Great advice. Not always so easy Monday morning.

Yesterday Apple announced two-factor authentication for iCloud accounts. I immediately enabled mine and it was no trouble at all. Apple still is really good at taking complex technologies and making them simple to understand and implement. The idea behind two-step authentication is that you…

John Siracusa looks closely at the the dependencies between Google, Samsung, and Apple. This post includes everything I love about John’s writing (including an obscure link to a Gone with the Wind clip). At one point, John explains Google’s overall success with Android: “Google’s…

I’ve received several emails asking me about my love of Ethan Schoonover’s Solarized color scheme. Solarized is a set of colors Ethan selected for use in a text editor or app development platform.. Computer programmers spend a lot of time gazing at computer screens…

I recently posted my trick for using TextExpander to add permalinks to link posts. James Smith figured out some clever code injection to make this automatic. The only down side is that it goes on every post, not just selected link posts (like this…