Creating Bootable Installers for OSX

Creating a bootable installer is a useful step: for installing/ upgrading OSX multiple times without downloading the installer each and every time. What do I need? What do I do? …

Google Search Censorship

Does an internet search engine return select results from all available content, based solely upon user-input criteria? Not if you’re Google: whose results are becoming censored by its empowered woke …

YouTube Studio Bugs – Overwriting video descriptions

It’s annoying when YouTube Studio breaks. This week my YouTube Studio dashboard randomly decided to overwrite the descriptions of 2,000 of my videos with one bulk update (!) This is, …

Instagram – the death of organic reach by a thousand cuts

Instagram users would do well to remember that Instagram (like its owner, FaceBook) is an advertising business. As much as we might sometimes wish things to be different – perhaps …

Garageband – downloading superseded versions

Is it possible to download previous, superseded versions of Garageband from the Apple iTunes store? The technical answer is: “Yes”. With qualifications: as outlined below. AppleID is the Key The …

Royalty Free Stock video revisited

This post updates my earlier list of online collections of royalty free stock video. The video collections listed tend to complement each other, as each site uploads videos on unique …

(free) Hashtag generation & analysis

Hashtags are the standard modes operandi for filtering social media content. Choosing the right hashtags will better target user-generated content to its intended audience. This means that getting the hashtags …

Instagram video – Stories, Reels & IGTV

If FaceBook can’t buy you, they can copy every trendy feature that their competitors have. Instagram users can now add video content to Instagram IGTV, Stories, Reels (in addition to …

IFTTT.com automation

IFTTT.com (If This Then That) is a fascinating web-based service allowing users to automate tasks that connect internet apps and services. Users build applets using input from a service or …

Downloading from soundcloud

Downloading from soundcloud when not already logged in is possible, believe it or not. Use the klickaud service to download audio from soundcloud directly to your device. Simply copy and …