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My “Pick” for today is this fantastic Jackery Solar Generator 1000 v2 w/ 200W Solar Panel.
This solar generator and connected solar panel will provide must-have AC power during extended power outages, keeping your most essential electronics up and running for hours on end.
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Today’s POTD features a beautiful little butterfly hard at “work” on a flower blossom. I hope you like it.
By the way, if you 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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August’s winner will receive this fantastic Aura Carver 10.1 Inch HD WiFi Digital Picture Frame.
Like most people these days, you probably have hundreds, and possibly even thousands of great photos that you’d like to display in your home. With this little gem you’ll probably be able to display ALL of them!
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The drawing for this month’s prize will be held on August 31 and the winner will be notified by email. The winner will be selected at random.
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Question from Barbara: I recently learned that every email I send with my iPhone includes a line that says “Sent from my iPhone”.
There are times when I’d rather not tip off the recipient that I sent their email using my phone.
Is there any way to remove the “Sent from my iPhone” message from my outgoing emails? [Read more…]
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Do you do a lot of typing on your smartphone’s virtual keyboard?
If so, you surely know how difficult it can be trying to tap the correct letters and select the proper punctuation marks.
One tip that can really save you a lot of time when typing on your phone is skipping the period at the end of a sentence and pressing the space bar twice instead.
Pressing the space bar twice saves time in the following ways: [Read more…]
Icon Libraries Are Currently Having Their Villain EraListen bestie, the icon situation is absolutely unhinged right now and everyone’s just acting like this digital hellscape is totally normal.
Most platforms are creative dumpster fires where designers yeet whatever they sketched during their 3am breakdown and pray someone thinks it slaps. You’re building interfaces that look like they were designed by people who communicate exclusively through passive-aggressive Slack reactions.
The whole ecosystem has big main character energy where every icon thinks it’s starring in its own Netflix adaptation. Someone drops a house icon serving clean minimalist excellence, another designer creates a settings gear giving full cyberpunk breakdown vibes, and somehow these are supposed to coexist without starting beef over visual hierarchy. [Read more…]