A summary of Joe McCann’s New New World Order
The path less traveled.
A summary of Joe McCann’s New New World Order
In this article, I’m going to make the case for considering to allocate a small amount of your savings to Bitcoin. I’ll do that by…
Recently, my MacBook Pro, running Mac OS X Mojave, got into a state in which the Finder wasn’t uploading or download files to and from…
A challenged I’ve always faced in running Keyboard Maestro on multiple Macs, is the maintenance of macros that are common to all, i.e. when updating…
Apple recently introduced in the Numbers spreadsheet the ability to pull live stock prices from the internet, making it now possible to track portfolio performance.…
I’m the owner of a Gmail address that bears my name, in the form [email protected] Many others who share my name, have addresses that are…
The first business email address I used, [email protected], now almost twenty years old, is the source of 95% of the spam I receive. I no…
When I signup for an online service, I like to use an email address that’s unique to that service, i.e. something like [email protected] Email for…
Long-time Apple customers became accustomed over the years to thoughtful and delightful interaction design. As Apple has grown—and perhaps as Steve Jobs has passed, and…
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…
Overview In the world of web application development, we sometimes face technical decisions whose trade-offs extend beyond the technical. Those non-technical trade-offs can be subtle,…
One of the services for which I’ve truly been happy to pay is 1Password for Families, which allows my wife and I to centrally manage…
As I wrote about a few weeks ago, I have my home network connected to the internet through a VPN router, running the Tomato firmware.…
In reviewing Lance’s performance at the Spanish national championship this past weekend, the GM trainer from Andalucia strongly encouraged us to buy “ChessBase” as a…
Update — Readers will note that I’ve changed the title and URL of this article, and that’s because shortly after posting it, representatives of SendGrid…
In a recent blog post I explained how I secure my home network with a VPN. In that article, I also explained how I enabled…
In this article, I describe how I added security to my home network by installing a router that directs all internet traffic through an encrypted VPN connection. The adventure includes my experience with the FlashRouters company, the Tomato router firmware software, an OpenVPN connection to the Cloak network, the Linksys E2500 router and the Netgear Nighthawk R7000 router.
I’ve never been good at remembering my social media URLs. Am I “dafacto” there or “mhenders”? At Facebook, where neither was available, what was that…
This morning I posted an article about some CrashPlan-related issues discovered when migrating my wife’s dead iMac to a new machine. Another lesson learned in…
Last week my wife’s four-year old iMac died. When the new one arrived, I set it via migration in the form of a USB-connected drive…
TextExpander is a Mac utility for creating auto-expanding text shortcuts—“snippets”—that can save you time on things you repetitively type, such as email signatures, your telephone number or boilerplate responses to support emails. With version 6, Smile decided to move away from paid upgrades, to a subscription plan that would cost roughly $5 per month. The move was controversial, a situation which is well documented at Michael Tsai’s blog. I’ve been using TextExpander for 10 years, but decided against continuing with a subscription plan.
Having an extended family spread geographically far and wide, I’ve been pleasantly surprised to find that a Mac/iOS feature I’d previously rarely used has ended…
When you create a droplet (virtual private server) at DigitalOcean, the service sends you an email containing the login password of the root user. The…
This website runs on WordPress, and over the past several years has seen its hosting move from the DreamHost shared environment, to DreamPress managed hosting, to GoDaddy managed hosting to, finally, DigitalOcean. This article explains why.
To prepare for a possible clean install of the OS, I’ve been trying to move some local mail archives to the IMAP server, using Mail.app on OS X 10.11.1. Here’s how that’s going:
