Did you know you can easily create an animated gif from any YouTube video? It's simple, thanks to gifs. Here's how: Open any YouTube video Copy the url from the address bar (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwEDgSECGiU) Go to https://gifs.com Paste the url into...
Quick Skills
The Mustard Seed Victoria pie off
Every year the Mustard Seed holds a pie-off to raise funds for their organization. Dave Monahan, Smart Dolphins President takes the pie-off challenge. Learn more at: https://mustardseed.ca/yyjpieoff/
Flash Alerts on your iPhone
There are three common options for mobile notifications: ring, silent and vibrate or a combination of the three. But there is one more option: the notification light which alerts me to unread texts, incoming or missed calls. The iPhone doesn’t have a standard...
Google Search History
One of the new features added to Google is that it will keep a record of your search history but only if you are logged into your Google account. You can review your search history, download it to a file, or disable/clear it. Note that this is a separate history from...
Have you heard of Wear OS?
I’m sure many have heard something (probably lots) about the whole “wearable technology” trend. I thought I’d just pass along my initial experience with “Moto 360”. This was actually a hand-me-down from a friend so I wasn’t quite sure what I was getting (but I...
Covert with Zamzar
Covert your file formats without shady software. Ever needed to covert a file – perhaps a video file so that you could play it on a different device, or an image to a different format – and had to scour the Internet for programs shadier than that guy with a trench...
Control center on your iPhone
To access Control Center on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, just swipe up from the bottom of the screen. This gives you quick access to all kinds of useful features. From Control Center you can: Turn Airplane mode on or off Turn WiFi on or off Turn Bluetooth on or...
Simple file recovery
Learn how to use previous versions to recover your files with vCIO of Smart Dolphins IT Andrew Rivett.
Microsoft Outlook tasks
Follow along with Controller, Mariola Czerkawaska to learn why and how to use Outlook email tasks.
Reverse the Email Spiral
We all swim in email and it is time to follow the Email Charter: