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The Washington Post This is normally $10/month, but with Amazon, you get a deal where it is $4/month after a six month trial for Amazon Prime member. Nice! Photo by charlotte on Unsplash

I don’t know how big a category this is going to be, but there are definitely some interesting resources to look at. For instance, we have… IMPACTBASE. This is a “partial” database of institutions offering various funds and how much capital is committed in them. I have gone through to…

Hat tip on pointing Image Size by vsmedia.de as the perfect app to down res photos. Needed if you post to WordPress or need an avatar for a site…. — Read on helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/scale-down-an-image-in-windows-mac-ios-and-android/

It’s so sad to see so many Amazon Choice products with D ratings. The spammers are winning so please don’t buy there unless you check fakespot.com As an example this highly rated 4.8 star watch band is 68% fake even after Amazon purged most of its reviews a month ago.

OK, I admit it, I’ve been a nerd about the US Navy since I was in the 5th grade and wrote a report on them. (Maybe the fortune teller was right, I was supposed to be an oil tanker captain :-). Anyway, was cleaning out the PDFs stuck in iCloud…

Well now that we have AirPods (and love it), plus these ultra cool Sony headphones, it just makes me want to make everything a Bluetooth device. Fortunately for $27, you can do that. Just get the Mpow Bluetooth 4.1 Transmitter/Receiver, this thing is a tiny device that is micro-USB powered.…

I don’t often see how much WordPress has moved forward, but this is definitely one of them. It used to be really hard to embed things into WordPress posts (Medium is the same way, you can’t add bullets, you can’t add videos, afaik). But they have an incredible number of…

Wow what a powerful song, I’m just catching up on the Hamilton Mixtape and it is awesome. Particularly love Wrote My Way Out. I had not realized that the playwright who did Rent died just as it was going into previews. And listening to the stories that Rap can tell…

(Note, this is the start of my Medium friendly posts, so away go the bulleted and numbered lists which it doesn’t support at all and up with headings and subheadings. Hat tip to Blog2social for a nice plugin that cross posts). Creating a Go environment: Github Well another month, so…

OK, I don’t know why this is a bug, but it definitely exists as an edge case. I’ve been slowly importing my photo library to iCloud, if you take say 4,000 images (I know I have a lot of them!), then it will take MacOS Photos about a week to…