Have you ever wondered how to type Mac keyboard symbols like ⌘ and ⌃ from the keyboard. Today you will find out.
Alec Kinnear
Creative Director
Alec has been working with video since 1995. Before founding Foliovision in 2004, he worked as a Head of Television for Grey Moscow and a TV producer at Bates, Saatchi and Saatchi Russia. Alec maintains a photography and culture weblog at uncoy.com. Alec holds an Honours B.A. from Trinity College at the University of Toronto in Modern Languages and Literature.
The Cost Imperative: Why Western Software Firms Must Embrace AI in Coding
Programming houses who successfully adopt AI to accelerate their productivity will outpace those who don’t.
Akismet Black Friday 2023 Offer: Bait and Switch?
Automattic should improve their ethics and when they put a service on sale it should be the full service and not 1/10th of the service.
Worst Save Routine in Christendom: MarsEdit
The most important single task of a developer is to protect a user’s work from accidental deletion. MarsEdit doesn’t do this.
Are Sony lenses more fragile than Nikon or Canon?
Repair is a long way away, and overpriced when you need it. Sony photography technology unfortunately remains mostly throw-away.
Quick review: iMazing – the missing iPhone management software hidden by Apple
iMazing is the grownups’ version of iPhone management, making Apple’s enterprise utilities available to end users in an attractive GUI.
Should Websites Publish their Videos in HDR?
The HDR hype is real. But Is HDR a solid AV advance like 4K or a 3D marketing hoax all over again?
OpenWeb.com values: the future of the internet is all spam all the time
These cross platform censorship machines (OpenWeb, Meta) are designed to promote groupthink and suppress real communication.
How to check the colour bit rate of a video
There’s no clear solution but QuickTime Player is a good place to start.
World’s Worst ReadMe or Why Open Source Struggles
This is probably the most user-hostile readme I’ve ever read.
How Branding Mistakes Can Slow Down a Brand
Mehmet Gözetlik is a Turkish designer who has published a number of thought provoking articles on minimalist packaging, More minimalist effect in the maximalist market!. One of his more obscure essays covers the Togg rebranding. If you don’t know who Togg is, join the club. Togg is a Turkish automobile manufacturer whose ambitions include cracking […]
Why we moved from 1passwd/1password to Bitwarden
I’m a fan of small software companies who control costs and pass the savings onto their users.
MarsEdit 5 Review for Markdown writers
MarsEdit 5 is still a bear to set up. When it’s finally working, it’s a fantastic tool for writing and to post to WordPress.2
Automated WordPress Redirections tested with John Godley’s Redirection Plugin
A publisher can safely use both Redirection plugin (required for site migrations) *and* built-in WordPress automatic redirection.
White bands at side of full screen video on iPhone? Here’s the fix…
Apple sometimes makes the simple unnecessarily complex. Happily, there is a way to make the white bars disappear by adding a metatag to your site header.
What AV features do matter when choosing equipment
There’s only a few characteristics which matter when choosing AV equipment. By focusing on what matters, you’ll enjoy better equipment for less.
AV Industry Audio and Video Scams over the Years
Watch your money carefully. Check any innovation out up close before you jump on board. Spatial Audio is just the latest scam.
How to change the keyboard shortcuts on macOS
The huge issue with the Apple method is that those shortcuts have to be painfully added by hand on every Mac you own, now or in the future.
M1 MacBooks and Open Clamshell: Thumbshell Mode
Apple, either let us turn off the screen when in clamshell mode, or open up the API’s to let Panaitu build a tool which will do it for us.
WordPress 6.2 breaks many sites and plugins: here’s how to repair the damage
WP HTTP no longer sets HTTP referrer and MySQL escaping picks up new strings.
