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May You Always…
Recycling a holiday classic
HOLIDAY TRADITIONS come and go, and one that has certainly come and gone is the annual airing of “May You Always,” a two minute, forty-two second spoken holiday greeting performed by legendary DJ Harry “The Morning Mayor” Harrison and broadcast regularly on New York’s WCBS-FM 101.1 oldies station.
2014: The year in song (sort of)
A recent MacWorld article entitled "Apple's 10 biggest hits, misses, and head-scratchers of 2014" brought to mind just how many significant announcements, products--and problems--the good folks from Cupertino bestowed upon us this year. So, as my holiday gift to you,...
Pre-Holiday Bits & Bytes
While hard at work on an AltiM@c holiday greeting for your reading (and perhaps even singing) pleasure, it struck me that there are more than a few Mac-specific concerns deserving of at least some mention here, before we find ourselves ringing in the New Year. So...
Here’s blood in your eye
APOLOGIES FOR the lurid yet fiendishly-clever-as-usual title, but trust me--it's no less appropriate than was last week's POODLEs reference. Not only is today All Hallows' Eve, a time for all things sanguinary, but it just happens to be the 2nd anniversary of my stem...
Oy with the POODLEs already!
Plus: The Return of Camera Roll, and the debut of Yosemite SO THERE I was, in the midst of crafting one of my typically droll and yet diabolically clever headlines for this post, when the perfect title was dropped right into my lap. Well, right into my Inbox, to be...
(Shell)shock and awe, coming around the Bend
ANOTHER WEEK, another set of crises for Apple to weather. On the heels of August's celebrity photo iCloud hack comes the Shellshock vulnerability, freshly discovered on Sep. 24 and rivaled only by this spring's Heartbleed bug as the Vulnerability With The Most...
That’s two small steps for man… one giant leap for security
NOT ONLY does that bastardized quote make an appropriate lead-in to this posting, it reminds us of the fact that although we put a man on the moon way back in 1969, we still rely on passwords to protect our identity online and offline. And because it takes a concerted...
Making us Pay
That's exactly what Apple's been doing. Seemingly lost between Tuesday's unveiling of yet another pair of new iPhones (the 6 and 6 Plus) and the Apple Watch--which will no doubt sell by the truckload despite its hefty price tag ($349 and up) and the fact that it needs...
Of Russian hacks and password cracks
ANOTHER DAY, another data breach and this one appears to be one of the most significant in recent memory--over a billion usernames and passwords now in the possession of some Russian hackers. Although a very interesting take on this exploit at The Verge calls into...
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