Photo of the Week: Third Annual October Big Day of Birding

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chunky brown bird with brown smudges on white breast and thin white eyering perches on bare tree.

Hard to believe 2020 marks the third year of October Big Day, a global 24-hour event for birdwatchers around the world to watch and report all the birds they’ve seen.

This year had an added bonus for October Big Day, this weekend was also the first Global Bird Weekend.

I’ve participated every year and was happy it didn’t rain this year like it did for my first October Big Day in 2018.

Word has spread about the fun you can have birding!

The first year, over 13,000 people participated. In 2019, more than 20,000 people participated in Global Big Day.

And for 2020, I joined almost 29,000 people in submitting 66,843 checklists of 6,799 species (as of October 18, 2020 at 6:30pm Eastern Time). Continue reading Photo of the Week: Third Annual October Big Day of Birding

October 16, 2020: My Weekly Roundup of Web Design and Development News

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In this week’s web design and development news roundup, you’ll learn about the World Usability Day 2020 Design Challenge, find out how to improve digital accessibility at your business, discover how to create flexible and fluid typography, and more. Continue reading October 16, 2020: My Weekly Roundup of Web Design and Development News

Good News: How a Tweet Helped Resolve Webcam Recording Echo

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overlooking the valley and mountains from Lookout Mountain

Imagine you’ve bought a new webcam and you’re trying to record your own computer screen.

The webcam has a built-in USB microphone.

For your recordings, you speak as you record your screen.

Only to have an echo in your recording.

Argh. What’s going on?

Your searches online don’t provide any useful help and you’re looking to resolve the issue quickly.

What do you do? Continue reading Good News: How a Tweet Helped Resolve Webcam Recording Echo

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