I remember when Google Plus first came out and with great excitement we all went in to see if this was something cool. I immediately started putting people in circles, thinking this was what I’d been waiting for in a social network. The idea was you could have family in one circle, family you actually […]
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Tiny Tip – Mark Up Emails on iPad or iPhone without a 3rd Party App
Last year I answered a Dumb Question from Rod Simmons on whether it was possible to mark up emails on an iPad. In those instructions, I explained how to get an email into PDF format and then save it into Notability, a $10 app from GingerLabs. Rose left a comment on that post, expressing her […]
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Security Bits – Facebook Token Hack, Bloomberg Amazon & Apple Servers & China, Facebook Uses 2FA Numbers for Advertising
Security Bits – 5 October 2018 Followups 🇺🇸 The CA IoT security law discussed previously has been signed into law — www.theverge.com/… Google have announced plans to further limit what browser plugins can do in an attempt to crack down on the explosion in plugin-based malware we talked about last time — arstechnica.com/… & nakedsecurity.sophos.com/…
Continue readingiPhone X vs XS Cameras Compared – Can You Justify the Upgrade?
As you may recall, Steve and I both upgraded from the iPhone X to the iPhone XS. We justified such silliness by promising our daughter Lindsay and her husband Nolan that they could have our iPhones X. Lindsay’s iPhone 7 Plus was fine, but she really wanted Animoji. But Nolan’s phone was an iPhone 6 […]
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That Time I Got My FIFTH 12.9″ iPad Pro
You would think that doing one nuke and pave in a week was enough for me, but in an unfortunate miscalculation of timing, I forced the second one on myself. I bought the 12.9″ iPad Pro the day it came out in November of 2015. At the time, the middle version was 128GB and it […]
Continue readingMOJAVE CAPS LOCK BUG
It’s been 5 days since Mojave came out and I’ve run across the oddest bug. Yesterday a few times I noticed the caps lock warning icon when I went to enter a password. I looked at my keyboard and the green light wasn’t on, but I tapped the caps lock key a few times till […]
Continue readingPodcasts Can Fill Up Your Apple Watch – by Claus Wolf
Guest Post by Claus Wolf Hello fellow NosillaCastaways! Do you know how much storage your Watch apps are using? Well I found out the hard way! While on a bicycle ride to Darmstadt this week, I noticed that my watch at one point had stopped showing Average Speed and Distance. As you can imagine I […]
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Nuke & Pave Install of Mojave (AKA Clean Install)
Partial list of tasks and apps organized in Wunderlist</figcaption/> One of the great things about being a tech blogger and podcaster is that just about anything I think is interesting has been fully documented. If I can’t remember how to do some complex technical task and I’ve ever accomplished it before, I’ve got a blog […]
Continue readingA Tale of Two MacBooks – by Steve Davidson
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 […]
Continue readingSecurity 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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