Earlier this year, I described how I used Dropbox to share confidential documents among our family’s Macs. Unfortunately, that approach proved too problematic and I’ve since had to switch to a new approach—based on the Tresorit service—which, while not a perfect solution, does represent an improvement.
The US tax revenue as a percentage of GDP is about 35%. In this article, Phil Greenspun points out that Obamacare, which forces citizens to…
In a conversation with the BBC, Motorola president Rick Osterloh had some words to say about Apple’s pricing. We do see a real dichotomy in…
Both my Jeep Wrangler and Toyota iQ introduced usability improvements that have some unfortunate consequences. When I switch my Jeep off, its headlights remain on…
We watched this interesting documentary about Nepal the other night on the Apple TV. Back in 1998, my wife and I spent two weeks following…
Following is a screenshot of the latest Rego reviews as reported by AppFigures. Pay particular attention to the first one. This German guy, “wilkay”, bought…
Taking inspiration from microwave ovens and remote control devices of the late 1980s, I present to you ladies and gentlemen the latest in innovative European…
A bit more than a year ago, I posted a article on the Dafacto blog about switching from a Tom Bihn Ristretto to Co-Pilot, as…
I was struggling with the question of what to get my wife for Valentine’s Day, until this thoughtful email arrived from Seagate. I’m going to…
I’m an Anti-Braker Guys, I wanted to let you know about a personal decision I recently made. I don’t really feel like discussing it, but…
So much of the financial services industry’s value proposition resides on the premise that markets can be beaten. With the most talented managers, the best…
This dialog box announces that a new version of PDFPenPro is available for download, and specifically asks me if I want to download it. So…
Over on Rantbox, I posted a note about 9to5mac killing their full RSS feed, in the same way that TUAW did a while back—which, for me, marked the beginning of TUAW’s decline.
For many years I was an avid reader of TUAW, “The Unofficial Apple Weblog”, for my daily dose of Apple-related news. But then something happened.…
Great collection of commentary by Michael Tsai on the new Photos for Mac app. Some time ago, I switched from Aperture to a file-based approach…
Well-known Bitcoin-India CEO, start-up entrepreneur, actor and Hollywood film producer Sykam Srimannarayana Reddy is offering me $2.97 billion per month on a one-time investment of…
iCloud Photo Library on my iPhone keeps reminding me that it’s been 10, 20, 30 days since I’ve last uploaded photos. But when I visit…
Having finished listening to the Tim Ferriss podcast episode in which he interviews Arnold Schwarzenegger, I came away inspired and with a very deep respect…
A while back, I ran across an article (which for the life of me I can’t find now) in which the author meets with a computer hacker at a public location—a Starbucks coffee shop—and demonstrates the surprising amount of information he can collect by intercepting the traffic between the Starbucks public wifi and the locally connected customers. It is truly scary!
The Twitter app for Mac OS X appears to be full of bugs, the worst of which, for me, is that the timeline displays tweets…
