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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 […]

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 […]

Searching for a viable Facebook/Twitter alternative

Spent a decent number of hours over the weekend looking at the field of OSS and private Facebook and Twitter alternatives. Initially, the two that leaped out at me were Diaspora* and Mastodon. I decided to take a shot at installing Diaspora, in spite of it’s messed up name, because it is pro-ported to be […]