Tag: TidBITS
Filling Out Your Cookbook Shelves with ckbk
ckbk is a service to view online the recipes in your cookbooks. A recent collaboration with Eat Your Books looks to be a great pairing.
Eat Your (Cook)Books at TidBITS
I have a new article at TidBITS about an utterly charming service: Eat Your Books. It’s a site that lets you search your physical cookbooks for recipes and ingredients. Eat Your Books doesn’t store the recipes themselves. Instead it’s a database of more than 160,000 cookbooks. You tell it which ones you own, and then ...
Editing RAW and ProRAW Photos Using RAW Power 3
RAW Power 3 is a great app for Mac, iPhone, and iPad that brings raw editing controls not found elsewhere.
Refresh Your Old AirPods with a Podswap
After using my original-model AirPods nearly every day for three years, the batteries finally got to the point where they would deplete after only 20 minutes or so. I replaced them with a set of AirPods Pro, and put the first set into a drawer (next to an old iSight camera). I didn’t want to ...
Inside the iOS 12 Photos App
For the Photos app under iOS 12, Apple is trying to get more of your attention. New features such as For You and sharing suggestions are welcome. I also rant a bit.
NAS: What to Know Before Buying
My approach to storing all of my digital files—from documents to terabytes of digital photos—has been pretty straightforward over the years. I buy new hard drives when the old ones fill up. It’s helped that drive prices have steadily declined per-gigabyte. But that’s left me with a lot of unused drives lying around, and active ...
What APFS Does for You, and What You Can Do with APFS
By necessity, a sizable chunk of my new book Take Control of Your Digital Storage talks about file systems, and Apple’s new APFS (Apple File System). APFS is installed automatically on Macs with solid-state storage (SSD) when upgrading to macOS High Sierra. But what does APFS do? Why would Apple change the fundamental technology behind ...
TidBITS Bottom-Up Redesign
TidBITS has undergone a massive redesign, and I’m so excited for my friends there — not just a new look for the site, but a whole new publishing infrastructure. Fun fact: Most of the HTML and CSS on the old site was coded by me… in 2007 (ironic that the link goes to the article ...
Why Lightroom CC Is a Big Step Up from Apple’s Photos
Over at TidBITS, I compare the new Lightroom CC application to Apple's Photos.
Long Exposure Photos in iOS 11
At TidBITS, I write about how to use the Long Exposure effect in iPhone photos to get silky waterfall photos.
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