Allison interviews William Strand from Royole about their new FlexPai smartphone/tablet. FlexPai is the world’s first commercial foldable smartphone with a flexible display. FlexPai can be used either folded or unfolded, giving it the portability of a smartphone plus the screen size of a tablet. The device was first launched in October 2018 in Beijing […]
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CES 2019: APH Devices for Blind Readers
Allison interviews Craig Meador and Dave Wilkinson from the American Printing House about two new devices being developed to assist blind readers. The first is the Canute from Bristol Braille Technology. The Canute features nine lines of forty characters of Braille. It supports all six-dot Braille codes and tactile graphics. The second is the Graphiti […]
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CES 2019: MaxDrive Storage for Wyze Cam Video
Allison interviews Max Stoneking from Wyze about MaxDrive, their new private cloud storage device for Wyze Cam video. MaxDrive serves as a local or remote backup for video footage from the Wyze Cam’s SD card. The drive continuously and automatically stores videos generated by all Wyze Cams that you designate on a given network. It […]
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Security Bits – 11 January 2019
Followups CastHack Hackers hijack thousands of ChromeCasts to warn of latest security bug — techcrunch.com/… https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/01/04/dont-fall-victim-to-the-chromecast-hackers-heres-what-to-do/ — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… Marriott now admits over 5 million passport numbers were stolen in their recent data breach — www.macobserver.com/… The first segment on episode 120 of the Checklist podcast by Secure Mac covers the convincing new phone scams targeting […]
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NC #713 Mimeo Photos, Security Bits
In this action-packed episode we really only have two topics. I’ll tell you how I’m in love with the Mimeo Photos extension for Apple Photos to make calendars. Then Bart is here for an out-of-band Security Bits so we don’t have to wait three weeks for an installment. mp3 download
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I’m in Love with Mimeo Photos for Apple Photos Projects
Every year for the last 25 or 30 years, I’ve created a photo calendar for my family. These monthly collages make us all very happy. I can tell they really like it because once or twice I’ve tried to opt people out to save money only to get huge protests and be forced to add […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits – 3 Jan 2019
Notable Security Updates Microsoft released an emergency fix for an IE Zero-day — krebsonsecurity.com/… Logitech have released a critical security update for their Logitech Options app (used to configure some of their devices). Unfortunately the fix was two days too late, coming two days after Project Zero released details of the bug (time was up) […]
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CCATP #577 – Darren Carr of the Mac Quadcast
This week I’m joined by Darren Carr, host of the Mac Quadcast. Darren is an Apple blogger and podcaster and he’s also paralyzed from the neck down. We spend a bit of time talking about how on earth he does all of this. Just learning how he types 20-30 words per minute using only his […]
Continue readingNC #712 Puzzling Gmail Send/Reply Problem, Ember Mug, Rocketbook, PFSense Router
I had the pleasure of being on the Daily Tech News Show 2019 Predictions show at dailytechnewsshow.com. Terry Vogelaar explains how he diagnosed and fixed a very curious problem where mail he sent via Gmail appeared to come from his wife. I’ll tell you about how happy my Ember Ceramic Smart Mug makes me. Troy […]
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Rocketbook Review by Troy Shimkus
I’ve long been interested in taking written notes during meetings and turning them into shareable electronic artifacts. Ever since I was a student, I have had to attend meetings or classes and needed a better way to take notes. In grad school, I had an HP tablet (it is still in a closet somewhere), one […]
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