Articles tagged "Tech tips"

How to read newsletters without clogging up your inbox

Newsletters are the new blog. Most of the web's best essays and curation have moved to the inbox, for tech and economic reasons I won't break down here. The problem: some of us don't like reading things in our inbox. 

What is a CMS? An actual explanation 

I've run multiple blogs in my life, but you know what I've never had to do? Manually add a byline field, publish date element, or related articles section to a post. Those are all taken care of by a content management system (CMS). 

Why won't Google Docs let me paste without installing an extension? 

You try to paste something in Google Docs. You get a cryptic message instead. Here's why—and how you can get around it.

Millennials: Here's how to sound less out of touch at work

Millennials, you're real adults now. Your friends are getting divorced and having kids, and I hate to break it to you, but you're not using the right emoji at work.

How to stop Chrome from hijacking your media keys

You open a video link while listening to music. You reflexively hit the play/pause key on your keyboard to pause the music. The video pauses; the music keeps playing. Here's how to fix that. 

Work software also works at home

The tools you use to coordinate at work can also work for other parts of your life. Here's how two Zapier employees brought their work apps home.

How we use data to keep our recruiting processes running smoothly at Zapier

Successful hiring is a multi-faceted process of deciding who you're looking for, finding that person, and then getting them started on the right foot. We like to think of it as four broad steps: kickoff, sourcing, interviewing, and onboarding.

Google Docs is switching to canvas-based rendering. Here's what that means.

On May 11th, Google announced that Docs is going to start using canvas-based rendering. It's a change that most of us won't be able to see visually, but has huge implications for what's coming next from Google.

You might already be paying for the software you need

Most businesses pay for at least one large software bundle. Whatever bundle you have, there's a good chance there are apps in there you don't know about. And that might mean that you're paying extra for software that you already have access to.

I started shutting down my computer like it's 1999. Here's why.

When's the last time you actually turned your computer off instead of putting it to sleep? I'm not sure I have since the '90s—that is, until a few weeks ago. Now I turn it off every night, and it's been life-changing.