Originally posted by David Harrison on the Thought Grazing Forums
I’m only posting this to indicate just how open and fair I am (HaHa) …
https://www.howtogeek.com/before-you-commit-to-the-apple-ecosystem
Snipping and OCR Reader
From Ted Richards …
How I get web pages that don’t print into a format where they will:
Use the ‘snipping tool’ in Windows, select and paste it into Word or PowerPoint or something similar, and print.
On a similar vein, if I want to copy some text and the web page is set not to allow copying of text, I use the snipping tool, select and same as a jpeg, then use the OCR reader https://www.newocr.com/ to convert the picture into text and copy into the document I want it to be in.
Protected: Digital exclusion and printing
iCloud Photos, Photos on Apple Devices and iCloud Drive
Originally posted by David Harrison on the Thought Grazing Forums
The seed for this topic was sown by Ian at our meeting on October 13th 2022. I had to admit that although I had a reasonable idea of what happened with Google Photos, I was unsure what happened with Apple’s cloud offering.
I was reasonable quick in advising (and it’s reported in the notes of the meeting), that as expected …
“I can confirm that deleting a file on iCloud Drive from the Files app on an iPhone will delete it from icloud.com and your iCloud drive on MacOS as well – which is what you would expect should happen.”
However, the situation of Photos stored in the Apple Photos app (on iPhone or iPad) and iCloud Photos should also be noted – for completeness.
I’m not going to write anything; just provide three links to follow to clarify …
How to Delete Photos From iPhone but Not iCloud
How to Delete Photos From iCloud (While Keeping Them on Your iPhone)
and
How to recover a deleted photo or video on your iPhone or iPad
If you want to delete a Photo from both device and iCloud Photos. Just ensure Sync is left on and then you can delete the image from either the device or icloud.com
Having confirmed all this, and having more storage space on iCloud, and understanding that sharing Photo Albums is about to come to Apple Photos, and having checked that Sync’ing does seem to be working for iCloud Photos (from my Apple devices), I checked my Google Photos settings settings and switched-off Back up and Sync. I was doing far too many cloud backups!!! Always worth checking. If I want a Photo to be on Google Photos (for sharing for instance), I will now Upload, not rely on syncing.
A welcome addition to Signal – usernames as well as telephone numbers
You will soon be able to keep your mobile telno. private on Signal by using a username
Well I never – Gmail Archive
I’ve been “playing around” with my email accounts. I’ve decided to use my Apple iCloud account more as it makes a lot of sense as I organise emails by moving messages from Inbox/Sent mail into Mailbox folders setup on my iCloud – shared between my Apple devices.
It’s not difficult to forward messages from my Gmail account, just go into Gmail on a desktop/laptop (you can’t do this from the Gmail app on your mobile device) select Settings (the Gear wheel) and then Select All Settings, and then Forwarding and POP/IMAP …
… you can then set up a rule such as the one above.
You have a number of options of what you can do with the copy in your Gmail Inbox – as you won’t now be reading it from that spot – and I’ve chosen to Archive the copy …
But where is the archive?
The answer is that you have to scroll down to More on the left-hand side of the screen and select All Mail – and that’s where all the mail you’ve ever received resides.
Simples!
Mario’s laptop and Vista
On the Computer Group Zoom call today, Mario advised that his Sony Vaio machine was running slow when connected to the Internet and using Firefox.
The immediate suggestion was to clear the browser cache (Internet History and Cookies) but then it became apparent it was running Windows Vista as well.
Should Mario upgrade his laptop to Windows 10? That depends on the spec. of the machine – let us know Mario and perhaps we can give some advice.
Should the machine be upgraded to Linux rather than Windows 10. It might as well be because there’s no similarity between Vista and Windows 10, so there’s a learning curve anyway and Linux will run much quicker on an older machine AND the default browser on Ubuntu Linux is Firefox anyway.
So here’s a topic which anyone can comment upon and give advice and experience. For me, I think the Linux route is worth exploring. I’ve just “upgraded” an old Dell Inspiron laptop running Vista to Linux and it runs much faster than it did using Vista and it would never have taken Windows 10!
Gr gr gr gr granny Rebekha
Thought you might enjoy this story. My gr gr gr gr granny Rebekha lived on a farm right next to the site of these shipwrecks.
https://theedwardsfamilytree.blogspot.com/2019/06/granny-rebekhas-shipwreck.html
Phil
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Yes, I enjoyed reading your account. Like you, I’ve enjoyed “constructing” stories around events in my ancestor’s lives – filling-in the gaps so-to-speak. Factumentary you might call it, or Life Stories.
David Harrison June 4, 2020 11:03 am
Cleaning-up your PC or Mac???
Try dupeGuru – it’s very good at finding direct matches of files on your machine even when they have different names. It also provides a matching score so that if it’s not exactly sure that it’s found a match it will score it and you can then make a decision after inspection. Otherwise you can delete or move it to an archive folder – just in case!