![]() ![]() The solo band is a really good band, they’re really nice blokes. It’s always great to play in the UK, we’re starting in Derby and carrying on pretty much to the end of April. The last 10 years we’ve done three full tours there a year.Īre you looking forward to playing in the UK again? We seem to be forever going to The States, which is great because there’s a huge demand there for the Zombies. I love playing, I love touring, but it’s always the same – we were there for four weeks and for me that’s long enough. I Just got back from the States this morning so I’m a bit spaced out, but it’s all part of the adventure. Your UK tour starts on 20 April – you seem to be on the road constantly – do you enjoy touring and playing live? Good blokes to travel with – Colin with his solo band ![]() He spoke about the bitter sweet experience of his comeback hit What Becomes of the Broken Hearted with Dave Stewart (not the Eurythmic) and the late ’60s alter ego he adopted when deciding whether to give the music business another go.Ĭolin also paid heartfelt tribute to Zombies’ and former Kinks’ bassist Jim Rodford, who died after a fall last year. ![]() It’s all part of an extraordinary late career renaissance for the singer, who famously gave up music to work in insurance when the original incarnation of the Zombies split in late 1967.īack home in Woking for a few days break after US dates, a slightly jet-lagged Colin spoke to Matt Catchpole about his UK tour and upcoming solo album. Barely had he returned those dates, when he was out on the road again with his solo band, the UK leg of which kicks off on April 20. Oh, and there’ll be a Spring Zombies tour to follow that too! When EP last spoke to Colin Blunstone he was preparing to head out with The Zombies on a world tour marking the 50th anniversary of their classic album Odessey And Oracle. ![]()
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THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CONTAIN A BINDING ARBITRATION CLAUSE AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER THAT IMPACT YOUR RIGHTS ABOUT HOW TO RESOLVE DISPUTES. ![]() ![]() ![]() Is it really not possible in 2022 to build a solid backlit screen in such an expensive flagship device? Incomprehensible.Kobo Sage is an 8-inch E Ink eReader from released in October 2021 together with the 7-inch Kobo Libra 2 ( review). The scroll buttons do not always work, the 'turning' of a page is certainly not super fast (although fast enough), and above all: the screen is illuminated more strongly on the side of the buttons than on the other, so that when using the background lighting is always a clearly perceptible variation in brightness. The Sage has a fast processor and apparently a top-of-the-bill screen, but you still get the feeling that you are being thrown twenty years back in time compared to today's smartphones and tablets. But the 8-inch screen is just the right size for me (pity there are so few options in that size), the design is beautiful and everything works just a little faster than with the e-readers from five years ago.īut: there is something strange going on with e-ink and e-readers. Now I don't use the audiobook function myself, nor do I use the stylus function. I was looking for the best possible e-reader, and you seem to have arrived at this. I then quickly connect wireless headphones and listen to my favorite books hands-free. This is a nice option for when I don't feel like reading. I also listen to audiobooks on the Kobo Sage. You should not expect it to go as smoothly as, for example, a tablet with a stylus. In addition, the e-reader sometimes responds a bit slowly to the stylus. There are several useful functions in the pen, but I don't always manage to use them. I do think that you have to learn a lot how to use the pen. I then easily convert handwritten text into typed text. I also keep a digital notepad on my e-reader, for example when I make a to do list. All notes in the book are clearly displayed in a menu, so that I can quickly read back interesting pieces of text. I quickly make some notes in the margins. I find it especially useful when I read a book to learn something. As a result, I hardly notice any difference between reading on an e-reader versus a real book. With this stylus, I take notes in books and quickly mark passages. Quick and easy note taking with the Kobo stylusĪ great feature of the Sage is its compatibility with the Kobo Stylus. The device has a very sleek appearance for an e-reader and reacts relatively quickly. While reading this is not so bad, but it is annoying when I am looking for a new book, for example. The disadvantage of the size is that it is more difficult to operate the e-reader with one hand. As a left-hander, I also use the device very comfortably. The e-reader has screen rotation, so you can have the buttons on both the left and right side. Thanks to the physical buttons, I can quickly flip through a book. I also have a lot of space, so I can easily set a larger font without having to scroll a lot. The first thing I like about the Kobo Sage is its size. Due to the large size, I hold the e-reader less comfortably with one hand. The Kobo Sage is a large e-reader with useful features, such as the ability to listen to audiobooks and take notes with the Kobo stylus. ![]() ![]() ![]() I cringe every time I have to send a drop from my phone…ĭear C. And not once! But twice… After you enter your credentials, the screen flips and it asks you for your credentials again… Really bad. First, you have to login every time you open the app. Drag a file to the little water droplet in your menu bar, boom, you are done. When it comes to sharing files with ease, nothing comes close. Upgrading one star for the response from developers! Really looking forward to the next iteration. I’m a longtime Droplr user and I can’t imagine why for such a great service with such a broad customer base, they can’t produce an app that ENHANCES the utility of the service rather than DETRACTS from it… Dropping the star I added, plus one more because that’s the value I get from the app. UPDATE: Despite the response from the developers, the app still requires double log in. It is customers like you that keep us motivated to do better! Thanks for taking the time to share your experience, we appreciate it. ![]() Wow! Talk about a power user □ Happy to hear Droplr is adding value to your day to day business. Whoever did this got my respect! Thanks for bringing back a tool as we designers need for our workflow! I wish you luck to gain back your reputation after all this mess. They basically kill their own app until now! The app works great, and it’s back to business! I’m trying not to cry here. I can send zip files, pictures, files, docs, projects, audio files, everything just with droplr and suddenly they didn’t let you share anything anymore! Just pics or screen videos. The frustration start growing, I try to use Cloudapp, then Cleanshot X, but none of them offer a all-in-one tool like Droplr. Then I managed to get back the legacy app for a while, but I seriously didn’t knew why they changed the app and what kind of users they were after. Then Mobile apps changed and it really start costing me more money trying to keep up with my clients than taking advantage with the new droplr apps! I was forced to use the website to do what I was used with the original apps. It was the tool that make Dropbox obsolete in my workflow. That could be a missed opportunity to regain loyalty and prevent still more customers from taking flight after this latest outage.I don’t know who is behind the boss desk now but thanks God the usefulness of this app and service is back !!! I use Droplr as my main tool for sharing docs to my clients. While Gupta wrote that Dropbox is “very sorry for the disruption,” his postmortem doesn’t say anything about giving customers discounts or other perks for putting up with the outage. And there’s always the widely used Google Drive. Fellow cloud-storage company and IPO candidate Box will look good after the technical issues, to say nothing of challengers from hybrid storage vendor Egnyte and and up-and-comers like Droplr and SugarSync. Outages are nothing but bad news for a company standing in line to go public. Such remarks suggest that the outage might have inflicted serious damage to Dropbox, perhaps more than previous outages, including one around this time last year. And Give me a prorated refund, i want out, ![]() I had to crawl through google news to find this forum from one of the tech blog posts to find out it’s DB servers at fault, and not my devices.ĭB, save yourself. of Singapore to leave:Īs a paying customer from Singapore, who has bought a few accounts and waved DB’s banner over the other cloud services, this severe lack of proactive communication is a deal breaker. My subscription is up in the next month but I won’t be renewing.Īnd the debacle appears to have persuaded customer Gio N. I expect better customer service for a product that is twice as expensive as Google Drive and Skydrive. Now that syncing is finally working again, I can begin migrating my data to another service. was looking to pack up his virtual bags and going elsewhere: ESPECIALLY unprofessional lack of detailed timely communication. Actually, I was pro-active and found a few which might work for us if anything even close to this ever happen again. We’re using Dropbox for Teams (A LOT of money), and after this incident, I would be MUCH less resistant to any requests to research alternative solutions (and there seems to be a plenty of them). ![]() Silence and trying to cover the scale of the problem was absolutely unprofessional. ![]() ![]() ![]() Speaking of romances, the remake expands the shallow pool of marriage candidates from three bachelorettes (four in the special edition of the old game) to a total of eight, with the addition of four bachelors. Some characters were renamed but remained the same lovable personalities to befriend or engage in a romance with. All of the characters in the town of Forgotten Valley get their modern designs that suit the Story of Seasons art style and their animations are updated as well. It’s not just your character that gets a revamp in their designs. Interacting with the dresser at your house allows you to change your clothes, as well as the style and color of your hair at any time so that you can create the perfect seasonal look! From their facial features, skin tone, and eye color, there are a lot of customization options to choose from. You can also completely customize your farmer’s look. ![]() A New Start in Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life But if you really can’t get enough of these types of games, Harvest Moon’s newest installment, titled Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos, is releasing just around the corner on September 26, 2023. So while Western players are more likely to recognize the Harvest Moon name, it is the Story of Seasons series that brought them the farming simulator games that they loved in their childhood. The confusion between the two titles continues to this day and largely stems from the fact that Natsume, though having lost the rights to the original games, has continued to produce its own version of the charming farming simulator game under the name of Harvest Moon, now with developers Appci Corporation. Thus, Marvelous needed to retitle their series to Story of Seasons in the west. However, when the developers of the games, Marvelous, parted ways with the publishers, it was Natsume that retained the rights to the brand name Harvest Moon. It was originally translated and released for Western audiences under the name Harvest Moon by publishers Natsume. ![]() While the games have always been called Bokujou Monogatari in Japan, it is the Western localization that has had trouble over the years. It’s understandable that fans of the original game may be confused as to why it’s being remade under a new name, so much so that they might not even be aware that their favorite Harvest Moon game is getting a remake in the first place. ![]() ![]() We both love the circular forms and sturdiness of Adrian Frutiger’s Avenir. Elements such as large dots, accents, and punctuation make Tenorite comfortable to read at small sizes onscreen, and crisp-looking shapes and wide characters create a generally open feeling.Įrin and Wei: After years of Calibri-known for soft corners and narrow proportions-we were craving something very round, wide, and crisp, and the geometric genre felt like the right direction. Tenorite has the overall look of a traditional workhorse sans serif (a font without a serif, or a stroke at the ends, like Times New Roman), but with a warmer, more friendly style. TENORITE by Erin McLaughlin and Wei Huang Read on to learn about their creative inspiration and process. The new fonts span the various sans-serif styles-humanist, geometric, swiss-style, and industrial-and we’ve interviewed the designers of each to help bring their nuances and unique personality to life. In typeface design, the space and shapes between letters is just as critical as the letter shapes themselves. The design of an individual letter may be artistic but getting all these individual letters to work together to make words, sentences, and paragraphs is a science of its own. The degree to which seemingly minute differences in typography can create visceral responses (who can forget the infamous Papyrus sketch on Saturday Night Live?) is a testament to the art and science of font design. Five new fonts: Meet Tenorite, Bierstadt, Skeena, Seaford, and Grandview And don’t worry if the font you love best isn’t chosen as the next default all of them will be available in the font menu, alongside Calibri and your other favorite fonts in your Office apps in Microsoft 365 and beyond. Head over to social and tell us your favorite. We’re excited to share these brand-new fonts with you today and would love your input. To help us set a new direction, we’ve commissioned five original, custom fonts to eventually replace Calibri as the default. ![]() It has served us all well, but we believe it’s time to evolve. And just as people and the world around us age and grow, so too should our modes of expression.Ĭalibri has been the default font for all things Microsoft since 2007, when it stepped in to replace Times New Roman across Microsoft Office. A default font is often the first impression we make it’s the visual identity we present to other people via our resumes, documents, or emails. Still, while default fonts may not have the same flair as some of their more eye-catching cousins (we’re looking at you, Bauhaus 93 and Showcard Gothic), they communicate a distinct personality in their own quiet way-a personality that by extension becomes our personality as well. When a font blends into the background of a user experience, people can jump right into the creative process and stay grounded in their thoughts rather than thinking about the form those thoughts take. We seldom give them much thought, and therein lies their greatest gift. Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.We’ve commissioned five new custom fonts– which should be the next default font?ĭefault fonts are perhaps most notable in the absence of the impression they make. Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ist ![]() ![]() If a simple re-download still results in the error message, this is what to do:ĭelete the following files and restart the Mac: In some cases, these steps are not sufficient because the Mac App Store faces two issues Apple is obviously not able to tackle. – Then view your purchase history and download your app again – Login with the account you used to buy the app – Move the current application from the Applications folder to the trash and empty it Your data won’t be harmed because app data on your Mac is never stored inside an application. However, there is no need to worry, simply follow these simple steps. Delete XY and download it again from the App Store”? This is unfortunately a Mac App Store issue which has been around since the App Store launched. ![]() You tried to launch your app and just received the error message, the app “XY is damaged and can’t be opened. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() Google says that "some Google Hangouts data from Album Archive" will be deleted, but also that "most Google Hangouts images and videos are still available and were migrated to Google Chat." (Google Chat is Google's current instant messenger platform, which launched and replaced Hangouts in 2021.) Other content that might get deleted includes "rare cases like small thumbnail photos and album comments or likes" and "background images uploaded in the Gmail theme picker prior to 2018. There are two main sub-products in the Hangouts range: Google Meet and Google Chat. Download icons in all formats or edit them for your designs. These free images are pixel perfect to fit your design and available in both PNG and vector. ![]() Get free Hangout icons in iOS, Material, Windows and other design styles for web, mobile, and graphic design projects. The chat software started as a part of the Google+ pack but grew into a separate division. Download 173 free Hangout Icons in All design styles. The support page says: "Content that’s only available in Album Archive will be deleted starting July 19, 2023," but it's unclear what that data is. Google Hangouts Logo Updated: Google Hangouts Logo PNG Google Hangouts is an online messenger, launched by Google in 2013. Google's communication around this has not been great. These are Google’s corporate colors, which indicate that. It consists of a lowercase inscription made up of a combination of multi-colored letters: t was colored blue, a red, l yellow, k green. Lets say you want to use an empty value in a website or application, but spaces are not accepted. Since the Talk service became the fundamental basis for Hangouts, its visual identity sign has been considered. They can be used if you want to represent an empty space without using space. They look like a space, but are in fact a different (unicode) character. If you've ever used some specific entries in Google's lengthy instant messaging lineup, namely Google Talk (2005-2013) or Google Hangouts (2013-2022), the photos you shared with contacts landed in a space called the "Album Archive." Album Archive is being shut down this Wednesday, July 19, and the data in it is being deleted. Empty characters, blank characters, invisible characters and whitespace characters. WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter use their own emoji images on Android, while Signal and Telegram for Android use Apple emoji images.Įmojis from Google Noto Color Emoji 15.0 are displayed below.Friendly Public Service Announcement: Google might delete some of your photos this week. Note: Samsung devices use distinct emoji images. There are also two additional Noto Emoji variants: the minimalist Noto Emoji font, and an animated subset of Noto Color Emoji designs used by the Messages by Google mobile app. ![]() The Google Noto Color Emoji set is used as the default emoji set on mobile devices manufactured by the likes of Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei, Sony, and of course Google. These royalty-free high-quality Hangouts Vector Icons are available in SVG, PNG, EPS, ICO, ICNS, AI, or PDF and are available as individual or icon packs. Thousands of combinations are available, using Gboard for Android. design styles for web or mobile (iOS and Android) design, marketing, or developer projects. Gboard also includes an emoji mashup feature known as Emoji Kitchen which allows two emojis to be combined into a sticker. These images are also used for Slack on non-Apple platforms including Windows, Linux, and Android. These are provided as part of the Noto Emoji project. Google emoji images are used on most Android devices, Gmail Web Interface, Google Meet, and ChromeOS. ![]() ![]() ![]() Our PDFLiner service offers a simple and easy-to-use signing tool. However, Adobe provides convenient online tools that are operating system agnostic and can be used on Chromebooks. This service does not have a version designed specifically for Chrome OS. Log into your profile and find "Create New Document" in the upper right corner. However, the best option would be to use one of the online services we described, as they provide more useful tools. It allows you to view documents in this format and has a small set for editing them. Not so long ago, the Google Chrome browser got a PDF Viewer plugin. Read our answers to common questions if you need more info on working with PDF files using Chrome. Paperwork on a Chromebook has never been easier. With simple functionality, you can email docs or share links to them, make them available for collaboration, print, and download them. Thanks to all created files being saved in your profile, you can start working on one device and continue on another. Here you will find everything you need to get started: annotating and rearranging lists, adding captions, images, fillable fields, signing forms, and more. PDFLiner is at the top of our list for a reason, as it really is the best service for editing PDF documents. Edit PDF Files On Chromebook Without Hassle They are versatile and easy to use, so you don't need any specific skills to work with them. Online platforms allow you to create, modify, and share files on Chromebooks and continue working with them on any other device. ![]() Thanks to the sites on our list, you can edit PDF using Chrome without installing additional software. These include, in particular, work with PDF documents. Although now the situation has changed somewhat, most users still utilize browser-based services to perform standard tasks. In particular, not all manufacturers release their products adapted for Chrome OS. On the other hand, it gives rise to several difficulties. Plus, all copies are automatically created in the Chrome cloud, so you don't need to make regular backups. Your device works faster and smoother because it doesn't need a lot of resources to run multiple programs. On the one hand, this approach has advantages.
![]() ![]() ![]() E-commerce sites do the same, and help us make shopping online quick and efficient. Netflix and Spotify recommend what we should watch and listen to based on our preferences. Now, over two decades later, the technology finally exists to deliver individualized experiences. Each online experience was the same, just as it was for a television or print ad. published the landmark book The One to One Future, in which they predicted that “using new media of the one-to-one future, you will be able to communicate directly with consumers, individually, rather than shouting at them, in groups.” Unfortunately, technology didn’t allow for this quite yet. In the early 1990s, Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, Ph.D. When the internet arrived, a new dream of individualized marketing came with it. To achieve this, the mass marketers of the past successfully employed such tactics as TV ads, print ads, and billboards. I, for one, can’t wait to see what happens next week.Historically, marketing was all about reaching the largest audience possible with the same experience. We changed course, but players are still dropping into their spaces all across the board. ![]() Overall, this week’s episode was brilliant for the subtlety and characterization. There’s no way we spent so much time getting to know her earlier this season just for her to die in the blink of an eye. It’s also slightly unclear whether there are any survivors of the attack, but my money is on our girl Bobbie making it through. Whether or not it has anything to do with the Protomolecule is unclear. It seems that our crew of Martian Marines gets attacked by what I can only imagine is some sort of alien force. I feel like I don’t even know enough about what happened to write about it, but I’m going to give it a go. Hands down the most shocking bit of this week’s episode was the incident on Ganymede. And if I know The Expanse writers at all, it won’t be what we’re expecting. It’ll be interesting to see where people choose to place their allegiance. Fred Johnson sums up this tension nicely when he tells Holden to, “pick a side!” Everyone is going to have to pick a side. She decides to help the Tycho Station crew with the destruction of the nukes. There’s no doubt that even though she’s with Holden, she still thinks for herself. She shows her allegiance when she deviates from Holden’s way of thinking. This has an interesting consequence for Holden and Naomi. Earth and Mars have habitually taken advantage of their work and their resources. Where Martians and Earthers seem to reach common ground from time to time, Belters don’t feel any of the camaraderie. He claims this is just a contingency plan, but tensions are rising and belters are more pissed off than anyone. Turns out, little old Fred decided to save some for himself. These 30 missiles turn up in a giant space net, no joke. After Earth’s missiles were rendered useless in the attempt to destroy Eros, 30 of them went missing. While Chrisjen is showing us exactly where she stands, Fred Johnson is doing the same thing…kind of. Her reward is keeping her place as a power player. Patience was her virtue. She put herself in the best possible position, demanding Mao come forward without revealing how much she knows about him conspiring with Errinwright. It’s nice to see her anger hitting the right target. Thankfully, she also finally has it out a bit with Errinwright, demanding that Mao turn himself in for all the Protogen stuff and basically almost killing Earth. ![]() She gives her blessing for her former man-friend (?) to look into finding Eros on Venus. On Earth, Chrisjen is asserting some dominance. It was inevitable that they would find things they didn’t like. This is a great working metaphor for the impact humans have had since that moment, how technology and invention have been a driving force, pushing humanity farther out into the universe. “Paradigm Shift” features a flashback to Solomon Epstein inventing (or discovering accidentally) the Epstein Drive, the technology that made colonizing space possible. Instead of looking outward from the Protomolecule, this week we find ourselves looking inward at the relationships between both the characters we’ve come to know and the parts of the Solar System they represent. As the title suggests, we’ve ever so subtly changed directions. So this week was going to be a bit of a mystery. Last week’s episode of The Expanse saw the end of one of the longest outstanding plot lines when Eros crashed into Venus with both Julie and Miller inside. The Expanse Season 2, Episode 6 recap: “Paradigm Shift”, Aired March 1, 2017 ![]() |
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