This is a step-by-step guide to creating an Automator Quick Action workflow for Mac users that will perform a number of actions onto a digital photo to make it “blog-ready.” Quick Actions are workflows created in Automator that can be accessed by right-clicking (or CTRL-clicking) a file in Finder, then selecting the appropriate Quick Action from the pop-up menu. See below.
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It’s crazy what some sites will do for clicks, like Wired magazine, the otherwise respectable publication that abases itself with a fear-mongering story warning about Trump’s possible wiretapping of Americans. The privacy tips are decent but incomplete (a danger when recycling content and not updating it) but those deficiencies have been corrected here.
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For WordPress developers, these are essential tips and rules for using plugins that you need to start following today to keep your site lean, fast, and secure.
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With the phase-out of third-party cookies, Google says it’s time to audit cookie usage on your site. Here’s the most painless way for non-coders to do so.
You’re here because you’re wondering whether TesterUp is a scam or legit. Read on for my detailed analysis and my conclusion, which may surprise you.
This is how to check a file’s checksum on a Mac using the preferable SHA-256. These are the commands to run in Terminal, assuming the location of the file in question is in your Downloads folder and the name of the file is file.dmg.
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Send automatic birthday emails with this Automator workflow, daily, without lifting a finger. This Mac OS app is easy to use if you just follow these steps.
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An in-depth iOS 13 review concludes there’s more to be excited about in new OS (a free upgrade) than the new hardware in the iPhone 11.
iOS 13 Review: OS upgrade is More Impressive than the New Hardware accompanying it More »
The digital media revolution has been a game changer for movie watchers. Physical media like Blu-Ray discs still exist, of course, but digital media, whether streamed or downloaded, is the future. The benefits of digital media are plentiful.
Starbucks, the Seattle-based coffee shop chain, may not have invented free Wi-Fi, but they sure did popularize it. Starbucks rolled out the service back in 2010, and since then so many restaurants have followed suit it feels at times that the U.S. is blanketed in Wi-Fi (it’s not).
Until fairly recently, the 3.5 mm headphone jack was ubiquitous, a nearly-universal standard in portable audio equipment. It had been that way for decades, until September 2016, when Apple announced that none of its phones going forward — starting with the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus — would include an audio headphone port.
We’ve all heard it said before: Mac users and PC users are just different. But is it true? Before we get to the crux of the argument, let’s get some housekeeping out of the way: we’ll define a “PC” as a computer manufactured by any of a dozen companies that runs on the Microsoft Windows operating system, and a “Mac” as a computer manufactured by Apple Inc. that runs on Apple’s macOS operating system.
Coloring apps (sometimes called “coloring book apps” or “coloring apps for adults”) are having a moment. For the uninitiated, coloring apps are exactly what they sound like: coloring books, but without the book part. These app simulations of coloring books run on your mobile device of choice but are especially well suited to tablets.
Prior to its launch, the iPhone X was being called “the most highly-anticipated version” of the phone to date, and with good reason. Almost two years before the iPhone X’s release, back when people still called it an iPhone 8, rumors of Apple’s plans for a major iPhone design overhaul began to emerge.
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With public-transit use riding a 58-year high of 10.8 billion trips last year, it only makes sense to ask: why? Technology may be partially responsible for public transit’s record ridership, but probably not in the way you think.
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