The Mac has had built-in full disk encryption since the launch of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion in July 2011. The feature is called FileVault. With full disk encryption, if by some misfortune your Mac gets stolen or falls into the wrong ...
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Category: Technology
All technology things, computers, networking, IT security, etc.
One of the more interesting projects on Kickstarter, to me, is the Buccaneer 3D printer from Pirate3D. There’re a number of reasons, most importantly being that 3D printing is cool, and that they are a Singapore company. A ...
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The original Pebble smartwatch was the most successful Kickstarter project in its time. Three years later, the Pebble Time 2nd generation smartwatch smashed through Kickstarter’s record again, this time around delivering ...
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First, Sony announced firmware updates to their A6, A7r, A7s and a6000 mirrorless cameras. In particular, the a6000 received a significant feature enhancement. Then, Adobe also just announced Creative Cloud 2015. The update ...
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Sony’s RX100 (pictured on left) is amazing. From the original model launched in 2012, each successive generation every year after has made small but important improvements. Sony has just announced the fourth generation, ...
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I’m beginning to lose count the number of times I’ve reinstalled Office for Mac 2011, so it is becoming really annoying. Here I am a dutiful customer signed up with the cloud subscription of Office 365. Yet I’m ...
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Over a year ago, I put Tomato, an alternative router firmware, on my Cisco Linksys E3200 wireless broadband router. Several new versions have been released since then, but I’ve been procrastinating about upgrading. I ...
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At work, yesterday, we were clearing out some stores from various secret network locations, and something unusual caught my eye. A picture of raspberries. Among the stacks of various boring manuals, disclaimer sheets, warranty ...
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One of the benefits of using an community developed open source software for smartphones is that I don’t need to wait for someone’s blessings before I get to use it on my phone. Like on my OnePlus One right now, I ...
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This is the part two continuation of my last post on Fixing A Slow Website. I was writing about how websites are often slow because of their design, not so much because of the network or servers, as are most commonly blamed ...
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