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Continue reading →: Simple keyboard shortcut tipsWell some are so obviously useful If you are editing with WordPress or the iOS app. It has a smart paste. If u have a url in the clipboard. Highlight text will be be replaced. Instead a link goes there. Nice with shortcuts as highlight and ctrl-v just works. iOS…
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Continue reading →: Bike sales galoreBikerumors Sales says 50% off trek and big sakes on canyon. Time to get that gravel bike!
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Continue reading →: Cool Zoom BackgroundsWell now that Zoom has cool backgrounds, everyone seems to be building “licensed” content. Well with Pexels, you can get generic backgrounds which are great. So there is now a cottage industry around these backgrounds: Shutterstock also ahs a dedicated section for video backgrounds. The most interesting are pretending you…
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Continue reading →: Zoom Security Upgrade and 2FA resetsOk, Zoom says they are at over 300M users (from 200M a few weeks ago!). So for all of you using it, some tips and tricks: You should turn on 2FA. That actually isn’t super easy because you turn it on in admin > Advanced > Security pane and then…
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Continue reading →: Creating a RAID drive on MacOSThis is not the most obvious thing with any operating system, but it’s particularly confusing on the Mac. If you have some data that is really sensitive, then you want to create a RAID1 also known as a mirror set. This means that if you have two 16TB drives for…
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Continue reading →: DigitalOcean WordPress Database Connection Cannot Be ReestablishedThis happened again on one of my servers. The last time, it had to do with the lack of a swap file and then running out of physical memory. Usually a reboot helps which you do like this: Rebooting a Digital Ocean image by ssh into the machine and then…
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Continue reading →: COVID-19 Things to Watch and Ways to BuyOK, been spending lots of time at home. Here are some fun things to do: The COVID-19 One World: Together at Home. What an uplifting concert. Made me smile and cry at the same time. Maluma, Kacey Musgrave, Keith Urban, they were all so awesome! The 7PM New Yorker Cheer.…
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Continue reading →: Zoom Security Part TroisOk, so here’s the final things about making Zoom work: 2FA. Make sure you have two factor authentication on, but this is actually pretty complicated because it’s really at its heart an enterprise product. So there are three separate steps, first even though you probably have a personal account, there…
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Continue reading →: Argh Airplay 2 is still broken for streaming audio and videoWell, for a long time I’ve been using Rogue Amoeba (a great name!) Airfoil. This plugs itself into the Mac sound system and lets you stream content to just about everything. From Chromecast, to anything else. Apple introduce Airplay 2 which does the same thing. This works at the application…
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Continue reading →: Customizing Astra Sierra Industry TemplateIf you have finished importing this, then time to do the conversion to your site, here are the details: Change the logo, this is a little trickier than you think. The easiest thing to do is to use Noun Project to get a nice graphic and then add your company…
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