So – somewhere or other, again, I heard the expression “don’t judge a book by its cover!” Unbidden, the thought popped into my head. “Why not?” Much like Mike Rowe likes to go off on “work smarter not harder” as not only trite, but actively harmful, I realized that while there was a kernel of […]
READ MOREThe Upcoming Fight Over Phone Payments
There’s an interesting battle developing related to the new “Apple Pay” feature introduced with the iPhone 6 series of phones. The Background Apple Pay uses a hardware feature called NFC, or near field communication. It’s a combination of antenna, radio, and identification chips that can only broadcast for extremely short ranges, and thus is incredibly […]
READ MORELearning
Recently, an article was published on the effectiveness of taking notes by hand on paper vs. via typing/computer. I found it interesting in part because it reflects something that has been part of my learning and creative habits, that I always assumed were formed mostly by the unavailability of cheap portable computers, and the ready […]
READ MOREChromebook Management and Wifi Networks: Devices vs. Users
I’ve recently had some experience adding 30 or so Chromebooks to a school network, complete with device management licenses, and so far I am, overall, impressed. One thing that is actually pretty cool because you can actually set available and auto-connected wifi networks for managed Chromebooks based on what organization or suborganization they belong to. […]
READ MOREDifferent Languages…
Sometimes I think it’s a tragedy that two people merely think they’re speaking English to each other, but in reality, they’re not only talking past each other, but speaking completely different languages. What? Okay, I’m going to vastly oversimplify things here, but I’ve got another proposition. Engineering speak is not english. Neither is computer-geek speak. […]
READ MORENot Very Wise Support
Perhaps I’ve been living in a standards-compliant web-design bubble. I’ve always been aware that one had to design around and account for odd quirks in page design when making sure websites look just as good in Microsofts Internet Explorer as they do in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. I’ve even run across a few business banking […]
READ MOREHow to Guarantee I Never Watch Your Show (or read your book)
While the TV was on, during a commercial break, one actress was doing a teaser blurb on the series she’s in. I have no way to tell how much of this was her, how much was prompted for her, but someone trying to pitch the show to new viewers thought it was spot on and […]
READ MOREDefault Mail Accounts and Mountain Lion 10.8
Defining the default mail account in Apple’s Mail.app for Mountain Lion (10.8) is not intuitively obvious. Where you used to be able to sort the order of accounts within the accounts pane of the preferences, that is no longer possible. This can be particularly annoying if your default account should be your work account, but […]
READ MORESwitching iPhoto Libraries
It used to be that if you had lots and LOT of pictures, iPhoto would slow down, and you’d be told by some well-meaning soul to start a new iPhoto library. The problem being that to switch from one library to another required you to either dig up an app like iPhoto Buddy, or to […]
READ MOREExercise and Life
(Before starting, I’ll note that I had my friend, and fitness trainer Mike Bronco of Bronco’s Gym and the book Man School go over this to make sure I didn’t advise something utterly wrong. Any mistakes made here are utterly mine.) This post is a change of pace. Usually I talk tech, the computers and […]
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