Just two months ago I told you about the Accell Thunderbolt 3 dock I was testing to provide added functionality to my Thunderbolt 3 equipped MacBook Pro. I had a Belkin Thunderbolt 3 dock to which I compared it. I really liked the Accell, especially for the price of $250, which was $50 less than […]
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Podcast Chapter Marks using Rogue Amoeba’s Fission
There’s a tool I’ve used for a long time but never mentioned before. It’s called Fission from Rogue Amoeba. You know I’m a huge fan of Audio Hijack from Rogue Amoeba and that I couldn’t do the podcast nearly as well without it. Fission has been a minor player in my workflow, but I just […]
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Security Bits – 30 November 2018
Followups After it emerges that implementing one of Intel’s Spectre mitigations in the Linux kernel will incur as much as a 50% performance hit, Linus Torvalds has proposed disabling the mitigation by default, but allowing those who want it to enable it — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/…
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A Lot to Like About the Epson ES-300W Document Scanner
If you ever hear someone tell you that they love their scanner, you know they’re lying to you. If they also tell you they can wirelessly scan, then you know they’re delusional. Over the years I’ve heard people moaning and groaning when their scanners are no longer supported. I’ve always scoffed at them because they […]
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Pencil is Way Less Stupid Than Before I was pretty excited to order the new iPad Pro when it was announced. I’ve mentioned a few times that I have the 12.9″ and the 9.7″ and I was curious what they would do with the form factors and what model I would choose. When they made […]
Continue readingMore TagTroy Shimkus Seeks the Perfect Road Warrior Setup
Guest article by Troy Shimkus For the last several months, I’ve been trying to rework my workflows in regards to equipment choices. As a result of a long story I won’t recount here, I lost my 2013 MacBook Air – so I needed to find a replacement. My home setup is a trash can MacPro […]
Continue readingMore TagMind Mapping Thanksgiving by Lindsay
I’ve always had Thanksgiving dinner at my house, since 1983 when my mother handed over responsibility to me. But this year, since our house was still under construction after 5 months, Lindsay and Nolan agreed to take over. We still did the turkey and ham and stuffing and cranberry chutney but we carted it all […]
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Notable Security Updates Adobe have issued an emergency patch for a critical bug in Flash — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… Patch Skype for Business now or risk DoS via emoji kittens! — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… Update now! Dangerous AMP for WordPress plugin fixed — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… Microsoft pulls Office patches that are causing application crashes. Office365 users don’t need to take […]
Continue readingMore TagSecurity Bits – 15 November 2018
Followups 1 — The Windows 10 Fall 2018 has been Re-released After having to withdraw the update due to a bug that led to accidental file deletions in a very small number of edge cases, Microsoft have now released a fixed version — arstechnica.com/…
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Tiny Tip – Trackpad for iOS
One of my favorite sports is trying to point out where geek friends of mine made a mistake or perhaps didn’t know something I knew about. I know, it’s childish but I really truly enjoy it. Ask Dave Hamilton. Anyway, one of the people I enjoy torturing most is Don McAllister. I think it’s because […]
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