As a bag addict in continual pursuit of the optimal setup, I’ve recently updated my daily carry to include a Waterfield Essential Cross-body bag. Motivation…
The path less traveled.
As a bag addict in continual pursuit of the optimal setup, I’ve recently updated my daily carry to include a Waterfield Essential Cross-body bag. Motivation…
Our company is bidding on the re-development of an existing product that has outgrown the technical framework on which it was originally built. The customer…
In my daily work, as well as the maintenance of three blogs, I frequently need a tool that allows me to conveniently share files and screenshots. This article discusses my search for that elusive perfect app.
For many years, I stored the majority of my data in Dropbox. A few months ago, however, I migrated to BitTorrent Sync (BTS), and haven’t looked back. This article explains why.
I recently switched from DreamHost’s DreamPress to GoDaddy’s managed WordPress hosting service. This article explains why, and discusses my experience so far. [Update: Since writing this article, I’ve switched away from GoDaddy, and now host my blog in a VPS at DigitalOcean. You can read about that switch, here.]
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.
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!
For a little more than a year my daily home/office commute bag has been the Tom Bihn 11″ MacBook Air Ristretto. This afternoon, I switched to the Tom Bihn Co-Pilot and this article talks about that decision.
With the Saris Solo, I have found the perfect bike rack for the tiny Toyota iQ. Here’s my review.
The Kenu Airframe is the best car mount I’ve found for use with the iPhone 5s and iPhone 6. Here’s my review.
Over the years, we at Makalu have tried several web-based customer support services, and have never really found one that worked for us. Until now.
Name Mangler 3 for Mac OS X is a great utility for batch renaming of files. Here’s my review.
In Makalu Interactive, we use two Mac OS X applications—Daylite and Direct Mail—to manage customer relationships and communications, within a context of both client services and the selling of our own products.
This article explains how I use the wonderful CrashPlan product to backup our family’s network of Mac OS X computers.
This article describes how I use the SpamSieve product for Mac OS X to provide server-side spam filtering.
Some goodies arrive in the mail today from the good’ol US of A, and I’m excited to show them to you.
We tend to spend a lot of weekends river-walking in the local mountains. My Chaco sandals (which I love!) just weren’t cutting the mustard for…
Today’s article will likely go down in the annals of blogosphere history as one of the more profound pieces ever written, as I explain why…
Those closest to me know that I suffer from bag addiction — a condition characterized by a never-ending search for just the right bag, for…
On a recent trip to the US, I took advantage of the favorable Euro/Dollar exchange rate and picked up a set of Harman/Kardon SoundSticks II.…
