{"id":36936,"date":"2020-09-06T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=36936"},"modified":"2020-08-28T15:48:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T22:48:13","slug":"hootsuitepermuteask-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/hootsuitepermuteask-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Hootsuite\/Permute\/Ask Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Social publishing center<\/strong>
\nI publish the same material on different social media platforms from my computer using a web-based app called\u00a0Hootsuite<\/a>.\u00a0 With Hootsuite I can pre-schedule material ahead of time. I can post images from my camera on Instagram, which otherwise is hard to do. I get analytics, respond, and manage Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, etc, all from one dashboard. There is a limited free version but I pay for the basic $30\/month small business version. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n

Easy file format conversion<\/strong>
\nPermute is a Macintosh desktop app that converts video, audio, and image files from one format to another. It\u2019s versatile and has not failed me yet. I was able to use it to convert a video that was terribly jittery that no other application could fix, but Permute converted it to an mp4 and it came out perfect. It costs\u00a0$15 from the developer<\/a>\u00a0and it also comes with Setapp\u2019s large library of applications available by subscription for $10 a month, which is how I found it. You can\u00a0try Setapp for 7 days for free<\/a>. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n

Learn from Nature<\/strong>
\nAsknature.org<\/a>\u00a0is a free online tool where you can search thousands of nature\u2019s solutions to various challenges. Like how a\u00a0decentralized society helps ants to recover from a food shortage<\/a>\u00a0or how\u00a0maple tree seeds twirl in a tornado-like vortex to increase the reach of where their seeds are planted<\/a>. You can also discover nature-inspired ideas like this\u00a0design for a thermos<\/a>\u00a0inspired by polar bear fur. Just ten minutes a day exploring this website will get you thinking differently. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n

Fire TV Stick 4K<\/strong>
\nI bought the original Fire TV stick when it first came out a few years ago. When the HD version with a voice-activated remote control came out a couple of years later, I bought that and I appreciated the extra speak and talk-to-search feature. Amazon recently released the\u00a0Fire TV Stick 4K.<\/a>\u00a0The remote comes with volume controls and an on-off button for the TV so I don\u2019t need to use the TV remote anymore. It\u2019s also much faster than the previous versions of the Fire TV stick. It\u2019s a worthy upgrade. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n

Funny watchable<\/strong>
\nRonnie Chieng makes me laugh. Might be because most of my relatives are Asian American, but I think his humor is much broader than that. You can catch him on Netflix\u2019s stand-up special\u00a0Ronnie Chieng: Asian Comedian Destroys America<\/a>. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n

.new shortcuts<\/strong>
\nGoogle\u2019s\u00a0.new domains<\/a>\u00a0are exclusively reserved for action-based shortcuts, like doc.new for creating a new Google Doc. And now there\u2019s a growing list of companies who have created easy-to-remember shortcuts for things you might already do. Like \u201cstory.new\u201d to create a new post on Medium or \u201csell.new\u201d to create a new listing on eBay. For the up-to-date list check out\u00a0this page<\/a>. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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