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Fernando Corbato, the MIT computer scientist who is widely credited with inventing the password as a means of logging into a computer, says that he and his colleagues could not foresee the World Wide Web from the early Sixties – and passwords have now become “kind of a nightmare.” The data breach at eBay threw…
“After Windows 10 was offered up as a free upgrade to any user currently using a legal version of Windows, reports started to roll in that Microsoft’s generosity was actually a thinly-veiled excuse to track users and collect data with its most invasive operating system yet.” It’s not believed that that this data is being used for…
Apple has been sabotaging devices for years with software “upgrades” that slow every iPhone and iPad except the very latest model. It’s a strategy called planned obsolescence, and its one of the ways that Apple and other gadget makers are getting so filthy rich while the planet and everyone else pays. iOS 10 will be…
How to wire your own ethernet cables and connectors. What You Need: Required: Ethernet Cable – bulk Category (Cat) 5, 5e, 6, 6a or higher ethernet cable Wire Cutters – to cut and strip the ethernet cable if necessary For Patch Cables: 8P8C Modular Connector Plugs (“RJ45”) Modular Connector Crimper (“RJ45”) For Fixed Wiring: 8P8C…
“This is a nice article from 9_5 mac if you are confused about Apples icloud library” Over the weekend a good friend of mine shared a screenshot of a really scary error message from Photos for Mac. Every photo and video taken over the last two weeks failed to open, saying instead that ‘An error…
Digging into the dev documentation for APFS, Apple’s new file system Though the feature wasn’t mentioned in Apple’s WWDC 2016 keynote, I’m most excited about the introduction of the Apple File System, or APFS. The preliminary version of the developer documentation is online now, and it looks like the new file system introduces a whole…
Agreed Former Apple marketing guru Ken Segall helped launched Apple’s string of i-devices, but now he says that the company has lost its way from simplicity lately and there’s no clearer sign than the confusing naming scheme of the iPhone. In a recent op-ed claiming Apple’s days of simplicity may have died with his…
Apple Music is to ditch its social features as part of an overhaul expected later this summer. The first details of the new redesign are leaking ahead of the anticipated reveal at this year’s WWDC in June. At Apple Music’s launch in June last year, Connect featured heavily as a way of allowing people to…