Uncategorized

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 […]

Thanks to a friend’s detailed “cutting the cable” post, I re-examined Plex Media Server (PMS) as a means of sharing/accessing my vast library of movies/photos/music. In short, PMS is now significantly more polished than it was a few years ago. For anyone with media files spread across multiple systems including Apple/OS X/iOS, PMS is a […]

An excellent article comparing options out there for cloud-based photo and video storage. Comments pretty much mirror my own experiences. My personal favorites are Flickr and SmugMug due to their extreme cost efficiency for large number of RAW photos. http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/29/4560364/best-cloud-storage-photo-apps

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 […]

A fingerprint reader and a ever so slightly better camera that almost brings it up to par with the competition. I was already leaning toward Android for a change and this announcement just about seals the deal. Can you say BORING Apple? Better off just spray painting the back of my 4s orange and pocketing […]