Being retired, I have the luxury of very slowly sipping a cup of coffee in bed every morning while I play on the Internet with my iPad. The problem of slowly sipping coffee is that quite quickly it gets cold and I prefer very hot coffee. For my second cup of coffee, which is consumed […]
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Diagnosing Puzzling Gmail Send and Reply Problem – by Terry Vogelaar
Terry Vogelaar ran into a very puzzling problem with his Gmail and enlisted Steve’s help in diagnosing the problem. It’s a unique problem but I think his explanation will be something to tuck away for a rainy day when someone else has a similar problem. Hi, this is Terry Vogelaar from Holland. Recently I ran […]
Continue readingMore TagNC #711 Accessibility Tricks, How Big is My Image, Best Buy for Apple Battery Replacement, Remove Backgrounds, Night Before Christmas
I’ll tell you the story of how I helped a friend of mine’s father-in-law who had some recent vision loss combined with hearing loss and why I think the effort was successful. We’ve got a Dumb Question about how to figure out how big images are on iOS. We have two Tiny Tips – one […]
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One of the most challenging things in photo manipulation is pulling people out of a photo. Sometimes it’s to make beautiful artwork, sometimes you just want to make something funny. In any case, it’s hard to do without a great deal of time and effort. Tools like Affinity Photo make it easier where you do […]
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This week we have returning guest, Dr. Maryanne Garry, from the University of Waikato but this time it will not be an intellectual, deep-learning experience about the mysteries of human memory. This time we’re going to talk about our grammar pet peeves. As Maryanne would say, we’re both quite pedantic on this topic. Sit back […]
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If you’re like me, and procrastinated till the very end of Apple’s $29 battery replacement program, you might still be able to get it done before the deal disappears at the end of 2018. I procrastinated because the phones weren’t in really bad shape, they were all around 89% health. I finally decided to go […]
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In our Facebook group (podfeet.com/facebook), John Mola asked what we like to call around here a “Dumb Question. In other words, a really interesting question that might trip up a lot of people. Here’s what he posted. How do you see how big a picture is? I took a screenshot and also a picture of […]
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A while ago a friend of mine contacted me because his father-in-law, Rich, had recently had a very sudden loss of vision. He knew that I dabbled in accessibility and wondered if I could help Rich get jump-started on what he could do to improve his situation. I have to admit that I was a […]
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I was on Daily Tech News Show: Airplay 2: Remodel Boogaloo – DTNS 3429 at dailytechnewsshow.com. No live show next week. Bart comes on to tell us how much the Apple refurb store is. Then I’ll walk you through how to enable Apple Music on your Amazon Echo. The we have an extended play version […]
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In this week’s installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots introduces us to how Bootstrap will help us create navigation in websites or web apps. This is using what Bootstrap calls the Nav component. As always we’ll learn how to style the navigation using Bootstrap Pills and Tabs. Then we’ll take it up a notch […]
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