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![]() They were cushioned without being repressive or clumsy. I had luck with Bombas', and thought they fit nicely without being restrictive (and therefore eventually irritating). In terms of fit, you're looking for a snug but not super tight feel. However, Bombas' pairs aren't 100% cotton, and Polyester wicks away moisture quickly - the combination of the two and the careful percentages of each (62% and 31%) could be why Bombas' socks are soft (from the cotton) but feel well-ventilated and never sweaty (from the polyester). If your feet are going to be exposed to lots of snow, though, I would opt for Smartwool to be safe. You might find yourself erring towards wool socks since cotton can be slow to dry, but that wasn't a problem I experienced with these in the slush of our recent nor'easter. With Bombas, you can save 5% by grabbing a pack ($60.80 for four, bringing each pair down to $15.20).įabric-wise, Bombas' are made from mostly cotton and polyester (62% Cotton, 31% Polyester, 3% Nylon, 3% Rubber, and 1% Spandex). They retail at $16 which is on par with competitors you can find on REI. I actually appreciated the fun pink colors and the marled appearance, and wore them around the house and in everyday life as a result. The women's options come in eight color options: navy, black, brown, pink white, black and navy, and tree combinations of mixed 4. The men's hiking socks come in five neutral colors: navy, brown, black, black white, and mixed 4 which encompasses the four previous colors. Like other Bombas socks, they feature their iconic Honeycomb arch support system and Y-Stitched heel for extra comfort. They're engineered with a full-cushioned leg and foot, temperature-regulating vents, a reinforced Achilles guard, and make use of Hex Tech engineering (more temperature control and moisture-wicking). The companies that "get it" tend to have the experience and resources to keep making products that similarly "get it." So I figured that since Bombas already makes great gym socks, the hiking socks would likely follow suit.īombas sent over some pairs, and a majority of the team had a chance to try them out in real life.īombas' hiking socks show the same attention to detail as their gym socks. So when they released hiking socks, I was excited to test them against my loyalty to traditional hiking socks, like Smartwool. I'm not overly brand-loyal in most aspects of my closet, but I am disproportionately so for outdoor gear. On top of that, they also donate a pair of socks to a homeless shelter every time you buy a pair (and socks are the most asked-for and least-donated clothing item). You can read more about them on their site or read our review here, but the most important thing to know are that Bombas socks typically have upgrades like blister tabs on the heel, extra cushioning in the footbeds, honeycomb stitching around the middle to fit arches, and special cotton that wicks away moisture and lets your feet breath throughout the day. The socks are really great, and for that reason, Bombas is a favorite of the shopping team and of our readers. ![]() In the instance of socks, it's immeasurably better out on the trail to have bought two pairs of really great hiking socks than eight that don't protect against blisters or provide adequate cushioning.īombas is sock startup that first appeared in 2013 and spent two years bringing the gym sock into the 21st century, addressing every annoying problem you can think of having with your pairs in the past. It's always nice to practice "better things, not more things" when shopping, but outdoor gear is the best example of value being king. If you're just getting into the outdoors, it might not inspire you to head back anytime soon. Things like wet or too-thin socks on a hike can be pretty miserable. You take only the essentials, and in a place that is decidedly at the mercy of the elements, the quality and level of performance that those essentials are capable of are of exaggerated importance. No matter the allure of 'glamping', I don't know many people who would do a cost-benefit analysis and still wind up lugging a portable pop-up shower 10-miles inland to a campsite. ![]() When you make an effort to "get back to the basics" by spending more time out in nature, it's the basics of what you're bringing into the experience that ultimately make or break it.Ĭonsider this: generally, you don't bring a lot on a hike. ![]() ![]() Splice features a large library of plugins for the most popular DAWs, including Pro Tools. The Nectar Elements plugin is one of their best sellers and is in the toolkits of most professional vocal producers. ![]() IZotope is best known for its vocal effect plugins, which make it easy to clean up vocals, add reverb, and even create vocal synths. Their Plate Reverb plugin is still one of the best-sellers across all plugin manufacturers, beloved for faithfully reproducing the warm, dense reverb of the 1960s and ’70s. 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Many plugins include support for Audition and other DAWs, but if you’re just installing the program to Pro Tools, you’ll want to make sure you install the AAX version as this is the native format for Pro Tools plugins. If/when you get to the installation preferences window, you’ll only need the AAX version of the plugin to run it in Pro Tools. Step 3: Follow the instructions on the installer. Step 2: Locate the download file and open the. You can use plugins whetherĮach program uses a different plugin format. In Pro Tools, these can be anything from specialized delays or audio warps to MIDI instruments. A plugin (also written plug-in) is simply a piece of software that “plugs into” a larger software platform to expand its features or functions. ![]() (You can get X-Rays like this on Amazon, affiliate link) They really light up nicely when laid over the lightbox. Our 4 year old loves playing doctor and we recently got her these great X-Rays. Here’s a bonus way to use a DIY Light table: as a light box for X-Rays in pretend play. Trace your child’s name with this fun activity! Bonus: Pretend Play Doctor Give them any color picture plus a blank piece of paper and let them trace away. This activity promotes fine motor practice and pencil control. Even though your child is tracing pictures and not letters or numbers, don’t think they are not learning transferable skills. This is one of our favorite uses for the light table. Plus this Squishy Sensory Tracing would look amazing on the DIY light table! DIY Light Table Tracing & Coloring Pictures Try another way to trace and learn numbers. Your kids can trace the numbers and sort objects into numbered piles. If it’s numbers you are working on, use a number page over the light table. She feels very proud about making a card independently!ĭownload a week of Letter Learning Activities here. Happy Birthday Pop-Pop) on one sheet of paper and she can place her sheet over that. Our 4-year-old loves making cards for friends and family. Add a plain piece of paper over it and the child can “trace” away. Just take any page of letters or workbook page and put it on top of the light box. It can be used as a transition between tracing and free writing. Our homemade light table is an excellent tool for moving to free letter writing. My 4-year-old loves doing the color sorting as well, even though it is no challenge for her. I have started talking to him about the colors and he enjoys putting different objects into the circles, which is great fine motor practice. However, I did print out a color sorting sheet to put on top. I am sure he’s learning without any additional input needed from me. He silently puts all sorts of different things on it. He is plenty busy just using the homemade light box as one tool in free play. Mostly our 1-year- old likes to put different objects on the light table and watch the light shine through. 4 Creative Ways to Use Your DIY Light Table DIY Light Box Color Sorting Our 4-year-old and 1-year-old both love this and it is a great tool for sorting and tracing. Learn more about creating your own lightbox. We also used some fun patterned ductape to make a fun border around the edges. You just throw the Christmas lights in there, drill a hole for your plug, a few extra holes for ventilation and you are done. This DIY light table is so incredibly simple to make. ![]() ![]() Super Simple DIY Light Table for All-Ages Learning Fun Here’s a solution: Create a DIY light table and let them explore the lights and do a little learning while they are at it. If only they could play with them without the danger of eating them or breaking them! There is something about Christmas lights that just makes kids happy. As of now, we’re keeping it in Gracen’s room for her to enjoy during quiet play time and I have a feeling that that’s where it will stay for quite some time.Make your own DIY light table, with tons of ways to play, from the Screen-Free Mom! We’ve only just started exploring our new super simple DIY light box and I’d like to bring back a few fun manipulatives from Canada this summer, but so far, it’s been a ton of fun. The best part? Because it plugs in, there’s no need to ever buy new portable LED lights or batteries, and to me, that’s pretty huge since I’m terrible about keeping batteries on hand and replacing them promptly. I personally find that the light is diffused enough as is, but you could always cover the inside of the lid with a piece of parchment or wax paper if you wanted it to be diffused further. Put the lid back on top, turn off the lights, and start playing! When done, I slid it into the box and secured it to the top edges using a couple of small pieces of tape.Īnd that’s it. I did this by adding one sheet of card stock at a time, carefully placing the pages inside the box, creasing them at the corners, and sticking one piece to the last using scotch tape.īasically, you’re trying to make a paper insert that looks like this. Ready for how easy this is? Because the box comes with lighting already built into the base, all you really have to do is direct that light upwards by covering the sides with thick black paper. There are so many really easy tutorials on how to create light tables using plastic bins and portable LED lights and some scotch tape. I’ve wanted to put together a DIY light table for Miss for ages now, but as simple as it is, it’s just never happened. The alien can jump, duck, fire in all directions, and slice through opponents who get too close for a blast from his trusty zapper. Based on the popular Flash animation game by Tom Fulp (programming) and Dan "Synj" Paladin (character design), Alien Hominid casts players in the title role - a cute little yellow extraterrestrial with a powerful ray gun, an itchy trigger-finger, and a dearth of patience for lower life forms.Like the online "prototype," console versions of Alien Hominid feature a cartoonish, hand-animated, cel-shaded look, with lots of larger-than-life explosions and shamelessly violent sound effects. ![]() In this latter-day platform shooter from unconventional publisher O~3 Entertainment, players make an emergency stop on the planet known as Earth - to blast away nosy FBI agents, clueless humans, and just about anything else that moves. Thanks to the adoption of this roguelike approach to level progression, Mind Control Delete ramps up the challenge. One of the drawbacks with the original title was how easy it was to breeze through the few levels that were there. Lose your lives and you’ll have to return to the beginning of the node and grind those levels out all over again. A roguelike element has been implemented, giving players a number of lives to complete a ‘node’ which is comprised of five or more separate slow-mo combat scenarios. In SUPERHOT: Mind Control Delete, a few twists have been added in. ![]() Defeat enough enemies without dying and you’ll advance to the next level. You need to constantly be keeping an eye out for enemy fire making its way towards you with striking red lines trailing the bullet, all against the minimalist white canvas of each level. You have to use this mechanic to your advantage, shooting not where your enemies are, but where they’re going to be. ![]() In SUPERHOT, time moves only when you do. More of just about everything you could conceivably want from the time-warping slow-mo shooter.įor those not familiar with SUPERHOT, let me give you a quick rundown. 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The list of hard cheeses also includes popular varieties such as: Manchego is a type of hard cheese from Spain made from sheep’s milk that has a sweet nutty taste. The squeeze bottles will reduce spills and make your bar space neat and tidy. Other types of hard cheese: list of hard cheeses. You can fill them with items like simple syrup and flavored syrups based on the drinks you’re serving. Squeeze bottles are also great for making cocktails.It can be difficult to pour from a large bottle or can, but having a handy squeeze bottle with your sauce makes things more manageable and usable. For those that buy condiments, oils and sauces in bulk, you can store them in squeeze bottles for easy use. ![]() The extra salad dressing can be stored directly in the squeeze bottle in the fridge. You can pour the ingredients of the salad dressing directly into the squeeze bottle, put your finger over the nozzle and shake it up to stir. 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While you’ve likely seen them at hot dog stands filled with ketchup, you can do a lot more with them than just hold store-bought condiments. These simple plastic vessels with lids and nozzles are a go-to for any kind of sauce. ![]() Whether you’re a novice home cook still learning the ropes or an experienced chef with your own kitchen to command, a handy tool you’ll want to have is the humble squeeze bottle. ![]() The problem with the soldered-to-the-motherboard, everything-utterly-encrypted approach is that it's almost impossible to do data recovery. I don't know exactly what happened, but the board was utterly fried. One of my graduate students experienced this, the hard way: writing up his thesis, his mum plugged in "the wrong USB C" charger. > It is especially unlikely to be the underlying cause of unexpected and seemingly premature catastrophic SSD failure. It is, however, not always feasible or possible to entirely prevent. This kind of failure (high voltage parts close to low voltage ones, close to liquid damage prone areas, without any underfilling) is documented by Louis Rossmann. They recommend that users of these machines open them and clean the dust out often, since dust buildup on the actual power regulator combined with moisture sometimes causes a short circuit, sending high voltage to the SSD and damaging it. The person that did this on YouTube notes that a common reason for SSD failure on T2 machines is due to SSD power regulator circuitry being located close to the intake vents on the side of the MacBook Pro. At least on T2 systems, the flash memory itself (the NAND chips) on the mainboard can actually be swapped between units after a DFU restore by unsoldering them and transferring them. Note that they don't force you to actually USE the internal SSD - you can still netboot or USB boot I think. Any failure is grounds for "rework" of the board on a hardware level if necessary,up to and including repair/replacement of the onboard flash, and not just a simple workaround in my opinion. The SSD is reasonably considered to last the "lifetime" of the product, and should it fail, I don't consider the inability to externally boot to be a huge problem, since whatever failure damaged the SSD is statistically likely to compromise the reliability of the rest of the board. On the other side, these machines are engineered as appliances that should achieve a certain degree of reliability. The primary argument against soldering the SSD, or really any other part, down like this tends to be that "Oh, now you can't just save money by upgrading it yourself|replacing it when it breaks". On a normal system, there is plenty of non volatile storage that is difficult to recover or reset. This is great for restoring systems to a known good firmware state, including SSD, EFI, BridgeOS, RecoveryOS. Just like the iPhone, you can enter Boot ROM DFU mode, which can't easily be overwritten, and restore all of the firmware on the system that's writable. This setup has a benefit namely, it is now impossible to brick the system with a bad BIOS/EFI flash, and you'll never need to use a hardware SPI flasher to recover. On T2 I think it's BridgeOS that sends the EFI image to the Intel side to boot it, and it does the firmware verification and loading. General grumpiness about this particular design decision aside, it appears that since the T2 Macs, the main SSD was being used to store core system firmware. ![]() ![]() Cloud services have an important role to play in making the business they serve more agile and, therefore, more likely to succeed. In today’s uncertain business environment, organizations must be able to move quickly to seize opportunities ahead of the competition. Step 1: Design cloud strategies for speed and business value IT organizations should consider these six steps when building, implementing and maturing cloud computing strategies. In 2022, new advancements make it possible to improve cloud deployments and extend them to previously unsuitable use cases. Businesses that successfully exploit cloud computing will have a competitive advantage, and it might even determine whether they survive.”ĭownload now: Build a Strategy to Maximize the Benefits of Cloud Computing “Cloud services let smart business leaders respond quickly to opportunities - or threats. “Cloud adoption accelerated rapidly during the pandemic, and will accelerate still further in the years to come,” says Paul Delory, Senior Director Analyst at Gartner. ![]() Rarely is that public cloud use optimized to deliver business outcomes, however. Today, nearly every IT organization uses public cloud, because businesses need the flexibility and scalability of cloud services to respond to rapidly shifting and unpredictable economic conditions. Grow public cloud skills internally and consider creative recruiting strategies to bridge the talent gap.Embrace distributed cloud to enable hybrid cloud architectures.Design a cloud strategy that optimizes for business outcomes, including speed, resilience and agility. |