Guest Post by Steve Davidson It was the worst of times, it is the best of times In early April, my well cared-for mid-2010 15” MacBook Pro began to fail badly: frequent crashes (kernel panic linked to the GPU), the internal fans made a grinding/groaning sound, and my backups started reporting errors. This MBP, my […]
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CCATP #564 – Bart Busschots on PBS 63 of X — Bootstrap Buttons
This week in Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots and I spend a fair amount of time going over the homework challenge from PBS 62. The nuances combined with some refresher on how the pieces fit together was something I really needed so hopefully I wasn’t alone. The new part of the episode is dedicated to […]
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Security Bits – Cold Boot Attack, Apple’s Anti-Fraud Trust Score, EU Copyright Act Amendments
Security Bits – 21 Sep 2018 Followups Following on from Apple’s belated removal of Adware Doctor for steal users browser history, Apple have now booted three apps from TrendMicro for doing the same, specifically Dr. Cleaner, Dr. Antivirus, and Dr. Archiver. TrendMicro insist it was an innocent mistake due to code re-use, and not malicious […]
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NC #698 Series 4 Watch Sizes Compared, How Not to Buy Apple Products, First Impressions, Security Bits
This week I’ll bring you all the maths on how to compare the different Apple Watch sizes. Then I’ll tell you how I managed to find the worst way possible to order new Apple gear (hard to believe it but I outdid myself). Then Bart Busschots is back with Security Bits were he tells us […]
Continue readingHow Not to Buy New Apple Products & First Impressions
Every year when the new shiny comes out, I find a worse way to buy my Apple products. Who can forget when the iPhone 4 came out and I stood in line how long to get it? I think it was 7 or 9 hours, can’t remember exactly. Then the next time I thought I’d […]
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Series 4 Apple Watch: How Much Different Is It in Size to Series 3?
Apple has accomplished something really extraordinary in the physical design of the Series 4 Apple Watch. They have managed to give us a far bigger display area in a watch that is barely larger than it was in the previous generations. I wanted to figure out a way to convey this without just splatting out […]
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10 Reasons to Get an Apple Watch
I was chatting with my good friend Dorothy (aka MacLurker in the chatroom and in our podfeet.com/googleplus) about the big Apple announcements and we got talking about the Apple Watch. She tends to be of the more frugal amongst us and instead of going for the new shiny, she casts a more critical eye on […]
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iThoughts Foundation – ScreenCasts Online Video
I took on the challenge of creating a tutorial for my favorite mind mapping app, iThoughts from toketaWare for Mac, Windows and iOS. Creating a screencast tutorial is the best way to learn a tool, and this one was no exception. I’ve been using it for over five years and had no idea of the […]
Continue readingNC #697 Affinity Publisher Beta, Rowenta Fan, Scanner Pro, 10 Reasons to Get an Apple Watch
My iThoughts tutorial for ScreenCasts Online is up and I’m really proud of it. I give Affinity Publisher beta a first look. I’ve found the perfect fan – the Rowenta VU2660 (and I throw in a heat transfer lesson for free). I’ll tell you how Scanner Pro from Readdle might make me not hate scanning. […]
Continue readingCCATP #563 – Bart Busschots on PBS 62 of X — A Basic Bootstrap Form
This week’s Programming By Stealth was great fun. Bart Busschots teaches us how to create a web form using the Bootstrap classes to do the job. He explains how Bootstrap literally insists that we make our code accessible, and how sensible it is to just that. We learn the importance of Form Groups, and how […]
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