Tutorials & Guides

Takeout photos show the wrong date because Google keeps the date taken in a separate JSON file, not in the photo. Add every Takeout ZIP to the Google Takeout Fixer, check the matches, and write the dates back inside the files in your browser.

To move Google Photos to iCloud with the right dates, export with Google Takeout, write the dates from Google's JSON into the files, then import the fixed folder into Photos on a Mac with iCloud Photos turned on. Google's direct transfer to iCloud is the alternative without a download.

Immich reads dates and GPS from inside each file, not from Google's Takeout JSON. Fix the Takeout first so the dates are in the files, then upload with the Immich CLI, which can turn folders into albums. immich-go is the command-line alternative that reads the JSON itself.

Google Takeout splits a large Google Photos export into several ZIP files numbered -001, -002 and so on. Choose ZIP and the largest size you can download reliably, download every part within about 7 days, and keep all parts together: a photo and its JSON can be in different ZIPs.

To batch convert .pub files to PDF, put them in one folder or ZIP, drop it on Omnvert's Publisher converter, check the free preview, and download one ZIP with every PDF, your folders intact and a report.

Publisher has never run on macOS, so a .pub file on a Mac has to be converted: to PDF to read, print or send it, or to ODG to edit it in the free LibreOffice Draw. Here is how to do both.

Slow a track to around 0.80×, add tasteful reverb, avoid a muddy mix, and export a version for your own listening.

Tune the silence threshold and minimum duration so you cut dead air without chopping breaths, word tails, or natural pauses.

Time-stretch speech to 1.25× or 1.5× while keeping the voice at normal pitch, and learn where faster stops helping.

Set exact in and out points, avoid clicks at the cut, and keep your original bitrate when you trim MP3, WAV, or voice notes.

Feed a list of URLs or values in, get one QR code per row out. How to prep the CSV, produce unique codes for tickets or asset tags, export the batch, and QA a sample before you commit to a mass print run.

A vCard QR code drops your contact details straight into someone's phone. Which fields to include, why a bloated vCard turns into an unscannable brick, and how to size and print it so it reads on the first try.

Turn your Wi-Fi network name and password into a QR code that phones join with a single scan. The WIFI: string format, escaping tricky passwords, print tips for a café or guest room, and why it beats reading the password out loud.

Two counters, same paragraph, different numbers. Here is what actually gets counted, why hyphens and emoji throw things off, and which limit matters for meta descriptions, SMS, and bios.

That 𝓯𝓪𝓷𝓬𝔂 bio text is not a font. It is separate Unicode code points, and that difference is exactly why it breaks screen readers and search. Here is what is really happening and how to use it without hurting anyone.

Arrows, currency, math signs, checkmarks. Three glyphs can look almost identical and still be the wrong one. Here is how to search by name, read the U+ code point, and paste the right character into docs, sheets, and code.

A field-by-field walkthrough of a WHOIS record: registrar vs registrant, the three dates that matter, name servers, status codes, and why half the contact fields are now redacted.

Traceroute maps the routers between you and a host and times each one. The trick is reading it correctly: one slow middle hop usually means nothing, and a persistent jump at the end is the real problem.

What /24 and /26 really mean, how to find the network, broadcast, and usable host range, and a worked split of 192.168.1.0/26 you can follow by hand.

Open, closed, and filtered are three different answers, and telling them apart is the whole skill. Here is what the TCP handshake reveals and why a firewall makes a port look filtered rather than closed.

The response headers tell you whether a CDN cached your page, how long a browser will hold it, and which security policies are in force. Here is how to read the ones that matter.

Most 401 mysteries end the moment you read the token: how JWTs are structured, what exp/iat/nbf and the alg field really mean, why decoding is not verifying, and the recurring bugs a two-minute decode exposes.

Get clean AI background removal: what segmentation handles well and where it fails, how to shoot so the model succeeds, edge-checking at 200% zoom, and choosing between transparent PNG and a flattened white background.

A plain-language guide to the three DNS records behind email deliverability: what each one actually checks, how to read a real SPF string, what DMARC policies mean, and the failure patterns behind most 'our emails go to spam' tickets.

The two PDF password types do very different jobs — and one of them is little more than a polite request. Learn which password actually encrypts your file, how AES protection works, how to pick a passphrase, and what protection cannot do.

Turn phone photos of paper into scans that look like they came from a flatbed: lighting, flattening the page, edge detection, perspective correction, filters, and multi-page PDF export.

A monthly check takes 30 seconds and prevents the worst outage of the year. Here's what the TLS checker shows, the common chain bugs, and the wildcard vs SAN gotcha.

Why gluing MP3 files together byte-by-byte produces clicks, wrong durations, and seeking bugs when their bitrates or sample rates differ — and how re-encoding to one common format fixes it for a small, predictable cost.

The JPEG quality slider isn't linear. Here's what each number actually does, where artifacts appear, and why quality 85 is the industry default for web images.

OCR turns a stack of page images into a searchable document. Here's how to tell when you need it, what makes accuracy good or bad, and how to run it without surprises.

Why DNS changes take minutes or days to go live, how TTL actually controls it, and how to check propagation status globally when a launch depends on it.

Practical guide to pulling clean audio out of video: when extraction makes sense, which bitrate preset to pick, and what to do when the output is silent or garbled.

A pragmatic guide to shrinking PDFs for email and upload limits: what makes them large, which compression is safe, and when splitting beats compressing.

EXIF tags in phone photos leak GPS, device model, timestamps, and even editing software. Here's what's in there, which platforms strip it, and how to clean a photo before you share.

Practical decision guide for the three modern web image formats: what each actually trades off, which platforms still reject which, and how to pick without second-guessing.

A technical, step-by-step workflow to turn a crisp PNG logo into a clean STL: alpha handling, real-world scaling, thickness, and print-ready slicer tips.

Learn how polygon density affects slicing time and surface quality — and how to tune your 2D input so the resulting STL is efficient and print-ready.

A technical overview of how a 2D PNG/SVG becomes a 3D triangle mesh: sampling, contours, triangulation, normals, watertightness, and STL output constraints.

Turn grayscale artwork into predictable relief geometry. Learn contrast control, smoothing, and how to avoid banding and micro-noise before converting to STL.

A troubleshooting guide for slicer warnings and broken meshes: what non-manifold means, how holes form, and how to fix them at the source or with downstream repair tools.

How to set width/height in millimeters, keep aspect ratio correct, pick a print-safe thickness, and validate dimensions before slicing.

How to combine Word exports, scans, and spreadsheet printouts into one professional PDF pack: plan the order, split out only the pages you need, tame mixed page sizes, and compress the result so it actually fits in an email.

Why one guest whispers while another shouts, what LUFS actually measures, why peak normalization won't fix it, and a practical browser workflow to get every episode to a consistent, comfortable level.

Why iPhones shoot HEIC, exactly where the format breaks — Windows, older Android, web forms — how to convert to JPG, and what happens to Live Photos and depth data along the way.

A black rectangle drawn over text hides it from your eyes and from nobody else's tools. Learn how PDFs actually store text, how to redact so the data is truly gone, and how to verify it with select-all and extraction tests.

A practical crop → resize → compress workflow for marketplace product images: aspect ratios, minimum resolutions for zoom, format choice, and 1x/2x variants — without guessing at specs.

Why Word documents reflow, swap fonts, and shift page breaks when converted to PDF — and the pre-flight routine that keeps your layout intact: font embedding, metric-compatible fonts, and a page-by-page review.