{"id":32847,"date":"2019-01-06T02:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=32847"},"modified":"2019-01-04T14:43:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T21:43:04","slug":"best-maker-youtube-channelstemilisten-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/best-maker-youtube-channelstemilisten-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Maker YouTube Channels\/Temi\/Listen Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Check out our new\u00a0Recomendo book<\/a>! 550 of the best recommendations from the past two years.<\/p>\n

Best Maker YouTube Channels<\/strong>
\nMost of my discretionary media time is spent watching YouTube. I derive immense pleasure in finding out how things work and how to make and repair things. Over several years of watching all kinds of video, lousy and great, I\u2019ve collected a bunch of channels for dependable high-quality content. In a long post on our blog Cool Tools, I review the\u00a0top 30 YouTube informational channels<\/a>\u00a0that I subscribe to. (#1 on my list is\u00a0Cody\u2019s Lab<\/a>.) \u2014 KK<\/p>\n

Automatic transcripts<\/strong>
\nWhen doing interviews, I like to have a transcript of the conversation. This is useful for fans of podcasts, and for journalism. The best transcripts are done by humans, but I can get very cheap, very fast transcripts that are 90-95% accurate done by AI. (Depends on quality of recording and accents.)\u00a0Temi<\/a>\u00a0will give me a transcript for 10 cents per minute of audio ($6\/hr), delivered in about an hour turn-around. The Word doc or PDF output will have time stamps on it, making it easy to go back to find the actual audio for correction if needed. The Temi transcript is accurate enough to find key passages; with one listen-through I can quickly clean it up for public consumption. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n

Podcast search engine<\/strong>
\nOne way to find new podcasts is a website called\u00a0Listen Notes<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 a search engine for almost all podcasts around the world. You can search for topics or a specific person and find related episodes. Or set alerts for keyword mentions. I\u2019m not a daily podcast listener but every once in a while I\u2019ll want to hear what people are saying about a certain news story or random topic on my mind, and in those cases Listen Notes is very useful. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n

Respirator subscription<\/strong>
\nAnytime I go into the attic or near dust of any kind, I put on one of these 3M Cool Flow respirator masks. They are comfortable and they really help me from having a sneezing fit. My daughter uses them for her art projects. Amazon sells a\u00a010 pack for $15<\/a>, but I use Amazon\u2019s Subscribe and Save and get a 10 pack sent to me every six months for $14. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n

Easy background removal<\/strong>
\nThis\u00a0new website<\/a>\u00a0became an instant hit, and for good reason. Just upload any photo of a person, animal, or things, and it will erase everything in the background, replacing them with transparent pixels. It even works well when the person in the foreground has wispy or curly hair. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n

Death quotes<\/strong>
\nA while back\u00a0I recommended WeCroak<\/a>. These are a few of my favorite quotes from the death reminder app.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only thing that isn\u2019t worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly. And be patient with those who don\u2019t.\u201d \u2014 Marcus Aurelius
\n\u201cWe waste our energy and exhaust ourselves with the insistence that life be otherwise.\u201d \u2014 Frank Ostaseski<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?\u201d \u2014 George Eliot<\/p>\n

\u201cAt some point in life the world\u2019s beauty becomes enough. You don\u2019t need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.\u201d \u2014 Toni Morrison<\/p>\n

\u201cThe cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.\u201d \u2014 Vladimir Nabokov<\/p>\n

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