Mostly technology in small bites
One of the better articles I’ve read on how to make your iPhone more power efficient and more private. Note that the 1st item around push v. pull email will not be appropriate for many business folk, but the rest of the tips are very practical. http://www.payetteforward.com/why-does-my-iphone-battery-die-so-fast-heres-the-real-fix/
This afternoon my “sim card kit” arrived from T-mobile. The process of unlocking my phone was time consuming due to a conflict between Norton 360 and iTunes on my Macbook, but was otherwise painless. After unlocking the iPhone 4s, I simply popped in the new T-mobile sim card and booted up. The phone immediately found […]
After receiving a $225 electric bill for the month of December (on top of the $250 gas bill), I was curious to see what my various pieces of gear in the house cost/month. I ordered a clamp amp meter and started sleuthing. I first pulled out the old Pepco bill and after some simple math […]
If you want to take better photos, browse through these and read the comments on the more interesting ones. Beautiful and humbling to the amateur shutter bug! http://500px.com/popular
If you’re truly a techie, you’ll have no problem reading and understanding this one… FB recently celebrated it’s 10yr anniversary, which AFIUI puts gen Z and younger AAK. Mark Z. went all AAAMOF in an interview stating that FB is for persons of any ASL instead of being honest and simply saying ATAB, but I’ve […]
For my tech included friends out there, I’m wondering how many of you actually use any sort of personal cloud storage like Dropbox or Box.com. If so, do you feel that you have plenty of storage space, or could/would you use more if you could get it for little/no cost?
Auto chip technology can and will be instantly used by local, State and Federal agencies when available, ultimately negating the need for speed cameras and the like since agencies will be able to automatically gather the transponder technology anywhere they like. This already happens today with the OBDII device in all cars, but not remotely […]
Continuing the trend of getting my crap together in terms of online security, I finally enabled 2-factor authentication across all my online email (e.g. Yahoo, Google) and cloud storage providers (e.g. Dropbox, Evernote). Not naive enough to think that I’m perfectly secure now, but at least these type of measures will slow these nefarious SOBs […]
Out of contract and thinking about moving from AT&T to T-mobile since AT&T won’t do squat to lower my monthly bill even though I’m out of contract. Anyone out there using T-mobile currently and if so what’s your experience with them these days. Reading reviews online is fine, but I’d like some friendly anecdotal advice […]
Recent hacking including the Target incident (that I wasn’t caught up in) incentivized me to become much more serious about online password security. Going into my secure password file, I discovered that I had over 200 online accounts registered. Large chunks of these accounts either used the same password or some slight variation thereof. I […]