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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…]
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You probably know how to print important emails to create a hard copy record of the correspondence, but here’s something you might not know…
You can also save emails as PDF files and then open them at any time in your default browser or PDF viewer. [Read more…]
When we talk about keeping communities safe, we often think about visible measures—police patrols, security cameras, and neighborhood watch groups. But behind the scenes, technology is stepping up in a big way to help detect problems early and prevent them from escalating.
Smart detection systems are becoming the silent guardians of schools, public spaces, and even private businesses, offering a layer of security that’s proactive rather than reactive. [Read more…]