little to no design skills.

Made for non-designers but still powerful enough for graphic designers, Visme combines simplicity, flexibility, and interactive features within a single platform, giving users everything they need within an easy-to-use online interface.

Visme
https://my.visme.co/

One of the things I like about Visme.co is that you can use animation in your graphics, and they have a large collection.

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Personal Daily Planner

With a lot of people working from home, it can be difficult to plan out your day. One way to help is a daily planner and the On Planners is a great resource to start.

Pick out a Daily Planner that works for you and every morning fill out the schedule what people have going on. This way everyone knows when to be quiet during meetings. In addition, you'll know when Internet bandwidth might be busy - so people can stop Netflix watching.

There's a lot of good planners on OnPlanners and there's certainly a good planner for your needs.

Website Description

For those who love handwriting and prefer analog tools over digital devices, we suggest that you try to start planning your life, work and time using simple daily planners and daily agendas. However, often it's not that easy to find the planner that totally meets your needs and helps you achieve your goals easily. It's not necessary to look for a planner even though you want to plan your day with pen and paper.

Because there is a better solution: printable planner templates. Here you can find more than 10 printable daily planners. All available in PDF. Sorry, no template excel here. Because we believe in the power of handwriting.

Planner templates work well for tracking your everyday meetings, events and reminders about the important dates, upcoming holidays and birthdays.

onplanners
https://onplanners.com/daily-planner-templates-printable

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Inspirobot.me

In these crazy time we need a little inspiration. InspiroBot is a good way to get some inspiration.

Some of the inspiration is a bit weird, for example, I got one that simply says, "Cut Your Hair." But a few clicks on the 'Generate' button shows some interesting thoughts. You get a quote on a graphic that can easily be shared on your favorite social network.

Worst case, you can use this as a Facebook post to lighten up the mood.

About the InspiroBot

I am an artificial intelligence dedicated to generating unlimited amounts of unique inspirational quotes for endless enrichment of pointless human existence.

Inspiro Bot
https://inspirobot.me/

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US Debt Clock

The United States debt problem is a well known problem. The Families First Coronavirus Response Act is sure to add to the National Dept.

The USDebtClock.org is a great site to see how much the US debt is growing. The page may look overwhelming because there's a lot going on, but it's a good way to get an understanding of the impact the debt has on every American.

Website Description

The Purpose of US Debt Clock.org is to inform the public of the financial condition of the United States of America. We are dedicated to bringing to the public the most accurate up-to-date debt information possible. The numbers are laid out in such a way to give a complete real-time snapshot of the country's balance sheet. Although the numbers involved are enormous, it is still easy to see the relative balance between wealth generated and wealth consumed.

All the debt clocks on the site are updated continuously to the most precise calculations, using complex formulas and exacting standards, and the values displayed arc verified from the best sources available.

U S Debt Clock
https://www.usdebtclock.org/index.html

The page has lots of useful data:

  • A "time machine" to see what the debt looked like this year in history.
  • Check the debt for individual states.
  • The latest Official Unemployed and Actual Unemployed.
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Coronavirus COVID-19 Dashboard

The "official" dashboard that the Center for Disease Control and the World Health Organization uses is the one at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU). It's a simple one-page view of how fast the virus is spreading throughout the world.

You can view the World View or select a particular country to monitor the numbers. As soon as local officials report update the page automatically gets updated.

Website Description

In response to this ongoing public health emergency, we developed an interactive web-based dashboard (static snapshot shown above) hosted by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University, to visualize and track reported cases in real-time. The dashboard first shared publicly on January 22, illustrates the location and number of confirmed COVID-19 cases, deaths, and recoveries for all affected countries. It was developed to provide researchers, public health authorities and the general public with a user-friendly tool to track the outbreak as it unfolds. Further, all the data collected and displayed is made freely available, initially as google sheets, now in a GitHub repository, along with the feature layers of the dashboard, which are now included in the ESRI Living Atlas.

Coronavirus Dashboard J H U
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html

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Corona Virus in Numbers

Corona Virus is big news. There are all sorts of places that are giving the latest numbers. One good place that I found was WorldoMeter.

The website offers a page-at-a-glance view of the important Corona Virus numbers. You can see the detail Confirmed Cases and Deaths by Country, Territory, or Conveyance.

It's a useful site to see where the tough spots and see if the social distancing is helping to flat the curve in certain areas.

Website Description

Worldometer is run by an international team of developers, researchers, and volunteers with the goal of making world statistics available in a thought-provoking and time relevant format to a wide audience around the world. Worldometer is owned by Dadax, an independent company. We have no political, governmental, or corporate affiliation.

World Meter
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

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World Time Buddy

Recently the United States has the start of Daylight Savings Time. This caused some issues with Outlook as some of my weekly meetings that were set up in other parts of the world were now off. I need a way to let people know the current time in Boston.

I used worldtimebuddy.com to let people know what the current time in Boston was - relative to GMT. It's so much easier for other countries to figure out the time when its compared to the GMT.

worldtimebuddy.com is easy to use and make figuring out the whole GMT time so much easier. I just used the slider to figure out the meeting time and how it relates to GMT.

Website Description

World Time Buddy (WTB) is a convenient world clock, a time zone converter, and an online meeting scheduler. It's one of the best online productivity tools for those often finding themselves traveling, in flights, in online meetings or just calling friends and family abroad.

Carefully thought out design lets it effortlessly compares multiple time zones at a glance, plans conference calls, webinars, international phone calls, and web meetings. It also aids with business travel & tracking of market hours.

WTB was born out of frustration with existing world clock apps, online meetings, and time conversion tools. Most of them have given up on providing quality business tools and on delighting their users.

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World Time Buddy
https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/

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defkey.com

Keyboard shortcuts are a good way to be more productive in any application. It can get tricky to remember all the different shortcuts that are available in every application.

defkey.com makes finding keyboard shortcuts simple. It'a a great site to search for popular applications and to learn about all the popular shortcuts. The nice thing too is that you can also discover what applications share similar keyboard shortcuts, such as Shift-Enter.

Website Description

Find all keyboard shortcuts and tips and more about technology on DefKey.com

Def Key
https://defkey.com/

The article section has some great content and certainly worth reading up on personal productivity and the latest internet tips and tricks.

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Snow Day Calculator

The weather in New England has been too bad for schools. Boston Public Schools has had only one school day calculation during this 2019-2020 season.

The season isn't over yet.

Use this calculator to predict if your school is going to be closed tomorrow because of snow. We have found it to be pretty accurate before any major announcement is made.

Snow Day Calculator
https://www.snowdaycalculator.com/calculator.php

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Chmod Calculator tool

Setting UNIX permissions on file and folders are important. If it's not part of your everyday job you're likely to forget the difference between chmod 777 and chmod 755.

Thankfully the Chmod Calculator tool is available. The site provides an easy way to properly write the syntax of the permission that you want to set.

Website Description

Chmod calculator allows you to quickly generate permissions in numerical and symbolic formats. All extra options are included (recursive, sticky, etc). You'll be ready to copy paste your chmod command into your terminal in seconds.

C Hmod Calculator
https://chmodcommand.com/

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About

I will highlight a fun Internet site every Saturday. The basic premise is to highlight sites that I regularly visit for a variety of reasons. All site recommendations are mine and are unsponsored. By highlighting these websites, I hope to provide value to those who may not know of the sites or who might be interested in visiting the sites. I also want to share the sites that I find valuable in the hopes that others will find them just as beneficial.

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