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When the ecobee loses the connection to the internet, and the router password doesn’t work, the best way to fix the problem is to remove the ecobee from the wall, waiting 30 seconds for it to reboot, then putting it back on the wall. To remove it from the wall, gently pull straight back. There are 4 tabs on the corners and two sets of pins that need to aligned when putting it back on the wall. The unit should connect to wifi automatically.

To create a page, Search of the page title and when it doesn’t appear, a red-colored link with that title will appear. Click on the link and it will create the page.

To create a reference, use <ref></ref> as followsBizco was founded in 1942.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/bizco</ref>

To delete a page I created, put {{db-author}} at the top and it will go away shortly afterwards.

To create a page for a novel that already exists such as The Road Home (novel), could use the author’s name: The Road Home (Jim Harrison). Another option is to use the Wikipedia Article Wizard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_wizard

A subscription is required to access the print version of the NYT, known as the Replica Edition. The cost is $20 for 4 weeks. A digital subscription to the NYT is not needed. The Replica Edition is available to all NYT Home Delivery subscribers (HD).

Select features: Edit>Select>Select Features by [Value, Expression, etc.]. To Edit>Select>Select Features by Expression, use this example: “FACILITY_N” LIKE ‘%Reston Pkwy%’ AND “TREATMENT_” = ‘Trail’ OR “FACILITY_N” LIKE ‘%Lawyers Rd Trail%’ OR “FACILITY_N” LIKE ‘%West Ox Rd Trail%’ where LIKE means contains. To Deselect features, hold the Cmd key and use Select Features by Freehand button. Other examples” “FACILITY_N” LIKE ‘%Gallows Rd Trail%’ OR “FACILITY_N” LIKE ‘%Route 50 Trail%’ OR “FACILITY_N” LIKE ‘%Route 50 Path%’ OR “FACILITY_N” LIKE ‘%Fairfax County Parkway Trail%’ OR “FACILITY_N” LIKE ‘%Braddock Road Trail%’ OR “FACILITY_N” LIKE ‘%Braddock Rd Trail%’ or “FACILITY_N” LIKE ‘%Braddock Rd Sidewalk%’ OR “FULLNAME” LIKE ‘%I66 WB%’ OR “FACILITY_N” LIKE ‘%Lorton Rd%’ AND “TREATMENT_” LIKE ‘%Trail%’ OR “FACILITY_N” LIKE ‘%Cross County Trail%’

To delete a selected feature, select the layer, right-click and select Toggle Editing, then use the Delete Selected icon in the toolbar. The Toggle Editing again.

To change color of selection and background: QGIS>Preferences>Canvas & Legends – Applies to new projects.

To create a new layer from a selection: Right click on the layer with the selected features. Choose: Export>Save Selected Features As... use GeoPackage format OR Select the features and then use Edit>Copy and then Paste Features As>New Vector Layer (or a Scratch layer).

Transfer Strava data to QGIS – Navigate to one of your Activity pages and from the more (ellipses) menu, select “Export GPX“. In QGIS use Layer>Add Layer>Add GPX Layer…

To merge two layers – Use the Processing Toolbox>Vector general>Merge vector layers. Select the Input layers by clicking on the box next to each layer. Then select the Merged layer name and click Run.

After composing the map, you can either click on the 3 dots to the right of the map title and select “Print map” or select “Preview” and then if desired you can hide the legend by clicking on the 3 dots next to the map title and select “Collapse map legend” and then “Print map”. Using 11 x 17 was the best page size for the priority route map.

There are two ways to display a grid in GIMP.

Image>Configure Grid… will display a grid but the grid will not be part of the image when the image is exported.

Filters>Render>Pattern>Grid… will embed the grid into the image.

I rarely use GIMP and whenever I do I need to re-learn basic functions. I recently wanted to place two images side by side. I opened one image. To make space for an adjoining image, I used Image>Canvas Size to increase the canvas width. To add a second image I used File>Open as Layers. I could then scale the second image to match the first using Layer>Scale Layer. To open the tools menu, use Windows>New Toolbox. To open the Layers menu, use Windows>Dockable Dialogs>Layers. Right click on a layer to add and Alpha Channel. Once the two images are combined, use File>Save As.

1. In the Photos app  on your Mac, select the photos you want to change. Command-click to select more than one photo.
2. Choose Image > Adjust Date and Time.Tip: You can also double-click the date that appears in the Info window to change the date. To show a photo’s Info window, double-click the photo, then click the Info button  in the toolbar. 
3. Enter the date and time you want in the Adjusted field.
4. Click a time zone on the map and choose the closest city, if necessary.
5. Click Adjust.

I don’t delete most email and have many, many messages in my Gmail inbox. I mostly use Mac Mail to read and send email, so whenever opening the mail program, all of the Gmail messages are downloaded, which takes forever. To limit the number of messages downloaded, but kept on the Gmail server, use the following:

Gmail>Settings (gear symbol)>See All Settings>Forwarding and POP/IMAP. Scroll down to Folder Size Limits and set the number of messages to be downloaded. It is currently set to 5,000.

I accidentally turned off Bluetooth and my mouse stopped working on my Mac. To turn Bluetooth back on with just the keyboard, use Command-Spacebar to bring up Spotlight search. Type Bluetooth File Exchange which will prompt you for turning on Bluetooth by hitting the Return key.