Lisa L. Spangenberg

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    • Contact
    • Policies
  • Blog: IT
  • Scholarship
  • Teaching
    • The Writing Process
    • On Passive Voice
    • Rhetorical Figures
    • Seventeenth Century Prose Style
    • Teaching with Technology
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  • Technology
    • IT: Blog
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  • Writing
    • Purple Prose
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  • Apple,  Hardware

    HomePod mini software update will activate hidden sensor and Sound Recognition feature

    Lisa Spangenberg / January 18, 2023

    The existence of the sensor was noticed two years ago. Next week’s update should include: Apple has updated its website for the HomePod mini to advertise the temperature and humidity sensor for the…

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  • Software

    Mastodon Starter Guide

    Lisa Spangenberg / November 19, 2022

    Mastodon is free, but you must join a server or Instance (This is Unix speak for a special kind of server for a server). Some servers are invitation only, some have a waiting…

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    Alternatives to Twitter

    Lisa Spangenberg / November 3, 2022

    I joined Twitter in May of 2008. Now I’m seeking alternatives to Twitter. For the first few years Twitter was fabulous, even though it was frequently knocked offline. There were a lot of…

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  • Analog tools,  Productivity

    The Rocketbook

    Lisa Spangenberg / November 2, 2022

    The Rocketbook does exactly what it says it does; it provides a reusable, eraseable writing surface. It just doesn’t do it very well, or in a way that makes me want to use…

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  • Accessories,  Apple,  Hardware

    Apple’s HomePod Mini has a Temperature and Humidity Sensor

    Lisa Spangenberg / March 22, 2021

    According to this post from the iDownload blog Apple’s HomePod Mini has a Temperature and Humidity Sensor. Made by Texas Instruments and measuring 1.5 x 1.5 millimeters, the secret sensor is embedded in…

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  • Analog tools

    Pencil Sharpeners

    Lisa Spangenberg / March 2, 2021

    In 1971 my parents bought a house whose previous owners had left a hand-crank pencil sharpener attached to a stud near the head of the stairs to the basement. The sharpener had a…

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  • Analog tools

    Red and Blue Bicolor Editing or Checking Pencils

    Lisa Spangenberg / January 22, 2021

    Bicolor pencils with a red core on one end and a blue core on the opposite end are often called “checking pencils,” or “editing pencils” because they are often used for copyediting and…

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  • Analog tools

    Favorite Pencils

    Lisa Spangenberg / January 11, 2021

    I am in the final stages of a general re-organization and purge that I started in the fall. That re-organization meant not only swapping around furniture to make a work area, given the…

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  • Analog tools,  Productivity

    BaronFig Dateless Pocket Planner

    Lisa Spangenberg / December 29, 2020

    When 2020 began I was using an A5 hardcover notebook as a bullet jourrnal, tracking appointments, tasks, reading, birthdays, due dates for publishers—a lot. In late summer, I realized it was just going…

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  • Accessories,  Books,  Hardware,  Review

    I Love My Kindle Paperwhite

    Lisa Spangenberg / December 27, 2020

    One of the things that has been especially useful during the year of COVID-19 isolation has been my Kindle PaperWhite ereader. I was an early convert to ebooks, and not just because I…

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