I’ve been beating the password security drum for some time now. Today’s news had an interesting bit on Gawker Media (owners of Lifehacker, Gizmodo, and several other popular sites) and how they got hacked. Most telling was Forbes’ article explaining how Gawker chief mucky-muck,…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 39: Paul Kent and Macworld 2011
Mac Power Users Episode 39 is live. Katie and I interview Paul Kent about how he organizes the Macworld conference and expo with his Mac. We also preview some of the plans for Macworld 2011.You can get it on iTunes here or on the…
Continue reading →Notational Velocity Alt
Here is a nice Notational Velocity fork with some improved features. (via Ben Brooks. Yes, that Ben Brooks.)
Continue reading →Rock Your Air Harp
If you can make music with it, I’m in. One of my guilty pleasure apps (and one of my 9 year old’s favorites) is AirHarp. Good news is that it is free for the weekend.
Continue reading →Home Screens – Ben Brooks
I’m not sure exactly when it happened but Ben Brooks (twitter) and his blog have wormed their way into my RSS feed and I’m quite pleased about it. Ben is prolific at the Brooks Review where he writes about his interests, often including insightful…
Continue reading →iStopMotion 2 – Improves on an Original
iStopMotion, that easy-to-use stop motion application that everyone loves, got an update. The Boinx team worked overtime on this one. IStopMotion has everything you need to make your own stop motion movies. You boot up the application and use your built in iSight or…
Continue reading →Dave Caolo on iPad 2
Given this is all nothing more than baseless navel-gazing, I suspect Dave is right that the next iteration of iPad is not going to turn the original on its head. Assuming the product cycle is more than a year (I’d eat my shoe if…
Continue reading →Ben Brooks on MacBook Air + 30 Days
In short, he loves it. “It has been over a month now that I have used the MacBook Air as my primary machine, and one thing is for sure: it is the best upgrade over the MacBook Pro that I could have made. Yes,…
Continue reading →Mac at Work Hits Amazon
Now there is something I never expected to see.
Continue reading →Popular Science on the iPad
I can’t help but think that in the not so distant future we will look at the initial periodical offerings on the iPad with the same disdain we currently have for those CD-ROMs that were all the rage about 10 years ago. Nevertheless, some…
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