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Use Google Lens.

Use AWS Textract.

This is a very technical book on designing software and hardware systems using a very disciplined approach. It includes techniques for making sure the right product is built, building and satisfying requirements of a business case. And much, much more. Design Software and Hardware

AT&T WiFi Calling On Google WiFi does not work when two iOS devices are on the network when DNS is set to Automatic. Change the setting under Advanced Networking/DNS to ISP DNS. Then Forget the WiFi network on your iOS devices

Office 2016 is web based. It is possible to sync a local folder with SharePoint, however, often time syncing fails or is so slow that opening a file using a browser actually opens a file that has not been updated. This is annoying, but

I often joke that putting all the bits on a hard disk on one site will make it wobble because the platter would be become unbalanced. Well, apparently the bits on a flash drive actually do have a tiny amount of mass... but not

I just converted Useful-Stuff.info from Wordpress to Ghost. The new site is Useful-Things.info. The main motivation was to switch to the lightest weight platform I could find. Something that could run in a tiny container on a server. Something that had an

Everybody has a lot of junk on their computer. Sometimes a lot of the stuff is a copy of something else and it's been changed. To straighten out the mess you need to merge the files. Scooter Software has a great product for finding

Visual Paradigm Modeler is a really good low-cost UML modeling program. It only cost $99, which is a bargain compared to the more expensive programs such as Altova UModel. I haven't found any Open Source modeling software that is worth messing around with compared

I originally published this post in 2016, before I looked into Ghost. Ghost has a lot of advantages for doing a blog without a lot of complexities necessary for monetization and SEO. It has it's place. I prefer Ghost and intend to use it

Project Management requires figuring out who needs to do what when. The most common method is "punch and pray" or Ready, Fire, Aim, which is exciting and all, but don't you already have enough drama in your life? Most people use Microsoft

Linux is widely known as a free operating system you can run on your PC. It runs on a lot of other things too. In fact, if you have an Android phone, you are running Linux on it. My TV is running Linux, so

This happens when you are compiling a 32-bit program on Linux but the target Linux machine is 64-bit. The solution is to install g++-multilib as shown below: sudo apt install g++-multilib

It's because whatever you learn in the first 6 months on the job will stick with you your entire career. If you've been a programmer for a long time, you've probably noticed some people are "vi" guys, others are "Emacs"

You can use Inkscape as discussed in How Do I Make Complex Drawings I Can Edit in Windows and Linux? or if you have Microsoft Office you can actually use Excel. Using Excel for drawing seems strange at first. However, if you change the

Open the document in a MS Office application, say MS Word. Click on File. LEFT Click on the "bread crumbs" under the file name, this dialog will appear: Share or get a link Copy path to clipboard Open file location

http://www.statshow.com gives a nice summary of any website, including estimating revenue and value of the site.