Converting iPhone HEIC Photos to JPG

Newer iPhones take amazing photos that can sometimes be mistaken for professional-grade. High-resolution often carries a few caveats though, the main one being large file sizes. To compensate, Apple began implementing a different file storage protocol called High-Efficiency Image Format or HEIC. You might notice the .heic suffix when you send yourself photos from your…

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Open Source vs Paid Platform Website Builders

It’s becoming increasingly popular to use a paid platform content management system (CMS) to build websites. There are all kinds of them out there, from the most popular, Squarespace, to the more generic, GoDaddy Site Builder. It’s never been easier for someone to have a presence online. But choosing the right platform to build your…

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Searching for the Best Standup Desk

This whole COVID-19 pandemic forced a lot of change on many of us. For me personally, it made me start working from home full-time. At my dayshift, I perform web marketing and design for Wenatchee Valley College (WVC). Working for a big entity comes with all kinds of perks and comforts. One is a dynamic,…

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iceber.gs

When searching for creative inspiration and other useful things, one of the problems I’ve faced when actually finding them is being able to keep track and store them. I’ve built quite an extensive bookmark folder tree, but it becomes rather useless when it’s time to actually go back and find something specific. I’ve also used…

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OSX Server

This week we stepped our game up and finally invested in a server at work. We went with a Mac Mini running OSX Server and so far it’s been pretty awesome. It’s a big leap forward in comparison to where we were (shared files). No more file permission issues, new shared calendars and contacts, internal…

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Cloud App

Cloud App is a nifty little link generator application that I stumbled upon about a month ago. It’s a cool time saver that allows you to drag and drop quite a few file types into the app and generate a quick preview link. I’ve found this tool to be simple, but very useful. I got…

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Coda 2, Where Have You Been?

After finally trying out Coda 2 a few months back I feel like I’ve been living in a cave for the past few years. My workflow used to be as follows: design a mockup, open up text-wrangler, code up a site, and then FTP away. Before that I was even on Adobe Dreamweaver *chuckles*. These methods…

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Letterpress for iPhone

I’ve been pretty hooked on a new iPhone game called Letterpress. If you’re a scrabble player, or just like fun word games in general, you’ll love this. It’s sort of a mix between scrabble and bananagrams; two already awesome games. Letterpress is all about using up all the tiles and coloring the spaces with your…

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