I have been meaning to post something to this blog about my thoughts on the iPad Pro for a while now, but due to time commitments, I haven’t had the time to do it. The recent Apple commercials kind of gave me an urge to write something due to their misleading nature. First. let me…
Passwords suck. When was the last time you said: “Yeah! Another password!”? Yet, what else can we use? At the moment, there are many viable approaches to eliminating passwords from single sign-on solutions, biometrics, mobile device-based alternatives to more out-of-the-box style approaches (see SQRL for an interesting idea). While these are interesting and a few…
Recently, I moved to a larger house after living in apartments and town houses for almost 20 years. Living in small places wifi had never really been an issue to me, and other than the occasional reboot of the router, I was very happy. In the new house, I tried to use my trusty Linksys…
For a little over a year now, I have been using Project Fi as my cell carrier, and I can say that for the most part I’m happy. For those unfamiliar, Project Fi is a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) owned and operated by Google. Launched in early 2015, Google had the idea of doing a different…
So — AT&T pushed a new update to me today on my Samsung Galaxy s6 Edge device. Recently, Google and Samsung (and AT&T) came to an agreement that monthly security updates would be sent to Samsung phones. This, in theory, is a good thing and I assumed that is exactly what this update was, but…
Last week, somewhat unexpectedly, Donald Trump became President-elect of the United States. Despite the outrage and protests, he will take office in late January. Ever since the victory, his future administration’s impact on topics such as M&A transactions and food production have been the focal point of many articles published online. While many tech sites have been doing double…
The other day I was notified of an update to Android Auto on my phone. I had seen some online news that a new version would be released that would allow the app to be used without a compatible in dash head unit. My first thought was “why did this take so long?”, but I…
I recently got a Microsoft Surfacebook at work. I have been busy installing all the programs that I use for data collection and analysis as well as development and content creation. I am very happy overall and this machine is set to replace my not-so-old MacBook Pro because Apple seems to be unable to provide…
With all the hysteria in the media about Internet of Things (IOT) recently I thought it might be a good idea to initiate some discussion on some of the higher end items as the media seems to only focus on routers and items that no one has ever heard of. On to my comments on…
I think we can all agree that excitement is dead for the smartphone market. Except, of course, for the occasional exploding Galaxy Note 7 joke. From personal experience, iPhone users tend to upgrade every other year. For Android users it seems to be even less frequent, except for users like me who buy a new phone…