Tech to cheat consumers

2-factor (ok 1.5)

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 […]

Home Wiring

If you are reading this, you probably know that I’ve slowly but surly been adding more and more IoT smart devices to my home. Over the course of the weekend I added three Shelly 1 Plus devices to control our porch lights and the light in our sun room. The objective is to create an […]

Fantastical

If you are a Mac user, Fantastical is truly worth the purchase price. The key is it’s ability to let you create new appointments through free form typing, i.e. “Dinner with wife December 20 at 7pm”. You can pretty much type appointments anyway you want and Fantastical will figure it out for you. Simply more […]