Allison interviews Cory Weirmier from Danby about Parcel Guard, the first smart mailbox that will be certified by the USPS. Parcel Guard’s anti-theft drop slot will fit 95% of all standard delivery box sizes with the option of unlocking the bottom door for larger parcels. Equipped with an IP camera, Parcel Guard is made of […]
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CES 2019: Royole Flexible Smartphone Display
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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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 […]
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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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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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Keep Your Beverages at the Perfect Temperature with the Ember Ceramic Mug
Being retired, I have the luxury of very slowly sipping a cup of coffee in bed every morning while I play on the Internet with my iPad. The problem of slowly sipping coffee is that quite quickly it gets cold and I prefer very hot coffee. For my second cup of coffee, which is consumed […]
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Diagnosing Puzzling Gmail Send and Reply Problem – by Terry Vogelaar
Terry Vogelaar ran into a very puzzling problem with his Gmail and enlisted Steve’s help in diagnosing the problem. It’s a unique problem but I think his explanation will be something to tuck away for a rainy day when someone else has a similar problem. Hi, this is Terry Vogelaar from Holland. Recently I ran […]
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