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Using Vuescan with the Minolta DiIMAGE Scan Elite 5400
It’s hard to believe a 10 year old peripheral still works, but Vuescan is still functioning and I’m scanning 35mm slides again after a long hiatus. Just a few things to remember: When you create file names, you should try to remember the date of photo and where it is. That is way more useful…
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Tesla Dashcam Storage and Viewer
Tesla 2020.12.5 has a cool feature. You can now view the Sentry Mode videos inside your car. That’s pretty awesome, but using an old USB Flash drive, you really do see how slow it is to bring things up. When it was just batch, that wasn’t a big deal since you have to yank the…
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Free books for COVID-19 quarantine
Do getting tired of watching TV. Well as we wait it out there are some good resources: You local libraries. No they are not closed. Get a virtual card and use Libby to read and listen to audiobooks. Apple Books has free classics and even audiobooks in their library. Some great kid ones too. Amazon…
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Tips on using Google Sheets for an old Excel and 1-2-3 deal
Google Sheets is wonderful for cooperative spreadsheet development, but really using it there a number of formulas tips and tricks: Blank cells. If you want to detect if a cell has a number, then BLANK() and then if you want to see if a cell is non-blank, then NOT(BLANK()) Indexing in a range. If you…
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IPad Pro 2020 and Magic Keyboard for iPad
Well, in a break from COVID-19 news, I’m using an iPad Pro 2018 with Folio Cover and I must say it works pretty well. You can’t quite use it as a Mac replacement mainly because the applications aren’t quite there. Some of the things that don’t work are writing software on it as there are…
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Using Asana (and Trello) with Chrome and Scrum to manage life in the time of COVID-19
If you are spending a lot of you day at home, then staying organized is not easy, here are some simple tips: On your Mac, turn on Announce Time. Then set it for every half an hour. That corresponds nicely to the Story Points that you use for a Scrum. If you are using Asana,…
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Figuring out when your DNS changes have propagated
Many times, you want make a DNS change, they tell you it will take 24 hours for that to propagate, but how do you know when it really happens. You can run a ping from your machine, but there’s a better tool. What’s My DNS does a check of various DNS servers around the world.…
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Review of WordPress Themes for Business
OK, we finished the review of some themes for a personal blog with scrolling content. That is quite different than something that is meant to be a front facing page for a small business or a new product. There are lots of themes that try to do this basic layout and most are paid themes,…
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iPhone Garmin Connect Loses Sync with 520 Plus
Ok, getting the Garmin 520 Plus to work with an Iphone was a chore. But if, the iPhone deletes the Garmin Connect automatically then you lose the connection and have to start all over. I worked on this before thanks to Brad, but the procedure actually worked. To review, if the Garmin Connect fails then…
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Marketing in time of crisis
Had a great conversation with Yohai, Micah, Rebecca and Tim over a Zoom cocktail party yesterday. The conversation rolled around to how does one talk about oneself and ones company in difficult times. While it’s tempting just to stop all marketing as no one is going to buy things. And organic traffic is way down…