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Commander One as a Finder Replacement

The Mac Finder is fine for casual users, but if your use cases involve a lot of file management to handle photography or videography related tasks, heavy downloading, web publishing or other more advanced tasks, you'd be well served to look for a replacement. Commander One by Electronic Teams, Inc. Is a serviceable option. It has a dual pane interface, with each pane featuring unlimited tabs. There are three view options per pane: details, list and icons. The Commander One features list is long: • Easily toggle hidden files • Customizable fonts and colors • Bookmark favorite file locations •...

Drawing Gloves

I recently purchased an XP-Pen Artist Glove (not an affiliate link) on Amazon for $7. After using the glove for a few weeks, I wish I had bought one sooner. I love it! In this post, I share some benefits of using a drawing glove and why you might consider getting one.There are several advantages to using a drawing glove.  Reduces friction between hand and tablet.Drawing gloves help when drawing curves and dynamic lines by reducing the friction between your hand and the surface of your tablet. This is most noticeable on bigger screens when making longer strokes, but I...

Cloud Storage Management Apps

The longer you use a computer, the more access to resources you accumulate. I'm old, so I have more accounts than I know what to do with. When it comes to cloud storage, I have access to Google Drive, One Drive, Box and Dropbox, although I only pay for Google Drive. I once signed up an entire middle school's faculty to Dropbox with my referral link, so I have a large sized free tier. I got 50GB from Box so long ago that I no longer remember how. OneDrive is provided by my job. Each of these providers, along with...

Royal TSX for Remote Management

In my day job, I provide IT support at a small private university. Because I have a good boss, the computer I use as a daily driver is an M3 iMac. Most of the users I support are using Windows 10 and 11, however. Microsoft doesn't make a version of server tools for ARM processor-based computers. This means that I am unable to use a VM to run Windows apps like Active Directory Users and Computers or SCCM. On my Mac, I can use browser-based tools like InTune and Entra, but for other apps, I rely on a remote connection...

Happy Anniversary!

The wife and I celebrated our 28th wedding anniversary last month. Her gift to me was to pick out a pen and ink that I wanted. I ordered for my first time from Goldspot and they just came yesterday (with some Black Friday extras). Woohoo! I present my new Esterbrook Estie with medium nib, push button piston filler, in Funky Lake blue. I also got a bottle of Ferris Wheel Press "Edwards Gardens" ink. However, I inked the Estie with Troublemaker Inks "Simoun"; which is a great sheening ink. The FWP ink is a shimmering one and I didn't want...

Using shoutouts.page to embed a link to my workshops

Maybe this would be a great time to share more buildinpublic or experiment with how this works. This morning, I added a footer to the booklet about testing for developers Writebook from 37 Signals, and I used the that are using https://shoutouts.page for this. Here is how it looks like on the main website https://booklet.goodenoughtesting.com I created a small snippet on shoutouts.page by Vincent Ritter  I chose this because, once included, any changes to the text or image will automatically update everywhere it's embedded Here is how it looks like to create the shoutout: I then embedded this to two...

Remote Helper for Mac

Remote Helper for Mac is the companion for the iOS app, Remote Mouse and Keyboard. When used together, your iOS device can control a Mac, a PC, an Apple TV or an iPad. The features include: • Control the cursor on a Mac and serve as a virtual mouse to select, double click or right click any element • Enter text on a Mac from the iOS keyboard • Media controls - mute, pause, volume up, volume down, next track, previous track. Works in multiple apps • View your computer screen on your phone • Issue system commands from your...

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