I had The Print Shop Deluxe and remember thinking it was the future, and that we woull all be making our own holiday cards, signs, etc. in no time. Every holiday, I'm amazed that everyone I know (including me) is now back to using store-bought cards. I was surprised to just find out that there is a modern version, though it is Windows-only.
I remember the Print Shop as a kid! Yah I guess specialization won out. We don't even have to see our holiday cards now. Upload a photoshopped picture and mail merge and start getting compliments from friends and family a week later.
Probably a huge factor. Its just a pain in the ass to occasionally print something. In the 90s we actually printed a lot more stuff. We printed maps, letters to mail, forms to fill out. Everything that was typed for school would be printed and turned in. I would print excerpts from groliers to read later. I printed recipes for my parents. So printing cards etc made sense because the printer was so frequently in use. I actually printed a few things this Christmas and it was annoying, required multiple reboots of the printer, a paper jam and a new warning message.
Yeah I love my laser printer. Actually earlier this year I bought an ink tank printer because I've had to print a number of things in color and have been really pleased with that.
But it's very difficult to beat the cost of a laser printer, especially for infrequent prints.
You can make your own cards with online services now. I've used Greetings Island many, many times to make custom cards. They have many perfectly good templates you can use for free. You can just print them out on a color laser printer after saving as PDF.
Store-bought cards offer some things now that you can't (easily) get with a laser-printed "card", though, such as 3D shapes (such as pieces that unfold when you open the card) and music-playing modules.
If you did want to take another stab at home printmaking, buy an Epson.
The EcoTanks share a lot of capabilities of the SureColor lines, have some great design software, and can do real borderless printing. It's the ecosystem and compatibility that make it.
They make great backgrounds for collage and pair really well with things like linotype and block printing, which there are a lot of models for if you have a 3D printer.
It took me a while to be able to really get into it, but without Bill's explanations and enthusiasm, I would still be lost. His fantastic voice is icing on the cake.
Basically, you're making a cube. One side is the box fan, with the intake coming from the inside of the cube. The other sides are taped together filters. It significantly reduces the strain on the motor of the fan, and you can use the cube for a long time before replacing the filters, since each one is filtering so much less air.
I've heard the Scots version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is really well done, and is fun to read even as an American. That said, I have no experience at all with Scots, so my opinion should have very little weight!
Don't forget that a lot of us have weights or other exercise setups at home now. I would definitely try something as an alternative to powdered chalk to keep my palms from getting slippery on my equipment. Especially now that summer is coming and I mostly train outside when I can.
Also, at least in Chicago, gyms have been open for months. They have reduced maximum capacity (I think it's 60% right now), but they were only closed for a short time. You may be severely artificially limiting your sales possibilities.
Just so you don't have the wrong idea, Osterholm's suggestion is that everyone who has already been given the first dose already should get the second dose as planned. Only for new vaccinations should we apply the new plan.
I use DDG for all searches, and do occasionally go to the second page of results (and sometimes even the third). When I do, I either find what I was looking for there or figure out what I might want to change or exclude from the search for my next query.
For example, this morning, I was looking up micro fans for embedded electronic devices, and did find some good results on the second and third pages. Not exactly what I was looking for, but close enough that it was worth digging in to the results.
If you go into Gmail's General Settings screen, you can uncheck "Open web links in Gmail". All the links I open in Gmail open directly in Firefox for me after doing that.
If I leave that box checked, it does use a web view that is "Powered by Firefox", but I always prefer to have it just open a new tab in my regular Firefox app.
