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How to send bulk texts via Android from a spreadsheet

Maybe you’re a teacher and you’re wanting to text your students their scores for a recent test, or maybe you’re wanting to send a reminder to your students to turn in an assignment, but you only want to text the ones who haven’t turned…

How to send bulk texts via iMessage from a spreadsheet

Bulk Texter Pro makes it easy and inexpensive…

How to send bulk texts via Google Voice from a spreadsheet

Maybe you’re a teacher and you’re wanting to text your students their scores for a recent test, or maybe you’re wanting to send a reminder to your students to turn in an assignment, but you only want to text the ones who haven’t…

How to send bulk photos via Google Voice

Maybe you’re a virtual school teacher wanting to add pictures to your texts to students to help keep them engaged. Or maybe you’re a religious leader, and you’re wanting to send an inspiring message to your congregation.

How to install Steam on a Chromebook

There are already numerous guides out there for installing Steam on Chromebooks with Crouton, but that requires putting your Chromebook into developer mode, which is not ideal.

How to send bulk texts with Google voice

November 19, 2022 — update:
I’m excited to announce that, in response to popular demand, I’ve launched a new Pro version of Bulk Texter that supports additional features, such as iMessage support, CSV upload, message previews, and message scheduling. Check it…

ZFS on Linux vs Windows Storage Spaces with ReFS

Choosing the right file system for your server

Did you know that over time, your saved files can change and become corrupt, with absolutely no interaction on your part? All of our current…

Scheduling automated ZFS scrubs

and emailing yourself the results

One of the big benefits to using ZFS is its ability to repair silent data corruption. There are two ways it can do this.

1. When it reads data from disk, it will check…

Configuring Sublime Text to be awesome

Sublime Text 3 is without a doubt my favorite text editor. It has a super flexible plugin…

Steam In-Home Streaming on a Chromebook

Yes, it is possible. And it works great!

I’ve been doing this for a while and it’s worked great for me, so I thought I’d share my learnings.

Installing ADB on Mac OS X

Instructions for both brew and manual installation

(Updated April 25, 2017)

ADB stands for Android Debug Bridge. ADB is the officially provided way of interacting with android devices via terminal…