My mother-in-law Merlee is one of my favorite people on the planet. She’s one of the kindest, most caring people I know. But this week she made me love her even more, because of how geeky she is. A few months ago Steve’s parents moved from 2 hours away to 4 hours away. It’s not […]
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Security Bits – WebAuthn, Pentagon Says No GPS, Reddit Breach
Followups We looked at WebAuthn, a new protocol for password-less authentication on the web in a Security Medium back in April. At that stage Microsoft had committed to adding support for the protocol to their Edge browser in the future, they’ve followed through, adding support to Insider (think beta) version of Windows 10. If testing […]
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My Code-Free Automation Talk from CMD-D & a New CMD-D Class
Almost a year ago I told you how excited and honored I was to be asked to speak at Sal Saghoian’s CMD-D Conference on automation. My talk was entitled “Code-Free Automation”. The talks were recorded by Alex Lindsay and the Pixel Corps and only just now have been made available to the public! I’m thrilled […]
Continue readingMy Code-Free Automation Video from CMD-D & a New CMD-D Class
Almost a year ago I told you how excited and honored I was to be asked to speak at Sal Saghoian’s CMD-D Conference on automation. My talk was entitled “Code-Free Automation”. The talks were recorded by Alex Lindsay and the Pixel Corps and only just now have been made available to the public! I’m thrilled […]
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Fighting with Excel and Numbers and Elapsed Time
You all know that I’m a huge fan of Excel. Nothing is as fun as getting a pivot table to turn a giant pile of data into actionable information or creating a graph that tells a story about your data. Heck, just this week, Michael Woerner was stuck on a tricky Excel problem and came […]
Continue readingVectornator Pro for iOS Tutorial on ScreenCasts Online
Back in May I told you about the Free, Yet Powerful Vector-Design Program for iOS in Vectornator Pro. I was so intrigued by this application that I created a video tutorial on Vectornator Pro fo ScreenCasts Online. Here’s a link to a teaser video for the tutorial. If you like what you see, there’s a […]
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Macally MacBook Pro Charger with Magnetic USB-C Cable
Since we’re on the theme today of charging laptops, I’d like to tell you about the Macally MacBook Pro Charger. We’d best start with a problem to be solved though, don’t you think? Apple ships the new 13″ MacBooks Pro with a 61W power adapter that charges the laptop over USB-C. It comes with the […]
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CCATP #557 – Tom Merritt on Community in Podcasting
This week Tom Merritt, host of the Daily Tech News Show, (and co-host of Cordkillers, Sword & Laser and Current Geek) joins us to talk about the importance of the community to his podcast. We’ll explore how he created such a thriving and participative community, what it means to him, what it would be like […]
Continue readingJackery & RAVPower Batteries Will Charge Your Laptop
Before learning about these two batteries, I highly recommend you read my previous article Can A Portable Battery Charge a Large Laptop?. In this article, I run through the math on how to figure out if one of these chargers will work for you. This background will be important as you judge these two batteries […]
Continue readingCan A Portable Battery Charge a Large Laptop?
I debated at length what to entitle this article as I rewrote it four separate times. I considered at one point entitling it, “How Many Engineers Does it Take to Understand a Battery?” But I settled on “Can A Portable Battery Charge a Large Laptop?” The article started as a review of a portable battery […]
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