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My “Pick” for today is a fantastic resource for learning (and using) Windows 11 titled “Windows 11 Inside Out”.
If you enjoy using your Windows PC and want to go beyond the basics, this is a great book to keep handy at all times.
Click here to check out “Windows 11 Inside Out” at Amazon.
Did you miss (or want to revisit) one of my earlier picks? You might find it right here.
Today’s POTD features one of the iconic Dutch windmills that Holland is so famous for. I hope you like it.
Are you interested in trying your hand at landscape photography? Well, this is a great camera to get hit the ground running with! (#ad)
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November’s winner will receive a fantastic SentrySafe Fireproof and Waterproof Large Safe with Digital Keypad.
Your computer backup drive(s), your important documents, your expensive jewelry and your other valuables are worth protecting. This is an excellent way to do it.
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The drawing for this month’s prize will be held on November 30 and the winner will be notified by email. The winner will be selected at random.
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If you’ve been using Facebook for more than ten minutes you’re probably aware that scammers are constantly cloning folks’ profiles to create new fake profiles in their names.
They then send friend requests from the fake profile to everyone that’s on the real account’s Friends List.
After several people have accepted the fraudulent friend requests the scammer will then use the fake profile to target those “friends” with all manner of scams and hoaxes.
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I’m often asked if it’s possible to shop online without having to use a credit or debit card. Perhaps surprisingly, the answer is yes. In fact, there are at three easy ways to do it.
While it’s true that most internet retailers are set up to accept credit and debit cards by default, but there are indeed other ways to pay that don’t require you to give the retailer your card info: [Read more…]
Creating an AI-generated video with a consistent character across multiple shots can be challenging. A character might look slightly different between scenes, with changes to facial features, hairstyles, clothing, or other visual details.
These inconsistencies can make a video feel disconnected, even when each individual shot looks convincing.
One way to improve consistency is to use reference images to guide video generation. Instead of describing a character from scratch for every scene, you can provide a visual reference that helps establish the character’s appearance. Tools such as MixVio’s reference-to-video tool illustrate how an image can guide the video creation process. [Read more…]