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Man talk about undiscoverable. The face and object recognition in Apple Photos is really pretty good but nearly impossible to find. Here are some quick tips To kick it into face recognition most select a photo and then swipe up. Don’t choose edit! You will see a list of faces…

Ok, it’s been a year since I’ve written down a recommendation for building a gigantic computer or any computer for that matter. I haven’t been building many of these now that a basic laptop like the MacBook Pro 15″ is so powerful. And I haven’t been doing much gaming and…

Quizzes are a great way to engage website viewers, but what’s an easy way to make one. Unfortunately Elementor doesn’t have a quiz widget yet. For flashy shareable quizzes that can go viral, the reviews at themeisle and wpsuperstars.net seem to point to Thrive Quiz Builder as the flashiest. The pricing is…

I used to use iThemes and WordFence together, but now they really do overlap so now I’ve disabled WordFence to simplify things. I still use Updraft Backup instead of the iThemes because it lets you connect to Google Drive or Dropbox. Source: The Best WordPress Security Plugins and Services 2019

Well in the old world, it was pretty easy, use a San Serif font like Helvetica for the headlines because it was bold and then a serif font like Times Roman for the type because serif is easier to read. Now with a zillion fonts, things have gotten way more…

I’ve been looking for some fonts that look “colonial” or ancient. This led to finding IM Fell which are Google Free fonts that actually digitized from some existing tests done by Dr. John Fell that were cut in 1672 or so. The Fell Types: a history and some revival fonts…

They have an awesome tool for linking in YouTube videos, just choose Insert Video and give it the URL. But not everything is on YouTube, how do you insert arbitrary videos? Well this is a hack, but basically insert a static image and then link it with Command-K to the video…

OK I have an old Spyder3 and they obsoleted it and the software with the latest versions of MacOS. I was about to buy a new $500 colorimeter, but then discovered that you can keep using the old hardware just by downloading an open source project called DisplayCAL. This is…

I never end up doing this right and try on the plane to edit a Google Slide and then discover it is not set for offline. This is really complicated when you get a bunch of different GMail ids for work, home and non-profits. Here’s the decoder ring for how…

While nearly everything is on the internet, lots of things (old books, technical papers) are written with PDF. The main problem is that I’m constantly moving back and forth between different devices, so what is the best solution for that problem. Well if you have Apple devices, the answer is…