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Continue reading →: Sony A7R III digital photography workflow for fall 2019
OK, I seem to update this everytime I use the camera, but this should also apply to the A7R IV, although I don’t quite have one. Here are the recommendations based on the three different types of photos you can take Use RAW on a Mac or PC for regular…
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Continue reading →: MacOS Catalina 10.15 New Disk Layout
If you try to figure out how much Disk space you have with a tool Space Gremlin, you could be in for a big surprise because the disk layout has changed. If you have say a 1TB Mac disk, it will show that you have 2TB and there is a…
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Continue reading →: Using custom font on a Mac
I just wrote about how you use the custom fonts on your iPhone or iPad, but for the Mac, things are a little simpler: First figure out what font you want with What Font Is? or similar utility. Then see if that font is available in Homebrew Fonts because that…
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Continue reading →: Gsuite templates
OK this is a bit mysterious, but if you have some standard templates that you like to use, then Google has two completely different ways of doing this: If you have a personal account, then you create a dummy document with your styles and layouts loaded into it. Then when…
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Continue reading →: Use Google Chrome to determine fonts on a website
Well, this is pretty confusing mainly because the Chrome developer tools keep changing, but for November 2019, here is how to do it: Download Chrome Enable Developer tools Start them with View/Developer/Developer Tools Now a window opens on the left, you want to click on the upper left icon there…
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Continue reading →: Limitations of Google Slides for IOS and Web version
Well, it is good to push products and one area that I’ve been confused about is what are the limitations for Google Slides for the iPhone and on the Web. It is remarkably good at collaboration and “good enough” layout, but if you want to really get work done on…
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Continue reading →: Best Monitors for a PC Fall 2019 Review
Well, Mark (and everyone else who is going to get a Mac Pro, or an AMD Ryzen Threadripper) needs to get a great monitor to go with it, so what to get if you want the actual best display. First of all there are threee big uses for this kind…
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Continue reading →: Identifont and WhatFontIs to find free fonts to similar to proprietary ones
OK, in trying to work with a presentation that is using a ton of proprietary fonts. Here are some tools: Figure out what font it is with TypeSquirrel or WhatFontIs or FontSpring from just an image. Or use the Chrome WhatFontIs extension to determine what font you see on a…
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Continue reading →: Using fonts on an Google Slides and iPadOS and iOS with Keynote
Normally I use Google Slides for most presentations. You can add any Google Font to it with more fonts. And if there are fonts which are not there then you can use the Extensis add-on for other fonts. I also recently got a Keynote presentation. This is a downloadable thing.…
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Continue reading →: Argh. Google and MacOS authentication woes
Just spent an hour on a really frustrating problem with Google. What they did makes sense but the error messages are really hard to fathom TL:dr If you have MacOS Catalina and are trying to setup a gmail account on it. It doesn’t work the way you thjnk. Authentication now…