I remember distinctly when the Palm Pilots first came out. My friend Eric told me I needed one. I asked why. He said, “because it can hold your calendar, your contacts, and your notes in it.” I said that was fine, but I already had a Franklin Planner that can do that, pointing at my […]
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Loctek Standing Desk – by Allister Jenks
Loctek Standing Desk With a lot more working from home lately — I’ll let you figure out why — I discovered that my study (you North Americans may call it a den) just wasn’t a nice place to work for an 8-hour day. Part of that was not having much room to move — it […]
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Inexpensive but Effective Video Lighting with Logitech Litra Glow
The Problem(s) to be Solved Tiny Litra Glow and Keylight Air When the world started working from home, people had to learn how to do video calls in an environment built for making dinner, watching tv, and wrestling with the children. Most people’s setups were pretty bad, but over time, people began to realize that […]
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Programming By Stealth Makes Me Feel Powerful
Wordle Solved by Lucas s Python SCript Speaking of Python, Dave Hamilton (of the Mac Geek Gab podcast) bragged that his son Lucas had written a solver for Wordle in Python as well. It was in a private repo on GitHub so I asked for permission to see it. I bring this up not to […]
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Security Bits — 23 January 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 Un-redactions in an ongoing antitrust case against Google led by the state of Texas have revealed more details on how Google abuse their position of power in the ad world — in effect, […]
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AirPods & AppleCare – Apple Just Doesn’t Like Me
Apple Support Page Showing Lost AirPods Option Last week I gave you an update on third set of original AirPods and how Apple made me go through a lot of hoops to replace the one that I had lost. I explained that as Apple tossed me from rep to rep like a beach ball at […]
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Beats Fit Pro & AirPods Update
I told you last week that I’d replaced my AirPods with Beats Fit Pro. I did this because the AirPods Pro squirt out of my ears, and the AirPods Gen 2 don’t charge properly and that I lost one before I could execute yet another warranty repair. I wanted to give an update on the […]
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Assist Your Wordle with Taming the Terminal – Regular Expressions
If you’ve been on the Internet in the last few weeks, you’ve probably heard about a wonderful new word game called Wordle. Just in case you haven’t heard of it, or if you’re confused at all about it, let me give you a quick intro before I give you a way to help you play […]
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Moment Tripod Mount for MagSafe® – A Better Way to Hold Your Phone
Assortment of Small Device Tripods Like any good iPhone camera fanatic, I have a plethora of tiny tripods on which I can mount my iPhone. From the Jellyfish tripods I reviewed back in 2014, to the classic Joby tripods that can wrap around anything to the Joby Griptight ONE Micro Stand that Pat Dengler told […]
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ergotron LX Monitor Arm – Inexpensive Solution to an Annoying Problem (for Women)
You may remember that a year ago Steve, in a moment of lunacy, bought me a Pro Display XDR. Not only that, he sprung for the extra $1000 for Apple’s stand. When I talked about it last year, I mentioned that the stand left me kind of disappointed. I promise this article won’t just be […]
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