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Been using Zoom a bunch for recording and it is a “deep, deep” product, so here are some tips and tricks: Video Defaults https://zoom.us/account/setting. This is a buried feature, but useful for those of us in messy offices or homes. You have to enable it from the administrator console. It…

A funny thing to post on a snowy day like today, but if you are looking for some different routes, then Cascade Bike Studio has a whole collection of ones they’ve put onto Strava.

Well trying to read these papers and my intuition is just never too strong on what is really happening, but found:  Colah who gives really good examples of what is happening. He explains how networks basically are contorting things so that you can divid thing linearly. A great set of…

This is actually a pretty complicated topic, there are cheap duffel bags that you can get for $25 at Columbia for instance, but if you look at Outdoor Gear Labs, you can spend a lot more to get a lot more. The truth is that I’ve had the same duffel…

When you are working on blog or a site, the typeface really does make a difference. Yes, you can just use Arial and be fine, but with Google Fonts, there are literally thousands of free fonts available just about anywhere. So what’s a person to do if they are not…

I wanted to created a truly professional site, not just a blog, so my good friend Jim said that Elementor was the way to go. This made some sense, it is based on WordPress and thus easy to get something up and running quickly. So here are some hints: You…

Well since I’ve been doing way more documents lately, it’s time to take a look and see what fonts are available. Extensis has a great set of tools that you can loads as an add-on to Google Docs that let’s you browse and see what is popular and trending: Noto.…

Well time for an update on keeping yourself safe from viruses on a Mac and all the bad folks out there. While the defaults are pretty good, you can always do better, here are the recommendations in a nutshell: Automatic Operating system. This is probably the most important one, but…

Well, I’ve been writing way more in Google Docs than anything else these days. The collaborative features makes it way easier to create documents, but there are still some things that you need to make it a world class environment. Here are some notes: Templates. The basic ones are pretty…