My “How To” guides on various things
In MacOS you can swipe left or right to cause a browser’s web page to move forward and back (also known as “overscrolling”). It can be a useful trick, but can also prove to be annoying. I’m in the latter camp.
It can be turned off, but only from the command line.
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The Jetpack WordPress plugin now comes bundled with Jetpack AI Assistant – a suite of AI powered add-ons for your site. These, however, are not free, beyond an initial trial. However, once those trial features have expired, I found that the upgrade messaging in the editor was getting in the way.
So, how do we turn this off?
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Have you got a Wix website? Congratulations on signing up to a closed platform that really doesn’t want you to take YOUR data anywhere else. The good news is, if you want to take it to something a little more open and welcoming, WordPress does have a way of doing the hard work for you of getting it out of Wix.
There are other workaround available online, but they mainly involved importing via the RSS feed (which only shows limited content now) or manually copying over your page content.
The bad news – this isn’t built-in functionality. The good news – it’s free and relatively painless to do.
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If you’re rocking an iPhone and a neat pair of AirPods, one of the cool things is how they automatically connect each time you need to use them. But, sometimes, this appears to go wrong and, suddenly, your AirPods will pretend not to know you. Here I’m going to share a quick fix for this.
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A recent update to Google Chrome has got rid of the side panel button and added a new “pinning” feature instead.
The side panel button opened up the bookmarks sidebar and, from there, you could switch it to one of the other sidebars. In particular, I use the Reading List feature, so this was how I accessed it.
The idea now is that you open whichever sidebar you want and then you can pin it into place – multiple ones if you wish. Google have said, “You can open most side panel features through the Chrome menu”. Which is true. But the reading list is a number of clicks deep, and not obvious as to where it is (Chrome Menu -> Bookmarks and lists -> Reading List -> Show Reading List). I kinda don’t understand why they got rid of the side panel button, but also add in the pinning feature.
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