Today, I saw this tweet about the new Amazon Echo: An open mic in my house 24/7? I don’t think so. Amazon’s Echo Might Be Its Most Important Product In Years http://t.co/WPgnJVqgxW — Andrew Collier (@drewcollier) November 8, 2014 Now why do I bring this up? Because iOS now has a similar feature. When your…
This article caught my interest: Just in the course of a few hours, over 162,000 different and legitimate WordPress sites tried to attack his site. We would likely have detected a lot more sites, but we decided we had seen enough and blocked the requests at the edge firewall, mostly to avoid filling the logs…
For those of you who don’t pay attention to the tech blogs over the weekend, or ever, and use one of these Apple products, go check for a software update today. That’s right, today, as soon as possible. Or at least before you go connecting to public wifi or anything like that, ok? Make sure…
The iOS app City Maps to Go Pro is free until Sunday. I have used this app to grab a city map for walking around London and Oslo because of it’s offline map feature. That lets me download the map to my iPhone while I’m in the US, and use it in offline mode while…
If you’ve never heard of Boxcryptor, it’s software that automatically encrypts the data you are storing with cloud providers, like GDrive or Dropbox. It’s free for personal use, which allows you to encrypt the data for one cloud provider, but it is also available for sale for personal “Pro” versions and commercial use. For example…
After seeing a few folks talk about updating their iPad version 2 to iOS 7, when I finally got the prompt to do the same for my own iPad last night I made the impulse decision to go ahead and do it. Unfortunately, I couldn’t. Turns out that I needed 2.9GB of free space to…
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