If anyone rides away on my bike, I can track it down via the Apple Find My network.
Shane Miller tested WHERE to place the tracking device.
Open to the sky is best. Hidden inside the frame near useless.
I’m keeping mine attached to the bike in a reflector.
Also, it’s unlikely a thief will be alerted by their own phone — until they get home.
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I’ve always been a NOTE taker.
Always put together TO-DO lists.
Not always skilled at following through. 😶
For the past few months I’ve been trying NOTION. It’s free for basics.
More complicated than I need. But it is cool.
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It does synch perfectly with iPhone. And I can use the IOS app even when out of service.
NOTION ranked #1 on this list of Best Note-Taking Apps 2021.
I’ve used different notebooks and apps over the decades. Most recently I’ve been trying to stick to the default Apple products:
Love the simplicity and compatibility with the Fruit Company ecosystem of brainwashed.
I’ve yet to find a calendar I like. I’m using Google Calendar — but don’t really enjoy it. Right now I’m trying to switch to Apple Calendar, which I also don’t like.
I might start posting from my iPhone.
If you want to position your iPhone for a photo and then take the photo from a distance, you can use your Apple Watch to view the iPhone camera image and take the photo. You can also use your Apple Watch to set a shutter timer—this gives you time to lower your wrist and raise your eyes when you’re in the shot.
To function as a camera remote, your Apple Watch needs to be within normal Bluetooth range of your iPhone (about 33 feet or 10 meters).
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I added a QUICK LINK to my Watch Home Screen.
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If you’re celebrating seeing Donald Trump and the worst of his deplorable followers driven off social media, thank Stacey Abrams.
She devoted years to building the Democratic Party in Georgia. Wrote a book about voter suppression and co-produced an Amazon Prime documentary, “All In: the Fight for Democracy.”
People in the know credit Stacey Abrams for flipping the 2 Senate seats from Republican to Democrat.
NOW the Biden team has control of all 3 branches of government for 2 years.
NOW the Biden team can enthusiastically regulate BIG TECH.
NOW Twitter, Facebook and pretty much every other major platform is banning Trumpy hate speech.
Thanks Stacey.
BestBuy and Apple both have pretty good trade-in programs.
For example, when I traded in my last Mac laptop (battery had failed) — Apple refunded me CAD $540 towards my new silicon Mac.
Turns out the new US $700 Mac mini silicon outperforms the old 16″ MacBook Pro costing $7000.
To replace that battery would have been about CAD $260. AND if it didn’t work, I’d be on the hook.
related – You CAN replace an iPhone battery
With Kraig’s encouragement I tried and then bought ($29.39 CAD) an Apple only photo editing package.
I’ll continue to use free built-in Apple photos to organize my many pics. BUT switch to Pixelmator Pro for editing the best of the best.
I started posting daily to Instagram. My best hiking photos.
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There’s no way online classes will be as bad in 2025 as they are today.
I expect Google, Apple, Amazon to be amongst the companies disrupting the current expensive American College system. Taking their money.
But it’s this organization — Outlier — that won a Time magazine BEST inventions of 2020 award.
At least they are trying to improve the experience.
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A Mac geek, I sagely advised Rockin’ to NOT buy a first generation product.
Get the MacBook Air. It’s enough computer for 99% of the world.
#Don’tPracticeWhatYouPreach
Myself? I ordered a first generation SILICON MacBook Pro day 1. It costs CAD $400 more than the Air.
The 1% who need the Pro are those wanting to video edit in 4K. Drinkin’ the fanboy Kool-Aid.
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Of many competing services offering online digital assets, Story Blocks is most famous. And advertises the most.
But I was convinced to join instead less expensive Envato Elements US $198 / year. Both work with Final Cut Pro, my software.
They provide licensed images, audio, videos, graphics, plugins, fonts, logos, tutorials, 3D, graphic & video templates, presentation templates, infographics and much more. I’ll be including those in my videos, websites and presentations.
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One of the main things I like about using their digital resources is the simplicity of licensing. I’m much less worried that YouTube — sometime in future — might take down my YouTube due to copyright complaint.
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Rick McCharles 