Here everyone welcome to another episode of prime comments and before we get into your comments today We have some good stuff here I want to mention that we have relaunched our Nintendo Prime net website and I say relaunch kind of loosely We're actually working on some new stuff behind the scenes To really bring Nintendo Prime to life, but there's no part of that is back There will be new stories there like this story we have. Did you know gaming how they released a new video today? Talking about unknown things with Nintendo GameCube These are the kind of stories you can expect to find at nintendoprime.net that we're just not going to be talking about here on YouTube YouTube we aren't going to post like 10 videos a day We're gonna probably increase our production up to two to three videos per day But yeah, Nintendo Prime and that's where we're gonna have all the Nintendo news including stuff we talk about here It's also the home of our forums I think at forums.nintendoprime.net or you can go to nintendoprime.net and click on forums But yeah, and I have a post talking about all the plans I have for Nintendo Prime beyond YouTube And I'll have a link to that down in the description for you guys to check out But yeah, I'm really excited about this direction for Nintendo Prime You're gonna be seeing a lot of content coming out of Nintendo Prime now both at YouTube the website patreon And yeah our forums. I'm really pushing things through here and I'm hoping by the end of the year We're talking about this really bright future for Nintendo Prime in 2018 But whatever let's get right into Prime comments. We have so much to talk about this week I think I got 12 different comments to go through. Let's just hop right into it as fast as we can rapid fire First thing we're to talk about is the podcast this past week we had two episodes of a podcast or two parts of a podcast go up instead of a full podcast and most of the comments were Generally dealing with My treatment of Eric and cutting him off and we just reached our stretch goal on patreon for this past week So that podcast was recorded before the stretch goal And I'm noting that because we have a new podcast coming out this week that I think you guys are gonna love We have a special guest on which I'm really excited to to bring to you guys and I'm hoping that you agree that The podcast now that we've reached our goal has changed I'm getting better that I'm maybe talking more directly into the microphone. That's something I'm working on Although I noticed this week my audio is a little low So I'm gonna have to adjust that on the mixer over here for next time But yeah, it's a Definitely something that I am personally excited about the direction of the podcast and I apologize if it felt like I was rude Eric doesn't think I'm being rude or anything. He's my best buddy. He knows the deal He doesn't in the past some early podcasts when I tried to let him talk He didn't really have anything to say so I really had to carry the podcast But now he's he has gotten more into the flow and paid a lot more attention to Nintendo And has a switch and is all involved in that stuff He's got more to say and I have to do a better job. We'll let him do it. Thanks for your feedback. Now. Let's move on So the first video with your comments is Nintendo is defeating the SNES classic scalpers by meeting demand As always links to every topic we bring up is in the description below No, okay, but this is a just checking in to say last night I checked brick seek and my local Walmart showed is having 22 I drove up went in and 15 minutes later walked out with my SNES classic never got an NES classic So I'm very pleased with the supply on this one. Good luck guys And that's where the general gist of it is that a lot of people are like, oh, but it was still sold out Of course, it was still sold out. It's a brand new piece of technology like any brand new piece of tech It's sold out almost every brand new piece of tech that anyone cares to own is sold out day one My local GameStop has already gotten a restock. In fact, if I had the money again yesterday I could have walked in and bought one And I understand that obviously supply is different in different areas or people that said Oh, I was in a town of 40,000 people and I only had 22 units available at each different retail store You remember how many units were available the NES classic each one of those retail stores at launch? Guarantee you it was less than 22 especially since most of those retail stores also took pre-orders So what you have to remember is you have to keep it all in perspective, right? And perspective is that the supply nintendo's Statement that they would increase supply was correct And again, a lot of these retail stores should be in the next two weeks Getting restocks, which is a month and a half quicker than the NES classic got restocked. We have to keep that in mind as well So yeah, let's let's wait till the restocks it, but I'm very confident nintendo delivered on their launch promise And I am guaranteeing you right now They're going to deliver on their promise of having plenty of these units available this holiday Patience people patience And this is just a prime example of someone who had a hard time getting the NES classic day one But was able to walk in and there was a lot more units available than there were of the NES classic. So moving on Uh another video from this past week FIFA 18 switch hits Sales a 1 percent of total FIFA sales in uk during launch week I had some hot take opinions on that, uh, which some people kind of didn't agree with So cookie cook games said this is a except it's sold out for switch on amazon and game in the uk Which means it must have reached their expectations Surely also was the number one selling switch game in the uk Also, the switch in the uk has nowhere near the install base at the playstation 4 and xbox one It's reaching number one in the switch chart should be enough It's about attach weight at this point now raw numbers seriously considering this top the switch physical chart And got the number two in the e shop in the uk It's doing okay considering the numbers of actual switches out there.  I'm gonna stand by what I said because We have to remember that ea has a history of treating, uh, nintendo poorly and Essentially for fifa, you know my bold statement was that fifa's a flop We'll know if fifa's a flop regardless like I even mentioned in the comments where if it sells over a million units I'm happy, but it's not about if I'm happy. It's about if ea is happy So we'll know if fifa was a flop if ea announces more games for switch If they don't announce more games for switch then fifa was clearly a flop So we should know as soon as I don't know Heck bare minimum We would know if they announced a new fifa for next year for switch Which again, we probably wouldn't find out took closer to e3. So yeah, um I don't know what else to say to that The the fifa situation in the uk seems to be really weird In terms of like no physical copies being available. That's really going to hinder things Obviously, there's been supply constraints to switch yourself and it's the first year But again, uh ea is going to be the one that ultimately determines if it was a flop or not Not me not you not anybody else. I happen to think it's going to be a flop But I want to be wrong. I said this in many comments. I want to be wrong I don't want to be right. I want fifa to be a success regardless of my criticisms So we get more of the titles from ea. I know a lot of people have this feeling. Oh, we don't need ea games I disagree ea has a lot of high quality games just because they've screwed up some games Doesn't mean all their games are messed up and I want their content moving on Uh another video from this past week a seven year old spaz is out over to the nintendo switch as his dreams come true I know there's some people that took uh It's an issue of my word spaz because in some countries that word has a very negative connotation And even one of the definitions in the united states has a negative connotation But to me spaz uh growing up and just culturally where i'm from in the united states spaz you know Is it akin to freaking out and I probably should have put freaking out But then freaking out also can have some negative connotations although it's more commonly used So I don't know it's kind of this weird thing up in the air But uh in general it's just he was extremely excited and I needed a way to summarize that in one word so Let's uh look at what the the comment on this one was and this comes from pica plays hd Uh people need to leave the kid alone. He's a child. Of course. He's gonna get excited I think it's great that he gets to experience something wonderful like this and he's clearly grateful He loves it.  This was a negative reaction From some of the other places that I found this video at And uh, some people like judging that the kids shouldn't be spazzing out the kids shouldn't be parents should be slapping that kid around Making them stop acting that way acting that was inappropriate kids materialistic blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah and honestly, uh I'm a parent so obviously I feel like I have a right to give advice to other parents But I don't have a right to tell parents how to raise their kids I'm only going to give parents advice if they want advice And in this case, I'm just going to tell people who think they know better to stop it You know, I almost thought about saying He who uh He who has no sin cast the first song, but I don't think what the kid is did it was simple in the first place I don't think what those parents did was wrong. Uh, I am extremely excited that kid got excited We all should be excited and I think it is shameful that people Judge that kid based on a single video.  I understand that not everyone is in that situation, but we shouldn't be Uh Punishing a kid because of the situation you grew up with and the things you experience with life Uh, that's the kind of situation. I hope I find my children in all the time I hope my kids are freak out and get really excited about things they get and are appreciative of it because Not everyone can have those things And I try to instill that in my children that just because you have this really nice thing doesn't mean everyone's going to get it So moving forward Another video from our past week Was square enix manager arrested for stealing and selling 3ds units and I noted that I wish this was fake I still wish this was fake And gabin rogerson had this to say the guy's a hustler. What can you say the risk is part of the high? unfortunately sometimes um, and I I actually agree with that comment that I think Part of the reason he did it wasn't so much he needed the money, but because It was exciting for him to get away with it And I can relate to this and this isn't a story. I've really told hardly anyone It's not something you generally want employers to find out about But when I was younger and when I'm saying younger I was 18 Uh, I'm 31 now. So I'm a lot older, but when I was 18, uh, I worked at kmart a local kmart It's no longer open. Uh, but I stole from them. I stole several things from them. I eventually got caught Interestingly enough, uh, I got the the item I got caught stealing was a nintendo ds No, I did not need the nintendo ds. I already owned a legal nintendo ds But I wasn't doing it because I needed the items. Uh, in fact, everything I stole was in the trunk of my car So when they caught me they only knew of like a handful of things I had stolen and obviously the ds Was the most valuable thing I stole Uh, but literally, uh, I instantly confessed to everything I had taken and literally handed it was all still not even out of its packaging all in my trunk. I gave it all back Um, and because I gave it all back and because I confessed to all the stuff that they didn't even have evidence for Um, and my mom obviously crying a lot about it. It got expunged off my record So employers can't look it up. Although now if they watch this video, they're going to know that it happened No, I regret it. Um, I was depressed at the time and it's not an excuse because we all we all have high emotions in our Teenage years and my girlfriend of five years had left me and I had no direction in my life And blah blah blah blah blah So I stole as a means to be excited nothing was getting me excited video games weren't even getting me excited But stealing and getting away with it was and once I got caught It's not just you know that it was wrong because I got caught It would have been wrong even after the fact if I had never gotten caught for it I'm probably what if I was I was the I'm the kind of person that Even if I would have never got caught as soon as I would have left that job and moved on in life I would have turned around and probably confessed anyways and handed all the items back hoping they didn't get the police involved But if they did it is what it is. I deserve punishment. So yeah, it's uh, I understand that high I get it. I don't know where he was in his life to do that. Obviously for me. I was a young man He's an older gentleman doing it. So I don't know what could have prompted that excitement, but I get it I understand it I hope you learned from it And I hope all of you guys learned from my experience too just because I had some thrill from it It wasn't worth it The fines I had to pay and the stress I put my family through the stress I put myself through and the fact that I lost my job When at the time I really needed that job. So yeah Moving on and obviously, uh, it could have never got expunged off my record which would have prevented me from uh From getting better jobs moving on We did an unboxing this week how to not put together the link breath of the wild nendoroid I don't do a lot of unboxings But this felt like the kind of item that should be unboxed and Hyrule gamer had this to say I need to get me one of these that look so cool and I would love to display them in my collection That's really the purpose to buy it is for collector's value. It's not a toy. You don't play with it Um, the parts themselves are actually kind of cheap and this is kind of true of all officially licensed things Generally, they're pretty cheap But once you get it in the pose you want, it's really really awesome It could just take a lot of work One of the hands I actually need the the reason I can't do any pose with the bow Is one of the hands the the actual hand that holds the bow Um, doesn't actually stay in any of the arms the the it's not even my fault. I can't make this out of the box Uh, it has no grip when you stick it in it just sits there and the moment you touch it It just falls out. Uh, and you could fix that yourself if you want to make it permanent You can glue it in. I don't want to make it permanent. Uh, but yeah, so it's That's something to be aware with items like this. I don't think it really devalues it per se Um The joy of these items are the multiple poses you can put in it not necessarily the ability to play with it It's great for photography and it's great just to make it and set it on your shelf somewhere Uh, so yeah Cool stuff. I'm glad you liked it moving on Uh another video from this past week is what if instead of releasing the we Nintendo winter party, uh a continuation of our what if series And Raymond bra had this to say One flaw people arguing over best console equal console wars equal annoying bickering Then arguing over games equal game wars equal annoying bickering You can't win people will complain and get salty about anything and everything Gaming is for all ages every year a bunch of nine year olds get their first console and complain online It will never end Huh how to address this There's obviously kids that are going to complain and overreact I think a lot of the overreaction you see online you'll find are surprisingly from people that are older than you think Uh, I think a lot of people grow up um Kind of immature and that's really a youth thing, right? It's not just like a nine year old There are teenagers 16 70 18 year olds that are really immature and there are some that are really matured as well Uh, and that doesn't necessarily mean parent team was bad Just we all go through different way different, you know forms in our lives And we ebb and flow and my kids now have to grow up During the social media and internet age when I was a teenager when like facebook came out and facebook was college exclusive Then so I had a wait till I got accepted to a college to even use it nowadays They're going to be on facebook, you know as soon as they realize how to trick the age thing and make an account Uh, same seems going to be true with youtube and everything else out there Uh, and thankfully because of what I do for a living, I'm highly in tune with that side of things I'm not a parent that's out of touch with all that stuff, uh, which is awesome But yeah, I I don't know kids are going to be kids people are going to complain console wars and game wars are always going to exist I mean, I still remember a whole bunch of people arguing back and forth about horizons zero dawn Crapping all over the breath of the wild and breath of the world crapping all over horizons zero dawn Yeah, these are both fantastic games We you know that the only reason people are even debating that stuff is because one's exclusive to Nintendo One's exclusive to sony and it all boils down to console wars and people wanting to justify the purchase of their consoles Guess what? You don't need to justify the purchase of your console to anyone but yourself As long as you're happy with your system and the games you're playing on it It doesn't matter what anybody else thinks That's what I always tell everyone whether or not you love pc playstation xbox Uh, ouya even uh switch 3ds for you It does not matter what matters is that you enjoy the system you have If you don't enjoy it and you feel like you need to go on the internet and try to justify it Then you probably don't enjoy it and you probably should Be looking at other spectrums or maybe you don't even enjoy gaming as much anymore I don't know. I can't I might you I can't tell you how you feel but uh, don't tell other people What they should and shouldn't enjoy You know what I mean? I mean let them read reviews and stuff Don't go around saying they're wrong because they like something more than something else or whatever Let them have their opinions opinions are okay All right moving on Uh the next video from this past week is nintendo switch is going to win holiday 2017 It was a hot take. I have no, you know proof that's going to happen and pc game boy I had this to say a very interesting comment Uh, loving the switch. I am a pc gamer primarily and I honestly have looked at my steam library of 500 plus games Then I look at my switch and grab my switch to play something Not saying my pc isn't superior in many ways it is But the switch really has a lot of games that have been getting my attention and currently playing golf story as I listen to this video The game is driving me crazy because I am terrible at golf games But it's still really fun and I keep coming back to it I just beat steam world dig 2 on it a few days ago Indie games have always been on my pc But now I have decided to get them on my switch because they play just as good as my pc But I can play them anywhere. I mean it's a given And in all the exclusives and it's just a really good console I just haven't paid attention to the other platforms when on my pc as I have with my switch It has this pull on me where I am glancing at it. Well on my pc playing pug g or something This console is really special. It is special and I think um I probably have some bias here because I have a nice pc granted. It's for editing, but I can game on it as well um Where pc and switch is kind of like the perfect combination, but again, there is no perfect combination of anything It's going to matter what what's your preferred method of play What games do you enjoy? I mean like as an example, I love madden Madden is not on nintendo system and it's not on pc So by default I have to own an xbox or playstation 4 if I would want to play Madden And there's other games I want to play as well tons of games on playstation 4 I haven't played that I want to do There's even tons of games on xbox one that I haven't played that I want to do Couldn't see if these coming out whether that you like that game or not. I think it looks good. I played it at e3. It looks exciting Um, but yeah, it's uh, it's very interesting The effect switch has been having on people who own other platforms including pc And I'm glad that you're enjoying your switch and it's not making you abandon your pc But it's making you realize uh that it provides something that that the platform that you enjoy doesn't so awesome Moving on tenth video or so from this past new nintendo switch production has ramped up to insane levels That are due to million a month reportedly Um and duty 294 this is a hey Can I just say I prefer the older format with gameplay instead of you not to insult you or anything But I don't like this way of making videos So yeah, um for a while I was experimenting with having me on camera and doing some things because that's the direction I want to take the channel In fact, I could tell you right now some day in the future some probably sometime in 2018 Almost every single video Is going to have me on camera in some capacity as we upgrade as we get new equipment as we get New cameras I hire editors yada yada yada, but until then here's the format We're going to do moving forward. So it's not confusing or as confusing anymore all news related videos are going to be Voice over over gameplay.  You guys know what it's like It's the videos I've been doing for all year. You guys you guys get it. That's what news videos are going to be like discussion videos Are going to typically be Uh me on camera doing the more presenter style where I'm because it's my opinion I'm presenting my opinion. I'll probably have some notes on a piece of paper Make sure I hit some key points Try to keep it as raw as I can and I'm sorry bump the camera But yeah, that's what we're going to do for that with the green screen and all that stuff Our podcast is always going to be in person video as well But you could definitely tell the difference between that video type of video and the discussion video and the news video I'm also going to try to note it in the thumbnails Whereas like if you see a thumbnail that has me in the thumbnail, that's a discussion video The podcast has its own kind of thumbnail and the thumbnail that doesn't have me in it will be a news video Now there are exceptions to this. We just did a discussion video on Uh The nintendo world championships that wasn't news That was a discussion oriented video and because that was a discussion oriented video But was about something that has physical video of and I felt it was better to show Video of the nintendo world championships than to have me on screen for that video But again, that wasn't voice over over gameplay. That was voice over over the actual event. We're talking about So that could still happen with discussion videos as well As an example if I happen to be making a discussion video about a particular game And I happen to own that game You're probably going to see voice over over gameplay for that because it's more relevant than me on screen But when it's something that i'm passionately talking about that isn't necessarily Strictly about gameplay or something you're going to see me and we're going to have a good time Any other types of videos might be intermixed stuff. We'll see Everything's kind of up in the air at this point beyond our standard daily video content So yeah, thank you. Thank you for your feedback. Um, I always take the stuff into consideration I know there were people that love that format So just so you know that format is going to come back sometime in the future When I can war readily and easily create at a consistent pace Moving on Um, ea asked why fifa 18 on switch doesn't allow online play with friends They basically avoided the entire question and uh z Torm rage hero had this to say what a surprise ea avoided the question capcom included this in monster hunter double cross lazy lazy ea And i'm i'm torn on this in the video I said that I kind of lay the lay the blame on nintendo's feet But obviously there are third party games that have Uh, the ability to play with friends It's a big missing feature fifa 18 a big missing feature in mba 2k 18 So we could talk about lazy devs lazy this lazy that Reality is none of us are behind the scenes. We're all making presumptions based on Information both publicly available and maybe information we have from contacts like I have Some game developer friends I've talked to and they said that it can actually be a deterrent But then we have people who think oh that's bs because these are the third party games do it and nintendo games do it Well, I mean nintendo games are kind of their own separate thing and have their own separate issues by the way with hollyhandle multiplayer But yeah, it's uh, it's an interesting thing and thank you for your comment Maybe it is ea's fault entirely. I we don't know Someone needs to comment on it But no one's going to and we're probably never going to comment on because if ea actually responded properly They either make the nintendo look bad themselves look bad or themselves and nintendo look bad It's better to avoid the question It's it's a classic reggie way when you ask when you kind of trap reggie with a question Where there's a high chances response would upset people you just kind of avoids the question and talks around it That's what ea did. So, uh, yeah, that that could mean something bad somewhere or it could mean nothing We're never going to know Moving on on nintendo world championships the final winner from this week. I as I mentioned before Uh, reminding me why I love nintendo and tried on 64 I have this to say nintendo world championship 2017 was so much fun to watch My wife and I were both glued to the tv and hope nintendo keeps going I think every two years is fine as having it yearly would diminish its appeal Jordan was amazing as the league commentator and kept things interesting between games I never felt like there was too much talking as the game knowledge of every commentator was outstanding and on Point a very professional job by nintendo and one of the reasons I love them and their games so much I could see nintendo using this as a sort of stepping stone to a bigger event One where there is a 12 and under category as I mentioned. So, yeah, um, obviously I love the nintendo world championships I didn't catch all four hours of it. Although, uh, I've called like three and a half There's just a little period in the middle that I didn't catch that I'm going to actually go back and watch after I'm done with this video But yeah, I thought they did an excellent job It was interesting seeing a lot of people commenting on this video that they didn't that they're talking too much They you have to understand this is a live event right because it's live and because there's one stage And not multiple stages which would suck for like you don't bring to bring an in-person crowd And have a stage in front a stage on the left stage on the right stage behind Because they are doing all they're playing all these very very different types of games on very very different systems And have to have different setups For doing that and because you have different setups for that You have to take you have to set things up tear things down and you're doing all of this in a live setting And this is what led to some of the technical difficulties that had for like a little five minute period in there They actually had some real legit technical difficulties that delayed one of the competitions and uh, they made that know they didn't hide that they mentioned they were having technical difficulties So it wasn't like you saw them stretching out the talking To hide that that was happening. Uh, they were very transparent with that. So everyone knew what was going on Uh, what was nice. So is that yeah, these are nintendo treehouse people They Well, you can see from when they first appeared at e3 a few years ago to now They have gotten better and better and better at speaking into cameras speaking to an online audience and an in-person audience And they've really stepped up their game. Uh, they know what they're talking about because they worked on these games They have intimate knowledge and while some of the stuff might seem boring and mundane explaining How a mario kart works how to drift how to do this? We have to remember that they are they are broadcasting this to a really wide audience Including people that might not know these things about these games So them even going over some of the basics is important Uh, and I felt their commentary during the matches was great Right on power with some of the best commentary I've seen watching professional smash bros tournaments and seeing some of the commentary there. I felt the commentary was great Obviously, there wasn't like those big.  They were very professional about it. I think everyone there enjoyed it everyone They got in that tournament got to take home Sweet stuff, you know swag, of course They looked like everyone had a t-shirt and a really really cool sweatshirt Which I believe if you go to the nintendo world store, those are actually kind of pricey So they got they got that free swag on nintendo paid for their trip out And I think they paid for their hotel stay plus food So basically nintendo if you qualified for this they basically took care of everything for you To make sure you could attend or you and your family, especially if you're a younger person Obviously your family would have to come with you if you're in the under 12 category And as I said, I feel like they should have an under 12 and then an over 12 or yes over 12 You know is is probably going to be have a larger crowd at under 12 But whatever that way you have two nintendo world champions instead of throwing them together or you can have like an under 12 And you could have the uh over 12 and then the ultimate champions from those can play against each other at the end And they each could take home a trophy and then there's like the grand ultimate trophy Um, and then you make sure uh, the only way that would work Obviously is that it needs to be a game that we don't even know about it It would have to be a surprise game that no one knows how to play yet Uh to put them on an even playing field They did that with super mario odyssey But obviously people have been able to play it and you could kind of tell right away that there was more knowledge By one person than the other on how the mechanics worked and how they play it But then that person oddly enough john numbers ended up losing. So, uh, yeah, it was uh, really really interesting watching everything unfold Um, just just great fun. I love it. Thank you nintendo so much for it And I want to thank everyone again for tuning into another episode of prime comments And I didn't mention it much before I mentioned again You could always support us at patreon.com slash nintendo prime We just got another five dollar backer, which means right now actually That person and several other people who have backed us have access to a podcast the podcast I've talked about coming this week with our special guest on our new formatted episode And yeah, uh, they're listening to it right now or have already listened to it And you guys are only going to get it in segments throughout the week So that's the only way right now to currently listen to the full audio podcast. Yeah, it is what it is Thank you guys for tuning in. 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Side notes is a great little app for the Mac, note-taking app that lives at the side of your desktop and for the main. And I'm gonna tell you all about it in this video. Hello, welcome to Take One Tech, my name's Alec. And today I'm gonna continue with the theme of choosing apps to review that are part of the set up bundle. And this is one of those ones where I don't actually use it for anywhere near its full capabilities. And it just has a specific niche use case for me. Scratches a little itch as it were. And that is one of the beauties of set up. And what is set up? Well, it is a bundle of over 200 apps that you can get access to for one monthly subscription of $9.99. And from once you download the set up app and put that on your Mac, you've basically then got a little mini app store where you can go and look at all of the different apps that there are available and simply download them from within set up. And then if you want to uninstall them, you can also do that from within there. So it's really great way of getting access to lots of great little utility apps. And the beauty of it is that if there are some apps where you maybe don't even need their full features or maybe you just need them occasionally where you perhaps wouldn't necessarily go and buy the app itself. But it does mean that you can just download them because you've got them as part of your subscription and use them as you wish. And that is the case with side notes because side notes, if I come back out of here for a moment is this little application that lives in the side of your desktop. In fact, let me just come over to this window. That might be a bit better.  Now, I do not use this to keep notes in. I have my own copyright, Alec Johnson text system, text file system. So everything that I do is basically stored in text files and then I have different ways of accessing them. Actually, I use NVult, which is Brett Terpstra's application for basically managing text files and creating text files and things like that. So that is actually what I use for my main text file system. I also, for my task management, I use an application called OmniFocus, which is based on David Allen's Getting Things Done system of task management. I'll be doing videos about all of these in due course as well. So what exactly do I use this for? Because it does do text, it does do notes rather and it also does tasks. But like I say, I don't use it for that. But I will show you all of the features of it because it may be something that you would prefer to use. And I know people do. But what I use it for is basically a little holding bay to throw little snippets of text and things like that at where I need a little bit more organization than say, I'm naming a whole load of other different workflows in this video, so I don't want to overcomplicate it. But I also sometimes use Keyboard Maestro to collect little snippets and then manage my clipboards that way. But this is for basically if I'm working on something and I want to collect my thoughts and little snippets of text and things like that, visually, then this is a great way to do it. So with all of that out of the way, let me just show you it in action as it were and then you'll be able to have a better understanding of what it is. So as I've said, this little tray pops out from the side and I'm just setting it all up on my Mac mini at the moment, so it's completely empty and it starts with nothing. And then up here, we can click on this little plus icon and we can create a folder. So we can create folders of tasks. I'm just going to call this folder one for the moment, but we could have more than one folder, folder two. If I can type properly, there we go. So we can reorganize them and things like that. So now we've got a couple of little folders in this little tray that pops out and now I can go into one of those folders and then it comes up. So we can see the root folder that I am in up at the top. And now if I click the plus sign, it is going to create a new text. There are keyboard shortcuts for all of this, so I'll come onto those in a moment. But now basically we've got an area where we can add text or images. So this is a note and this is a task. Whoops, I really can't spell. This is a another task. So what you can do is you can just highlight some things here and if I go down to the little text box at the bottom, then I could change that to be a to-do item. And there you can see now we have got little check boxes. So if you were going through the day and you had a series of tasks that you wanted to do, it's a great way to just capture those. I could say I use OmniFocus, but I can see how somebody who doesn't use a full blown task manager, this would be a great way to just capture some little tasks and to-dos and things like that. I should also point out it will sync across devices using iCloud sync as well. So if you've got multiple Macs and things like that, it will copy across to those as well. You have got obviously all the standard text formatting like making things bold, italic headers and so on. Now the other thing that you can do is you can also create code blocks as well. So that's another way that I do use this is for little code snippets and things like that. I also use TextExpander for text snippets that I'm using all of the time, then that they would be just stored in TextExpander. But this is for sort of short term ad hoc little snippets of code or text that I'm gonna need. Then I would just drop those into here. The other thing is it is actually fully compatible or understands Markdown. So if you don't know what Markdown is, it's basically a system that allows you to add formatting to text just by typing characters. So for example, if I type the pound sign or the hash sign, whichever way you want to say it, that basically is now going to create a header. If I want to add quote text, then a little arrow will add quote text. And you can do italics, underlines, all these sorts of things, but just by simply adding the little characters before them. And so Markdown is used often in, well, like writing blogs and things like that. In fact, it was developed by John Gruber from daringfireball.net, famous Apple blogger, and he designed it to basically speed up his writing workflow because obviously you can see that without, you don't have to actually type out or fix any manually set any formatting. You can just do it all in the flow of your typing. So that is the point of Markdown. If you know Markdown, you'll know what it's for. And it's just to know that it is available in here. And if you don't know what Markdown is, then it may be something you want to look at. And I'll probably make a video about it at some point in the future as well. But for now, I'll move swiftly on. You can also do other things with notes. In fact, let's start another note, shall we? So now we've got another note. And so now you can just, you can see how these are basically separated.  You can also, where you've got this little arrow at the bottom, so you can move it into another folder or you could actually share it or send it somewhere. So if I click on that little share tab, then this is the beauty of it. You can just copy the text. So if I've been building up a whole series of little text snippets and things like that, you may want to check out the video that I've just done on TextSniper as well, which was released yesterday. That is all about OCR and image capturing text from images. So this pairs quite nicely with that because you can use that to capture different parts of different text snippets, drop them into something like this. And then when you've got everything formulated in here, then you can just simply click the little share arrow and either copy the whole text or copy the note or just send it all to a different application. And you've got obviously all of the apples built in sharing functionality in this little share sheet thing here. There's also some settings. So you can basically change it from either standard markdown format, which is the default, or you can change it into plain text or code. And I should mention, by the way, when I said it can do code, basically that's just gonna use a monospace font and have a few other different formatting changes as well. But you can also color the notes as well. So if you want to change the colors of individual notes, you can do that. So as I say, it is just quite a nice little thing and it gets straight out of the way when you don't need it. So I'm not suggesting that you use this for your full blown notes management, although in theory you could. And you could also use it for your tasks as well. But it is just nice to have it there at the side. If I come into some of the preferences for it, if I go back up to my main folder. So there's a few different options that we've got with it, which are basically here. So we've got the general, the arrangement, either on the left side or the right side. Next is the show or hide bar. So there is actually, if I just come to another quick view, slightly more zoomed out, I'll just move that one out of the way. I don't know if you can see down here. In fact, you should be able to, there we go. There is a little sort of bar at the side. So you can change how the window actually opens. If I click on that bar, you can see it sort of folded away, but the bar is still there. That I'm only showing you the top quarter of my screen by the way. So this is actually positioned sort of halfway down the screen. So you can have it so that you actually move over and highlight the bar and click on the bar to activate it. The other option is that you can have it as a hot side as it were. That's supposed to be similar to a hot corner on the Mac, which is where you just move your mouse over to the side and it pops out. Or you can have it as a activated from the menu bar. So there is a menu bar item up there. So you can have it so that that is the way that it is activated. You can also, if you've got one of these two options selected, then you can also choose whether you want to even see it in the menu bar or not.  And I obviously prefer to do things by keyboard shortcuts. And there are, there is a keyboard shortcut which happens to be command option shift, no, command option control, sorry, space. And that one you can just sort of basically toggle it in and out. So that is the way that I would do it. The next thing is you've got basically hide notes on click in empty space. So that is basically, if I'm in one of these folders, then you can have it so that it's, at the moment, nothing's happening if I'm clicking on the screen or clicking outside of the app. But you can just have it so that if you click in empty space between the notes, then it will disappear. Or if you click on the outside of the app like that, it will disappear. And you've also got hide when mouse is inactive. So if I put this one back on, then it should, once I come out again, it should just disappear for a few seconds. Well, it's not quite doing that, is it? It says open bar will disappear when the mouse is inactive for a few seconds, but it doesn't appear to be working. I'm wondering why that is, nevermind. I'll move swiftly on. I'll move swiftly on from that. It's obviously operator error. Usually these things are. So I just do it with the shortcuts anyway. And then launch on computer startup as well if you like. So I'm gonna toggle those off because I always just use keyboard shortcuts for everything anyway. So then the next one is creating notes. So the default format, as I mentioned, is either plain text code or markdown. So you can choose which one you want as the default. But obviously, like I showed you, you can change that as well. Current new, sorry, create new note. So the options are here, basically, either it's gonna put a new note above the previous one, below the previous one, or always come at the top or always come at the bottom. So that's what those are. It's just the position. So if I put always at the top, in fact, let me do something different. Always at the bottom. And you can see it's just put a new note at the bottom. If I put it always at the top, then the next note will come at the top. That is as simple as that. Default color is non, but you can just choose a specific color that you want it to have. The next thing is create notes for notes using global shortcut. So basically, if I go and type, want to type a new note, there is a shortcut which is command alt option N, or command, sorry, control alt command N. That is a new note. You see it's just popped a new note up there, but you can also ask it to say, if a no folder is open, so if I come back out of this folder and then press the same thing again, then it's just popped up a little notification here, asking me which folder I want to put the note in. So you can have it to ask automatically or just never ask. So that's up to us. And if I put never, then it will ask me to select the default folder basically that I want it to go into. So the next one is create new folders over selected folder. So this is the same thing as these ones up here basically. It's still saying whether the new folder is going to come either above the current folder below at the bottom or at the top as simple as that. Next on appearance is whether it's going to be light or dark and or whether it's going to be selected based on the system preferences. You've also got a different look and feel to the panel as well. Let me just come back to my slightly zoomed in scene. Maybe a bit easier for you to see. So you've got dark blue sort of graphite, the graphite gray or retro. So these are basically the styles you've got. There is also get more themes online. I've not actually tried that because I just stick with the standard ones, but you may want to add some more color or things like that. And then you've also got the difference between note colors and the background. And then also file links. So either full width or compact. So that is when you've actually got links to specific files in there, how they are going to appear. Next with the text, basic text formatting, things like that, the type of font. So this is where I've mentioned about the code. Then you have a different font for that specifically. So a fixed width font, Menlo. That's usually my default anyway to be honest. That's always quite a nice font. Change the font size, line height, things like that. Spell checking, either on or off. Remove indents, remove new lines and things like that when you're pasting text in. So depending on whether you want to have formatting included, so I actually take those off because I do tend to want to keep it if I've copied it that way. Next is shortcuts. So these are the shortcuts that I mentioned, command, control option, command space. It's a bit of a mouth for this. I always trip over with that. Or create new note is command, control, option, N. But you can also new note from Pasteboard. So you can actually create a new note from whatever you've got copied. The next is search. So you can just search your notes so they can have a shortcut for that to just search through the notes that you've got. Pin app window that's gonna pin this window to the side. And then also you've got a few other things for shortcuts for basically navigating the folders once you're in the app. And you can see that there's some other ones here that are not user-divinable, but it just tells you nonetheless how you can do things like creating a new folder, deleting notes and so on and so forth. Next is backups. So you can see that you can actually set it to automatic backups. And then you can see here when it's going to make them. And then where the backup location is. And then next is data. And you can do, as I mentioned earlier, iCloud synchronization to be able to sync between different iCloud devices. So that is basically side notes. And like I say, if you want to use it for managing, you can see here, you've got quite a lot of space all the way down the side of your monitor. You could have multiple different folders with all of your notes in, similar that you can do with Apple's own notes, but they just kept here conveniently on the side. And I know some people may cringe at the idea of this, but for me, I just use it for the occasional note snippets and things like that. And so for that, it is certainly worth the money when you effectively get it free if you've already got set up. And as I am a big proponent of a set up, then it's something that I've got there. And so this little niche use case for me certainly scratches a niche for me. And so that is why I'm using it. And that is why I'm recommending it to you. If there are any other set up apps that you use and find useful, then do let me know in the comments below. And also don't forget to like and subscribe as always. And if you've found this useful, then you may find some of these other apps that are available in set up useful as well. So until the next video, have a great day.


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Okay guys Third time I'm recording this I'll tell you about it some other time, but right now there's an update on Monkeys convertible Something else just came down and hit it That was three. Yes guys.  We just wanted to give you a quick update on this, so So there'll be more how-to videos on this apparently, huh? Yeah?  What the freak man?  I'm gone. Bye. Bye


The way I'm literally about to cry. The way I'm about to cry. But then I realized today the trailer Heartstopper has come out. Just be fun to react to the trailer. I don't usually do stuff like this but I thought why not? Because I generally think this is the most excited I have ever been for like a book to movie adaptation. Maybe no exit as well. I was pretty excited for that but this just feels like special because you know it's been so hyped up. We know how involved Alex Oseman has been in the process and like listen I feel like I'm kind of known for love. But that's quite dramatic. Heartstopper my favorite graphic novel series ever. One of my favorite series ever. I love them dearly. I read them as soon as they come out. I reread them. I love them so much. All five stars. Incredible. If you're new here if you're new to who I am my name is Megan. Hello. I just like be fun to react to it really quickly. I'm going to try and get us out really quick so we're not going to speak for long but we're going to watch the trailer together. I actually can't believe we're seeing it. I'm very nervous. I don't... I have faith in the adaptation because you know Alice Oseman has been so involved in it. I don't think they're going to change too much hopefully. Like I didn't finish Shadow and Bone. I didn't... I haven't finished that yet. But I feel like you could see Leigh Bodugo's influence on that so I'm hoping we're going to see that with Heartstopper. I just don't want to expect. I've loved the cast when we've seen them. Okay let's breathe everyone and we're going to watch the trailer for the first time together. I am so excited. I can't believe it's arrived. It's coming out so soon. I can't believe how soon it's coming out. It feels like it should be like months and months away but it's like a month. Okay I think it's out. I think it's out.   Bear in mind if you want a reaction on people stay silent when they're watching the trailer that ain't me. So if you're actually hoping to hear what the trailer says don't expect that. I'm going to be talking over it. Okay let's go everyone. It's a minute long. Not the school setting being so perfect. Secret boyfriend. They've got his room perfect.  I'm going to cry. All the cast looks so perfect. Not the rugby. Looks so perfect. How do they conjure up them for my brain? On to the screen. I don't know how they've cast the cast so well. Secondly are we going to have the little doodles, the little flower illustrations throughout the show? If so death. Death to all of them. I can't take it. I'm overheating. That the illustrator over? Is something fun with texting? We've seen a lot on the trailer we saw a lot of characters like texting. I hope they do something fun with how they show that visually. I feel like they will. I feel like that's like you know easy to do now. So that's exciting. Oh my god when he turns up in the rain at the end. Ready to watch this 10 times. 10 times. 10 times.  It looks beautifully shot. The rugby. My heart can't take it. The rugby my heart can't take it. The friends. The way it looks perfect visually. The school setting. It looks perfect. We've won. We've won everyone. We have won. Do you know what the best thing is about winning? It's winning. You know what's the most exciting thing about winning? It's when you win. I love that feeling. The shoe shot. I'm crying. It looks incredible. I am emotional. I can't. I can't make out much. I love the adaptation already and we've barely seen it a bit. August. August. Thank god. April 22nd. Can't come quick enough. I am so excited. Let me know down below what your reaction to watching the trailer was. I've never done one of these. I don't know if you have to sign it off. But um yeah let me know what your reaction to watching it was. I think it looks great. I think it looks so faithful to the graphic novels. I think it looks literally like what I imagined. Literally perfect. And I think that shows that I've been very much like on the board. You know you can see the influence absolutely in it. So I am so excited. We have truly won. Thank you guys for watching this little equestria video. Make sure you subscribe if you're new here. I make lots of bookish videos so check some of them out if you're new. And yeah okay I'm gonna go now and cry in the corner because I can't believe that we have this trailer. Okay love you. Bye.


Thank you for such a generous introduction and thanks Ricky for the invitation My job here is basically one as that as timekeeper I'll tell you a little bit of a diet dynamics of the event. I'll introduce the speakers and the panelists and I'll Steer the discussion in such a way that we managed to get you out of here by 8 o'clock or 8 10 And that we can have an interesting compelling Conversation we have two fantastic speakers. We have Joanne close former mayor of Barcelona and current probably the most important What's the word Intellectual-manager of the future of our urbanization as head of UN habitat and in charge of the discussion for next year's Super important meeting. We are glad to hear what Joanne has to say We also have Alejandro Araben a founder of Elemental and architect practicing and thinking architect in Chile and Future direct well actually director of the next year's are Venice architecture Biennale and Without any doubt he has the best hair for any architect over 45 We have a and I should know We have two fantastic panelists who will answer the the presentations Beatriz Galile is a Daniel broski associate curator of architecture and design at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and She has also curated the Lisbon Trinale and that Lisbon Trinale of architecture and she's very keen on interest and interest in the questions of discipline of architecture and urbanism and Finally a Ricky Bourdette whom most of you know But basically he's a Mick Jagger of urban issues We'll have a 20 minute 15 to 20 minute presentations by Joanne and by Alejandro Then we'll bring the panelists to the front and then we'll have a 10-15 minutes for discussion Thank you. Joanne, please come on


Hi there, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosel here. So I came across today something that I thought was pretty cool And I wanted to show people show people its coolness and this is really for people for people living in Israel This is a I think really interesting tool to know about useful tool and it's a national GIS tool so I've talked on this channel before about the GIS system that Riyadh Yerushalayim the Jerusalem municipality puts out there and it is quite good Lot more data there than on Google Maps now that you might be asking well, what's a GIS and what is the difference between Google Maps? Well, it'll kind of explain itself when I show you what this thing can do but basically You have a lot more information than Google Maps just being sort of a commercial or sort of Open access mapping tool this thing is an official government resource Gov map dot gov dot ill and the government puts in and various government ministries put in different information layers To the map that lets you see where things are those things can be official municipal boundaries or fire stations or ATM machines, etc. So it's really really quite powerful So the URL for this system here is a gov map dot gov dot il now. I just want to say my Hebrew is so so and There is an English interface. So you can click on English and get that up in English, but like most things in I was gonna say in Hebrew again in Israel You're much better off sticking with Hebrew if you want to see everything it can do so that's what I'm going to do and I mentioned the Hebrew because the pronunciation at times might be a little bit spotty So nevertheless, so that's how to do it now. You can use this as a regular web user Anonymous, you don't need to register or you can register and if you do register you can get more out of this tool so There's also documentation up there on the internet So if you type in gov map, you will be able to access this PDF the gov map user guide Hovert had a hovert did I get that right? It's it's the vowels that kill me You don't know the vowels in Hebrew. They're not written out So if it's hobo or some other vowelization, please correct me in the comments. So there's this 30-page PDF telling you everything this thing can do essentially and What is what is good about this is you have here on page 5 of the current manual there is a Comparison table showing you what you can do Glisha and on limit and what you can do Glisha and shame is to mesh So that this is what you can do without registering and this is what you can do with an account So you can save layers. You also have shimush API usage so there's an API for this too, which is pretty cool And as you would expect in order to be able to use the API you need to be registered It's irat shirva creation of a layer so you can actually create your own layer private layer on the GIS system if you have a That was a thought that was what's technically called a tautology GIS system to create your own layer on the GIS you You need to have an account basically so Let let me show you some more things that are in this I I'm gonna have to move myself move myself again slightly here Watch as I travel around the screen. So in addition to the English there is here at the bottom You see you have she knew you're a car, which means change the background so Apologies apologies for this technical for these technical mishaps. I'm gonna I'm gonna go to this site Okay, so now now you can see right so there is map are a car background map and the default option is rechovot and of name Mivni mivni streets and buildings and But here's watch this very very cool Sillum avio will get you to your satellite imagery and the resolution as in Jerusalem is just like Would blow Google Maps out of the water like so many times over. It's not even funny like have a look at it It's like seriously seriously pretty impressive now. I know I follow on Twitter some real You know these guys who like follow airplanes and like follow the like open-source satellite imagery So I'd imagine they're probably laugh laughing at me calling this very good But from my perspective compared to Google Maps, I find the resolution here very very clear Another cool thing with this is that you can go between You can change between different years of satellite imagery. So this is 2020 2019 all the way back to two thousand and sorry two thousand five seven ten 18 19 and 20 now I've just focused on a random patch of Tel Aviv for this screencast but you could probably compare development if you went through the years like if I just kind of Let's see somewhere that might have been built I mean in Israel over the course of 15 years where where isn't being built is probably better question to ask Let's see what's going on by this patch of the coast 2020 2019 do you notice something guys you do What did we have in 2019 that we didn't have in 2020 someone has moved in the sun chairs sun chairs no sun chairs And if you actually know about this stuff and you're spend a lot of time doing it you'll probably notice many more differences I mean you can probably see look. I'm pretty sure there is some development there Well, I can confirm that this building has been in Tel Aviv since 2005 at least so that's at Siloom Avir now there is also Siloom Avir Michelavre Michelavre means mixed. So here you have a mixture of satellite imagery with Street names superimposed on the satellite imagery is that's pretty cool. So if I just go back to Siloom Avir I don't necessarily don't know what street. This is right. You do always by the way Yeah, this is in the screen thankfully so you can see XY. So you'll always be able to know where you are geographically through the system But if I go for the I like this one Siloom of Siloom Avir Michelavre and you can see what how much information is superimposed. We've got street numbers This is 163 Ben Yehuda in Tel Aviv this so you can see exactly where we are on the on the map What else is there? There's so much to unpack in this thing It's a whole goodie box of Geographical exploration here Siloom Avir CIR I feel like this is thermal imagery someone someone more knowledgeable than I probably knows because all the trees are Red have suddenly become red And so I reckon this is something to do. This is something of interest to botanist. That's my guess Could probably Google it Google it, but I leave the suspense open my pot historic. Oh cool historical maps So this is not so we can look at the 1930 map of Tel Aviv Look at this this thing is like this is a free resource. This is just like out there on the internet. You can This is nuts What other historical maps can we look at look at 1919 here at Tikai Uruchalayim is there and My pot on a different scale, so let me just go back to And oh, and you can also do no background so you can just have I'll show you that some of the things you can do in a second there So let's just go back to this one so that's how you do that and and You can edit also things or put them onto the layers you can print them You can also save the map so like if you wanted to I don't know grab a chunk of satellite imagery from Tel Aviv You can go Shimura Mapa and you can watch this now. I can like Select an area. I Don't want to save it as a base layer and I click on Shamur and now it's downloaded a PNG Just of that imagery. I mean, this is this is good. No, this is very This is a very nice tool. Okay, let me just show you the couple of things I did want to really show or highlight besides all the many things so you can register and save things and Do more with it and there's also little that me dude. There's a little measurement function here that you can do you can measure the area between points And you can you can take straight line measurements. I'm presuming Yeah, but a lot of the functionality here that I that I find interesting was in Shirvot Shirvot means stands for and I hope the pronunciation is good here Stands for layers. So what you can do is search through all the different layers of information that are embedded Onto this map. So let me show you some of the things that are on there So again, I found a discrepancy between Hebrew and between English I found in in when I use the thing in Hebrew. There were many more layers So if I want to just click on to and by the way One more thing I should have mentioned here I'm just gonna bring myself back to this this part of the screen is you can just search this like a regular Google map. So I just say, I don't know. It's probably somewhere on Yaffo 100 in Jerusalem Yaffo mea Yerushalayim Search and now we're in Jerusalem on Yaffo 100 and we have the this This map built up there and you can see there's also satellite imagery in Jerusalem Okay, so two things that I thought were cool if you go into Shirvot Right, so this is layers and the first ones are like gonna be sort of the main Ones that they've put up there for your interest, but to very much caught my attention one of these was the ABC Divisions in the West Bank. That's area a area B and area C And the second was I mean there is tons and tons of them Oh, the second was the cell phone towers I'm not sure I should tell the people worried about 5g How to do this, but you know what? We're gonna go all out here. So I have my ABC layer Already on my GIS. I'm just gonna turn it on before I do. Let me go out to somewhere. You can see What's about to happen? So here we are without it And we've just lit up the West Bank We've lit up the West Bank with into area a B and C now I said before that it's very hard to find where is area a area B and area C and This is probably the most Useful tool. I have ever seen With respect to that in terms of like providing the most detail now you can find UN maps you can find other maps But this one is really really powerful. So as you can see inside the green line of Israel It is just not colored and in the West Bank you would answer more on whatever terminology you wish to use and I Don't I don't use any terminology politically I just called the West Bank because that's what I hear people calling it. But you don't show bone You can see the colors are all over the place and you can just kind of figure it out for yourself that you know This is going to be area C I'm actually not sure about that. I know what area a is that's going to be Bethlehem Ramallah, etc No, this is area B I'm sorry and then everything that isn't area a or area B is area C and you can edit the layer as well so you have Odot odot About the layer. There's no info there presumably is coming from the army. I would guess Or from Kogat Beats on it to a chamele Lishka va. All right, so this is where you can how you can change how you find out info about it I'll show you that in a second and then whoops That was supposed to happen and you can also If you go into Sinun, you can filter so there's a Sinun for Azor Here and you can choose to show Area a area B H2 and H H H2 and her brawn are just in Sorry, H2 and H2 and her just in her own and her brawn. I'm gonna go for show everything and Now if I just do a zoom out We should be able to get that that layer back in a second Okay, no, I'm not exactly sure what happened I had to like on take and take but whatever the there's come back So what you can do that is a very very I haven't seen this before is you can firstly click on any layer and you can see Area a and I think these are probably just going to be generic So it says mida Hamid Hamid Parsem He no lead lady Abel bad. So it's basically saying this is for informational purposes only don't rely upon this In the end of me that rich me or may have so it's not official information But coming to a mida a couple of Mitsui et still gourmet on the tour but many hell has rachy So basically don't rely upon this for whatever purposes you might wish to but you can see here the very clear divisions Then if I click on area B It's gonna say the same thing. So it's not specific, but you can see the exact Division between area a and area B Down to the level of individual Houses in where are we think this is Beth Bethlehem? Yeah, Bethlehem here So you can see Bethlehem at showing an eyes was under the impression Bay Jala was area C always So that's interesting. It's young Bay Jala is area a a Yeah, it's young Bay. Is there area three? No, that's area a It's young definitely. Yeah, it's young Bay Jala as area a and then there is like parts of Bay Jala before we show me the road the roads that are areas C it's very strange and This is the and you can see actually more clearly here more parts of Bethlehem as you come out of it There is again this kind of division here between area a And area no, this is between area a and area b So area b is joint control of israel and the pa and area a is full control of the pa for those not aware Um, you can you can see where area So remala for example is area area a Some of these don't really make sense betanina area b is betanina really area b. I'm not sure that's correct um It's the aram area b. I that one. I'm pretty sure is accurate. You can see all the different area b villages here um And uh, some of them are remarkably close to jerusalem You can see here As azim some of it is an area b this port this little parcel So again, it says don't rely upon this but um, if you do if you're ever curious as to Husan is an area b a lot of people think it's area a Um, and you can see again exactly where the where the divisions are. So that's pretty cool So that's the area a b c bit and the other thing I want to show Which is always useful. Oh, yeah, the cell phone towers. So click on uh, antennas cello lariot Pilots opera operational antenna towers And now if you go into jerusalem, let's say, I don't know somewhere like here You can actually see a list of all the cellular antennas in the area and this is uh, again quite cool So if you click into one of them, they actually have the logos of the operators on them, which is again Quite interesting. So I think this is partner. Am I am I am I correct? Pelopon. Sorry Pelopon is that like blue one? This is selcom. I know that much and this one is Pelopon's pelopon is Pelopon is like the green eiffel tower ones So if you click on to like pelopon You can find any antenna You can find where it is. This one is on marquee israel 41 um This one and uh, you can also see What it's broadcasting. Um, you can see the site number Um, you can see the date uh, butica, uh, butica, but to kufit, ah, you can see the last time I was checked Uh, some notes about it where exactly it is And you can see here at the bottom I can't highlight for some reason on this. Uh, you can see where I'm like circling my mouse Technologi ot shidur dor shalosh ve arba. So this is a three and four g radio antenna And I mentioned I said I probably shouldn't have said this because that people are concerned about 5g So if you do want to know what an antenna In your in your neighborhood is broadcasting on you can see in televiv We might find a 5g Some 5g infrastructure Nope now there's probably a way to Filter on if I go back to shirvot and I go into antennas and I go on to sinun Oh, wow, we've got we've got everything here chevrat. So if I clicked on to selcom Mid-kadem now we're just looking at only selcom towers, right? Uh, basi si so I can uh, I can take off or nakai alcohol I can take off that filter for filtering by the company Um, I'm just trying to see can I search filter on the technology? I can indeed technologi ot shidur Uh, let's see there must be there's a one for 5g Doa. Yeah, there is dor chamesh Not showing any in televiv. That makes me a bit suspicious Maybe there's maybe they haven't deployed 5g in televiv yet. Anyway, you get the idea. This thing is like Really, really insanely powerful. You can search for all manner of government infrastructure filter on it Um, there's so much more here than cell phone towers and area abc. There's a bunch of other things Uh, and it's well worth taking a look into taking a look at Uh, even if you're just curious about what's in your local area You might find some surprising info there. Hope this video is useful If you'd like to get more videos from me then feel free to subscribe to this youtube channel


Both Katie and Teresa have incredible curiosity. I remember Teresa saying to me once about enjoying the puzzle of trying to figure out these complex datasets. That's fun about working with them is their their curiosity. Coming into this lab and working with a lake was like really exciting and I actually really love it a lot. So it's definitely like broadened what I think I would do in ecology. My research experience in Dr. Kluge's lab has really helped me learn about the importance of integrating science with public outreach so I know in any career that I have in the future I will be involved in projects that not only you know crank out publications in academia but also apply those to public outreach projects or public health projects. There's growing concern about some of the public health implications of harmful algal blooms partially because the the incidents of these blooms are on the rise. So an algal bloom is basically an overgrowth of the algae in the lake. These in particular are blooms of microcystis which are an algae species that produce this toxin microcystin.  They poorly affect water quality they have toxins that can aerate so if you're say jet skiing they can go into the air and you can breathe them in your dog can drink them it's not good. So this is an ELISA test for microcystin which is an algal toxins you put in some of your water samples and it basically tells you where within 0.5 and 3 is your water sample so it's going to be a color gradient. So if your sample is dark blue it's closer to 0.5 parts per billion and if it's light blue it's closer to 3 parts per billion. The fact that we have algal blooms is not new but there's increasing awareness of the public health consequences of exposure to the toxins produced by these species. It definitely needs to be some better management of the nitrogen phosphorous coming into the lake. This project is really good for me because it studies really physical conditions and allows me to look at patterns and everything like that and then ultimately how that affects things like algal blooms. That's like really cool to see the trends over the years see what our volunteers have noted and how they've seen how the lake has changed over time as well.


The next two lectures will be by Professor Jack Swett. He is Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Physics at the University of Quebec Tri-Reverse. This is in Quebec, Canada. Professor Jack, he is well known for his work. He is a renowned scientist working in the field of metal hydrides. Hello everybody. My name is Jacques Uyotte. I'm a professor at the University of Quebec à Trois-Reverre and also a member of the Art de Genre Research Institute. Today, we will talk about tailoring metal hydride for practical application. This is in two parts. The first part will be nanostructure in general and the second part will be on the effect of nanocrystalline structure on the capacity of metal hydride and also some other method to get nanostructure materials. So just a quick recap on what our metal hydride, you could consider metal hydride to be like a kind of hydrogen sponge. So in a metal hydride, you have a chemical bond with the metal atom and the absorption is an exothermic reaction and the desorption is an endothermic reaction. So to give you some idea of the difference but with metal hydride with respect to the other ways to store hydrogen, so if you store hydrogen as a gaseous form at one bar at room temperature, you'll see that the volumetric capacity is quite low. In order to increase that, you have to increase the pressure so if you go to 150 bar, you have a much better volumetric capacity and if you are using liquid hydrogen, so usually if you want to transport a huge quantity of hydrogen, liquid hydrogen in my opinion liquid hydrogen is the best way. Of course it's at low temperature at 20 K but you see that the volumetric capacity is quite good but you see for metal hydride here you have high temperature metal hydride and you have a low temperature metal hydride, so this metal hydride is working at room temperature, this one is working at least 300 degrees, 350 degrees C and you see that actually it's a little bit counterintuitive but you see that the volumetric capacity of hydrogen is higher in a metal hydride than in a liquid. So the hydrogen atoms are more compact in a metal hydride than in a liquid. It's counterintuitive but this is one of the best advantages of metal hydride is that hydrogen is compact so your tank will be very small but this advantage as you see here is that the gravimetric density is quite low so here this means that you only have 7.7 weight percent of hydrogen in a metal hydride tank made of magnesium hydride and the rest is just the weight of magnesium and for Lantanumna K5 it's even worse it's only 1.4 weight percent so that's one of the big disadvantage of metal hydride. So the advantage and the disadvantage well you see that for metal hydride the advantage as we said it's high volumetric density it could work at low pressure but the reaction of this option is endothermic so why I list it as an advantage is because if you have hydrogen metal hydride tank in your car and you have an accident and the tank is rupture and you have hydrogen getting out and hydrogen is taking fire so then it will eat up the tank but as the tank is eating up it will desorb hydrogen but as a desorb hydrogen because the reaction is endothermic it will have a tendency to cool itself so it will kill the reaction by itself so this is inherently safe the disadvantage is usually you have a high temperature of operation if you want to have a good capacity for example with magnesium hydride you have to work at high temperature more than 300 degrees C usually the hydrogen sorption kinetic hydrogenation the hydrogenation is relatively slow the cost depending on the material it could be expensive and again you have to consider not only the cost of the raw material the cost of the alloy but also you have to consider the cost of loading the alloy with hydrogen and putting that in the tank and so on so the process cost could be quite expensive so you have to take that into account and pyrophoricity because metal hydride after many cycles of hydrogenation they will turn into very very small powder and any powder that is very very small could be pyrophoric and also for metal hydride because they react with hydrogen so it means that they could react with oxygen also so you could have problem of pyrophoricity so very quickly just the step for forming metal hydride so first you have hydrogen in gas phase and this hydrogen has to be split into proton to hydrogen before entering because on a metal hydride what is stored is not a molecule H2 but it's a proton it's the hydrogen atom so first you have to break this molecule after that the hydrogen has to break usually you have a small oxide layer on the surface of your alloy so it has to break this oxide layer and for hydrogen first you have to be in adsorption so you adsorb on the surface and then it's split into and then the proton will enter the hydrogen, the metal and first it will form in solid solution so it will just go into the metal structure but as the pressure of the gas is increasing then the concentration of hydrogen in your metal will increase up until you nucleate the metal hydride phase and in that phase then the hydrogen will go on specific site depending on the crystal structure it could be on an octahedral or tetrahedral site and you have a lattice expansion it could be up to 30% of expansion of your lattice of your metal so that's the thermodynamic so you have your metal and this is the pressure of hydrogen this is the capacity of hydrogen so it's the number of hydrogen atom over the number of metallic atom and as you start you increase the pressure the hydrogen will enter in solid solution in your metal up until you reach that point at that point you start to nucleate the metal hydride phase so it usually has a different crystal structure and now that you have a new phase in your system by the law of Gibbs so if you have a new phase it means that you are losing a degree of liberty so if you are losing a degree of liberty it means that the capacity could increase even if the pressure doesn't increase because as the pressure tries to go up you have more hydrogen that will go into the metal hydride that will form the metal hydride so on this plateau you go from 100% metal and 0% hydride up to here where you have 100% metal hydride and 0% metal and here it's 50-50 so you have the transformation along that plateau you have the transformation from the metallic state to the metal hydride state and once all your alloy is on a metal hydride state then you are losing one phase you are losing the metal phase so you are gaining one degree of liberty and then to increase the capacity the pressure has to increase and here hydrogen will enter in solid solution and the metal hydride and of course this is a standard phase transition so depending on the temperature the plateau pressure will change so you could plot the logarithm of the plateau pressure as a function of 1 over T and the slope will give you the enthalpy of the reaction and the ordinate at the origin will give you the entropy of your reaction so one advantage of the metal hydride it could spend a large range of applications from portable and mobile up to something as big as the fuel cell submarine so I don't think if you have like a micro fuel cell with a smart phone you could not store hydrogen in a liquid phase it doesn't make sense you could not have a reservoir of 20K in your pocket and the same thing with pressure you could not have a small tank at high pressure because the amount of hydrogen that you need for this is very very small so the tank will be almost as big and as heavy as the device itself so it doesn't make sense so the same thing up to the submarine for the submarine well what is important for them is space they don't have a lot of space so they need something that will store hydrogen that will not take space and for them weight is not a problem it could be heavy it doesn't matter for a submarine so this is why the choice of storing hydrogen for a fuel cell submarine is metal hydride so metal hydride for practical application so presently all known metal hydride suffers some limitation for practical application either they are too expensive or the capacity is too low or they lose capacity during cycling or the temperature and the pressure of operation is not right for your application so most of the time the metal hydride are not ideally suited for practical application right now so the goal is to modify this and to try to find metal hydride that will really meet the specification for practical application so how to solve this limitation well we are trying to find new alloy or we could modify existing alloy and nano sizing is a way to obtain new alloy and also to modify the existing alloy so you could the existing alloy as we will see if you have a conventional alloy but you make it in the nano cross-aligned dimension then the characteristic will change a little bit so it could make your alloy attractive for practical application so how to do a nano structure in metal hydride well there is two ways as for a name metal so it's either bottom up or top down so bottom up is that you construct a nano cross-aligned alloy directly so you could do that by cold vapor deposition thin film and so on so you start and you more or less you assemble atom per atom until you get your nano crystal but in my opinion this is not so suitable for scaling up you could not produce ton of material with this but these are techniques that are very interesting from a fundamental point of view because you could really control the size of your material and also the chemistry and so on so you have more control on your sample and it makes the understanding and it makes the study much easier so these are interesting techniques but we will not discuss them in this course so what we will discuss is the top down you start from a polycrystalline material and you reduce its crystallite size so this is what we will study in this course so there are many ways to do that you could do that by bow milling, cold rolling and cold channel angular pressing pressure torsion and so on so we will discuss some of them in this course so nano structure metal hydride so getting a nano structure metal hydride will solve some of the practical problems for example the kinetics or the first hydrogenation so we could make the first hydrogenation much faster and you could make the alloy much easier to cycle so after many cycles of hydrogenation the hydrogenation you will not lose so much capacity so what is the definition of a nano crystalline material well the classical definition is that your crystallite size should be less than 100 nanometer so the crystallite size is the coherent domain of your crystal and in a nano crystalline material you have a lot of defect so these defect could act as a activation nucleation site so they will lower the activation barrier so if you have more nucleation site your kinetic will be faster and also depending on the size of your grain boundary and the size of your nano crystalline you could have a grain boundary could make up to 30% of your material and this grain boundary could serve as an hydrogen pathway so hydrogen could go through this grain boundary to reach your nano crystalline material and all of this will make that the kinetic will be much faster in a nano crystalline material compared to a polycrystalline material so today we will look mainly at ball milling to prepare metal hydride this is the technique that is used by most of the researcher in the field of metal hydride so almost all of them are using ball milling to get a nano crystalline structure and as we saw by ball milling you could get defect so that will increase the nucleation site you could have formation of the metastable phase this is a common feature of ball milling so not only in metal hydride but also in other type of material usually you could get a metastable phase a high pressure, high temperature phase just by ball milling at room temperature of course you could synthesize nano composites so you could mix two alloys and you could get a nano composite usually when you do ball milling the particles are of the order of the micron but the crystallite are order of nanometer so you have to be careful when we talk about nano crystalline material it doesn't necessarily means that the particle are nano crystalline size it's the crystallite that are nano size and sometime in the literature you see people are talking about grain size but I don't like to use this word because for some people grain may mean particle and for some other people grain may mean crystallite so I prefer to talk about particle and crystallite and then it's clear for everybody so if you talk about particle that's a particle so that particle could be of the order of micron but it's made of many many smaller crystallite of the order of nanometer and of course by ball milling you could increase the specific surface area so ball milling very schematically so in ball milling you have a crucible and you put your raw material in form of powder and you have balls that are made of stainless steel hardened stainless steel or tungsten carbide or some other material you select the material depending on what you want to ball mill and you shake this crucible and then you will have a collision between two particles or between a particle and the wall of your crucible and of course if you have powder in your crucible then you will have powder that is trapped between two balls or between a ball and a wall so when the two ball collide you have your powder that is here will be broken so you will have or they could be cold work the cold well together the two particle could be cold well with the force of the impact of the two balls so it's a repetition of fracture, cold welding fracture, cold welding and so on and after you repeat that many many times you will have a nanostructure material so today I will show you milling of magnesium hydride magnesium hydride well it's a well known hydride it has a high capacity 7.6% and it's relatively low cost because it's abundant in the earth crust the disadvantage is that it has a high temperature of operation more than 300 degrees C usually the first hydrogenation is very difficult and also the kinetic is relatively slow so what I will show you today is that the ball milling of commercial magnesium hydride that we ball mill in a high energy milling machine so this is the powder before milling and after milling 20 hours so you see and the scale is not the same here this is 30 micron here it's a 7.5 micron so you see that before milling the particle are like a smooth okay the surface is smooth but you see here after milling the particle are smaller because this is only 7.5 but these are the big one I have smaller one here so you have a strong reduction of particle size and also you see that for example this particle is an agglomeration of smaller particles so sometimes by ball milling you will break particles but also you will tend to fuse particles together okay and you see that the specific surface area here was only 1.2 square meter per gram and by ball milling we increase it almost by a factor of 10 but it's still not a very high specific surface area so you increase a specific surface area by an order of magnitude but it's still not very very high like you see in carbon nanotube or graphite or so on when you have 100,000 square meter per gram so this is the polar diffraction the on mill is here and after two hours you see that the break peak are getting broad so that means that it's a nanocrystalline structure and you see that these peak are appearing okay that we did not have these peak in the on mill and the mill one you have these peak well these peak actually are this phase so this is a metastable phase of manismine right so the normal phase is the beta phase that the room temperature phase but the gamma phase is the high temperature high pressure phase and you see that you could synthesize it just by ball milling at room temperature so if you look at if you do a ridval refinement if you analyze this pattern then you see that after milling you have 74% of manismar drive and 18% of the metastable phase of manismar drive and you see a reduction of the crystallite size so now it's only of the order of 10 nanometer so while before it was a polycrystalline so it was more than 100 nanometer so if we look at the hydrogenation characteristic so you see so this is on mill is the fill mark and mill is the hollow mark so this is the on mill this one this one and this one and so you see for example at 573 degree k the on mill one is really not dissolving it doesn't want to be solved but at the same temperature for the mill one you see it started to dissolve and if we look at 623 k so 350 degrees C so this is the desorption of the on mill one and you see the mill one is here it's much much faster it's totally desorbing 800 seconds for about 12 minutes while here after half an hour it's still not fully desorbed and you see even the on mill one at 648 it's still slower than the mill one at 623 so you see that ball milling just getting a nanocrystalline structure drastically improve the kinetic of the desorption kinetic and also the adrogenation kinetic so you have the same thing here so for example at 573 so this is the absorption and after half an hour it's not fully absorbed and you see that this one is fully absorbed about maybe 12 minutes 800 seconds fully filled so you see again that nanocrystalline makes the adrogenation and the adrogenation much faster but this is the thermodynamics so this is the pressure composition isotherm as we saw in one of the first slide so this is the on mill one so the on mill one you have your plateau in the first slide and then you have so this is the absorption and after that you have the desorption and you have a plateau again so the plateau on absorption and desorption are usually not at the same position this is what we call hysteresis but this hysteresis depends on manufacturer but also on the kinetic so you see that this is not a flat plateau here in principle at this point should be a stable point so you should have equilibrium at this point but how do you define equilibrium? you define equilibrium when the pressure doesn't change so you expose your material to that pressure and then you see that the material doesn't absorb adrogen anymore so you say well this is on equilibrium but if the kinetic is very very slow then the kinetic is so slow that your upper just think that you reach equilibrium when actually it's not at equilibrium so this is due to the very slow kinetic but as we saw when you do ball milling and you get a nanocrystalline structure the kinetic is much faster and you see that your plateau now is flat because the kinetic is faster and also this plateau move up to here so the hysteresis is much less because you could see here for the on mill one you see that it starts to bend here but the kinetic is so slow that it doesn't reach the equilibrium point so this is why this plateau is lower so this is not due to thermodynamics this is due only to kinetic but you see that you basically do not change the thermodynamics and you just change the kinetic and you see a small reduction of capacity after ball milling so this is confirmed by a calorimetry so this is under hydrogen pressure so that was under 2 bar of hydrogen so if you put your mechanism on the right and you start to increase the temperature at one point it will dissolve and that gives you that peak and that's the temperature of the peak and if you ball mill then you reduce that temperature because the kinetic is faster and you notice that here I have only one peak and here I have two peaks but you remember that in the ball mill material we had two phase we had the gamma phase and the beta phase so that's why I have two peaks here now one of them is the desorption of the gamma phase and the other one is the desorption of the beta phase here I just have the beta phase but you see a reduction of that temperature peak so it means that I have a reduction of the activation energy so we can measure that and what we measure for the on mill for this one the activation energy was 156 kilojoule per mole while for the mill one it was 120 so that's one of the reasons why the kinetic is faster because the activation energy is lower so the conclusion for the magnesium hydride so by ball milling we found that you could have nano crystalline material with a metastable phase and after ball milling the particles were still of the order of micron but much smaller than before milling and you have a 10 fold increase in the specific surface area you have a faster hydrogenation and dehydrogenation and a reduction of the activation energy so this improved the kinetics and also because we have defect and the small particle size and the increase of the specific surface area so these are all featured that will make your kinetic faster so reduction of activation energy smaller size defect and so on but we also saw that intensive milling does not alter the thermodynamic properties of magnesium hydride and this is a common feature in nano crystalline material usually you do not change the thermodynamic unless you're going to very very low very very small crystallite size so for example for magnesium hydride you have to go to the thermodynamic starts to change at about 7 nanometer and just a little bit in order to have a good change of thermodynamics you have to reach like 2 or 3 nanometer and this is not the type of size that we get by ball milling usually so it's much much too small so in principle by ball milling usually you do not change the thermodynamics so with this this will conclude this part one and in part two we will see so here we mainly see the effect on kinetics but in part two we will see the effect on capacity and also we will see some other ways to make nano crystalline material metal hydride so thank you very much for your attention