NightSky this Month

New England view of the Night Sky

The Boston Museum of Science puts out a handy graphic of what is in the night sky over New England. This is useful to look at when you are about to venture on a nighttime journey - such as walking the dog.

If you are not in New England, you can check out if your local science museum has a similar guide. The ASTC Travel Passport Program at the Association of Science and Technology Centers is a useful reference to find your local science museum.

https://www.mos.org/node/45169526

Note: This link will always display the latest night-sky graphic.

Interactive Night Sky

Sky & Telescope Sky Viewer

Do you walk the dog at night and look up at the night sky? Maybe you like to sit on the porch and look up. Ever wonder what's in the night sky right when you look up?

Sky & Telescope can help. They built an Interactive Night Sky that shows you - at any given point - what is in the night sky.

What's nice is that you can change the date picker to be anytime - even in the past! You can see the night sky the day you were born.

Website Description

https://skyandtelescope.org/observing/interactive-sky-chart

Best Internet Tools Post of 2021

Which Internet Tools are worth checking out

As we close out 2021, for the next seven days we???ll feature the top blog posts.

Here are the top Internet blog posts of 2021:

Veed.io - February 13, 2021 - Great media site to add visual captions and audio graphic meter. I use this site a lot this year to convert a simple audio file into a video.

Colorcinch - August 28, 2021 - Great site to enhance a photo style by converting it into a comic style. Worth checking out if your looking to comicfy a photo.

ThreadReaderApp - May 15, 2021 - This makes it super easy to read threaded Twitter posts. Great when you want to share posts on Slack.

InkyDeals.com - April 10, 2021 - Purchase graphic collections at amazing deals. There are some free packages so you can see the quality of the collections.

Hashatit - July 10, 2021 - Find the top posts on any hashtag that you can think of. Useful if your using a unique tag and want to see what other posts are associated with it.

Am I FLoCed - July 3, 2021 - Is your account part of a national database hack? Find out using this site. Maybe its time to change the passwords.

Grabify - June 19, 2021 - Are you curious on where a scammer is really from? Send them a link generated by this site and you can learn where that person is really located.

Wallpaper Cave - March 6, 2021 - Great site for any computer wallpaper that you could possibly need.

Trianglify.it - January 9, 2021 - Generate color polygons for background images.

Commandlinefu.com - September 4, 2021 - Learn some cool command line tricks. You may find some tasks are better performed on the command line.

Santa Tracker

Google Tracker is Better than Ever

It's that time of the year!

Christmas is coming and the kids are wondering where Santa is! Google created this cool site to track Santa.

Website Description

https://santatracker.google.com/

Song Generator

Create Your Own Christmas Song

Be creative this year and create your own Christmas Song. Perfect for those holiday parties at work!

Website Description

https://www.song-lyrics-generator.org.uk/

Paper Sizes

Great Reference to find the perfect paper size

Have you ever wanted to know what particular paper size to use? What is the International Standard equivalent to the US Legal size? Do you know the different Business Card paper sizes? Oh, did you know Japan has the largest business card size?

Papersize.io is the go to solution to finding various sizes.

Website Description

https://papersizes.io/

FoundItOnAmazon

Find Creative Gift Ideas on Amazon.

This Christmas season, are you looking for some unique gift? Who isn't? Have you tried #FoundItOnAmazon?

This is a cool section on Amazon that highlights some popular and unpopular gifts. It's a great place to go browsing to get some gift ideas.

I would recommend at least checking the site for some ideas for those hard to buy relatives or co-workers.

https://www.amazon.com/finds

Bookmarklet Generator

JavaScript Toolbox to help create awesome Bookmarklets

Bookmarklet are a great way to run small javascript code on the current page your viewing. The Bookmarklet Generator is a great site to turn JavaScript code into a Bookmarklet.

The website has all sorts of creative ideas to help you generate some practical bookmarklets.

Website Description

https://caiorss.github.io/bookmarklet-maker/

Canon Explains Exposure

Play Around with DSLR Settings

Are learning how to use a DSLR camera? Hate taking all the complex classes? Wish there was a better way to learn all the manual components of taking a picture? There is!

Cannon has a cool site called Canon Explains Exposure where you play around will all the various setting and see what happens.

You simply adjust the various settings and get a "live view" of the changes. It is a good way to learn how simple adjustments can change a photo.

http://www.canonoutsideofauto.ca/play/

National Do Not Call List

Check to see if your number is on the list

If you are tired of getting spam calls, one thing to do is to check if your phone number is on the "Do Not Call Registry." The FCC has set up a service where you can check your number.

What about Cellphone?

According to the FCC, "it is not necessary to register cell phone numbers on the National Do Not Call (DNC) Registry to be protected from most telemarketing calls to cell phones."

If you have a landline, you should register your number - unless you like being interrupted.

https://www.donotcall.gov/

Telephone Consumer Protection Act

Consumers in the United States have protection through the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991.

One More Thing...

The Do Not Call Registry doesn't apply to call centers outside of the United States. They are under no obligation to follow the rules set by the FCC.

This means, as a consumer, you are not obligated to be truthful in answering these calls. :)