The Science (and Science Fiction) of DPI

The Science (and Science Fiction) of DPI

Don’t use inches when talking about digital images. Only use pixels. Remember when Han Solo claimed he made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs? And you thought your head was going to explode, because YOU know that a parsec is a measure of distance and not speed? Okay, maybe you aren’t that nerdy.…

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Tools for checking your domain name and email for deliverability

Checking your domain and mail for problems often starts with running some tests. This is a list of places I have found useful: https://dmarcian.com/dmarc-inspector/ – Checks for a valid DMARC on your DNS http://mail-tester.com – sends a test mail https://redsift.com/products/ondmarc/investigate – checks for DMARC, DKIM, SPF https://mxtoolbox.com/DMARCRecordGenerator.aspx – DMARC Generator https://mxtoolbox.com/SPFRecordGenerator.aspx – SPF Checker and…

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Box.com can bite me

How do you turn off box.com on startup? I have the answer. I have customers that use box (a shared file service). We don’t use it much and I noticed that it was auto-launching on my Mac. I went to the preferences to tell the app not to launch upon start up. There was no…

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How to Make a PDF of an Entire Website

You have a couple of ways to make a PDF from a website. Actually, there are more ways than that, but I will be outlining two. Adobe Acrobat Pro (not the free version) — Lots of professionals have this suite already and you won’t have to buy an extra software PDFmyURL — This is a paid…

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Could you use a booking program on your website?

Do you spend a lot of time making appointments for phone calls and meetings? A few years ago I realized that I had a pain threshold regarding making appointments with clients. After an email or two, they would want a meeting or a phone appointment. Then they would want to know what times I had…

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Create a Shared Family Address Book with Contacts and iCloud

NOTE: “Apple Family Sharing” is good for sharing the in-app purchases, iTunes, iBooks, and iCloud storage. But, it doesn’t share address books well, at least not yet. I’ve gotten a lot of questions about this lately. I figure Apple will solve this problem eventually by changing the way the address book works. But, for now,…

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Create a Shared Family Address
Book with Contacts and iCloud

We are a two-person household. Each of us has iPhones, Macs, and iPads, so it makes sense that we would want to share the same Contacts/Address book. We tried having separate Contacts, but someone will update something and the other won’t have it — and it’s a hassle. So, then we tried just sharing the…

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Fix the feed on your Neat Scanner

This morning, I am Office MacGyver. I love my Neat Scanner. The only thing about my Neat that has bugged me is that checks don’t always feed in straight and don’t scan well. They sometimes need a second pass through the scanner if you didn’t get them in very straight. This morning I got a…

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The True Cost of using Comic Sans

If you are a designer, you know we hate the font Comic Sans because of its overuse, read­abil­ity and a dozen other rea­sons. What you you may not know it is that Comic Sans is costing you money to use it com­pared to other fonts. Via PixartPrinting

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John Cleese: A Lecture on Creativity

I found this wonderful 1991 formal lecture by John Cleese speaking about being creative. I think this would be interesting for anyone no matter what your vocation. Additionally, it’s very entertaining as you might expect.

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