Catalog an external drive before you unplug it
Keep a searchable record of every drive so you can find a file without plugging each disk back in.
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Keep a searchable record of every drive so you can find a file without plugging each disk back in.
Matching names or sizes misses real duplicates and flags false ones. Checksums compare what is actually inside the file.
Export a full folder listing to CSV, Excel, or JSON with names, sizes, dates, and metadata in neat columns.
Drag text into the order you want - lines, paragraphs, sentences, or a custom delimiter - with sort, dedupe, and one-step undo.
Early warning gives you seconds before the shaking. Detection tells you after. They are different systems.
Turn a dark TV into a tasteful ambient display without burning in your OLED or annoying everyone.
It is almost never the battery. It is one or two processes. Here is how to find them in five minutes.
A practical workflow for libraries with hundreds of GB, with the safety net iOS does not give you.
We scanned a real working developer machine and walked through where the disk went.
You can sit at KP 7 in the wrong place and see nothing. Here is how to read the forecast properly.
iOS does not let apps scan all networks. Here is what you can still do, and the trick most people miss.
The rice myth, the hair dryer myth, and the one technique that actually works.
A 1960s wedding shot taught us when to push AI upscaling and when to back off.
The patterns we reach for from a phone, with the gotchas that broke them the first time.
From "I have a Synology" to "I am watching a movie" in five minutes.
Why most AI portraits look melted, and how to avoid the melt with two photography tricks.
For when you are debugging an API response on a train.
Dates, regions, cloud strategy, and the apps we actually open while standing in the cold.
Right-click any text, anywhere, and run a custom action. Why this is the best Mac feature nobody uses.
One regex, three pitfalls, a couple of edge cases that always trip people up.