I don’t usually do a rundown on the Apple announcements unless I’m on someone else’s show, but I’m going to make an exception this time. I did get to be a guest on Daily Tech News Show but the format of the show doesn’t really lend itself to a lengthy discussion of the details. It’s […]
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Security Bits – 02 November 2018
Followups Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Calling For Bloomberg To Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story — www.buzzfeednews.com/… 🇬🇧 Facebook fined £500K for Cambridge Analytica saga — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… Mirai Co-Author Gets 6 Months Confinement, $8.6M in Fines for Rutgers Attacks — krebsonsecurity.com/…
Continue readingAccell Thunderbolt 3 Dock – More Ports for Less Money
These days we seem to be plugging more and more things into our computers. Sure we have sleek, thin laptops but when we sit at a desk it’s great to have a big monitor, lots of real USB-A ports, and have a way to charge our devices. If you’re over the top like me, you […]
Continue readingAnswers to Rush’s Dumb Question on Activity Goals
Last week on the podcast, I played Rush Sherman’s Dumb Question asking us what makes a good Apple Watch Activity goal. We got some terrific answers that I think add a lot to this conversation.
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HashPhotos Tutorial on ScreenCasts Online
Back in June, I told you about an awesome app for iOS called HashPhotos. I like to think of HashPhotos as a better front-end GUI to your Apple Photos Library. My blog post was pretty in depth, but it turns out there’s a ton more cool stuff that it can do than I realized at […]
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TCL Monitor and Bias Lighting – by George from Tulsa
Guest Post by George from Tulsa I recently re-configured my home computer desk which enabled me to replace a 27” WQHD monitor with a 49” 4K TCL ROKU “Smart” TV purchased for $320 at the nearby Best Buy. Running the 4K TV at 1920 x 1080, I’m able to scale both Mac and Linux UI […]
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Testing Wonky WiFi with Wireless Diagnostics App
This week Steve and I ran into a very curious problem with our network. Before I jump into what went wrong, I should give you the layout of our current network. We have Frontier FiOS (used to be owned by Verizon) and we’re paying for symmetric 75Mbps upload and download. We’ve had fantastic service for […]
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Dumb Question Corner – What makes a good Activity Goal?
This week’s Dumb Question comes from Rush, and it’s an audience participation question:
Continue readingSecurity Bits – Google Plus Data Breach, SSH Vulnerability, WhatsApp and D-Link Vulnerabilities, Apple Privacy Portal
Followup The Facebook hack: Facebook October 2018 security breach: Everything you need to know — www.imore.com/… Facebook opens up about data breach details — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/…
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Ok, FINE, We’ll Use Slack
Last week on the show I talked about the demise of Google Plus, and how I was trolling around for a replacement for people who didn’t like Facebook. I came to the reluctant initial realization that perhaps Slack was the answer. Lots of people use Slack and claim to like it but I was less […]
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