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How to Make Your Finder Look Great With Custom Folder Icons

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Easy to create images on the Mac to put in as Folder icons in Finder. In the video I show how to change the boring blue folders to pictures or folders with pictures on top. https://youtu.be/zMnKUByjf2E

Transform Folders in Finder with Custom iCons

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How to put your signature in a PDF Document.

Don’t print the PDF to sign it and then rescan, which is a waste of time and effort. Use apps like Preview to add your signature and be a digital hero.

Sign Documents on Your Mac with Preview
You don’t have to print onto paper, use an actual pen, like an animal, then rescan to sign a document. Use the Apple App Preview to put your signature in there without leaving your Mac.

You can write the signature on your trackpad, On the iPad with your Apple Pencil or set it up on paper and show that to the camera of the Mac. Then use the signature willy nilly as you like.

What Level of 2FA Do You Need?
See in the tutorial how to use a Yubico Hardware 2FA Key. Using the Yubico Authenticator app to provide the TOTP codes for 2FA - 2 Factor Authentication on an iPhone.

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The pushed out codes are not secure enough for you ‘keys to the Kingdom’ accounts. You know, the codes which go to your email or as a message. If you phone has been stolen the the thief can get ... https://goodandgeeky.micro.blog/2023/03/15/what-level-of.html

We all think we will live forever. Despite knowing we all have to kick the bucket and push up the daisies eventually. So set up a Legacy Contact for your Apple ID. Share your legacy with photos, docs and whatever else in your iCloud account. You don’t want to make things more difficult for your surviving family.

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Here’s how you do it

On the Mac or can be done on your iOS devices.
Go to ... https://goodandgeeky.micro.blog/2023/03/06/we-all-think.html

Have Letters or Shapes Cut out To reveal an Image below
A couple of videos showing ways to do this thing where the image below shows through shapes cut into another shape. So this could text or whatever and there is a shape which masks the image underneath.

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You can do it with boolean tools to subtract the shapes from the rectangle or create a compound object first with the rectangle and the text or other ... https://goodandgeeky.micro.blog/2023/03/06/have-letters-or.html

I’ve Been Setting up the Yubikey 5Ci
It works a treat and I’ll slowly be adding more to the Yubikey to the Authenticator app as I log into them

Five Things I Like About Neovim
Neovim is a text editor you use in the terminal. I use it in the Warp Terminal, which is the most modern terminal out ther for the Mac.
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Here is the Neovim video tutorial

The main idea with Neovim / Vim is to forget about the mouse and to do just about everything with your keyboard. So with a tap on the J key you move down one line with 3J you move ... https://goodandgeeky.micro.blog/2023/03/03/five-things-i.html

How To Protect Your Apple ID In The Case Of iPhone Theft
The first thing you should do is to treat your iPhone passkey in the same way as you would treat the pin code to your bank card. You wouldn’t let random people look over your shoulder while you’re putting in the pin code when you’re making a purchase with your credit card. Why would you let random people watch you put in the pin code/Pass key to your iPhone.

Thieves ... https://goodandgeeky.micro.blog/2023/03/02/how-to-protect.html

There’s a Small Bug in Affinity Designer Affecting How You Work with Groups of Objects
For a while I was having a problem when I was selecting a group of objects. I tried selecting the group by clicking on the group and I only got one object out of the group. This was annoying when I wanted to change the size of something and I only changed the size of one object in the group and not all of it. When you’ve put a set of objects ... https://goodandgeeky.micro.blog/2023/02/27/theres-a-small.html