I may have mentioned a few hundred times that I love Excel. I serious dislike PowerPoint, and I see no need for Word, but Excel brings me great joy. I simply love taking piles of data and turning it into information, and Excel is how I do that. There isn’t a pivot table I don’t […]
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NC #647 Dumb Equation Error, iOS 11 & watchOS 4 Delight Me, Security Bits
In this mammoth show, I’ll tell you how I’m an idiot, then I’ll talk about what surprises and delights me in iOS 11 and watchOS 4. Then Bart is back with Security Bits that includes a giant tutorial about cookies, and why third-party cookies are a bad thing. mp3 download
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iOS 11 and watchOS 4 Delight Me
I know High Sierra has already come out but after a week with iOS 11 and watchOS 4, I really wanted to talk about what has surprised and delighted me about these two operating systems. There’s no big, long, involved story here, just a list of what has made me smile in the past week. […]
Continue readingCCATP #503 – Bart Busschots – PBS 40 of x – HTML5 Custom Validations with jQuery
In a shocking turn of events, I actually followed all of Programming By Stealth this week! Bart walked us through his solution to last week’s HTML5 Forms Validation homework, and in so doing highlighted some especially clever things he did. I was pretty pleased with my own version of the homework, and in fact, Bart […]
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When an Engineer Makes a Dumb Equation Error
Remember last week when we played Which Screen is Bigger, iPhone 8 Plus or X? AKA Fun with Geometry? I went through, in rather excruciating detail, how to calculate the size of the screen on the iPhone X vs the iPhone 8 Plus. I wrote it up as a blog post, and Steve (also an […]
Continue readingNC #646 Clarify, NIST on Two-Factor Authentication, Duplicating DVDs, iPhone X vs 8 Plus Screensizes
This week we’ll talk about some sad news from the makers of my beloved Clarify, then I’ll do a crazy deep dive into the National Institute of Standards and Technology about two-factor authentication. I do this to help you understand what your bank needs to know about using SMS or email or a phone call […]
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CCATP #502 – Megan Morrone on iPhone 8
Megan Morrone joins us today. Megan is the host of iOS Today with Leo LaPorte and host of Tech News Today with Jason Howell on the TWiT network. She’s got the new, shiny iPhone 8 Plus so I asked her on to tell us what she thinks about it. Megan talks about how the glass […]
Continue readingWhich Screen is Bigger, iPhone 8 Plus or X? AKA Fun with Geometry!
This blog post was corrected substantially 3 days after its original posting. I made an egregious error and said the area of a circle was πD, when in fact it’s πD2/4. Thanks to Quazim & Jill for the correction. I hang my head in shame. In last week’s show, I said that iPhone X actually […]
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How to Duplicate a DVD on macOS Sierra
This week in our Google Plus group (podfeet.com/googleplus) Sandy Foster asked a dumb question, which as is usually the case, is not a dumb question at all. The story takes some winding paths, but I assure you that there’s a solution at the end of this story. Her problem to be solved was that a […]
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NIST Rules on Two-Factor Authentication & Influencing Banks
One of the best things about being retired is having the time to talk to companies on the phone. When I was working, I would simply let things go that were irritating me because there just wasn’t the time. This week my mission became talking to every bank I deal with about their security model. […]
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