Harry Guinness
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These Apps Turn Your Apple Watch Into a Fitness Tracking Machine
If you're training or just looking to step up your workout game, these tools take your wearable to the next level. → Read More
How to Organize Your Life as a Couple
Sometimes all you need to make peace with your partner is some helpful tech and a collaborative approach. → Read More
The Best Starting Words to Win at Wordle
Want a leg up at the word game that everyone's talking about? These tips can help you dive in more easily. → Read More
The Best Apps for Sticking to Your New Year’s Resolutions
New year, new chance to get off the emotional roller coaster of the past two years. → Read More
Why Apple Watch Updates and Transfers Are So Slow
The Apple Watch is notoriously slow when it comes to receiving data from your iPhone, whether it’s an update file, some tracks from Spotify, or an Audible audiobook. There’s a simple reason for this, and there’s a workaround. → Read More
How to Force Your Kindle to Check for New Books
When you buy books on Amazon, your Kindle should automatically add them to your Library. Sometimes, though, books don’t show up straight away. Here’s what to do when that happens. → Read More
What’s the Difference Between Opacity, Flow, & Density in Photoshop?
Adobe Photoshop often has a few different tools that handle the same things in subtly different ways. Opacity, Flow, and Density all control the visibility of certain layer aspects, but each is a little different. We’ll explain. → Read More
What Is Calibration in Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom?
The Calibration Panel in Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom Classic is one of the most underused and misunderstood tools in either app. So, if you’ve ever wondered what this mysterious panel does, let me explain. → Read More
How to Hide Audible Audiobooks on Your Kindle
The latest models of Kindle can download and play audiobooks from your Audible account over Bluetooth headphones. Unfortunately, if you don’t plan to use your e-reader to listen to books, all the audiobooks do is clutter up your home screen. → Read More
What Is Compositing in Photography?
Compositing is a photographic technique where multiple individual photographs (and sometimes digital effects as well) are combined into a single final image. It’s an incredibly popular technique in advertizing, editorial, fashion, fine art, landscape, and lots of other genres of photography. Let’s look at why. → Read More
What Is a Vignette in Photography?
Vignetting is where the edges of a photo are darker or less saturated than the center. It can be caused optically by your equipment or added later when you edit your photo. Vignettes are a popular retro effect, so let’s explore them a little more. → Read More
How to Give a Gift Receipt with an Amazon Purchase
If you buy someone a gift on Amazon, you can also give them a gift receipt in case you get the size, color, or anything else wrong. That way, they can return and exchange it without having to involve you. Here’s how to send them a gift receipt. → Read More
What Are the Golden and Blue Hours in Photography?
You have heard photographers use the phrases “golden hour” or “blue hour” when discussing photography. So what and when are these hours, and how can you use them to take better photos? Let’s take a look. → Read More
How to Dodge and Burn in Photoshop (Or Any Other Image Editor)
Dodging and burning are photo editing techniques where you selectively brighten (dodge) and darken (burn) different areas of your image. It allows you to control what people will see first and generally make your images look cooler. Let’s look at how to do it. → Read More
How to Read Books in Landscape Mode on Your Kindle
If you are reading a book with a lot of images or just want to be able to use a larger text size, it can make sense to rotate your Kindle screen so you can read it in a horizontal position. Let’s look at how to change your Kindle’s orientation from portrait to landscape. → Read More
What Are Dodging and Burning in Photography?
Dodging and burning are two of the oldest—and most important—photo editing techniques. It’s where you selectively brighten (dodge) or darken (burn) different areas of your image. Let me explain. → Read More
How to Free Up Space on Your Kindle
Kindles have enough storage space for hundreds or thousands of ebooks, but it’s still possible to occasionally run into space issues—especially if you download a lot of audiobooks from Audible. Here’s how to free up space on your Kindle when you need to. → Read More
How to Add a Password to Your Kindle
If you are a private reader, don’t want your kids (or anyone else) having free access to your books, or otherwise want to password protect your Kindle, it’s really easy to do. Here’s how. → Read More
Why Do Photographers Say Cloudy Days Are the Best for Photography?
While normal people love sunny days with bright blue skies, most photographers prefer cloudy or overcast days—at least if they’re planning to shoot some pictures. Let’s explore why. → Read More
How to Add Lightroom Presets to Photoshop
Lightroom Presets are a popular way to edit images, but if you prefer to use Adobe Photoshop, there’s a way to use them in Photoshop, too—using Adobe Camera RAW (ACR). Let me explain. → Read More