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They see themselves as the only rightful heirs of the republic, and as its guardians, the only ones who are qualified to decide who is actually American and who is less American. Hence their attack on birthright citizenship, which was codified in the 14th Amendment of 1868 in response to slavery, and is therefore part of our Constitution.
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As we pause briefly this week to take stock more formally of all we can be grateful for, we have to include work, and the opportunity to build something new and useful with a great team. Big thanks to Sharon Wong Consulting for inviting us to contribute to this incredibly fun and rewarding project, and to Star Innovations for presenting us with this exciting challenge.
To build a website and online presence for Star Innovations’ unique gift product, PhotoBall — your photo on a sports ball or ornament! The website needed to:
Thanks again, Sharon, Nicole, Inger, Devlan, Lisa, and the whole team. We hope to pitch in on more projects, as you extend your presence into Europe, South America, and beyond!
And special thanks to the unnamed force behind Hans Works Design, for his brilliant insights and constant support.
Sharon Wong Consulting
Nicole Perry, Inger Golob, Star Innovations
Hans Works
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It's been a busy stretch of new projects these past few weeks for infoDESIGN...
We're also in several other conversations about future projects, exploring ways to reshape our clients' information and make it come alive for their customers.
It's an awful feeling, a sinking feeling in your gut — realizing that a bunch of your friends just got an email message 'from you' that, if they click the link or attachment in it, will very likely attack their email account and spam their contacts, as well. It's happening to the best and smartest of us...
There appears to be a growing number impostor email hack attacks. We're all getting them, and recently, they're coming from people we know well, and trust. Or, that's what they're made to look like.
'Oh no! Click here before all is lost!' 😱
Stay safe, but with some basic caution, keep having fun in your digital playground!
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The problem is simple, and everywhere: it's so easy to take photos now, you take hundreds, and then thousands. For a while, it's all peachy... and then your phone is full. You can spend hours getting them transferred to your desktop or laptop and then deleting them from your phone, until next time, or spend days and weeks occasionally trying to go through them to delete some and make room for new ones, again and again.
Or, you can let go of all that and let the Machine deal with it. There are many new ways to automate photo backup, search, retrieval, and sharing. I thought I'd share my particular solution here - it boils down to 3 apps (which are just front ends for services): Dropbox, Google Photos, and Carousel.
Who manages their photos?! Let the Cloud take over, and relish unprecedented Search.
Now that they're set up, I don't fuss with storage limits, I just focus on the pics.
Dropbox automatically backs up the photos on your phone, in original resolution, to the Cloud and your desktop as soon as you reconnect to wi-fi. (I have an Android. I think Dropbox will do the same with photos from your iPhone, but only when you connect it via USB, not wi-fi.)
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The new Google Photos app also backs up any new photos from my phone, and from any other source (laptop, desktop, tablet, etc.) where I've installed and authorized it. If you choose 'hi-res but not original' for your photo backups, it's unlimited and free.
But the main reason to use gPhotos is mind-bending Search — based on faces, places, and keywords like 'beach,' 'pizza,' 'yellow,' etc. — and ease of navigation, across time. Zoom out to see the whole year, or zoom down to the month, day, or event. And the social sharing is much easier and more flexible than it used to be!
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Carousel, by Dropbox, allows you to surf quickly — on your smartphone — across thousands of photos, through weeks, months, and years. But next to the new gPhotos, Carousel now looks funky.
HOWEVER, it has one absolutely brilliant feature: it will automatically offer to remove older photos from your phone once it starts filling up, and it will only delete the photos that are already backed up in Dropbox. I recently freed up 8 GB of space on my phone that way.
Get Carousel for:
“Dropbox + gPhotos + Carousel = Endless photos”
All backed up and always available and searchable, from anywhere on the Internet, without ever again worrying about a full phone, or hassling with photo transfers.
Plus, the Search in gPhotos will blow. your. mind.
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