![]() ![]() It was a sloppy but flavoursome dish.Įx-Montreal chef Mehdi Brunet-Benkritly is turning out maple-and-soy salmon heads for New Yorkers at his popular new New York izakaya, Chez Sardine. Kazuo Atkutsu’s guillotined Atlantic salmon was marinated in soy, grilled and dressed up with a festive splatter of taste and texture representing a good part of the repertoire of the Japanese pantry, and few add-ons besides. And it was around a year previous that I tucked into a full salmon head at a quirky downtown Montreal izakaya named Kazu. That bluefish head was on the John Dory menu in the spring. Chef April Bloomfield did not get her Michelin stars for nothing.īut neither is she responsible for this relatively new culinary trend of whole-fish, fang-to-fin dining. The package was enriched by crisp-fried discs of sunchoke and brightened with a scattering of the pods and sprouts of sugar snap peas, and a good lashing of peppery olive oil. Its skin was crisp and the flesh beneath was moist and oily. Boston bluefish run large, so the head had been split lengthwise, very generously salted and then roasted. To be sure, it was a fine fish head-about as irresistible as they come. “Eat them up, yum!” And then-most uncharacteristically-she did. “ Fish heads, fish heads, roly-poly fish heads,” she sang softly, serenading the morsel of Boston bluefish on the end of her fork. Or has her singing one-for in this instance the diner seated at the counter of the John Dory Oyster Bar in Lower Manhattan was my wife. ![]() The latest chapter in the adventurous western gourmand’s ongoing quest to catch up with the Third World has him singing a rather strange song.
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![]() The swipe up function is reserved for the Insta elite. Unfortunately, swipe ups aren’t for all and sundry. What are the requirements to add Instagram swipe up links? ![]() Not only does the swipe up feature drive sales, you can now track click-through rates to determine which content fans most want to see. Viewers can either tap the arrow or swipe up to go directly to the link. Swooping in to save the day, Instagram’s swipe up function allows users to promote using links on Instagram Stories.ĭropping a killer promotion or a new YouTube video for your hungry fans? Link directly to specific content in a swipe up Instagram Story. Not only does this mean constantly switching bio links depending on your social media campaign, but performance tracking is a nightmare. Instead, Instagram app users can only put one link in their bios. You can’t put links in an Instagram post. This article will give you a complete walkthrough of what swipe up is and how you can start adding links to Instagram Stories to drive traffic to your website and products. ![]() However, there’s a few criteria to meet before you can add swipe up links to your Instagram Stories. Instagram swipe up now means you can link directly to your products. Historically, brands have only been able to link to their Instagram bio in a Story. The swipe up function is relatively new and solves the crippling “no links in Stories” problem for marketers. Stories account for nearly half of all content posted on the Instagram app.Īnd, for the longest time, Instagram marketers were like tigers in a cage - we could see the potential, but couldn’t truly capitalize on it. ![]() This is an Offline installer / full setup with a Direct Download link to Download Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud 2017 offline installer. Compatible with both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows OS. Final Cut is a lot cheaper in the long run and with the 10.3 release Apple has managed to raise the bar significantly.Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 Full Free Download Latest version for Windows 10, 7, 8.1/8, and XP. The only question remaining is how the new release of Apple Final Cut Pro X 10.3 competes with Premiere Pro CC 2017. That way you can improve playback speed on lower end machines such as laptops or just have a quick reference of how a clip looks with or without effects applied.Īs pricing remains the same, you don’t really need to think twice before upgrading to the latest version. Rather than having to work with a long list of commands, a visual keyboard can be displayed in order to map any function to any key.Īll in all, performance in general has been improved of course, and there is a new switch to toggle video effects on and off globally for the whole sequence. The Keyboard manager has been improved too, so now it’s easier to map custom shortcuts or tools to certain keys. The duration can be altered directly on the timeline itself. They can be postioned freely and can be formatted for better readability for example. Now you can work with an enhanced range of tools when modifying captions. The editor for open and closed captions has been improved. ![]() Think of it as a custom, yet flexible animation template. For example, you can edit the text directly within Premiere Pro without having to re-render the whole animation in After Effects. With the new live text templates you can create animated lower thirds or other graphics in After Effects and set options which can then be edited directly within Premiere Pro without the need of an After Effetcs licence. In addition, more formats are now supported natively within Premiere Pro, including QT DNxHD/DNxHR export and RED Helium. You can apply a metadata flag on export, so streaming platforms like YouTube will automatically recognise the incoming video as 360°. Premiere Pro becomes auto-aware of the type of imported VR footage – such as monoscopic, stereoscopic left/right or stereoscopic over/under – and applies the appropriate settings automatically. The latest update improves the workflow of how VR material is handled. ![]() If you are into VR video, this next feature is for you. HDR10 files are now supported and color space metadata workflow has been improved. ![]() New color pickers let you make immediate selections when working with HSL secondaries. The Lumetri color tab has been updated, too. Whether this feature can compete with the already established solutions mentioned above is yet to be seen, but it looks promising. One thing to mention, though: this service is only available in the Creative Cloud for Enterprise and Creative Cloud for Teams tiers. The built-in solution of Premiere Pro allows teams to collaborate on the same projects easily and sports features like version control or smart conflict resolution. The service is not only available in Premiere Pro but also in After Effects and Prelude. It’s still in beta, but to get an idea in terms of functionality you can think of services like Frame.io or wipster.io. In this article we’ll go through some of the new features such as team collaboration, improved Lumetri Color, updated captions and auto-aware VR.įirst up, Adobe has implemented a team collaboration feature. Adobe has just released the latest versions of some of their major Creative Cloud apps including Premiere Pro CC 2017. ![]() The Fire 7 Kids doesn't have an IP rating, so it's unlikely to survive a swim in the pool. That means everything we observed in our review of the standard Fire 7 applies here. So although the Fire 7 is a far way off from the $329 iPad in terms of app selection and hardware, it costs a third of the price, making it one of your best bets for an affordable kids' tablet.ĭespite this tablet's child-friendly features and child-like appearance, it's ultimately just a regular Fire 7 Tablet (available in blue, purple, or red) tucked into a durable cushy case. While this new version costs $10 more than its predecessor, notably improved battery life helps justify the small hike in price. The physical tablet hardware is identical, but the Kids model comes with a protective foam case (complete with a handle that doubles as a kickstand), a one-year subscription to Amazon Kids+ ($4.99 per month thereafter), and a two-year device warranty. The 2022 Fire 7 Kids Tablet ($109.99) is the child-friendly counterpart to Amazon’s general-purpose Fire 7 Tablet ($59.99).
![]() I've been a user of Filemaker on and off since it's early days as a Claris product. Also, real constraints far data calls from the UI are not possible, you always have to call the full data from the UI. Why? It is possible to make any relation, but the quantity of relations you need and the complexity (usually chaos) that comes with is huge. For nowadays the web design moved to dynamic UI where less is more, if you want an interface to be easy to read and understand, you really need to show less data at the same time, for that you need dynamic and flexible UI, which is not possible to build with Filemaker.ī) Data access/constraint: relations in the database are made in a way (classic relations between tables) that while is intuitive and easy to understand, is very difficult and limited for big and complex relations. In a simple interface with only a few fields, you can handle it easily, but for complex/flexible UI, it becomes a nightmare with a lot of data that you cannot show dynamically.ġ0 years ago it was all that was out there, and therefore the CRM UI were those big messy layouts with a lot of data. Is possible to hide elements of course, but not to adapt the behavior for the rest of the elements. When a layout (page) needs to have a dynamic interface, which means conditionals for show/hide elements and adapt the rest of the elements, you just can't. You only can build scripts and crazy relations as workarounds to simulate a kind of constraint on the layouts, but that is not efficient at all for developing and you reach the limitation in the UI soon.įilemaker a decade ago was like a mule to plow the field in the 18th century, powerful and efficient, and nowadays it is still basically the same mule, just that the ecosystem possibilities and necessities changed.Ī) UI: the interface engine is completely outdated for a modern app, is not that you can't build beautiful UI, you can, as far it does not require real responsiveness and conditionals. If you have 40k records in a table, you cannot easily allow in a page, search or element just to show a part of those records. There are privacy settings for the database of course, but the problem is that when building the UI you cannot make lists, search, and in short, any access to the records, to be really constrained by different criteria. Also the data constrain is a problem when you are building a complex app that requires either internal or external users, to access different data in a clean and easy way. ![]() But as the world is changing to web and dynamic UI, Filemaker has not made any step on this, and is getting completely outdated. It was really great few years ago, powerful and clean for database, easy enough to build the interface. Great for database and scripts, a dinosaur for a modern app with complex data relation Quick and easy communication with the translators without having to look up their phone numbers all the time. Also wrote an SMS/texting script (which used Envaya SMS on an android phone), allowing easy contact with the translators from within the Project Management database. There were many of such special functions that was offloaded to Filemaker scripts. Thus reducing several hours of (manual) labor per project to mere seconds. I wrote a parser in Filemaker that parsed the Trados Project data file, which contained all the data anyway. This was previously a manual process and calculation which took more than an hour to gather and process. Importing Trados project translation data the project management database, allowing the invoicing, translator payments and project data to be easily calculated. The database(s) handles everything from employees, customers, timesheets, project management, invoicing, subletting workstations (they also ran a small office hotel).Ī lot of functions were built into the databases to offload a lot of manual tasks to the scripts. Fantastic prototyping and database systemĪt my old job at a translation company, I built an entire "company management system" from scratch over the course of 10 years. I learnt a lot about crazy companies that day. Ok I suppose, but I am from the country and they wouldn't give me my keys to drive to a bank. They then would not accept cheque payment and made me go and get a bank cheque for the remainder. The manager was incompetent and tried to charge me full price while ignoring the deposit I had paid. I didn't want bozos pulling my trims out. The unpleasant foreman of the Melbourne (Northcote) dealer showed he didn't appreciate me doing the wiring. I located all wiring required myself and had a multi core cable run to the tub area to make connection of heated window and light and central locking easy to do. I made an internal brace for the rear roof mounts to hold the rated weight with more surety. Airflow through rear wing is useless/does not clear window with airflow. Nice looking and functional with hinged side windows.
![]() No malwareįree converters come with a few extra features (spy toolbars, trojans, malware, or viruses). Look for an MP3 converter that encodes on all CPU cores simultaneously and finishes the job in no time. MP3 converterĬonvert mp3, m4a (iTunes & iPod), WMA, WAV, AIFF, AAC, FLAC, Apple Lossless (ALAC) and more. dBpoweramp Music Converter™ has become the standard audio conversion tool and his over 30 million users worldwide trust him to convert with dBpoweramp. Perfect audio conversion, easy conversion to MP3, FLAC, Apple Lossless, etc. Apply VST or DirectX DSP effects whilst converting. Supporting IEEE floating point conversions (right through DSP effect chain), multi-cpu capable encoder. Supplied as default with Broadcast Wave Format (BWF), Dalet, Wave64 codecs. I plan to use the music software on one computer only.DBpoweramp Reference Portable created for Audio Professionals, who demand more: more technical, more features, more pro-codecs. Yes, it uses multiple sources for metadata. Can also simultaneously rip to flac and mp3/m4a, with each set of files going to a different set of folders. Matching accuraterip numbers is the best way to assure a 100% bit perfect rip. the creator of dbpoweramp is also the creator of ACCURATERIP. ![]() If for some reason I re-install my operating system or replace the hard drive that my operating system is located on, or I replace my computer, am I correct in understanding that the single-computer license would allow me to re-install the software with the existing license without having to buy a new license and that my license would never expire? ![]() I plan to use the music software on one computer only. Do the music software product(s) support copying and transferring songs, albums, and playlists to this player or is there an addon file or extension that would allow me to use the software product(s) to copy my music to my MP3 player and/or smartphone?ġ0. I currently listen to my music on a Sony Walkman NW-A45 MP3 player. Can I manually change song and album information if I feel the auto-generated data is incorrect?ĩ. If I converted from FLAC to ALAC or vice versa, would I lose any audio quality when converting my songs to either format despite both formats being lossless?Ĩ. Based on the product descriptions, am I correct in understanding, that the music software product(s) automatically lookup CD track and album information from multiple music databases?ħ. I am aware that freedb music database has recently shut down. Can I create playlists in either of these programs? If so, can I also import and export playlists to and from other music player programs or MP3 players? Can I also copy or transfer songs in between playlists?Ħ. Do either or both of these software programs allow me to keep the source files and folders (FLAC) after conversion (to MP3/M4A) and copy the file and folder structures of those songs and albums to a folder location of my own choosing?ĥ. I wish to keep my FLAC files and their folders after the conversion process since I will use the FLAC songs for home music listening and the MP3/M4A format for travel use. After I am done ripping my CD collection to that format, I intend to make copies of those songs in either MP3 or M4A format. My intention is to rip my CD collection to FLAC. Does the ripper and/or conversion software offer ripping options such as quick, standard, or an option that gets the cleanest most accurate rip possible?Ĥ. I wish to rip my CDs using the cleanest rip option possible to minimize the chances of playback errors, glitches, and distortion. ![]() On the purchase page, are the purchase selection prices for both the converter and ripper?ģ. Is the Audio Converter and CD Ripper located within the same software or are they two separate programs?Ģ. However, I have some questions before I commit to making a purchase. I have looked over the dBpoweramp music software descriptions and I am considering purchasing the software product(s). I am looking for a replacement music ripper and converter software for my audio CD collection. ![]() If you have symptoms, get tested and follow all precautions.Īny individual who has had a close contacts or who has tested positive must follow the Department of Public Health's isolation and quarantine guidance, which includes isolating or quarantining for a minimum of 5 days, followed by wearing a mask in public for 5 more days after they leave isolation or quarantine, regardless of vaccination status. Baystate Health (English) and in Spanish and Russian.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Massachusetts COVID-19 Vaccine Information.Other trusted sources of COVID-19 Vaccine Information:.Questions and Misconceptions about the vaccine from Trinity Health of New England. ![]() FAQ videos (and in Spanish) from We are Greater than COVID and FAQs from.Frequently Asked Questions about the vaccine, boosters, and children.The registration phone line is open Monday through Friday from 9 AM to 5 PM and has representatives who speak English and Spanish, as well as translation services available in 100+ languages. COVID-19 Homebound Vaccination Program : Any individual who has trouble getting to a vaccine site is eligible for the homebound program. Individuals can call (833) 983-0485 to register for an in-home vaccination.Check out these free or low-cost options that you may qualify for.Calling 211 can be a very useful resource.List of Vaccine Scheduling Help Lines in Western MA. ![]() Once the link is entered, Vuze will automatically start searching for the file. Once Vuze is installed, you can either click on a magnet link or copy and paste it into the Vuze search bar. In order to use magnet links with Vuze, you will first need to install the Vuze client. Your Chrome browser should now be able to download the magnet link. ![]() When configuring this setting, make sure that the toggle is turned on. Create a “handler” by selecting “allow sites to ask to become default protocolshandlers” from the Options menu. The “Content Settings” option can be found on the page. This method allows you to select what torrent section you want to download. To begin a download, simply paste that link into any download manager or web browser. To download files, right-click on them in the context menu and choose copy download link. ![]() All of your settings will be saved in a pupsave file or folder with this command. You can save the session to a USB drive or a hard drive that is backed up to a Linux partition, a NTFS partition, or a Vfat partition. On a desktop, there are icons at the bottom (or top) of the page, as well as a task bar at the bottom. Puppy Linux can be run on both Windows and Mac OS X, as well as other Linux operating systems such as Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch. With Vuze, users can even playback recorded audio or video directly from the platform. Vuze is one of the top bittorrent clients available for Linux devices, where users go above and beyond the default Ubuntu torrent client to download and share files. Here is a guide on how to download files using magnet links with Vuze. Vuze is one of the most popular torrent clients and it does support magnet links. However, not all torrent clients support magnet links. Please DIY finding and using a suitable blocking list for your chosen BT protocol application.Magnet links are a great way to download files without having to go through a torrent client. Be extra careful out there! And again, an up-to-date blocking list is recommended. You can read about BIglyBT here at MU as well as at the URL provided below by Barry5p. Head over to Wikipedia for excellent introductions to all these topics and applications, with the exception of BiglyBT, which apparently hasn't yet hit Wikipedia's radar. As such, never use WAREZ, or at least first scan such software with a high quality and up-to-date anti-malware app before using it. Also note that BitTorrented WAREZ software is now infamous for being infected with malware. Keep in mind that BT sharing remains under scrutiny by the media industry. The BitTorrent protocol has a steep initial learning curve, but is well worth the effort. As such, it provides considerably more options than Transmission. It is considered the descendent and revival of the Azureus/Vuze project. The BiglyBT Open Source project began in 2017 in response to the Vuze situation. It is considered the most simple to setup and use reliably. In 2005 the Transmission Open Source project was started and continues on as such today. In 2010, Vuze was purchased by Spigot, became proprietary, was parallel named µTorrent, is now considered ADWARE and should be avoided. Meanwhile, in 2004 the Open Source Azureus project was started and continued on via Vuze. BitTorrent is currently considered ADWARE and should be avoided. The cryptocurrency TRON Foundation bought the BitTorrent company in 2018, at which point creator Bram Cohen left the company. As of version 6, BitTorrent became proprietary software. As a result, BitTorrent was forced to 'play nice' with the media industry or face lawsuits. As of version 5 in 2006, BitTorrent came under the scrutiny of the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) and the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) due to copyright infringement by BitTorrent users. Azureus and its descendents are based on this code. Versions 1 - 4 of their software were Open Source via various licenses. The BitTorrent company was formed in 2004. ![]() It is also the name of the original, very first BT client, created by Bram Cohen in 2001. "BitTorrent" (BT) is the name of a file sharing protocol. If you like bells and whistles, aka Geek Meter in the RED, you want BiglyBT. I personally use the latest version of Transmission along with an up-to-date blocking list. NO, this is not the torrenting client you're looking for. ![]() Some years later, it was very flattering to realize that I had created the prototype for a whole series of science-fiction movies dealing with monstrous creatures from outer space, beginning with Ridley Scott’s Alien.”įrom The Last Drive In contributor Monstergirl: ![]() The food source, as it turns out, is the human race. “I devised a tale in which the queen of the aliens–brought back to earth by a group of American astronauts –is a vampiric creature who seeks a new food source for her dying planet. However, the director wanted to take the story in the opposite direction: According to his memoir Nice Guys Don’t Work in Hollywood, the Soviet version is about “the world’s natural fears of the nature of aliens…and discovering at the end that the alien wants to be friends.” Queen of Blood director Curtis Harrington repurposed footage from Soviet film Mechte Navstrechu. RELATED: Flashback: PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES (1965) Planet of the Vampires is corny and pulpy, but it’s also a must-see for fans of classic cult cinema.”- Spencer, Blood Good Horror Mario Bava’s sets are among the weirdest and coolest ever produced, and critics have spent years dissecting his influence on Scott, Jodorowsky, Argento and Carpenter (in addition to science fiction, Bava pioneered the slasher genre). There is no singular “a-ha” moment that pivots Planet of the Vampires from mediocrity into something special, and part of the pleasure in watching it is identifying your own path of conversion. “ Planet of the Vampires is a great case study for genres in transition: while some of its scenes are as cheesy as a bad children’s TV show, others are surprisingly grim and gorgeous, and clear precursors to future masterpieces like Alien and The Thing. Bava’s stunning Gothic variation weaves a weird tale of flying saucers, ray guns and zombies that looks like no other space movie ever filmed.”- Glenn Erickson, DVD Talk “For Planet of the Vampires Mario Bava turned his visual sense to a new genre, the space opera. |