16-inch MacBook Pro runs faster when closed?
Peter Steinberger: I found out that my MacBook Pro 2019 runs way faster if I close the lid when using an external screen – 2.7GHz (base 2.4+turbo) vs ~1.5 GHz due to…
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Peter Steinberger: I found out that my MacBook Pro 2019 runs way faster if I close the lid when using an external screen – 2.7GHz (base 2.4+turbo) vs ~1.5 GHz due to…
Marcus Peddle: Creating portfolio pages is a hassle on WordPress even though there are a number of photography templates. Adding photos is time consuming and I am rarely happy with the layout….
Luis Gabriel Santiago Alvarado, aka Gabz: The main reason I keep Instagram is the same reason most people won’t quit Facebook, I have friends and family I want to stay in contact…
Instagram has been the place that Facebook jams all of its cloned-app-features into for the last few years. When it copied Snapchat it jammed all of the features into Instagram. And now,…
Great list this week. See other lists. Vicariously – See what Twitter looks like for other users. James Sowerby Mineralogy – Exquisite digital collection of Sowerby's painstaking illustrations. Great work and website….
George R. R. Martin about his time writing in his mountain cabin: My life up here is very boring, it must be said. Truth be told, I hardly can be said to…
Nick Clayton, in a beautifully written and photographed post on Casual Photophile: Walking with a camera is a moving meditation in which paramount importance is placed on being present in your surroundings….
Arecibo Observatory: One of the auxiliary cables that helps support a metal platform in place above the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, broke on Monday (Aug. 10) causing a 100-foot-long gash on…
This month Micro.blog is having a photo challenge to help spur some posts and creativity from the growing community there. When Jean asked for recommendations I threw bisect at her and she…
First lawn mow at new house. ✅
Joseph Irvin: Here’s a photo I took on a $3 roll of consumer film I picked up at my local grocery store, shot through a Pentax body that I paid $5 for…
Marcus Peddle, remarking on making Jim Grey's aforementioned list of film photography blogs: I’m honoured, but slightly embarrassed because most of my photography these days is digital. Still, a photo is a…
Jim Grey: It’s time for my annual list of film photography blogs! A great joy of film photography is the community of people who enjoy everything about it: the gear, the films,…
Microsoft: This new structure would build on the experience TikTok users currently love, while adding world-class security, privacy, and digital safety protections. The operating model for the service would be built to…
Tim Bray: But aren’t blogs dead? · Um, nope. Also, this bit: Since most of us don’t even try to monetize ’em, they’re pretty ad-free and thus a snappy reading experience. I've…
Papyrus SNL – This skit recently came back to memory during a meeting at work. KEKS Lightmeter – I have a few cameras that I need to use my iPhone to meter…
When I first read that Slack was taking Microsoft to court I thought it’d be too much of a distraction for Slack. Reading Stewart’s tweets makes me think they had no choice.
I think we may look back at many of the brand identities that Pentagram has redesigned lately as misfires. If you’re going to remove all personality from a mark it needs to end up being iconic. They are hitting somewhere in the middle in my opinion.
If someone could please make ear hair fashionable you’d be saving me some of my precious morning time.
A few days ago I came across Ton Zijlstra's post about trying out Obsidian. I didn't have the time to read it just then so I quickly stored it in Unmark (shameless…
Unfortunately I haven't published one of these lists since April. I enjoy looking back at the archives so I need to post these regularly more-so for me than for you! New Stuff…
Shattered window panes – July 2020 I haven't been shooting very many photos in the last few weeks. Partially because life is very busy and also due to the pandemic. This photo,…
I feel like most people, including those that rail against Facebook, don’t have the stones to quit Instagram.
Quicktime on macOS bug: Hover to display controls. Roll off on left, right, or bottom of window, controls disappear. Roll off on the top of window and controls remain.
Steve Benjamins, in a post showing how he makes some money via Spotify for streaming his music: Every Monday my music gets a spike in streams on Spotify. You could set a…
I'm old, so I can still call them tweetstorms rather than threads. I just posted a tweetstorm regarding Photos for Mac on Catalina. I posted it there because I'm sort of hoping…
I’m looking for recommendations on personal homesteading blogs. Something like @dejus‘ @yellowcottage. If you know of any, please let me know about them.
My wish list for this year’s WWDC was pretty well accommodated today. Once we are a few releases into the public betas we’ll know what we’ll really get come the fall.
I’m still importing photos and this morning I will pass 100,000 photos added to the Photos for Mac Library (as referenced files). Still lots more to import. So far the performance of Photos seems to be holding up. I can’t tag any photos right now – the interface “jumps” – but I can bounce around my library. I’m considering a brand-new USB-C hard drive just for this task.