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What's In Your Cart

You’ve got to give Amazon a lot of credit. Starting in 1995, they proceeded to change the way we shop. Starting first with an online bookstore, then expanding into music, movies, and then pretty much everything under the sun, we learned to how shop online thanks to them. While they weren’t the first (Powell’s Books, for example, beat Amazon by a year), they were certainly the best known.

And they are now a household word, to the point that their name has been verbified.

Amazon Prime, which debuted in 2005, taught us to shop often and enjoy unlimited two-day shipping. Rather than aggregate purchases like before that time, in an effort to reduce shipping costs, this helped us shop on impulse. It became even more pronounced once we had an app to do this. I am extremely guilty of it.

Not a company to necessarily be tied to the online arena, Amazon has slowly been tweaking its entree into the brick and mortar realm. It has launched, folded, and relaunched various iterations of mini supermarkets, and in 2017, it purchased the Whole Foods chain, which has more than 500 units. It was at Whole Foods that last year it launched “palm pay” technology.

At about the same time, though, the company realized its “Just Walk Out” program at other stores was not cutting it. Between erroneous charges and theft, it was posing a cash drain on the firm.

Today, we find Amazon opening four more Amazon Fresh stores in selected locations across the country. It is now using its proprietary Amazon Dash Carts, a smart shopping cart, as well as the palm pay that has been successful at Whole Foods.

Imagine a shopping cart with a massive computer apparatus where you would normally place your purse or small child. This device has a scanner and scale, and knows where you are in the store at all times. Shoppers can add and delete items easily, and if they logged in to their account, can finalize their transaction and walk out. Otherwise, go through a traditional checkout, where you can pay the old fashioned ways, or wave your palm.

I love it! I just wish one of these stores were a little closer. For now, I will have to be content with Whole Foods in Dallas and other large cities whenever I visit. Believe me, it feels very empowering to just wave my hand over a scanner.

By now you might be wondering whatever happened to online ordering, home delivery, and curbside pickup. These are still things, of course, but Amazon wisely realizes that shoppers actually want to go to a physical store at least some of the time. I consume a lot of fresh veggies and fruit, and like to inspect before I buy.

Then there’s the process of discovery, something that is harder to accomplish online even with the best suggestion engines. For example, I love perusing Whole Foods’ expansive fresh produce department for oddities, like romanesco, red kale, purple cauliflower, rambutan, and many other rarities. I am implicitly asking Whole Foods—and Amazon—to wow me.

While palm pay has done well, thanks in large part to the fact that unless someone chops off my hand or handcuffs me to go shopping, the jury is still out on the Dash Carts.

Amazon is trying hard to speed up the shopping process, especially the end of it when we have to either self-check or wait in line for an employee to do it. By allowing us to do it throughout the entire shopping visit, we are basically one tap away from heading to the car after we enter the last item.

Sure, there will always be pushback. Some folks are put off by palm pay, fearing privacy as well as the Mark of the Beast and all that end times stuff. Others may be fearful of all the technology, especially the smart carts. Business critics may argue that a touchscreen showing your running total may hamper impulse purchases, because shoppers are fully aware of the bill as they go along. Oh, and then there’s the fact that these carts cost up to $10,000 apiece, and could easily be damaged if left outside. Never mind the homeless person who decides one of these might just be perfect for wheeled conveyance of his possessions.

Regardless, though, we are experiencing change writ large, and Amazon continues to push the needle. In spite of those who may never buy into it all, collectively we have accepted everything Amazon has done in the last 29 years. Perhaps someday we’ll be able to enter a store and see smart shelves illuminating our frequent purchases, view personalized messages on the screen, or even hear voices if we’re wearing Air Pods.

I’m down with it all. Anything to keep shopping trips exciting.

Dr “I’ll Wave As I Go Buy” Gerlich

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813: Magifest 2024 - Day Three Report

Saturday 27th January 2024

10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Dealer’s Room Open

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

John Guastaferro's One Degree: An Afternoon of Music, Magic, and Motivation

John G combines his love for music (classical guitar), motivational speaking (he runs a non-profit for a major corporation) and magic (he has developed some truly world-class card magic) in this one-of-a-kind event. You will leave feeling inspired and with an array of new card moves and tricks.

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Youth Event

Final call for young magicians. Surprises await, just for our young attendees.

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Asi Wind and John Graham: Magic Between Friends

Two fan favorites join forces to present a lecture and talk on how collaboration will improve our magic.

4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Jay Sankey Lecture

Join Jay Sankey to celebrate the relaunch of his Definitive Sankey books and learn his latest magic!

8:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Gala Show

Featuring Juliana Chen, Trigg Watson, Alexander Koblikov, Montreal Trio, Art Benjamin. Hosted by Andi Gladwin.

10:30 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.

Bar Magic (Blaise Serra)

Time stamps for this episode: (to be filled in after I’ve had some sleep)

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Introducing Apple Silicon M2 Pro Mac Mini

New Apple Silicon M2 Pro Mac Mini Computer Amazon EC2 M2 Pro Mac Instances

When building and testing Apple apps, these instances perform 35% quicker than M1 Mac instances.

The AWS Nitro System uniquely enables Apple M2 Pro Mac Mini computers with 12 core CPU, 19 core GPU, 32 GiB of memory, and 16 core Apple Neural Engine to function as fully integrated and managed compute instances with up to 10 Gbps of Amazon VPC network bandwidth and 8 Gbps of Amazon EBS storage bandwidth. AMIs for EC2 M2 Pro Mac instances support macOS Ventura 13.2 or later.

Story of EC2 Mac Instances

In 2020, Jeff Barr stunned consumers by introducing Amazon EC2 Mac Instances, which allowed them to build, test, package, and sign Xcode developed apps for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and watch OS.

In his keynote at AWS re:Invent 2020, Peter DeSantis revealed how to build EC2 Mac instances powered by the AWS Nitro System, which allows Apple Mac mini computers to be fully integrated and managed with Amazon VPC networking and Amazon EBS storage like other EC2 instances.

We didn’t need to modify Mac hardware. We used Thunderbolt to connect a Nitro controller to the Mac. Launching a Mac instance runs your Mac compatible Amazon Machine Image (AMI) on the Mac Mini without a hypervisor. The Nitro controller configures the instance and secures network and storage access. The Mac Mini can now use any AWS service natively.”

Amazon EC2 M1 Mac Instances using the Apple designed M1 System on Chip debuted in July 2022. Developers designing iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV apps can choose x86 or Arm based EC2 Mac or M1 instances.

To re architect your apps to natively support Macs with Apple Silicon, use EC2 M1 instances to build and test your apps to give up to 60% better price performance than EC2 Mac instances for iPhone and Mac app construction workloads with all the benefits of AWS.

Many users use EC2 Mac instances to establish an end to end macOS pipeline on AWS. EC2 Mac instances let them scale their iOS build fleet, use custom macOS environments with AMIs, and debug build or test failures using fully reproducible macOS environments.

Customers have reported up to 4x build time reduction, 3x parallel build increase, 80% reduction in machine-related build failures, and 50% fleet size reduction. They may focus on product and feature innovation while reducing the hassle of managing on-premises macOS infrastructure.

To accelerate this innovation, EC2 Mac instances now support replacing root volumes on running instances, allowing you to restore the instance’s root volume to its launch state or a snapshot without stopping or terminating the instance.

EC2 M1 Mac instances registered with the Apple Developer Programme can receive in-place OS updates from the guest environment to the latest macOS version, even the beta version. Developers can now add new macOS features and test apps for compatibility before public releases.

Starting EC2 M2 Pro Instances

EC2 M2 Pro Mac instances offer Dedicated Host tenancy with a 24 hour host allocation length to comply with macOS licencing, like regular EC2 Mac instances.

In your AWS account, assign a Mac dedicated host, a real server for your use. You can launch, stop, and relaunch one macOS instance on a dedicated host after allocating it.

You can start an EC2 Mac instance on the allotted host. This is the same as launching any EC2 instance type. Select the mac m2 pro.metal instance type in Application and OS Images for your macOS AMI version.

Select Dedicated host in Tenancy and a newly built dedicated host in Tenancy host ID in Advanced information.

For your initial EC2 Mac instance, you can use SSH or Apple Remote Desktop to start a VNC session. Sebastien’s Mac instance startup and connection articles explain more.

You can stop your Mac instance and release the host when you no longer require it. Apple’s macOS licencing requires that Mac dedicated hosts be relinquished after 24 hours.

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How does Disney despite begin function?

DisneyPlus is an application that can be downloaded to cell phones, however can additionally be utilized to cooperate with the television. To endorse DisneyPlus.com/begin despite your television, you should at first have a selection on the stage that has given out you a client code and secret articulation to sign in.

Who ought to seek after Disney in any case?

Disney despite is an ideal help for Disney fans, whether they're Supernatural occurrence nerds, "Star Wars" sweethearts, or development devotees. It's particularly reasonable for families with kids who need to watch persistent Disney motion pictures and more pre-arranged Disney titles from the studio's vault.

The plan of phenomenal programming has likewise grown an uncommon course of action since transport off. Prestigious shows like "Andor" and "The Mandalorian," which just shut its third season, keep on adding worth, and you'll have to seek after Disney despite watch them.

How to Utilize DisneyPlus.com/Begin?

Expecting you are told to go to both disneyplus.com begin and disneyplus.com login/begin, you should comply to these headings to begin.

• Open your Disney despite application on your contraptions

• Register now for your Disney despite Record

• Sign in to your record and you'll see the 8-digit number at the lower part of the page.

• This code should induce your gadget

• Go to Disneyplus.com/begin with your web program

• Exactly when it is stacking, you should sign in with a comparable record you utilized when you at first embraced into your gadget.

• Enter a 8-digit code

• Resulting to entering the code unequivocally, click Enter.

•  After you have completed the means over, your disneyplus.com login/begin is all complete.

Lay out Disney despite on PS4 through Disneyplus.com/Begin

• Play the game on your PS4 gaming console

• The bolt button will take you to the PS4 application store.

• Enter "Disney in any case", then, at that point, click on the Pursuit box.

• Then, download Disney + application.

• Begin the "Disney regardless" application through looking for introduced applications on your PS4.

• In the event that there is no endorsing number, select the choice to sign into the Disney despite application utilizing a code.

• Visit disneyplus.com/begin PS4 on your program other than your PS4.

• With your username and secret articulation, sign in to the Disney despite account that you have made.

• Thoughtfully enter the 8-digit commencement code showed on the television's screen and snap the button to continue.

• Finish.

Ways to deal with fixing in the event that Disney despite isn't working

The most head subtleties in this text are the suggests that can be taken to conclude application related issues with Disney in any case. These techniques solidify shutting and restarting the application, testing the Wi-Fi alliance, rebooting the Wi-Fi switch and association modem, picking assuming that Disney despite is lethargic, and settling common slip up codes.

In the event that the issue is happening on a streaming player or shrewd television, the headings for shutting and relaunching the application will change reliant upon the gadget. The issue is going on a streaming player or savvy television, the headings for shutting and relaunching the application will move reliant upon the contraption. On the off chance that it happens on a streaming player or breathtaking television, the principles for shutting and relaunching the application will differentiate subject to the gadget.

On the off chance that the issue is going on a streaming player or cunning television, the headings for shutting and relaunching the application will shift subject to the gadget. The most focal data in this text is the technique for settling disney plus com begin despite mess up codes.

How should I enact Disneyplus.com/begin on Amazon Firestick?

• Get the Amazon Firestick

• Click on the "Track down Application" partner in the application segment

• Get the Disney despite application for your cell.

• Once the download is complete, open the Disney despite application and enter your secret key to sign into Disney despite login.

• Your contraption will show the disneyplus.com/begin code start screen.

• A 8-digit code will show up on your screen after you sign in to your record with your contraption.

• To begin your Firestick, you require visiting disneyplus.com login begin.

• To continue, you should give the Incitation number.

• Proceed

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Earn by Instagram Threads! How Threads Can Spark Your Online Income

What is Instagram Threads?

In 2019, Instagram released Threads, a stand-alone messaging app. They created it to give users a more private and close-knit way to communicate with their close friends. The app has features like disappearing messages, status updates, and a feed that only close friends can see.

The app, however, never really took off, and it was discontinued in December 2021. Up until its relaunch on July 5th, 2023, Instagram Threads actually outperformed Twitter in terms of user base and popularity. Instagram Threads are currently being used for conversation and entertainment by users on all social media platforms.

Even though that’s a different aspect of the app, we can still use it to our advantage! The point I’m making is that every day, nearly 5–6 million new users sign up. So that we can actually profit from it, we can target those people.

Earn via Affiliate Links

As the platform is populated and new users are signing up, it’s a best way to promote our products and affiliate links. For this guide, We will use Amazon Affiliate links.

Sign up for the Amazon Associates program: To create Amazon affiliate links, you need to be a member of the Amazon Associates program. Visit the Amazon Associates website and sign up for an account. You will need to provide information about your website or app where you plan to promote the affiliate links.

Generate affiliate links using the Amazon SiteStripe tool: Once you have an approved Amazon Associates account, go to the Amazon website and log in. At the top of the page, you will find a navigation bar called “SiteStripe.” Click on it to enable the SiteStripe tool, which will appear at the top of the page.

Search for a product and generate the affiliate link: Use the Amazon search bar to find the product you want to promote. When you find the product, click on the SiteStripe tool and select the “Text” option. This will generate your affiliate link, which you can copy and use in your website or app. You can also customize the link by selecting the “Customize” option in the SiteStripe tool.

Once the affiliate link has been created, post the link in a new thread along with some images and a description of the product. When you start receiving traffic, post it again and again to get some sales commission!

Promote Your Blogs

Another excellent way to make money simply by writing is to create blogs and post them. If you already have a blog, all you need to do is promote it to the new Instagram Threads users to drive traffic to your own blog website!

I’ve myself wrote a blog on how you can make upto $100,000 Just by blogging! Check it out Here

Here is a procedure on how to make a WordPress Blog:

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Activate USA Network on Roku, Amazon Fire TV, and Apple TV [Updated 2022]

Create an NBCUniversal account to gain access to unlimited entertainment from the United States. Although using the USA app to watch your favorite shows on your favorite screen appears to be straightforward, you must first go to usanetwork.com/activatenbcu and complete the activation process.

Let's go over everything you'll need to get USA Network on your streaming device and start watching episodes and movies.

About USA Network

The NBCUniversal Television and Streaming subsidiary of Comcast's NBCUniversal owns USA Network (or simply USA). It is distributed by NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment. It debuted in 1977 as Madison Square Garden Sports Network, one of the first national sports cable television networks, before being relaunched on April 9, 1980, under its current name. Since then, USA has progressively grown in prominence thanks to its own content, a long-standing collaboration with WWE, and, for many years, limited sports programming, which grew dramatically in 2022 after NBCSN was shuttered.

As of September 2018, USA Network was commercially available to around 90.4 million households in the United States (98 percent of pay television households).

In a multibillion-dollar deal in 2003, General Electric agreed to merge NBC and its subsidiaries with Vivendi Universal's North American filmed entertainment holdings, including Universal Pictures and Universal Television Group, and rename the resulting firm NBC Universal. GE kept an 80% ownership stake in the new corporation, while Vivendi kept a 20% stake. In 2004, NBC Universal took over ownership of the USA and its sister cable stations (excluding Newsworld International). The 4400, a science fiction series, began in the United States that year.

With its original programming, USA Network has established a viewership foothold; this began in the 1990s with initial hits like Silk Stalkings and La Femme Nikita, and was gradually followed over the next two decades by series like Monk, Psych, Shooter, White Collar, Mr. Robot, Suits, Burn Notice, and Royal Pains.

Activate USA Network on your streaming devices

ON ROKU

Start watching movies, series, programs, and other popular on-demand entertainment by following the USA Network activation steps on Roku. Get the Roku app first before turning on the channel.

Press the Home button on your Roku remote to turn on your Roku device.

After that, go to "Roku Channel" and look for the USA app.

To install the app on your smartphone, click "Add Channe."

You must now log into your Roku account.

Select "Channel Store" > "USA Network" from the drop-down menu.

To activate the channel, you will be given a one-of-a-kind activation code. The code will show on the screen of your television.

Take note of the code and proceed to roku.com/usanetwork/activatenbcu or usanetwork/activatenbu.

Click on the "CONTINUE" option after entering the already obtained activation code in the right field.

The USA Network channel on Roku will take a few moments to activate.

ON APPLE TV

Navigate to the App Store on your Apple TV and browse for the app "USA Network."

After you've found the channel you want, click the "Get" button.

This will start the process of downloading and installing the app on your device. Then, on your Apple TV, navigate to the app section and activate the app.

The software will give you an activation code as soon as you open it.

Take note of the code and go to usanetwork.com/activate/appletv or usanetwork.com/activatenbcu on a different computer or mobile device.

Click the "CONTINUE" option after entering the activation code you received.

Your device should be ready to see the USA Network channel's programming.

ON AMAZON FIRE TV

Go to the Amazon Fire TV's Home screen.

Using the remote, go to the Amazon Store and look for the USA Network app.

After you've found the channel, download the app to your smartphone.

This will start the process of downloading and installing the app on your device.

When you open the app, it will display an activation code on your TV screen.

Launch your favorite web browser on a separate computer and go to usanetwork.com/activatenbcu.

Click the "CONTINUE" option after entering the activation code you received.

Popular shows such as Temptation Island, Queen of the South, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Proposal, Chrisley Knows Best, Miz & Mrs, WWE Next, and more should now be available to you.

ON ANDROID TV

Make sure your Android TV is connected to the internet before turning it on.

After that, go to the Home screen and look for it.

Then, launch the Google Play Store application.

In your search field, type in USA Network and click "download."

After you've downloaded the app, you'll be prompted to input an activation code.

Open a new device and go to usanetworkcom/activatenbcu to activate it with an activation code that you must type into a box.

Stick to the instructions on the screen.

Take pleasure in your programming.

Wrapping up!

To access USA content, create an NBCUniversal profile. Any of the digital media platforms listed below can be used to activate the USA app. To watch USA content, you must first activate your account at usanetwork.com/activatenbcu. The USA Network is a ROKU channel that broadcasts the United States of America.

Source: https://tomtysononeclick.blogspot.com/2022/10/activate-usa-network-on-roku-amazon.html

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Click the target drive to choose where you want to transfer data to. The checkbox next to the target drive is to select the root of the target drive. If you want to transfer selected files and folders& click the source drive and make your choice.

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Step 2: In the Preferences pane& uncheck Pictures under My PC and uncheck Upload newly added photos under Google Photos. Now select ellipses and select Preferences. Step 1: Click the Backup and Sync app in the taskbar. If you have not set photos to upload to Google Photos in the Backup and Sync app& photo upload to Google Photos is stopped. Solution 5: Stop (Uncheck) Photos From Uploading And Syncing Step 3: Click the Trash or Bin icon and select Empty Trash. Alternatively& right-click using a two-finger tap or a mouse or press the Option key while clicking the Backup and Sync app in the Applications folder and select Move To Trash. Step 2: Drag the Backup and Sync app to your Trash or Bin icon in the Dock. Step 1: Open macOS Finder and click Applications in the sidebar. Step 4: Uninstall the app confirm once more. Step 3: Locate the Backup and Sync From Google Step 1: Click the Windows Start menu and click Settings.

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Armchair investigators are using Freedom of Information rights to shine a light on how transgender lobby group Stonewall is influencing the policy of public bodies, putting them at risk of legal challenges. An army of citizen sleuths have taken their lead from the Legal Feminist collective of lawyers, which has published a detailed analysis of the actions taken by Edinburgh University following its participation in Stonewall’s Diversity Champions scheme.

The report reveals how the investment of time and resources in the scheme leads organisations to give Stonewall’s trans agenda disproportionately greater priority than the needs of other discriminated groups, such as women, ethnic minorities and people with disabilities. And it demonstrates how membership of the scheme affects not just an organisation’s treatment of employees, but also the services it provides to the public. The authors argue this is putting public bodies at risk of legal challenge by Judicial Review and under equalities law.

Meanwhile, lesbian lawyer Allison Bailey, who is suing Stonewall, has relaunched her crowdfunder, raising nearly half her target in one day. Ms Bailey claims Stonewall attempted to deprive her of a livelihood after she launched a rival campaigning group LGB Alliance and, she says, it is “policing free speech” through its diversity champions scheme. Ms Bailey was forced to build a new crowdfunding platform after CrowdJustice took her original appeal down just a day after it was launched last June. An employment tribunal is due to hold preliminary hearings in the case on 11 and 12 February.

More than 850 organisations, including big corporates such as Amazon, Coca-Cola and Kellogg’s UK, as well as 250 public sector bodies, pay a minimum of £2,500 per year to be members of Stonewall’s diversity champions scheme. According to Stonewall’s most recent published accounts, £3.2 million of its £8.3 million income came from “fees” for its membership schemes, the largest of which is diversity champions. A further £634,000 came from “programme income”, such as professional and leadership training.

According to calculations in The Telegraph last year, taxpayers contribute around £600,000 a year to Stonewall through the diversity champions subscriptions of local and national government bodies. Far more valuable than the financial contributions are the policy decisions Stonewall affects through the programme. Investigators are this month submitting Freedom of Information requests to all public bodies to uncover the full extent of the influence.

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Vintage Clothing Boutique Relaunch - 2021

The preliminary start:

I opened up a bag of what I correctly thought was coats and used a simple setup to list a few pieces of vintage. I accidentally shipped the wrong coat and the replacement got lost in the mail. I gave the buyer a full refund ($88). I had also paid her shipping costs to ship the wrong coat I’d sent back to me ($12). Ouch! As of this writing, the coat is STILL “in transit”. Anyway, can’t cry over spilled milk – this was a huge lesson learned! In 4 years of doing V1 of VintageReveries online vintage clothing boutique I never once shipped the wrong item and nothing ever got “lost in the mail”. After this expensive mistake, and from going into the basement being reminded of the quantity of vintage clothes that I still have left, I realized that I needed to regroup.

Reinventing selling vintage clothing:

I realized that I needed to invest in a system and materials so that I could sell this inventory without it taking over my life, and while still holding down a 9-5, 40 hour a week job. I put too much on my Amazon credit card, but these items I consider my best purchases so far:

The shipping bags – why did I ship only in boxes back in 2012???

A nice rolling tall clothing rack – with so many dresses, I’m not sure how I lived with something so basic.

A white backdrop and stand

The backdrop kit- but it’s too low- at first I bought a 7 foot tall stand, and ended up buying a 10 foot stand. Long vintage dresses require height!

Large moving boxes for sorting clothing – I bought just enough!

I already had a clothing steamer and shelving. I found some old doors in my basement and set up stations for measuring clothing and for steaming. An old fitted bedsheet works perfect for the steamer station.  I found the clear plastic baggies to be pretty useless. Why do twice the work? Also these “standard” size bags don’t fit dresses or coats very well. I might refine this part of the process in the future, but after a small test batch, I decided to pack the clothing in the shipping bags and if the inventory sticker won’t come off it I’ll just cover it up with a “thank you” sticker (which I printed off on the blank Avery labels that I used to create teh inventory stickers).  

Lastly, I bought banker boxes to be the “bins” for my processed vintage clothing, and a clothing folder device. I’m not completely happy with the banker boxes, but they’ll do until I can afford plastic bins/boxes that fit the shelving better. Did I say that I don’t know how I lived without shipping bags yet???

This is how it all looked once everything was set up:

Stay tuned! My next blog entries will be about my first experiences listing on PoshMark, Mercari, and eBay… and my challenges with creating a spreadsheet for sales and where-listed that works for me. I might opine further on the inspirational youtube videos and accounts I’ve been watching, and on products that work for me (and don’t). I will also be sharing in-depth about how I set-up e-commerce using Woocommerce and how I further used free plugins to automatically synch to Facebook and Instagram shopping! I may have “dropped” selling vintage for 5+ years, but I’ve kept up to date with WordPress and can’t wait to apply my skills to this vintage clothing project!

Vintage Clothing Boutique Relaunch – 2021 was originally published on VintageReveries - Vintage Fashion and Ephemera Blog

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How to Watch Amazon Prime Video Using Chromecast?

Unfortunately, Amazon Prime Video is not compatible with Chromecast. However, you can use the casting feature to watch Amazon Prime Video on your TV with Chromecast.

Watch Amazon Prime Video with Chromecast Prerequisites

Well, to watch Prime with your Chromecast, you need to comply with some basic requirements:

Google Chrome web browser must be of the most recent version.

Or else, an updated Google Chromebook.

Google Chromecast should be connected to the TV.

Subscription to Amazon Prime to get access to a variety of shows and movies.

Ensure that the Google Chromecast is hooked up to the wireless network and is working properly. To test it, one needs to install the application for Google Home and ensure that the Google Chromecast gets recognized. After determining that Google Chromecast is connected to the TV and works properly, you can stream Prime content to your device

Streaming Amazon Prime to Chromecast with Google Chrome

On your Chrome browser, sign in to the Amazon Prime account locate the stuff you want to stream. Open the video on the web browser.

When it starts to play, click on the menu icon at the top right edge of the Chrome tab and choose Cast.

This shall launch a new window that shall show a list of the detected devices on the wi-fi network that the web browser can cast the tab to.

Select the TV that is connected to the Chromecast.

When the casting begins, the device will become blue.

Improving the streaming quality of Amazon Prime Video

The users may come across some problems when they stream videos on Amazon Prime. When one is watching the movie or show in the web browser while streaming to Google Chrome, the audio may sputter.

Also, one can only stream tabs to 1080p, and the streaming quality can be poor in case the network connection is bad.

These problems can be overcome by making a few changes.

Firstly, you should turn on a Chrome flag known as the new remote playback pipeline.

You will have to click on Relaunch Now for restarting the web browser.

Ensure that when you reboot the Prime video and screencast it to Chromecast, you switch the video to full screen to make the most out of it.

Here is another way to enhance the video streaming quality:

Launch the Google Home application.

Select the TV the Chromecast is hooked up to.

Press the Settings icon.

Go to the Display segment.

Turn on Use 50Hz HDMI Mode.

Tweaking Volume While Screencasting Amazon Prime Video

Some individuals think that to increase or decrease the volume when streaming Prime via Chromecast, one needs the TV remote. Well, you can tweak the volume from other ways as well.

The volume can be changed within Amazon Prime. On the video, there will be a speaker option. Just increase or decrease it however you want.

Now, you can also tweak the volume of your Google Chromecast using the Google Home app.

Here is how you can do it:

Launch the Google Home application on your phone.

Navigate to the TV you are casting to and select it.

Push the slider to tweak the volume.

Source: Amazon Prime Videos Using Chromecast

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Wonder Woman #45

Previously in hey, remember when Wonder Woman used to be the protagonist of this comic? Does anyone remember that?

Darkseid wants a powerful army, so he’s decided to enslave the Amazons. He built a Stargate capable of reaching Themyscira, and sent Grail through to conquer it single-handedly. The Amazons, being the incredible army that they are, are completely overwhelmed by this invasion of one, and Grail begins zapping them and turning them into parademons, because apparently that’s something she can do now?? And she never thought to use to turn Diana and Jason into her loyal minions, because reasons???

Diana can’t follow Grail because Robinson — either through not paying attention or not giving a shit — has rewritten canon, and now instead of Themyscira being near-impossible to find by design because it houses Ares’ prison, it’s governed by some weird arbitrary rules around not permitting anybody to return after they leave, except if their feet never touched the ground. This is purely an excuse to send Jason through in Diana’s stead.

So instead, Diana has mostly been punching Darkseid ineffectually while raging about how she hates him and wants to hurt him because he killed her daddy. By the end of this issue, she will have done precisely one thing to impact the plot in this entire arc, and it’s love her daddy so much that his ghost comes and beats up Darkseid for her.

The issue opens with parademonised Amazons pouring out of the portal from Themyscira, and Diana, Steve, Jason and the ARGUS goon squad struggling to fight them off.

Since the New 52 relaunch, the Amazons have — with the exception of Rucka’s year on the book — alternately been turned into beasts, killed people en masse, or been killed en masse. So of course Robinson managed to find a way to incorporate all three. This isn’t something unique to the New 52 — between 1986 and 2011, I don’t think there was a single extended run on Wondy that didn’t involve a mass slaughter of Amazons — but it doesn’t make it any less awful this time.

Robinson’s exposition goes into double-time, as the characters frantically remind each other/us what happened last issue, while simultaneously Steve’s narration boxes remind us what’s happened so far in this arc.

In amongst this, there’s a hilarious moment where an ARGUS soldier runs over to Steve with Diana’s sword, like it’s just found the Holy Grail.

“Colonel Trevor, I found it! Wonder Woman’s swor—!”

Wonder Woman’s sword not some magical super-weapon that’s going to turn the tide of the battle. It’s just a sword, same as the ones the Paramazondemons are using.

You know what is a magical super-item that could turn the tide of the battle? The goddamn Lasso of Truth. You know, unbreakable divine relic? Capable of cutting through illusion and mind control, even self-deception? You don’t think it would be worth trying that on your mind-controlled sisters before you start stabbing them?

But suddenly this perfectly ordinary sword is the most important thing in the world! When the ARGUS goon is impaled from behind and drops the sword, Jason swoops in to pick it up.

“Got it! Sword’s on its way, sister!”

After a brief time out for some more exposition, Jason tosses Diana the sword and flies through the portal (because his feet never touched the ground the first time he was there blah blah).

Jason’s powers still look idiotic, and Temofonte’s lettering choices are still irritating.

Steve [narration]: I have to admit… I’m starting to like Diana’s brother.

Good lord, why? Since when?!

A couple of hours ago, Steve disliked Jason on account of Jason being a reckless, glory-hounding, dangerously inexperienced, untrustworthy wanker.  He spent a lot of time listing all the reasons he didn’t trust him!  And all of those things still hold true. Maybe Jason’s taking this fight a little more seriously than previous ones, but he’s still substantially the same person that he was two hours earlier. Realistically, Steve should be less than thrilled that his people’s lives and the lives of the Amazons are in the hands of an untrained, undisciplined, ego-driven turncoat whose recent exploits include henching for Darkseid, trying to kill Diana and acquiring super-powered armour under suspiciously vague circumstances.

Now with that all-important sword in hand, Diana continues to be… pretty ineffectual against Darkseid.

Diana calls Darkseid insane. This is something she’s been doing at least once every issue, and each time she does, it grates on me. Part of it’s the excessively casual use of pejoratives — because even by the standards of the superhero genre, which historically hasn’t been great at handling mental illness and is quick to default to labels like ‘crazy’ and ‘mad’ and ‘insane’, Robinson’s Diana throws these words around a lot, and it’s deeply out of character.

But more than that, it makes no sense, because of all the characters in this godforsaken comic, Darkseid’s behaviour may be the least erratic. His agenda has been consistent from day one: he wants to regain his power so that he can retake Apokolips, and all of his actions have been effectively targeted to take him towards that goal. He’s cruel, ruthless, callous, vicious, dictatorial and arguably evil, but you couldn’t really call him “insane”.

It gets worse, because the reason Diana thinks Darkseid is mentally unstable is that — even having had it spelled out to her three issues ago by Grail under the compulsion of the Lasso — she still can’t figure out what his plan is. “I know you’re insane, Darkseid,” she says, “but this — transforming my sisters into parademons — this madness has no rhyme at all.”

At this stage, Diana knows

Darkseid wants an army — one that is both extremely powerful and unquestioningly loyal (per Grail),

With this objective in mind, Darkseid has gone to great lengths to open a portal to Themyscira, and

Now Grail has gone to Themyscira, where she is turning Amazons into extremely powerful and unquestioningly loyal parademons

…and she still can’t put the fucking pieces together. That’s how checked out of the plot Diana is: we’re ten pages from the end of the arc, and the villain is forced to explain to her what she should have twigged to sixty pages ago.

Jason enters Themyscira and sees Hippolyta fighting Grail. He rushes to her aid, but in a rare non-terrible writing decision from Robinson, his presence is entirely unnecessary: Hippolyta proves perfectly capable of taking down Grail without any help.

Cue the nauseating reunion.

Jason: Mother! It’s me. I… I’m your son! Hippolyta: Jason? Oh, my beautiful boy. It is you. To finally see your face—

Diana, meanwhile, continues to be completely ineffectual. Battered by Darkseid, she whimpers to Steve that she’s starting to think that she can’t win. Steve tells her that no matter what, he loves her, and Diana sits bolt upright.

“That’s it, Steve! LOVE! Hatred won’t win this — violence — but love just might!”

Look, I’m glad that Robinson has finally figured out that Diana’s greatest strength as a hero is the depth of her love and compassion, rather than a propensity for excessive violence — because, hey, better late than never — but this is straight out of left field.

And the annoying thing is, under other circumstances, this plot point — Diana besting Darkseid not through force, but through love — could be done well. Has been done, in fact, fifteen-odd years ago by Phil Jimenez.

Good comics interlude: During the ‘Our Worlds at War’ crossover, Diana has to team up with Darkseid to save the universe. With Raven’s help, she channels her faith and the faith of all her sisters into Darkseid in order to restore his power so that he can blah blah convoluted plot stuff. At the story’s end, Darkseid gloats that he is back at the height of his power, while Diana has lost almost everything — her mother has been killed, along with hundreds of other Amazons. Themyscira is no more. Diana even lost a piece of her very soul to Darkseid through the act of empowering him.

Diana smiles slowly.

“Surely you must be joking, Darkseid? Or don’t you know?

When Raven channelled our energies through you, she infected your dark spirit. She didn’t just give you my power, she used her empathic powers to fuse that part of my soul into your own. A part that I give freely, each and every day… and which you took gladly, without understanding the consequences.

There’s a piece of me inside you now, Darkseid. A piece that believes more than anything in joy and hope and peace. So ponder on that, New God — each and every time your feelings and actions are tainted by some undeniable longing for kindness… or the next time the Fates decide you should commit an unidentifiable act of compassion towards your minions and people in the name of some abstraction called ‘love’. Ponder that.”

SHE INFECTED HIM WITH HER SOUL SHE IS SUCH A FUCKING BOSS.

A year and a half later, Jimenez delivers an insight into just what this means for Darkseid. And while he’s much the same villain as before, there’s a stubborn splinter of pure compassion embedded deep within his soul. It torments and infuriates him. Every so often, it drives him to feel things, do things entirely alien to him — like show mercy to a slave.

Darkseid: Foul woman! What have you done to me? Diana: What’s wrong, Darkseid? Had moment or two of inexplicable compassion? I warned you. The portion of my soul you stole will corrupt you from the inside out. You’ll be kissing babies and freeing slaves before you know it. Darkseid: What do you want, Amazon? Diana: Just to remind you of your invitation, New God. It seems some of the Amazons are actually willing to forgive you for your hateful transgressions against them and would like to negotiate a more peaceful relationship with the Lord of Apokolips. You should come. Who knows? You might even learn a thing or two. Although it seems to me you’re learning plenty right now… Darkseid: [raging] AAAAAHHHHHHHH!

That’s how Diana owned Darkseid with the power of love last time.

And this is how Robinson’s Diana… enables Zeus’s ghost to own Darkseid on her behalf through the power of her love for her daddy:

Her boyfriend says ‘I love you’, and this gives her an idea. She walks up to Darkseid and informs him that she’s not going to fight, she’s just going to let him pummel her while she aggressively loves Zeus at him. This causes the ghosts of all the gods Darkseid devoured to to pour out of him. Zeus manages to stick around long enough to tell Diana that he’s proud of her, then fades away while Diana’s all ‘noooo daddeeeee come baaaack’. Then Darkseid appears to spontaneously combust, the end.

Steve points out that whatever happened to Darkseid has affected the portal as well — it’s now closing, with Jason and Grail still on the other side.

On Themyscira, the Amazons have just about contained their parademonised sisters, when they see that the portal is closing. Cue another nauseating scene of Hippolyta waxing emotional over how much she loves Jason and he’s the best son ever and, here, have this super-special magical god-weapon, why don’t you?

“Take this spear. Designed by Artemis, crafted by Hephaistos — enchanted and unbreakable.”

boo.

Steve and Diana wait anxiously by the Totally-Not-A-Stargate.

Steve: So what do you want me to do, Angel? I mean, you can’t go through, obviously… but I could.

What are you talking about, no you bloody couldn’t!

Robinson has been quite clear about the portal rules. They’re dumb rules, and they fly in the face of established canon, but they’re clear.

If you have ever been to Themyscira before, you cannot enter the portal.

You only register as having been to Themyscira if your feet touched the ground.

Steve has been to Themyscira. His feet touched the ground. You cannot go changing up the rules with only four pages to go.

But of course Jason gets back just in time, and Diana is unrealistically excited to see him, and it’s all, ‘I met my mummy and she loves me!’ ‘I met my daddy and he loves me!’ ‘Oh PS, we’ve got a bunch of parademon-Amazons in custody now. I guess maybe somebody should work on turning them back to normal?’

Grail wakes up chained in Ares’ prison. At a cursory glance, this seems like a reasonable solution: Grail is a prisoner, and no prison is more secure than the one Themyscira guards over.

But then, unlike Robinson, I thought about it for more than a second and what the hell this is a terrible idea. The whole point of Themyscira is to prevent anybody who might conspire to release Ares on the world from reaching his prison, and they’ve just locked a supervillain in with him and his evil sons. Unleashing War on the world is exactly the kind of thing Grail would do if it means securing her escape and furthering Darkseid’s plans.

It’s also a dick move on the Amazons’ part, because Grail is supposedly one of their own. She has a lot to atone for, and there would undoubtedly be Amazons who’d want to see her pay for her crimes, but I doubt it would escape the council’s notice that Grail has essentially been used and manipulated by trusted parental figures for her entire life. Her mother bore her, raised her and trained her to be a weapon whose only purpose was to destroy Darkseid. Her father turned her into his loyal minion. She has never been her own person, never had any family that didn’t see her as a means to an end. Surely the Amazons would ultimately see it as their responsibility not just to punish and contain her, but to rehabilitate her. That can’t happen if she’s locked away in a cave with only Ares for company.

Also, you know, she’s probably the best chance they have of curing their parademonised sisters, so… maybe do something about that as well?

Meanwhile, somewhere on Earth, Darkseid is wandering around, naked, human-ish, and amnesiac; the end.

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When You’re a Small Business, E-Commerce Is Tougher Than It Looks A chair sits in the middle of Holiday Market, a specialty grocer near Detroit, and if customers are lucky, they’ll find Tom Violante Sr. sitting in it. The 91-year-old founder still comes to work most days — and he knows where everything is in its 60,000 square feet. “He asks everyone if they found what they wanted,” said his son, Tom Violante Jr., who operates the store with his sister and brother-in-law. “If they haven’t, he’ll tell them which aisle it is in, how many steps it takes to get there, and where it’s located, knee, head or belly high.” That’s the type of customer service the store, in Royal Oak, Mich., is known for. So, when Tom Violante Jr. began considering offering online grocery shopping, he wanted to provide that same level of care. He didn’t expect the service to be a huge revenue generator, but he saw the future coming, as online brands such as Chewy and Winc wooed his customers away. 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So, we’ll be more like a food hall you see in the big cities, a place where there are common areas and community where people can talk to each other.” The cost and logistics of enacting an e-commerce strategy convinced Rachel Lutz not to open digital doors for her three Detroit clothing boutiques, the Peacock Room, Frida and Yama. “E-commerce websites are not a magical solution for saving small retail,” she said. For one, Ms. Lutz couldn’t find a good way to manage inventory across two sales channels. She carries a number of unique and specialty items, and she worried than an online customer could buy an item just as someone picked it up off a store shelf. And stocking separate inventories for online and in-store was too expensive. She also didn’t want to use her retail spaces as shipping and logistics centers when the cost of renting them is so much higher than warehouse space. In the end, she realized being a community-centered business was the most important thing. “I might be less efficient, but I have a more special and unique business and that’s what draws people to our store,” Ms. Lutz said. She hasn’t completely turned her back on e-commerce, though. Ms. Lutz used Facebook Live — a tool she was already familiar with — to create a home-shopping show. Several times a week she goes on camera and talks about the products in her store and the people who make them. She numbers the items and people post “sold” in the comments when they want to buy something. “Customers have started calling it ‘the Show,’” Ms. Lutz said. “I knew we had crossed from e-commerce to infotainment when I heard customers were watching it on their big-screen TVs.” Amina Daniels, the owner of Live Cycle Delight fitness studio in Detroit, is putting on her own show. She wishes she could just point a camera at one of her yoga or spinning instructors and start running Instagram Live, but she knows she needs high production values if she wants her customers to maintain their memberships. So Ms. Daniels built a mini production studio inside her spin room, investing thousands in microphones, lights and a film crew to produce on-demand video classes. But no matter how much she invests in her digital platform, it’s hard to go up against Peloton, which is well capitalized and has entire teams producing its digital classes. Last fiscal year, that company saw its sales surge 100 percent even as Live Cycle Delight’s revenue fell 80 percent. “Our competition changed,” Ms. Daniels said. “We’re not just competing with the gym down the street. Titans like Peloton and SoulCycle, they are true beneficiaries of this pandemic. We are working twice as hard to compete with those titans and with celebrity trainers.” About 30 customers left Live Cycle Delight for Peloton, Ms. Daniels said, but she found support in other ways. With the movement to support Black-owned businesses, people donated to her, and there was healthy demand for the studio’s branded merchandise, such as Pilates balls, T-shirts and booty bands, the stretchy bands that add resistance to a workout. These goods have proved so popular that Ms. Daniels struggles to keep them in stock on her website. Between the products, outdoor classes in the summer and memberships, she has been able to keep the three-year-old business open. The shift to e-commerce hasn’t been perfect, she said, but it’s been worth it. She reminds herself why she started the studio: to make fitness more accessible and inclusive. “Peloton is just one kind of experience,” she said. “We’re still here providing clients with an option to join us on the quest of better.” Source link Orbem News #Business #ECommerce #Small #Tougher #youre