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Reminder: Mac Class at Di-No
Tomorrow, at 2:00p, is the Navigating the Interface class, at Di-No Computers. Di-No Computers 2817 E. Foothill Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91107 (626) 795-6674
The (Internet) World Is a Lesser Place
Alas and alack! Kagi, one of the earliest, and one of the best, digital commerce concerns, has been forced to close their doors. Adam Engst has an in-depth piece on TidBITS: The news was as sad as it was unexpected. … Continue reading
Reminder: Mac Class at Di-No
Tomorrow, at 2:00p, is the Intro to the Interface class, at Di-No Computers. Di-No Computers 2817 E. Foothill Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91107 (626) 795-6674
InfoManager for Monday, August 1st, 2016
by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with co-editor Fred Showker What’s Here 01 Cyber Security Update: Rio Olympics, Car Hacking, Jihadi, Trump, Clinton, Putin, Obama, Microsoft, iOS Smishing, and much more! 02 Now you can dress and undress your favorite candidates Trump, … Continue reading
August 15th General Meeting
Embed from Getty Images iDevice Security They need to be safe and sound, too Regular Features Apps & Traps – Our essential monthly feature on interesting new products and services for iOS and OS X, brought to you by Dave … Continue reading
Wireless Hacked!
Wonderful! Just what we needed to hear: wireless keyboards can be hacked… Noticed this on TidBITS this afternoon, from Josh Centers: Bastille, a cybersecurity company, has shown that hackers can easily intercept transmissions from eight non-Bluetooth wireless keyboards. Experts demonstrated … Continue reading
Search Engine Coolness
And no, I don’t mean Google or Bing. DuckDuckGo is the search engine I have selected on my iDevices (those whose versions of Safari are modern enough to support it, anyway), and I love it. It behaves very well, it … Continue reading
Upcoming Mac and iPad Classes at Di-No
Di-No Computers, in Pasadena, hosts a rotating set of Mac classes on Tuesdays from 2:00p to 3:30p; and iPad classes on the first and third Mondays of each month, also from 2:00p to 3:30p. These classes are all no-cost; feel … Continue reading
10 paid iPhone apps on sale for free for a limited time
Zach Epstein, over on BGR, has a bad habit of posting lists of cool iPhone/iPad(/iPod Touch)(/Apple Watch) apps that are temporarily free. Here’s the fine print: These are paid iPhone and iPad apps that have been made available for free … Continue reading
How Many???
“A million iPhones (sold) isn’t cool”, says the article’s headline. What is cool? PYBT and Andrew Cunningham, at Ars Technica, will tell you, in no uncertain terms: Apple sells its billionth iPhone, year-over-year decline be damned Graphic from the article
