![]() It’s not a perfect solution, but as my friend Glenn Kapetansky says, “You don’t have to outrun the bear, you only have to outrun the guy next to you.” If used correctly (allow it to generate random passwords for you), it will give you an additional layer of security. LastPass - Mac App Store, Free or $3/Month for Premium Version I’ll start with a collection of general-purpose apps that most people should consider using. ![]() For example, Xcode is particularly picky. You may not be able to install some applications if your system is not up to date. I’ll probably still wind up installing it because you never know.īefore you install any new software on your Mac, make sure it has the latest Software Update installed. I was using FireFox for quite a while but gave up after I grew tired of its quirkiness. Let’s be honest, does anyone really use Microsoft Edge? Yeah, I do use Safari on my iPhone and iPad but use Chrome everywhere else. I think Google has done some terrific things with G Suite, but most folks still use Office.Ĭhrome has become the de facto browser. If you work in corporate America (and probably almost anywhere in the world) you very likely need these. The kind folks on our IT support team installed the Microsoft Office suite and Chrome before they gave me my laptop. I will walk through the apps as I install them and explain why I use them. I just got a shiny, brand-new, MacBook and I’m configuring it as I write this. Many of the Microsoft developer tools like Visual Studio and Visual Studio Core are now able to run natively on MacOS. Windows usually has kludgy alternatives at best. MacOS is really UNIX under the covers which gives you a vast collection of available tools. ![]() And finally, MacBooks are a superior developer workstation.I don’t see the same level of originality on Windows. MacBooks have a number of available innovative business apps.The flakey trackpad made me want to throw the machine across the room. MacBooks offer a superior hardware experience.I prefer a MacBook over a Windows laptop for three main reasons: I can stumble around but I’m just not as productive. The fact is that I am more productive using a MacBook with my preferred toolset over the equivalent on Windows. Tools are important and I admit that I much prefer using MacOS over Windows. As a West Monroe consultant, I’m always looking for ways to improve how I provide value to my clients.
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![]() We’ll continue refining the feature to ensure even greater accuracy over time.Īppears On shows the albums and compilations that you have been a contributor on as an artist, songwriter, or producer. ![]() We’re recently updated Fans Also Like so now, even more artists will have a Fans Also Like section on their profile, and the data will more accurately reflect what your fans are listening to. Show a playlist your music’s been added to, or just what you’re into – learn more here.įans Also Like recommends artists that your fans might be interested in based on your sound and their listening habits. If you add photos to your image gallery or set up your social links (Facebook, X, Instagram, and Wikipedia), those will show in your About section, tooĪrtist Playlists let you feature any playlist on your artist profile. Make sure to keep your bio up-to-date by following these steps, and check out our tips for making the most out of those 1500 characters. *Clips is currently in beta and we are continuing to unlock this feature for thousands of artists. You can upload Clips: under-30-second vertical videos that allow you to express your artistry and invite fans into your creative process, all while keeping your music front-and-center. Popular releases spotlights your most-streamed albums, EPs, and singles, accounting for recency as well.įeaturing displays the playlists you appear on, both editorial and algorithmic, such as “This Is…” and radio playlists.Ĭlips lets you give fans more insight into you and your music. You can add an artist comment to your Pick, as well, to give additional context. By default, your Artist Pick will expire after six months, so remember to change it up to keep it fresh for your fans. You can’t manually change your popular tracks.Īrtist Pick helps you spotlight what's important to you – be it your release, a playlist, show announcements, merch, or a podcast – which you can set or change at any time in Spotify for Artists. Popular showcases your top tracks automatically ranked based on the number of all-time and recent streams. ![]() Below is a breakdown of each tab:įan Support lets you highlight a fundraising destination - for yourself, your team, or a cause - by setting up a Fan Support link via Spotify for Artists and by following these best practices. All of your profile content can be found under three main tabs: Music, Events, and Merch. Let's take a tour through the artist profile to learn how to set yourself up for success, and ultimately draw fans in. Your artist profile is one of the most important ways to represent your brand and music – And the good news is that you can customize your artist profile in Spotify for Artists, so you can show the world who you are and what your brand is all about. The new design highlights important offers like concert tickets and merch in dedicated tabs, so your fans can shop your offers more easily and you can earn more revenue through Spotify. To help you capture listener interest, we've revamped your artist profile with a brand new design that organizes your music, concerts, merch, and more into three different tabs, bringing fans a better way to engage with you and all that you have to offer on Spotify. This real estate is key when it comes to creating fan connections. Millions of fans around the world visit artists’ profiles every single day and 90% of those fans interact with the page in some way. It’s the place new listeners go to learn more about you as an artist and fans go to dive deeper into the world around your music. Your artist profile is an important part of how you show up on Spotify and how fans are able to connect with you. ![]() Chrome is the reigning king of, Land Of Browsers, without an heir apparent. It’s surprising no one in tech media mentions Safari more often as a go to source for navigating the internet. When lost, just go back to Safari & start over. I’ll admit, learning MacBook isn’t easy, but, Safari keeps things familiar for me on the desktop. The browser helped my navigation of Apple when switching from PC. Also, I learned Safari quickly because it’s extremely user friendly. My favorites are alphabetized for quick reference & the reading list keeps all articles & pages in chronological order for quick recall. I love the ability to quickly save favorites, add to reading list & share content to other platforms. Presently, I own an iPhone 6s Plus in rose gold (2016), iPad Mini (2016), iPad Pro (2019) & MacBook (2018) in rose gold with matching Beats By Dre headphones.Īll four are set up with Safari, not Chrome, TOR, Brave, Edge, or DDGo. My only regret is not purchasing a smartphone back in ‘07 from Steve Jobs. I was a PC devotee from ‘95 to ‘16, since then, it’s been all Tim Cook □ all the time. In my humble opinion, Safari is the underrated king among multiple web browsers on the market. I’d probably give it a 95% since it has some minor lags and problems. This happened only on like 2 searches thankfully though. Today I’m having a problem where I was trying to look at some Google images and then I tried to look at more but it was just stuck on loading. This app is mostly fine except for a few problems I get from time to time. Sure, it may be “faster”, but it’s definitely harder to find the certain tab you’re looking for if most of the tabs are only viewable by a little area at the top. By the looks of it, it’s definitely easier to miss a tab you’re looking for in the older version, and then you will have to spend like 10 more minutes scrolling to find the tab you’re looking for. I looked up the old layout or the “cascade” layout and it looks more painful to me than the new one. I don’t even remember the old layout since I’m not even a long-time iOS user (this is my first iPhone). Unpopular opinion, but this new layout is better. This new layout is better IMO, but there are a few other problems that kinda bug me Add to Home Screen allows you to quickly launch a website or web app from your Home Screen.Handoff effortlessly passes what you’re doing in Safari from one device to another.Web page translation converts entire webpages into other languages right in the browser.Voice Search lets you search the web using just your voice.Reading List easily saves articles for you to read later.Privacy Report shows known trackers that have been blocked from tracking you.Reader formats articles for easy reading without ads, navigation, or other distracting items.Extensions allow you to personalize Safari and add even more functionality to the browser.Shared Tab Groups help you share tabs and collaborate with family and friends.Profiles help keep your browsing history, website data, and more separate between topics like work and personal.Tab Groups let you save and organize your tabs and access them across iOS, iPadOS and macOS.Intelligent Tracking Prevention prevents trackers from following you across websites you visit.Private Browsing mode doesn’t save your history and keeps your browsing your business.Passwords, bookmarks, history, tabs and more seamlessly sync across iPhone, iPad and Mac.With Safari you can browse sites, translate web pages, and access your tabs across iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. Explore the web with lightning-fast speed, powerful privacy protections and robust customization options. ![]() Ah, learned something new! So they are calling it a 'socca' because it uses the garbanzo bean flour and is fried. Very tasty! I had never heard of a 'socca' and looked it up. I also made their mayo-shallot-dill-lemon dressing to go with it. Also, Whole Foods didn't have a pure garbanzo flour but did have a garbanzo+fava bean flour mix (even better, IMHO). It seemed to me it would benefit from at least a little something else and since the mealkit was intended to be served with a salad containing sunflower seeds, I added about 3 Tbsp toasted sunflower seeds to the batter. It's a winner! The recipe called for 8 oz carrots, 3/4 cup garbanzo bean flour and 1/2 cup water. However, I did just make the recipe on my own. I wouldn't want to eat escarole 4 times this week if I'd had to buy a whole head!Īn excellent dish, would definitely get it again.Īs I mentioned, I was intrigued by the carrot socca recipe in this week's Purple Carrot options, but the other dishes didn't excite me so I didn't order Purple Carrot for this week. ![]() We got a 1/4 head of escarole - just right, and another example where mealkits can cut food waste. The fruit sweetness helped to balance the bitter escarole. So I added some sliced almonds and mixed dried fruit. The provided salad was a bit skimpy on ingredients: just escarole and the lemon-parsley vinaigrette. It also came with some pre-cooked white beans to make a small mashed bean side (I added some of the lemon-parsley vinaigrette they had you make for the salad to the beans) - a nice touch to bulk up this light meal slightly. I also replaced 1/2 cup of the 3/4 cup with chicken stock. Easy, delicious sauce. We had add'l cherry tomatoes and I added those as well (doubling the amount) as well as a few capers. The sauce was made from leeks, cherry tomatoes, olives, lemon zest and juice, garlic, parsley, and red pepper flakes. This dish made a very tasty leek-heavy sauce. Which later after simmering in the broth was quite delicious so were left in for serving (only the tough lemongrass and ginger "aromatics" were removed).Īnd this week's fish dish from Sun Basket: Cod with leeks, tomatoes, and olives Does that make it an aromatic to be removed later? Oh, and keep in mind before you later leave the "aromatics" out the dish you add the fresh herbs too!Īs it was, I tailored the dish to our tastes slightly by sauteeing all those ingredients listed above before adding the coconut broth, mellowing the serrano pepper. What are the aromatics? The green beans? The serrano pepper? They had you "pierce small pieces" of the serrano pepper. Suppose you are a novice cook (as many who use the mealkits are). Cover the aromatics with the coconut broth and place the barramundi fillets into the pan." We had no lime, but I'll get one before we make it a second time.Īnother instruction says: "Place a deep saute pan on the stovetop and add the ginger, green beans, serrano pepper (omit if desired), green onions, and lemongrass into the pan. Heating the broth for 6-8 minutes dulls any aroma and fruitiness from lime. They may have added lime juice to the provided coconut broth, but you know what? This dish would have benefited from fresh lime juice - it needed to be a bit more bright and the fruitiness of fresh lime just before serving would have made this dish better. Likely what happened is that an earlier version of this recipe had an actual lime and they didn't update the photo and they missed taking out the "slice the lime in half" instruction. Beyond the instructions to slice it, are there any other instructions on what to do with the absent lime? No. The beginning of the instructions say "slice the lime in half". ![]() The name of the dish says "lime", the photo has a fresh cut lime in it. I know how to adapt their instructions to work for our tastes and work with any ambiguities, no problem.īut for a new cook? This recipe card has issues. Keep in mind we really like Gobble, we've had at least 216 meals/sides from them over the past 2 years, including 16 dishes two times, 5 dishes 3 times, 3 dishes 4 times, and a pre-made soup side dish (thai coconut chicken curry soup) 14 times. It's very quick to make, comes with a pre-made lime-coconut broth, and great flavoring ingredients in smaller portions than you can usually buy (making it an ideal mealkit): toasted garlic flakes, at least 3 kinds of fresh herbs, a two inch piece of fresh lemon grass, and a cut chunk of ginger.īut now the nitpicking. I'll start by saying this is a really good dish and if it comes around again we'd likely double-up on it yet again. Next dish is the one we doubled up on from Gobble: Lime Coconut Steamed Barramundi with Green Beans and Brown Rice so we will be having it twice this week. Hamilton Beach 53510 Multiblend Blender, $26 One con: The cord is very short, which doesn't give much flexibility if your outlet options are limitedĥ. While the first two of the four settings weren't powerful enough to break down the apples and ice, the higher settings worked well and were the best at evenly distributing the peanut butter-something a handful of blenders we tested couldn't quite handle. But despite the style, there's nothing retro about the way this model works. Not surprisingly, Smeg definitely takes home the prize for most Instagrammable kitchen gadget. It has a medium noise level (seriously, the first person who can invent a silent blender should get some sort of prize) and got the job done in about two minutes. For the sake of this test, we used it as a blender-and once it was put to work, it was quite impressive. Because it's a blender, juice extractor, and citrus juicer, there are a lot of different parts and settings. The first thought upon opening and assembling this three-in-one deal is, Whoa, this is intense. It was also the quietest one of all-a major plus, if you're an early a.m. While it lost a couple points to the Breville blender because it didn't feel quite as secure-the base shook a bit when it was at work-all 10 settings were impressively powerful the lowest setting was enough to break down the ice and apples in our test smoothie. ![]() The hype is real-the Vitamix really is the gold standard when it comes to blenders. Vitamix Professional Series 750 Blender, $599 Another cool feature: the set-and-forget timer, so you can wake up to a perfectly blended beverage.Ģ. ![]() ![]() Not that you'll be waiting long-this blender got the job done in under a minute, the fastest of all that were tested. The blender can sense when something needs a good pulsing, and there's a handy timer so you can see how many seconds you have left until your homemade creation is done. ![]() Can I make an invoice template in Google Docs? And you’ll probably need to create a PDF for emailing to your clients and customers, as not everybody’s computer has Word. But because it’s not a graphic design program, it’s much more difficult to create a professionally looking invoice. Word offers a few invoice templates, and it’s certainly possible to create your own. But with tools like Venngage, you can create informative and functional invoices and invoice templates to ease the billing process and standardize the information listed so that your customers and clients are well-informed about what they owe and why. Yes, an invoice can even be hand-written if there aren’t any other options. Many of the companies that you’ll be sending invoices to may have their own billing systems and formats that you’ll be required to adapt to. There isn’t a single correct way to do this, and the right format may not even be something you can decide. Some companies use empty spaces in their professional invoices to include a note of thanks to their customer, while others may shift some information, such as payment account numbers, to the bottom of the page. ![]() ![]() There are quite a few invoice template formats, but following the above example, the ideal invoice format should have your business name, address and billing information and your client or customer’s name and address, followed by the items covered in the invoice, then the total amount owed.Īfter that, it’s pretty much up to you in terms of what needs to be included in your invoice. It could be hard to create a professionally looking invoice template from scratch, so we’d recommend using our fully customizable invoice templates with all the basic elements already available and arranged in a logical fashion. Not every item on this list will apply in every case, but these are the general elements. The total amount owed, including taxes (if applicable).A list of services rendered or products sold, including the date they were provided.The name and address of the person or business you are billing.Your business name (or your own name, if you’re self-employed) and payment details (like billing address or payment account information).The basic elements of an invoice include: Add your information, including your business name, address and other items and then download a PDF that you can email to your client or print and send through the mail. Venngage for Business offers many free invoice templates that you can use to ensure a healthy cash flow for your company. Return to Table of Contents FAQs about creating invoice What is the best free invoice template? Related: 10 Ways to Incorporate Stock Photos Into Your Designs In this case, the service in question is pool cleaning, but Venngage offers 3+ million of stock images that you can quickly and easily use as the background of your service invoice template. Looking for service invoices? Here’s a great example of one.Ĭonsider using a cool image in the background that applies to the service you provide. If you’re not quite sure what you want to include in your business or personal invoices, check out these professional invoice templates to inspire you. Your customer may require you to add other information, such as banking information or account numbers, but even then, your best bet is to lean to the simple side. Include your business name (or your name), your customer’s name, the amount they owe (and for what) and how you want them to pay you. ![]() It’s a good idea to keep an invoice sample on the simple side.
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Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for ApplicationsĬorel, CorelDRAW, the CorelDRAW balloon logo, CorelDRAW.app, AfterShot, Corel PHOTO-PAINT, LiveSketch, PhotoCocktail, Pointillizer, PowerTRACE, and Smart Carver are trademarks or registered trademarks of Corel Corporation in Canada, the US, and elsewhere. Personalized practice project recommendations Non-destructive effects in Corel PHOTO-PAINTĬontext-sensitive Object Properties docker/inspectorīuilt-in RAW camera support (>400 camera models supported)Ĭustomizable keyboard shortcuts (For Mac)įully scalable and customizable UI (Windows only) Print Merge support for QR codes, images, and. ![]() ![]() Multiple media outlets reported that Facebook took down the video down as well. CNN Twitter restricted Donald Trump Jr.’s ability to tweet after he posted a video featuring a doctor making false claims about coronavirus cures and stating that people don’t need. A review by Heavy revealed that Card was supposedly active on X (previously Twitter) with his now-suspended account RobertC20041800, where he primarily liked messages from media networks like CNBC as well as politicians and commentators. Other social media companies reacted similarly, with YouTube telling NPR that it removed the video for violating its policies on spreading misinformation about COVID-19. Also Read: Here's what Donald Trump’s niece Mary Trump had to say about 'JRE' podcaster Joe Rogan’s IQ. Two tweets on the president's timeline have been deleted. President Trump also reportedly shared the video and retweeted others promoting the use of the drug. In addition to removing the video, the social media giant placed temporary restrictions on Breitbart News. Tweets sharing the video were deleted, the company confirmed. The National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration have said the drug is not likely to be effective. (center left) and Donald Trump (center right) are seen together at the 1988 U.S. Trump has touted this idea despite a lack of scientific evidence. Here's what else you need to know about Donald Trump, Jr. It also promotes giving the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine to coronavirus patients. ![]() The video questions the efficacy of mask usage despite widespread and clear evidence to the contrary. Twitter confirmed to NPR that the tweet contained video of a press conference, disseminated by Breitbart News, of a group calling itself America's Frontline Doctors that had spread throughout social media. We continue to work closely with the Adobe team and will push for the Escape key to become optionally associated with the new Rotate View tool via the Keyboard Shortcuts mechanism, as is common throughout Illustrator. What now happens is that these operations continue to abort, but the view simultaneously resets to normal. This does conflict with many Astute Graphics tools which have used Escape to abort operations. Whilst view rotation is a significant plus to all Illustrator users, one "gotcha" has crept in.Īdobe has chosen to adopt the Escape key to reset a rotated view back to normal. ![]() If your subscription has expired, you will need to resubscribe in order to access these updates. The following plugins require updates to run properly on the latest Adobe release, including the version numbers when first released: Simply, quit Illustrator, open the Astute Manager and click on the Updates button for 2021 (25.0). We're proud to say that we have made our updates ready to coincide with Adobe's releases, with all necessary plugin updates have been issued to active subscribers via the Astute Manager. In preparation for the major update, Astute Graphics started major engineering work to ensure rotated artboard view compatibility early in 2021. Updated plugins for Illustrator 2021 (v25.3) Please refer to Adobe announcements for details. Illustrator v25.3 is due to reach all Creative Cloud customers shortly, in regional phased releases. ![]() It was never something that could ever be appended. However, this is one of those features that simply needed to be produced by Adobe and integrated in every native and plugin tool. Not only is Illustrator now Apple M1 (ARM) hardware compatible (see our updated support page on this topic for details), but it features one of the most requested enhancements over the decade artboard rotation!Īstute Graphics has been sent requests for a rotate artboard plugin many, many times over. After a long public beta period, Adobe is releasing one of its most significant updates in years. ![]()
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