Most people use Snipping Tool for one thing: grabbing a screenshot. In Windows 11 it does a lot more, and three of its features have saved me a lot of time. The shortcut is Win + Shift + R and it works from anywhere in Windows. 🎥 Record your screen. - Switch Snipping Tool to record mode, drag a box around what you want to capture, and hit start. - It's perfect for a quick how-to clip, or showing someone exactly where a setting lives. 📋 Copy text out of an image. - Take a screenshot, then click Text Actions in the toolbar. - Snipping Tool detects the text in the image, and you can select it and copy it. I use this to grab settings or error messages without retyping them. 🙈 Hide private info before you share. - In the same Text Actions menu, Quick Redact blacks out email addresses and phone numbers in one click. - You can also select any text, right-click, and redact it. Do this before you post an order screenshot or a support question anywhere public. 💭 Which of these didn't you know about? Mine was copying text out of an image. I'd been retyping things for years.

Hey Tyler! I have a part that needs a magnet. In your experience, should I apply a dob of magnet glue in the hole before insertion or print over the magnet to hold it in place? (The magnet is 6 X 2mm)

Bambu Lab's Black Friday sale is live, and this is the time of year I tell everyone to stock up! Here's what I'd actually grab. But first, head over to the Referral page and Apply my referral code; it helps throw a little $$ my way for sharing my 3d printing knowledge with you. 🧵 Filament It's on sale, and the more you buy, the bigger the discount. If you've been printing out of the same two or three colours, this is the time to fill the shelf. If you can get a spool of PLA filament for less than $12-14 you are looking at a great deal; for PETG and above, anything below $13-17 is a steal! 🔥 Hotends Stock up on spares, or upgrade to the new tungsten carbide hotend; or upgrade to high flow nozzles. If you are printing with course materials like PLA Carbon Fiber, ASA Glass Fiber and more, you should definitely check out the Tungsten Carbine nozzles that will resist wear and tear better than the Hardened Steel nozzles. Or, if you want to print faster, upgrade to High flow nozzles that are optimized to extrude more filament than standard nozzles. 🖨️ The printer you've been eyeing. Two I'd point people to: - P2S — a single-nozzle CoreXY printer with an enclosure and more advanced AI checks than the A series. A great starter if you want one nozzle done right. It's down to $889 CAD for the printer and AMS 2 Pro Combo: P2S on the Bambu store - H2C — if you're getting serious about a 3D printing side hustle. Dual nozzles plus the Vortek nozzle rack, which dedicates a colour or material to each nozzle during multicolour and multi-material prints. It's $400 off the Combo at $2,699 CAD, or $500 off with the full Laser Upgrade at $3,149 CAD. And no, you don't need the 40W laser unless you want to cut thicker materials: H2C on the Bambu store

AI agents that can work in your inbox are genuinely useful. They can also do things you really don't want done in your name. Here's how I set them up so I stay in control. 🎛️ You choose the permissions. Every platform I've used lets you pick what level of access and tools the agent gets. You don't have to accept everything it asks for. 👀 Read the full list before you click allow. Go through every permission once. It's the fastest way to get a feel for what the agent can actually do. 🚫 Block sending and deleting. Always. I never want an agent sending an email on my behalf, and definitely not without my knowing. So for any email-connected agent, I turn off send and delete access every time. ✅ Give it the safe jobs. Drafting replies, moving messages into folders, and tagging or labelling are great ways for an agent to help without taking control. It does the busywork, and you still hit send. - In Claude, you go to Settings > Connectors > Gmail and inside you will see the full list of available tools. - In ChatGPT, you go to Settings > Plugins > Gmail > Permissions and inside you can select "Allow read-only tools". As you can see in the screenshots I attached, in Claude, 'Reply to email and Send email message' are both set to block, which means the Agent doesn’t know it can even do those so it can never try; and all other tools I have set to “Ask” when it comes to taking action, while any “Read Only” tools are allowed all the time. While in ChatGPT I have it set to 'Allow read-only tools' which forces the agent to ask when it needs to do any writing or deleting. 💭 Have you connected an agent to your email yet? What did you let it do, and what did you block?