Breakout rooms are a great way to engage meeting participants with each other. You can easily assign them to one or more rooms, visit them at will, and welcome them back after a set duration. Create Breakout Rooms Any Zoom meeting host can create breakout rooms, as long as the feature is enabled in [...]
For most remote coaching and support sessions, I use Zoom (zoom.us), an excellent application that offers stable audio and video meetings with end-to-end encryption and secure screen sharing. I was an early adopter of the platform in 2013 when Google Hangouts was getting too playful and no longer serving my grad school team project [...]
Want to help scientists discover and develop cures for cancers, infectious diseases, and neurological diseases? Put your powerful computer’s spare or idle processing capabilities to good use. COVID-19 has just been added to the list of illnesses that you can help research using the Folding@home distributed computing project. What is Protein Folding? Proteins are the basic building [...]
Is your device’s rechargeable battery dying faster than it used to? Do you know how to determine its health and decide how to respond? Read on… iPhone Battery Health Modern rechargeable batteries have a limited number of charge–discharge cycles. One percent discharge matched with one percent recharge amounts to one percent of a [...]
The Option key on your Mac keyboard is a clever little thing. Represented in menus by ⌥, it often provides access to functions and commands that are not readily accessible. Read on to learn some of these secrets. Copy When Dragging Normally, when you drag an item in the Finder between two folders, the [...]
Here are a few capabilities of the Mac that make me feel flexible for my own sake and efficient for the sake of others. Embed Links in Text When I compose email messages that reference websites for clients, I prefer to embed the addresses in the text of the message. This gives a [...]
Mousing around again? Did you know that “mouse” is appropriate as a verb? There are several common actions that involve moving a pointer cursor but not necessarily clicking the item underneath. Mouse Over Mousing over an element on a screen means moving the cursor on top of it. Sometimes this results in the [...]
If your iPhone supports Touch ID, how many fingerprints have you stored? If you have more than one Apple device, have you copied content from one to another? If you link to a lot of websites, how do you keep your tabs under control? Add More Fingerprints Does your iPhone or iPad have a [...]
There are a number of tools that can help you recall past events, identify availability, notify people about an event, and engage participation in shared activities. Below is a quick review of all of these. Total Recall If you’re an avid mobile calendar user, you may have noticed that the stock iOS Calendar app [...]
Last Tuesday, right in front of my house, my bike and I were suddenly not moving, and keeled over. Responding to one too many obstacles, including the rough pavement beneath me, and already clipped into my pedals, instead of achieving forward momentum, I broke my elbow. I’m grateful that one of my housemates was home [...]
