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OK, there is not much written about this, but Apple has a highly private (they don’t look at your photos), scheme for doing both object and face detection across iPhone and Mac. It is hard to figure out how it all works and there don’t seem to be any papers written about it that summaries…

Spent the day working on presentations, so learned a few easy things: First is that when you use Google Slides, it’s really good for collaboration but quite different from Mac PowerPoint for graphics. Buy yourself a subscription to Noun Project. This is a great set of icons that you can load. Goto Google Slides and…

OK, I’ve recorded three events with the DJI Osmo Mobile 2. It’s a nice $129 stabilized mount that fits an iPhone X pretty much perfectly. There are quite a few tricks to using it, so here’s a short list of notes. Setting up The thing is actually pretty hard to figure out. The instructions are…

Well, the DJI Osmo Mobile 2 is an incredible stabilized mount for doing recordings at live events with an iPhone, the video quality is unbelievable and the controls are great, but the sound quality is just so, so. The iPhone has just a small monophonic microphone, so that’s one thing to fix. Here are some…

The Washington Post This is normally $10/month, but with Amazon, you get a deal where it is $4/month after a six month trial for Amazon Prime member. Nice! Photo by charlotte on Unsplash

I don’t know how big a category this is going to be, but there are definitely some interesting resources to look at. For instance, we have… IMPACTBASE. This is a “partial” database of institutions offering various funds and how much capital is committed in them. I have gone through to see how accurate it is.…

Hat tip on pointing Image Size by vsmedia.de as the perfect app to down res photos. Needed if you post to WordPress or need an avatar for a site…. — Read on helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/scale-down-an-image-in-windows-mac-ios-and-android/

It’s so sad to see so many Amazon Choice products with D ratings. The spammers are winning so please don’t buy there unless you check fakespot.com As an example this highly rated 4.8 star watch band is 68% fake even after Amazon purged most of its reviews a month ago.

OK, I admit it, I’ve been a nerd about the US Navy since I was in the 5th grade and wrote a report on them. (Maybe the fortune teller was right, I was supposed to be an oil tanker captain :-). Anyway, was cleaning out the PDFs stuck in iCloud Drive and I found the…

Well now that we have AirPods (and love it), plus these ultra cool Sony headphones, it just makes me want to make everything a Bluetooth device. Fortunately for $27, you can do that. Just get the Mpow Bluetooth 4.1 Transmitter/Receiver, this thing is a tiny device that is micro-USB powered. It has a little switch,…