Ben Brooks referenced a Boston Globe article discussing the poor state of internet access in the USA. For example, in Riga, Latvia (Eastern Europe), average internet speeds are 42 megabits per

California will spend $68 billion to build 520 miles of railroad by the year 2029, while China will spend $300 billion to build 16,000 miles of railroad by the year 2020. In other words, it costs Ca

Update 2014-03-12: OS X 10.9.2 seems to have fixed this. A few days ago, I re-enabled iCloud Keychain on my Mac, and since haven't experienced these issues any longer.

Original problem...

For a while

Of the blogs I read, many are from authors who’ve become popular enough to monitize their sites, through memberships or advertisements. Those authors now have to publish on a regular schedule; not

ScannerPro is a wonderful iOS app for scanning and working with scanned documents on the iPhone and iPad. Evidently, and unfortunately, Readdle (the app maker) seem to outsource their customer

I run Mail.app on an internet-hosted Mac mini, in order to provide server-side spam filtering and to pre-process my email based on an extensive set of rules.

Many of those rules involve the

Back in August, I purchased a 4TB G-Drive at the Apple Store in Marbella to serve as the destination that CrashPlan uses when backing up our family's various Macs.

Last week, CrashPlan started

Update: Sometimes blogging really pays off. Not 15 minutes after posting this article, someone on Twitter tipped me about a solution—In some recent release of Ulysses, they added the ability to add

A passion for design is a passion for the interests of one's customers, because respect for their time and a desire to make them happy is at the core of the design process.

Naturally, the flip side

We have three Macs at home, which run an assortment of cloud-backup and synchronization apps—including Dropbox, CrashPlan, BitTorrent Sync and Arq.

Whenever any one, or combination of, these apps