When you’re using an app that expects long-winded typing on iOS, you’ll get the standard iOS keyboard with four rows of keys. On the fourth row (of the American English keyboard), you’ll find a key labeled “return”. Hitting this key gives you a line feed, which is an expected feature for separating thoughts for readability. […]
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Tiny Tip – Filter Contact Fields When Sharing iOS Contacts – by Donna Campbell
I wanted to share some tips which you can feel free to use on your podcasts. I’m typically my mom’s driver for doctors appointments, but due to my broken shoulder, my husband has been helping out. I wanted to share contact info with him for one of her doctors so he could use Maps and […]
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Tiny Tip — Rid Yourself of Google Sign-In Popup
Sign In with Google Popup on Reddit Have you noticed that a whole lot of websites suddenly have an annoying popup from Google asking if you want to use Google to sign into the site? If you haven’t seen it, go to reddit.com without signing in and you’ll see it. It’s GIANT and it says: […]
Continue readingMore TagTiny Tip — How to Force Mail to Use the Right Address on List (Group) Emails
I was chatting with Helma from the Netherlands about the travelogue I write during our world travels. It’s all the rage with over a hundred people opting IN to receive this amazing document. The travelogue is low on facts, high on humor, and includes photos that show the fun of our adventures. I’ve done them […]
Continue readingMore TagTiny Tip – Change Notification Email with iCloud+ Custom Domain Email
Like many in the community, I had my custom domain hosted with Google right up until they were going to charge me real money. Like many in the community I have iCloud+, so I moved my custom domain over to iCloud. That was months ago and it just occurred to me that I no longer […]
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Welcome to Part 3 of my Tiny Mac Tips. This is an ongoing series I started in order to teach my dear friend Jill from the Northwoods how to move from an adequate Mac user to a proficient one. Link to Tiny Mac Tips Part 1 Link to Tiny Mac Tips Part 2 As I’ve […]
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Dumb Question Becomes a Tiny Tip – Finding Full Pathname to Files
John’s Long Path Name in Spotlight In our awesome Slack community at podfeet.com/slack, John Endahl asked what he dubbed a Dumb Question. I thought I had a clever answer to his question, but Calum B came up with an answer that is a fabulous Tiny Tip. First, the problem to be solved. John asked: This […]
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Tiny Tip – Fix Stupid Long Copied URLs
Have you ever copied a URL from a website to send to someone, and it turns out to be giant? Like 10 lines long giant? It’s embarrassing and is likely to turn off your recipient from clicking the link and seeing the funny TikTok video or buying you the gift you wanted. There’s a very […]
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Tiny Tip – AppleScript to Launch Terminal in Current Finder Directory by Frank Vos
Last week I talked about using the proxy icon in Finder windows to drag into a Terminal window so I could quickly change directory quickly without typing the full path and without having to escape out the spaces between words in my directory paths. Frank Vos wrote in with a great tip on how to […]
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View → Show Path Bar in Finder This week’s tiny tips come from Helma from the Netherlands. She sent me an email recently and agreed it would be ok if I elaborated on it for all of you. Her opening line was: Did you know that the Path Bar in the Finder is more than […]
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