Update your iOS devices to 9.3.5 without delay to protect yourself from a really nasty exploit in the wild. Steven Goetz does a guest review of the AmazonBasics 62” Aluminum Ball Head Tripod. I’ll walk you through how to liberate your Activity data so that you can see it in other apps like Activity++ and […]
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Metal vs. Glass Prints
Before I met Mark Pouley, I was content with taking photos, editing them on the computer and displaying them online. But Mark started encouraging me to get some of them printed in large format. He’s trying to drag me into his madness (his house is FULL of large prints of his photos). It did sound […]
Continue readingNC #587 Extracting Images from Live Photos, Free Diagramming with draw.io, Security Bits
In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and I actually did a video episode where he showed his screen while he solved some of the JavaScript challenges he gave us in Programming By Stealth. Check that out at podfeet.com/…. We’ve got a “Dumb Question” from Dorothy asking how to extract images from Live Photos, and […]
Continue readingDumb Question – How to Extract a Different Image From a Live Photo
This week’s Dumb Question comes from Dorothy, AKA maclurker in the live chat room. You haven’t heard from her in forever because she’s been traveling in Alaska and Canada on her boat for the last few months. With total disregard for how lonely I am at the gym this summer, she seems to be having […]
Continue readingGet Better Image Control with ProShot for iOS, Android & Windows Phone
I was chatting with my daughter Lindsay the other night about a photo she took using Snapchat. She said she took the photo with Snapchat because it has a built-in low light mode that works much better than the built-in camera on the iPhone. You know I enjoy photography as a hobby with my mirrorless […]
Continue readingDumb Question Corner: How Can I Use iCloud Photo Sharing with Non-Apple Users
This week’s Dumb Question comes from David Bodgan from Japan. He wrote: “When I send jpeg pix to my siblings, they give me all sorts of grief about not being able to open them up. I guess they only show up as thumbnails. The funny thing is that in their replies to me, I get […]
Continue readingiCloud Photo Sharing to Non-Apple Users
Problem to be solved: You have people with whom you’d like to share photos but they don’t have Apple devices so iCloud Photo Sharing doesn’t work for them. Solution: Create a shared album and generate a URL through which they can view the images in a web browser Note – I’m pretty sure this only […]
Continue readingAffinity Photo Review – Part One – Extensions for Photos
I have fallen in love with Affinity Photo. If you heard Chit Chat Across the Pond this week with Devin King, you’ll have heard me chat a bit about it as a fantastic image editor. I wanted to give you a more in depth look into this fabulous new program and why even if you’re […]
Continue readingNC #566 mSATA SSD on Drobo, Garbage Collection, Authy, New Country Amazon Affiliates, Samsung T3 SSD, Moving Photos to External SSD
We’ll learn about Garbage Collection in the context of a failed (and replaced) mSATA SSD from Crucial. New to podfeet.com – Amazon Affiliate links for Canada, Germany and the UK. A quick review of the Samsung T3 External USB 3.0 SSD (with USB-C connectivity). Joe LaGreca tells us about Authy, a brilliant two-factor authentication tool […]
Continue readingMoving Apple System Photo Library to an External SSD is Terrifying
So now that I’ve got my shiny new Samsung T3 USB3 external SSD, let’s see if I can figure out how to use this for my real Photos library. Since not everyone uses Photos, let me explain some details of how this works. Photos, like its predecessors iPhoto and Aperture, can handle multiple libraries. But […]
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