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Solo Studio for Video Lectures

I’ve been recording video lectures for a Coursera specialization in cloud computing. The first of the…
Detecting a Phish on an iPhone

In their obsession with simplifying the phone interface, the iPhone designers make it a bit harder…
The practical digital library updated

A few years ago I moved my private library to the cloud. It uses Calibre to…
A Mac Hack

Here’s a clever two-step attack on a Macintosh. First, the victim downloads a file – it…
Update on the Apple Music Mess

The trouble reported earlier with Apple Music seems to have attracted high level attention. James Pinkstone…
Which cables to keep, which to discard?

CNET recently published a list of cables to keep and cables to discard. I like to…
Apple Music Deletes Personal Content

[UPDATE: Apple now claims this was a bug; see the updated post] This is perhaps the…
The Apple case isn’t “privacy” versus “safety”

The current fight is about whether we will impose a technological infrastructure which will be exceptionally…
Backing Up OS X with Mirrored Encrypted RAID

Computing technology is insanely reliable when you look at statistical error rates. Hard drives read and…
Recycling an iPhone – not a picnic

I’m upgrading my iPhone and trading in the old one. I had to erase the old one completely…
Encrypt All Hard Drives!

If you have the technical interest to read this, you probably do a lot of your…
Towards a practical digital library

I started collecting digital content in the 1980s. Before that I was satisfied to print things…