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5S Review -- Feb 3
What I'm reading, listening to and watching this week.
Fritz Klug
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Installing custom fonts on Kindle and Kobo ebook readers
And it's easy to do!
Future proofing memories for the Vision Pro with Spatial Video
This morning, preorders for the Apple Vision Pro begin to much enthusiast fanfare and confusion. While the premise is exciting, there’s little to go off about how good it is in day-to-day usage. But will all the talk that will come about the idea of “spatial computing,” as a
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You have everything you need: Taking better photos and videos with just your mobile phone — 2022
I recently presented at Voices for Youth, a great program in Kalamazoo for young folks to get involved with journalism and digital storytelling. The goal of my presentation was to give actionable tips for taking better photos and video with just your mobile phone. Here are the tips I touched
Book Review: “The Making of Biblical Womanhood” by Beth Allison Barr
Beth Allison Barr’s “The Making of Biblical Womanhood” is a detailed and approachable study of an idea that has plagued American Christianity: Biblical Patriarchy. While many may not know what the exact term “Biblical Womanhood” means, we are familiar with its basic teaching: God has ordained men/husbands to
Hey Siri, we’re broken up: ending relationships is more difficult with insensitive AI
Breaking up is hard, but there's someone who makes it more difficult: Siri. The digital assistant has actually become more useful in recent years, understanding more and more about our lives, schedules and habits. But it's lacking one feature that any friend or acquaintance has: Don&
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Every Day Photo Library Housekeeping and Downsizing in 2020
I take a lot of photos. Currently in my iCloud Photo Library, there are 236,167 images, 6,429 videos and 8 items. And I’m running out of cloud storage. While Apple has made major improvements in Photos and the iCloud Photo Library in recent years, such a large
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More editing muscle, more for you: iOS 13 Photos in review
The organizational overhaul still focuses on the overall timeline of when photos were taken but curates them in a new and smart manner based on days, months, and years. Using machine learning, Photos can pick images and videos that are relevant to your location and time of year. Also improved
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Using Live Photos to photograph lightning on iPhone
Lightning can be one of the most difficult and time consuming things to photograph. It's hard to predict when it will hit and there's usually adverse conditions that make it potentially dangerous. But the results can be, well, striking. With DSLR cameras, the standard way of
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iOS 13 combines Live Photos combined into one video
There's a really cool feature in iOS 13 that allows you to watch a series of concurrently taken Live Photo's simultaneously as one long video. I noticed this a few weeks ago when I was watching a Live Photo and it kept on going through the
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Photos of the Month: July 2019
Summer is one of my favorite times to take photos. The weather is nice, the light is good and everything seems in motion. For editing, I’ve continued to explore the app Darkroom. One of my favorite features is applying frames. They make photos stand out on Instagram and help,
Waiting to hear music live: Kurt Vile at Bell's Eccentric Café
I was excited when it was announced that Kurt Vile was going to play at Bell’s Eccentric Café. I had listened to some of his music over the years and enjoyed it, but never spent the time listening to it. In the age of streaming services, it’s easy