Guides

The setup page linked from the app: create, paste, save and check your key.

What the key permits, who bills you, and which controls limit usage.

Scan notes, choose useful words and keep their grammar and context.

Start with reliable rules, then practice each noun as a complete phrase.

Follow opbellen through statements, questions and subordinate clauses.

Turn a short passage into a small vocabulary set and a spoken retelling.

Give yourself a small speaking task, then use feedback for the next attempt.

Keep a progress copy and understand what moves to another device.

Choose a topic, import a section and practice words and phrases together.

Remove location before sharing, clear it from existing photos, or stop recording it for new ones.

A field-by-field guide to GPS, timestamps, camera details, editing history and creator information.

Check batch limits, re-encoding, upload requirements, ads and export format before cleaning an album.

Keep the HEIC image payload and format while removing GPS or broader metadata.

Step-by-step instructions for Finder, Preview, Photos and Terminal, plus a better option for large batches.

Open WEBP in Preview, then convert one file or a whole folder to JPG or PNG.

What AVIF is, which Mac apps open it, and when to convert it to JPG or PNG.

Why modern image formats make smaller files, and how to reduce JPEG size safely.

Use Most Compatible for new JPEG photos, or Automatic transfer to convert only when exporting.

Built-in tools, free and paid apps, and websites compared for converting HEIC photos.

Open logs with Finder, drag and drop, or the macOS open command without bypassing App Store file permissions.

Keep the original readable while making a safe copy or filtered export for an issue, vendor, or teammate.

Use less for a quick read, grep or split for an extract, or a memory-mapped viewer for browsing and filtering.

Use tail -f for appended lines, tail -F for rotated files, or a GUI for searchable live logs.

Display ANSI colors with less -R, remove common codes with sed, or open the file in a viewer that renders them.

Use grep for a quick extract, or filter the file in place when you need context and navigation.

Copy a small log excerpt, paste it into a graphical viewer, then search and filter it without making a file first.

Console, BBEdit, VS Code, lnav, klogg, less and Log Viewer side by side, with what each is actually good at.

Use an Apple Wallet pass when the store provides one, or display the barcode with a watch app, complication or Smart Stack widget.

Three routes, depending on the code: a Wallet pass for tickets, a synced photo for any QR code, or a code app for short codes you show every day.

A white card, or the bars straight on the face in white or its tint color, with or without the name and number. What each style looks like, and which one scanners read best.

A Dutch supermarket trip takes two scans: loyalty card and payment. What each big chain - Albert Heijn, Jumbo, Lidl, Plus, Aldi and Dirk - lets you do from an Apple Watch, and where the phone comes back out.

Make a key in Google AI Studio, paste it into Hot Take, and start with Gemini’s free tier.

Create a dedicated key, give it a small spending cap, and use your OpenRouter balance safely.

Yes, for eligible models within a Free Tier project’s limits, but that needs a little context.

BYOK removes the app developer from billing and delivery, while giving you direct control over usage.

Find the one detail worth noticing, choose an angle, then cut the line until it lands.

A specific joke, readable type, and a little restraint are enough to make a photo shareable.

Treat the pose, prop, or expression as extremely serious human behavior, then caption that.

Live Text in Preview and Photos, the screenshot trick, and a faster way for anything on screen.

Live Text on a paused frame, and what to do when the player does not support it.

Selected text, whole web pages, and text inside images and video, on device.

Pin one area of the screen, such as subtitles or live captions, and read every new line in your language.

The right-click Translate, and a keyboard shortcut that works in every app.

What text recognition is, where Live Text covers it, and where it does not.

Settings, language, app support and image quality, in the order worth checking them.

TextSniper, CleanShot X, Live Text and free options compared by price, privacy and steps.

Download the languages first, then translate selected text or anything on screen offline.