Danny Sullivan

My MacBook Pro Goes Multimonitor: 4 Monitors At Once!

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After nearly two years of leaving my desktop and a 3 monitor setup behind, I’m back to 3 monitors + 1, four screens in total, all running from my MacBook Pro. My My Multimonitor Setup: Three Screens For One Computer post explains how I used to run three monitors from my Windows XP desktop. When […]

How To Shrink A Giant Outlook PST File

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Periodically, I shrink my Outlook PST file. For one reason, it’s easier to back it up manually from time to time when it’s smaller. For another, I guess I feel things just run better when it’s small and tidy. Today, I shrank my file from over 1.1 GB to 80MB, a pretty drastic reduction. Being […]

How Search Engines, Aggregators & Blogs Use News Content

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Ahead of next week’s FTC workshop on journalism and the internet, I gave an informal briefing to several people from the FTC about the differences between how search engines, aggregators and news blogs all gather content automatically and through human editing. They seemed to find it useful, so I thought I’d share it more widely […]

How To Memorize The 50 United States On A Map

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My fifth grader is having to learn US geography — in particular, to look at a blank map and write in the correct name for each of the states. I think that’s great. I love maps and geography. But that’s a lot of states. I’ve been sharing with him a number of ways I’ve somehow […]