Brooklyn is a free screensaver of a real artsy-fartsy Apple logo. Actually, it’s over 60 different Apple logo animations in one screensaver. You can choose which ones you want to appear when your screensaver activates. It’s quite cool.

Download it, double-click it. Done!

“DPI is used to calculate physical measurements. Printers, for example, don’t work in pixels, so we need a way of translating our content on screen—pixel dimensions—to a printable format. Thus we have the dots-per-inch measurement, which defines the print density and bridges the physical measurement of inches with our digital pixel resolutions.”

Understanding DPI, by James Ritson for the Affinity Spotlight blog, is probably the best, easiest to understand explanation I’ve come across. So if you’re confused between DPI, PPI, and resolution in general, give the article a read!

Combining fonts is one of the trickiest parts of typography. Here’s a guide from Better Web Type to help you get font combinations right.

This is a welcome feature for anyone with multiple Gmail accounts!

You can skip the part about finding an app to save your favicon art as a .ico file and instead used GenFavicon, a simple Web site whose only purpose is to generate Favicons for you simply. You link to or upload the graphic you wish to use as a Favicon, crop it with the handy cropping tool, choose which size you wish to output the file as (most browsers use a 16×16 pixel icon in the location bar), then wait a few seconds for your Favicon to become available. It’s that simple. You can download your file as either a .ico Favicon or a .gif file.

Buying a house? Need legal documentation of communication? Fax machines are about your only option for immediate delivery of a document. Still. In 2018.  

Back in the hey-day of Internet faxing, there were tons of free services out there that would send faxes online… saving you the audio pollution and expense of sending faxes of documents you already had on your computer.

Today, there is one. Well, one that I know of anyway. FaxZero appears to be sole-survivor of the free Internet faxing wars of the 90s. 

FaxZero allows you to send five faxes per day (limit 3 pages + cover sheet each). That’s a pretty low limit, but probably more than most anyone needs.

Adobe has announced that they’re going to do what they want to do, and you’re going to like it, or else…

The next major release of Creative Cloud will not support macOS 10.11 (El Capitan) or lower in order to take advantage of the latest OS advancements in modern operating system versions. The word “support” is important. That means that while they may or may not actually run on those OS versions, Adobe will simply not care if they do or don’t, nor will they help you if they don’t.

I find their reasoning believable, yet obnoxious at the same time considering Full Screen mode in macOS has been around since 2010 with the release of macOS 10.7 (Lion) and they still haven’t implemented the ability to use it with any of their apps.

But that’s not all. Unofficially, you can expect a price increase for your Adobe CC subscription in the near future. I have no evidence supporting that, but I know it’s going to happen.

Two things became obvious as I was carefully doing the autopsy. First, Apple uses a crapload of every sized screw imaginable, as well as glue and tape to build the iMac. The second thing, which comes as no surprise to anyone who has followed Apple for any amount of time, is that they obviously put a lot of thought and care into the design of the inside of the case as well as the outside.

No loose wires, transistors, cards, boards or other doo-dads can be found. Everything is buttoned down tight. It was actually quite difficult to take apart. Because I didn’t care what happened to the thing, I broke some pieces just to get them out.

The hard drive was glued-and-screwed like it was made of solid gold. I nearly gave up on the project trying to get the stupid thing out… just so I could thoroughly destroy it for security purposes.

Anyway, here are a few photos of the guts of the 21″ iMac. You can click the images to get a closer look.

The new logo takes a step back toward the original Graphic Mac logo icon. You may notice it’s animated, using two different tool icons… there’s no particular reason, other than I wanted something a little different. It’s not something I spent a whole lot of time on, but I’m pretty happy with it. Obviously there’s a new look for the site, and that’s where the mess comes in.

Because this site is a hobby for me, it’s likely to take a while to clean up. I hope it’s not too much of an inconvenience.

I installed it and instantly loved what I found, though it does have a bit of a learning curve.

Take a look at The Complete Anatomy of the Gutenberg WordPress Editor for a great overview of all the fantastic new features, including the ability to easily add columns, tables, colored text, varied text sizes, text drop caps and a ton more. If you run your own WordPress site, I think you’re really going to love all that the new editor has to offer.