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My “Pick” for today is this new (and fantastic) Apple 2025 MacBook Pro Laptop with M5 chip.
The long-awaited 2025 MacBook Pro with the brand new and powerful M5 chip is finally here. And yes, it was definitely worth the wait.
Click here to check out the Apple 2025 MacBook Pro Laptop with M5 chip at Amazon.
Today’s POTD features long-exposure nighttime view of a highway in the German state of Bavaria. The streaks of white light are the beams from the headlights of moving automobiles. The red streaks are their tail lights. I hope you like it.
Have lots of treasured photos of your own that you’d love to display in your home but you have limited wall space? A digital picture frame (#ad) is an excellent solution. Check them out!
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October’s winner will receive a fantastic Amazon eero 6+ mesh wifi system.
This kit can eliminate the Wi-Fi dead spots in your home or small to medium-size office by blanketing the entire building with a strong Wi-Fi signal.
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The drawing for this month’s prize will be held on October 31 and the winner will be notified by email. The winner will be selected at random.
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Question from Keith: I just finished reading your post about taking your home office off-grid and I found it very encouraging because I’d love to that for just a couple of rooms in my own house.
My question is how do you take just part of a house off-grid while leaving the rest of it connected to the power line? [Read more…]
Why your content sounds like AI-writtenYou know that moment when you read something and instantly feel it wasn’t written by a real person? The sentences are fine, the spelling is flawless, but there’s no warmth. It sounds as if someone stitched together the right words — without ever meaning them.
That’s what happens when writing loses its human touch. Sometimes, this happens because we rely too much on structure, templates, or AI-generated drafts. The result is clean but empty. The rhythm is flat, and there’s no sense of a real voice behind the words. You can spot robotic writing by looking for clues: too many long sentences, repeated patterns, or phrases that feel copied and pasted. It reads like text that forgot emotion. [Read more…]
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If you’re a Windows user you probably know you can press either the Print Screen key or the PrtScn key (whichever spelling your keyboard uses) to immediately capture the contents of the entire screen as a screenshot.
And you might also know that you can press Alt+Print Screen to take a screenshot of just the currently active window.
But what if you want to manually select a specific portion of the screen to capture for a screenshot? [Read more…]