iOS 16 brings the new “Remove background from image” action, and combining it with some custom logic to blur the background, I was able to make a shortcut that adds portrait mode like blur to any image! The results look stunning, almost as if they were taken using the native portrait mode!
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Install it from here: https://www.itecheverything.com/portraiteffect
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Images on the right were generated using the shortcut, no manual editing!
This is the full list of changes to Shortcuts in iOS 16! This list was provided from the Shortcuts Q&A sessions. Changes are categorized by App and then improvements are at the bottom.
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I’ve been listening to NPR-like-podcasts since about 2014, but I’ve noticed a shift in the last couple of years where they’ve all become much more topical lately. For example, This American Life used to do a lot of ‘slice-of-life’ stories, but in the last year or so I feel like every episode is centered around the news of the day, like Covid, BLM, Ukraine, Abortion, Mass Shootings. And Sure every once in a while they’ll have a post that is a slice-of-life sort of story, but inevitably it will turn out it was a rerun from like 5-10 years ago. Radiolab has also become more topical, same with Reply All(well, if they’re even around anymore), Snap Judgement, Fresh Air, Science Vs, etc… Planet Money might be the only one that still does random fun stories not based on the news.
And I’m not saying current events based podcasting is bad, it’s just that I used to have one or two news podcasts, and now I have like 10 news podcasts, it would be nice some of these shows shifted back to more …
I don’t actually really believe in ghosts or the paranormal myself anymore sadly but I still really enjoy the genre and it’s not very fun when the hosts just make fun of everything or say it’s fake, dumb, exaggerated, I get the mindset but it’s presented in a rude way and it doesn’t make for a very entertaining podcast for me unfortunately
it feels like every paranormal podcast I’ve found was either fully comedy, believing everything without much skepticism, or calling everything fake instantly and just going through the story without any engaging commentary
Title, basically. I’m going to have a podcast picnic with a group of people and I’m looking for something interactive that we can listen to and guess the answer to a mystery. Preferably something that could be listened to in one sitting (so an hour or less). I’ve heard of SolveHQ, but it looks like maybe they require looking at their website/Snapchat/Instagram for clues and that makes it too complicated for me (also I’ve read that they changed how it works in later seasons - can anyone confirm that?). Correct me if I’m wrong about how SolveHQ works, please! I want to be as surprised as the rest of the group about the answers to each mystery so that makes it a little hard to test-run a podcast beforehand to see if it’s what I’m looking for. Thanks for helping guys!
Edit: You guys are wonderful! Thank you so much for the suggestions, so many great ideas!! I’m looking forward to trying them out. Thank you!
Has anyone else noticed that American Scandal abruptly ended its series on Dry Run Creek and DuPont’s poisoning of cattle and replaced it with an encore of the Waco episodes?
I’d love to learn more about the history of slavery. I did learn a little while in school (many moons ago) but have developed more of an interest in various historical areas. Any and all suggestions welcomed
I wanted to find podcast that talks about what it’s like to be poor and the different type of struggles and such, also what it’s like after there not poor
Maybe they even suggest how to live with it and how to survive or if anyone knows any books about it
I kinda wanted to do this so I can hear other people experiences due to me going through rough time.
Hello, I hope you are well. Since I was a young man, I have had a strong interest in reading nonfiction books that feel like “forbidden knowledge”. In my teenage years, this meant Steal This Book, Uncle Fester’s guides, things of this sort. More recently, my interest has shifted toward conspiracy and occult books, but is not limited to such.
Some books I’ve read that fit this criteria include The Devil’s Chessboard by David Talbot, Everything is Under Control by R.A. Wilson, CIA Manual for Psychological Operations edited by A.M. Nagy, Weird Scenes by David McGowan, The Lesser Key of Solomon, and Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism by Lama Anagarika Govinda.
I understand that the information in these books is not accepted as true by a significant portion of people, which is fine, but I do prefer books where the author does cite some kind of source or historical precedent for their claims. For occult books I understand this is tricky, but as long as …
Okay so for me there’s a BIG difference between horror, and terror. Like Stephen King said (kind of): terror is when you come home and find out that all your furniture and belongings have been replaced with an exact copy. That quote makes me feel terror, it’s something that you can’t control and something that makes you question why knowing you’ll never know. I need a book that makes me feel that way, almost powerless and like I don’t understand a thing. That actually makes me terrified.
I’ve read Pet Sematary and Crime & Punishment. They were both scary in their own way, the way that Louis ended up stuck with a dead family and how Raskolnikov’s thoughts and emotions made me terrified of feeling that way myself. I need a book that makes me feel the same way a claustrophobe would feel inside a heating kitchen oven. Do YOU know any terrifying books? And what makes them so?
I’m in the mood to cry so I’m currently reading Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro cus I’ve heard alot of good reviews of how fairly depressing it is. I’m not an emotional person but angst can be quite comforting at times, is it just me?
Hi all, long story short—I am a middle school English teacher, and this year I developed a close relationship with one of my 8th grade students. She comes from an unstable home, has been in and out of the system, until finally at the end of the school year her younger sister overdosed on fentanyl and passed away in a coma. I really took this student under my wing, and have been taking her to coffee about once a week since school got out. Since I’m not technically her teacher anymore, I feel more like I have an older sister role. Her grandma, who she has been living with since the incident with her sister, just told me that she will be permanently placed with her dads side of the family in New Mexico. I am so happy she will be in a stable home with family, but tomorrow will be the last time I will get to see her.
Obviously this girl is really struggling. We have had some pretty deep conversations about religion, drugs, how to deal with toxic family members—and how she can break that …
So, I always do this thing where I walk into a bookstore and ask the sales assistant to just recommend me any random book. I don’t really give them a prompt, because this way I have come across some amazing books I would’ve never gravitated towards, let alone picked up myself. Sometimes they recommend what’s popular at that store right now, sometimes their personal favorites, sometimes a hidden treasure that they’d never get to recommend otherwise. So, if I wandered into your imaginary bookstore, which books would you recommend to me?
I’d imagine the natural answer I’ll get here is the subtle art of not giving a fuck which is very much on my reading list, but I wanted to know if there are any others?
What are the books that struck a chord with you so much you stopped worrying what everyone else thought about you or you stopped caring about fitting in or being embarrassed all the time?
I look forward to your suggestions you gorgeous people!
I’m ready for the downvotes but hear me out. I see this all the time in game recomendations and question how helpful it is. Is the OP really going to look at your list of 10* games and google them? 99% probability he will skip you and go to the person who actually wrote out one game and why they enjoy it. How often have you googled the list when you posted here? Yes OP can google the games on your list but why is he on a forum then? Trying to convince the OP with why you love the game and what it means to you is far more creative and creates more discussion then a list. Lists do have their use cases and if OP asks for a list we should give him/her a list but other then that i do find it more effective to be given a personal testimony and experience of how the game affected you and why you love it.
I’m basically looking for a game that I can get absorbed into for hours. The last one like this was Final Fantasy 14, before that was Factorio, then Skyrim.
I’d like to hear suggestions from any genre, preferably on PC or Switch.
I want a game like shadow of war/mordor that i can turn my enemies into my servants or into my army