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Unleashing the Power of Personal Photo Management with PhotoPrism

As an avid photographer and a lover of memories, I've always struggled with managing and organizing my ever-growing collection of digital photos. It was a constant battle to find specific photos, especially as I often forget to tag or rename them. That's when I stumbled upon PhotoPrism , a powerful open-source photo management tool that has revolutionized the way I interact with my photo library. In this blog post, I'll guide you through the process of installing and using PhotoPrism, sharing my personal use cases along the way. Whether you're a professional photographer, a hobbyist, or simply someone passionate about preserving memories, PhotoPrism is a game-changer. Getting Started To start our journey with PhotoPrism, the first step is to install it. Head over to the official repository on GitHub and follow the installation instructions provided there. Don't worry, the installation process is well-documented and straightforward, making it accessible even for no...

Why I switched to Brave browser from Google Chrome.

  I have used Google Chrome for the last 5–6 years, Chrome was the perfect browser and it has many features like syncing everything across the platform and devices, bookmarks, history, lots of extensions, password manager, auto-complete, developer options to name a few. All of these in with just a Google Id. Google ecosystem is very rich and useful. So why I decided to switch to  Brave  browser after giving it a trial for a month. Although chrome has everything, there were few issues that led me to hunt for a new browser and finally switched to Brave. Why Brave? 1. Chrome hogs the RAM “Aw ,  Snap! Google Chrome ran out of memory while trying to display this webpage.” I am sure you might have seen this message. This message appears when chrome has eaten all of the available RAM memory. I understand the reason behind Chrome using a lot of memory because of its architecture. It runs all the tabs in a separate process so that it can provide isolation. Modern sites and ...

Why I am switching from Whatsapp to Signal, and you should too.

Signal Whatsapp is part of my daily life and probably many of others globally. Recently on 04-Jan-2021 Whatsapp updated its  privacy policy  which now focuses more on sharing the data with it’s parent company  Facebook . Also the Tesla CEO  Elon Musk  twitted to Use  Signal  app for messaging. This surges the downloads of Signal app in playstore and currently topping the chart. You may have heard about this app for the first time and must be asking what is this Signal app. It’s a messaging app but unlike whatsapp it’s primary focus is on providing privacy and security to it’s users. S i gnal is not a new app that got recently launced infact this app is around for quite sometime. It was first released in 2014. It’s a cross-platform app which means its availabel on both Android and iOS. It’s end-to-end encrypted similar to whatsapp but Signal doesn’t share your data to Facebook. Users can use Signal to send messages, images, videos. Users can make audio ...