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Passkeys presented by Apple when launching MacOS Ventura

Passkeys are set to replace passwords

Apple Passkeys is warming up to make passwords redundant. Will it succeed? Let me explain Passkeys and give a demo.

Digital Asset Management (DAM) key features

Digital Asset Management (DAM) key features

Are you tired of searching for your digital assets? Stay ahead of the game with Digital Asset Management (DAM). Find out what a DAM is and how it can benefit your organization.

Choosing fonts can feel overwhelming, but serifs and sans-serifs cut the problem in two lesser pieces.

Typeface: to serif or not to serif

If you are starting your website or blog then one of the most important, and perhaps one of the easiest, is which kind of typeface you choose: with serif or without serif (sans-serif).

Intro to Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)

Intro to Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)

Get the inside scoop on DXP from industry veteran Rob Hoeijmakers. Understand the key features and how to select the right DXP vendor for your organization.

Using markdown for blogging

Knowledge Engineering

Using markdown for blogging

Why you want to use MarkDown for writing blogging and writing other texts.

Example image of Playground AI results, created with Dall-e and Stable Diffusion

Create images for free with Playground AI

Unleash your creativity with Playground AI's free AI image generator powered by Stable Diffusion and DALL-E.

Set up screen recording for iPhone and iPad.

Quick tip: Do screen recording on the iPhone

Quickly recording actions on an iPhone can be very handy. It is also built in by default, but requires some adjustments before you can use it. I briefly outline the steps.

Software dashboard guiding through heaps of data.

Do dashboards protect against flying mud?

Our view of the world is increasingly shaped by dashboards. A good reason to take a moment to find out the origin of the word, which yielded a remarkable insight.

Stable Diffusion: Paint a picture of Ernest Hemingway with a lion in Prague in the style of Joan Miró

Lions on the loose in Prague! By Ernest “GPT-3” Hemingway

Can GPT-3, the AI language system, also pick up style cues? The easiest way, of course, is to ask directly and write something in the style of Ernest Hemingway.

Cow tracked by ear marks.

Privacy & Security

Internet tracking: how to put a stop to it

I, like most other internet users, am routinely followed as I browse the internet. There is a sneaky note on my back with who I am. How do you regain some privacy?

“A red automobile painted by cezanne ”

Playing with AI-system DALL-E

Get started with DALL-E, the AI-system from OpenAI that composes new images from a daily language sentence.

E-book version of the Persuasion, the psychology of persuasion by Robert Cialdini

Review: Influence, Robert Cialdini

The subtitle is The Psychology of Persuasion. A classic book about six ways by which our behaviour can be influenced.

Find out about being found in Google Discover.

Get found in Google Discover

Google Discover is a news service provided by Google. In Android and the Google App. As a blogger, how to optimize for Google Discover.

Export highlights and notes from Kobo e-reader to Mac.

Export Kobo highlights and notes to your Mac

How do I get my Kobo highlighted and annotated text exported to the Mac? Here I highlight the most structural method that requires a one-time adjustment.

Made to stick, Chip Heath & Dan Heath

Made to stick, Chip Heath & Dan Heath

Must read book on why some ideas survive and others die. Discover a quick overview of the six principles and the SUCCES model.

Open or closed, free or paid. Gated content and paywalls.

Gated content and paywalls

Learn about the term "gated content". It is content that is partially visible and for which you make a transaction, with personal data or money, to read or experience it. Let me explain.

Scan me QR-code in a newspaper

Privacy & Security

The secrets behind the QR Code

The QR code existed for years and led, for the consumer, a sleeping existence. How do QR codes work?

Copyright statement in a book

Get copyright for web content

Quick guide to make sure you have the proper rights to use content on the web. I also list and explain the most used forms of copyright.

The Founders, The inside story of PayPal by Jimmy Soni.

Review: The Founders by Jimmy Soni

Review of the book The Founders by Jimmy Soni. On the origins of PayPal and it's founding team.

Kobo crashes or freezes, often in sleep mode. Image shows an e-reader that got stuck.

Fix Kobo Clara crashes and freezes

Fixes for when Kobo Clara crashes and freezes. Put your frozen e-reader back to life and prevent crashes.

Interactive sandbox with topographic lines projected on the sand

Playing in the interactive sandbox

Step into the future with Interactive Sandboxes. Beyond screens and keyboards, learn how these devices revolutionize digital landscapes.

Taking a wider view on writer roles for the web.

Four professional writer roles for the web

Taking a wider view on writer roles for the web. This article guides you to understand writing roles, or, if you are a leader, to find the right writer for your team.

Sand, sky and traces of the wind.

Content creation is an art, marketing technology is a craft.

Content creation is an art, marketing technology (MarTech) is a craft. And together they are hard to beat.

Why choose Wix to manage your valuable content?

Why choose Wix to manage your valuable content?

Explore if Wix is the right choice for hosting and managing your content. Rob Hoeijmakers shares firsthand experience and insights on Wix's features and limitations.