Celebrating our wedding

I’m getting back after two weeks off to celebrate my wedding. It was a perfect time that was also timeless. I’m excited to start this next chapter with my wife.

The difference of seeing the northern lights at home

Sometimes, we have to travel far and wide to experience natural wonders, but other times we’re lucky to experience them in our backyard

Jerry Seinfeld’s anti-establishment view about writing with pen and paper

Jerry Seinfeld recently had interesting things to say about the virtues of writing by hand versus typing: I think pens are a very important creative tool. Keyboards really crush your freedom. And it's too corporate to be creative. You wanna feel like you're getting away with

Soulver 3 for iOS

The only calculator app I use is finally on iOS. I used version 2 for as long as I could while the Mac and iPadOS got the update. It’s polished, snappy, and lives on my home screen. The only way working with numbers has made sense to me. Check

Taking your own photos is experiencing the Eclipse

Last week, a total eclipse took half the country by storm and most of the bandwidth on traditional and social media. (Here in Michigan, it was only 94%). Folks across platforms discussed the "best way" to experience it. There was lots of conversation about how to protect your

Afternoon Walk

Life was abundant today during my usual lunchtime walk. The weather is pleasant, about 56 degrees, with the sun shining and only a few clouds scattered across the sky. I took a longer route, The world seems to be in progress; the bees are active, and the butterflies are freely

Kindle Print Replica editions are just microfilm PDFs without any digital perks

For years, I’ve wanted to read Jaroslav Pelikan’s five volume series “The Christian Tradition.” I’ve owned the first volume but never got around to read it. With it being Lent, I wanted to start. As I went onto Amazon to look at the other four volumes, I

Highlighting podcasts: Matter’s transcript generation changed how I consume audio

All it takes is two taps to your headphones

5S Review -- Feb 3

What I'm reading, listening to and watching this week.

Installing custom fonts on Kindle and Kobo ebook readers

And it's easy to do!

Future proofing memories for the Vision Pro with Spatial Video

This morning, preorders for the Apple Vision Pro begin to much enthusiast fanfare and confusion. While the premise is exciting, there’s little to go off about how good it is in day-to-day usage. But will all the talk that will come about the idea of “spatial computing,” as a

Book Review: “The Making of Biblical Womanhood” by Beth Allison Barr

Beth Allison Barr’s “The Making of Biblical Womanhood” is a detailed and approachable study of an idea that has plagued American Christianity: Biblical Patriarchy. While many may not know what the exact term “Biblical Womanhood” means, we are familiar with its basic teaching: God has ordained men/husbands to

Hey Siri, we’re broken up: ending relationships is more difficult with insensitive AI

Breaking up is hard, but there's someone who makes it more difficult: Siri. The digital assistant has actually become more useful in recent years, understanding more and more about our lives, schedules and habits. But it's lacking one feature that any friend or acquaintance has: Don&

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Every Day Photo Library Housekeeping and Downsizing in 2020

I take a lot of photos. Currently in my iCloud Photo Library, there are 236,167 images, 6,429 videos and 8 items. And I’m running out of cloud storage. While Apple has made major improvements in Photos and the iCloud Photo Library in recent years, such a large

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More editing muscle, more for you: iOS 13 Photos in review

The organizational overhaul still focuses on the overall timeline of when photos were taken but curates them in a new and smart manner based on days, months, and years. Using machine learning, Photos can pick images and videos that are relevant to your location and time of year. Also improved

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Using Live Photos to photograph lightning on iPhone

Lightning can be one of the most difficult and time consuming things to photograph. It's hard to predict when it will hit and there's usually adverse conditions that make it potentially dangerous. But the results can be, well, striking. With DSLR cameras, the standard way of

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iOS 13 combines Live Photos combined into one video

There's a really cool feature in iOS 13 that allows you to watch a series of concurrently taken Live Photo's simultaneously as one long video. I noticed this a few weeks ago when I was watching a Live Photo and it kept on going through the

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Photos of the Month: July 2019

Summer is one of my favorite times to take photos. The weather is nice, the light is good and everything seems in motion. For editing, I’ve continued to explore the app Darkroom. One of my favorite features is applying frames. They make photos stand out on Instagram and help,

Waiting to hear music live: Kurt Vile at Bell's Eccentric Café

I was excited when it was announced that Kurt Vile was going to play at Bell’s Eccentric Café. I had listened to some of his music over the years and enjoyed it, but never spent the time listening to it. In the age of streaming services, it’s easy

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Photos of the Month: June 2019

The days are getting longer and the temperature is rising, it’s summer in Michigan. Here are some of my favorite photos I’ve taken in the past month. Lots of beautiful sunsets and some quality time with my family’s dogs.

New Shortcuts with the Camera in iOS 13

iOS 13 offers a whole bunch of new features, but some of my favorite additions are in the Shortcuts app. Note: I am currently using the developer beta on a secondary device for testing purposes — do not install on your main device or wait for the public beta this July.

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New Photos and Camera features Apple announced for iOS 13 at WWDC

Apple announced a whole bunch of new software on Monday during its WWDC keynote, and Camera and Photos were well represented. While many of the big new features come with the release of new iPhones in the fall, there was a good amount announced for I played around with the

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Photos of the Month: May 2019

I’m starting a new monthly feature highlighting my favorite photos I’ve taken with my iPhone. This month, I fell back in love with shooting in black and white. I never really used the built in filters in the Camera app, but my girlfriend sent me some photos using

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iOS 13 Photos wish list

Photos is baked into iOS — it is the default image editor and one of the few apps you cannot delete. It is also the hub for all photos and videos across devices. Like I wrote in my iOS 13 wishes for the Camera app, Photos is powerful because of its