There are a lot of cloud options for your photos these days. If you have an Office 365 subscription for $99/year you get a terabyte of storage along with it so you can throw your photos up there. Dropbox is another good choice, once you get over the hump of agreeing to pay $99 for […]
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Why Do Strong, Unique Passwords Matter?
In this video, I try to explain (in words normal humans can understand) how poor passwords can be revealed even if the website you’re using encrypts those passwords. Using a Screen Reader? click here Hacker image courtesy By Andersson18824 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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This story might be super old news to everyone else but the results surprised me so I’m telling it anyway. A while ago my buddy Niraj asked me for help with something. He had been tasked with helping at a work event where they wanted to be able to do impromptu video recordings of individuals […]
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This week I’ve been working on another screencast for Don McAllister’s ScreenCasts Online podcast. I thought it might be interesting to walk through the process I use to create these, including what I’ve learned from Don. There’s really a lot that goes into making a screencast so I thought it might be fun to get […]
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Hello Allison and the NosillaCastaways, Allister here from New Zealand again with a review of an application I’ve known about for years but only just grokked. Let me start by reading you a list. To Do (two words), myTo-Dos, iProcrastinate, OmniFocus for iPhone, ToDo (one word), Remember The Milk, To Do Exchange Tasks, Any.do, Things, […]
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Last week Steven Goetz and I were doing some network performance testing and we happened to send each other screenshots of our results on the Ookla Speed Test Site. I was immediately floored by something. While my screenshot had 13 separate ads on the page, his was showing only 3. He was running the Ad […]
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I get a lot of questions about the 12″ MacBook and specifically whether I find the one USB-C port to be limiting. For my use case it’s not a big problem but I did buy a dongle that fills in 90% of what’s missing when I do need something more. With a single USB-C port, […]
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Leo LaPorte has been talking lately about his desire for a single messaging app for all platforms. He’s found what he thinks might be the right tool for the job, Telegram Messenger from telegram.org. I decided to give it a run and I’m in love with it! Telegram has native apps for OS X, Windows, […]
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During Trey Ratcliff’s after-party there was time for questions to Trey. I shot my hand up first and I was rewarded with a gift. Before I tell you about it though, what’s our problem to be solved (other than loving free stuff?) Most cameras come with a neck strap and they work ok to keep […]
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Last Saturday night, Pat Dengler and I went on one of Trey Ratcliff’s photo walks in LA. i He’s doing them all across the US so it’s a unique opportunity to hang out with him…and a few hundred of your closest friends. If you haven’t heard of Trey Ratcliff, he’s pretty much the Internet darling […]
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