Zsoldier's Tech Blog

Time is Relative Summary: For some strange reason, my sleep focus, was activating based upon my home timezone of EST while traveling to Japan and Australia.  My phone's timezone was correct as was my apple watch that is set to mirror my iPhone. [ Update:   While resolution below may help in some situations, I found my issue to be that I left a device (macbook pro) logged in and running in my home timezone while in Australia. It seems that there is no 'primary' controller for initializing focus modes.  It's basically whatever device sends the "It's focus time" message.  Which now explains why I has having such issues. So Apple needs to fix this by defining a primary device (should be my iPhone/Apple Watch IMYHO) so weird people like me who have multiple devices can get proper sleep outside my home timezone. ] Workaround/Resolution: Check if you have another other Apple device logged in with your Apple ID in your home location.  Chances are, if you do, that ...

Summary: To launch screen recording w/ Quicktime Player feels really unintuitive.  I'm betting the average person has no idea this capability exists.  I often forget it's able to as well.  Reason being, when you launch Quicktime Player, it defaults to opening a 'finder' window for you to select a file to 'play'.  So here is a way to kind of "shortcut" access to Quicktime screen recording on MacOS. Solution: Launch QuickTime Player "Right" Click on QuickTime Player Dock and Select "Keep in Dock" Now with QuickTime Player in dock, you can "Right Click" the icon and select Screen Recording. Bonus: Macbook Pros with Touchbar will have a smart menu to select capture type.  You can select either full screen recording of each individually attached screen or "selection" which allows you to simply click and drag your mouse on any portion of the screen.

Download the app Summary: I'm lazy , frugal , and easily bored .  When the prospect of going to workout comes up, I want someone to tell me what to do when I'm in the gym @ my random time and track my workouts for trending.  Being frugal, paying for a personal trainer is one thing, then I have to schedule time w/ them (laziness).  Personal trainers do satisfy my easily bored problem though w/ new workouts all the time.  This is where Fitbod, I think, is amazing. Laziness, Frugality, and Boredom Solved!: First Fitbod solves my laziness problem by simply being available 24/7.  I don't need to schedule time to meet a trainer @ a gym to get a good strength training workout. Second, Fitbod solves my frugality problem by simply being free.  Although to access additional secondary functions (not absolutely necessary), I would have to pay a monthly or annual fee.  The in-app purchase is fairly cheap, but I was able to get on the Beta program...