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  • Rating iTunes Songs in the background with iTunesKeys

    Sometimes it takes me years to find a solution to a problem. This little applet, last updated in 2015, lets me set hotkeys for rating songs in iTunes. Now, I can rate a song without interrupting my work. Nice. Thanks, Matt Berube.

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  • Step 1: open your kobo so it’s on and you can see the home screen. Step 2: plug a USB cable into the kobo and the computer. It should pop up a choice on the kobo. Tap “connect.” It should now look like this: Step 3: On the PC, open file explorer. On the left

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  • Good Music, 2022

    Here’s a playlist with my favourite songs of the year, available in Apple Music, Spotify, and Youtube: Here’s my favourite albums from 2022:

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  • Sawyer’s Game Log, 2022

    Previously: 2021, 2020 See: My Personal Interpretation of Star Ratings ⭐ Games finished Games I played, did not finish, but will likely try again Games I played, did not finish, and likely won’t try again Games I played too much of but are they ever really done? Notes & thoughts 2022 was very much a backlog

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  • Sawyer’s Movie Log, 2022

    Previously: 2021, 2020 See: My Personal Interpretation of Star Ratings ⭐ What a tepid year for films, with one major exception. Eleven older movies I watched and loved in 2022

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  • Sawyer’s TV Log, 2022

    Previously: 2021, 2020 See: My Personal Interpretation of Star Ratings ⭐ You can always follow me on Trakt, a pretty good site for logging tv shows. My favourite new TV shows from 2022 My favourite continuing shows that aired in 2022 My favourite TV shows I watched from the before time

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  • How I Streamed and Selected Music in 2022

    A quick aside before I begin: When I use a ❤️, it means “like” or “favourite”. 💔 means “dislike.” ⭐ means star, or rating. Rail means rail. And yes, I use both, even though it’s probably redundant. Streaming vs Selecting I think there’s two ways of listening to music that cover every single instance. First,

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  • Mikey and Sawyer discuss Italy, The Canon M50 Mark ii, the iPad Mini, rating things, and vacation blogging.

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  • How I rate songs

    I like to use a 5-point rating system. What the points mean differs slightly from medium to medium, so here’s what it means for songs. A few rules. 1 ⭐ – poorly recorded, out of tune, not even a song 2 ⭐⭐ – a song I don’t like 3 ⭐⭐⭐ – a song that’s fine

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  • Photos and Stories From My Trip to Italy

    This is gonna be a long post. TL:DR, here’s some photos I liked from my trip to Italy in September 2022, with links to google maps to restaurants and areas. The ideal reader of this is a) us, to remember what we did, and b) anyone curious about stuff we did. It’s not really a

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