Author: Don
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Hapy and his friend Denise are coming to visit this weekend. That should be some fun since we haven’t seen them since the fall. It is a good time for them to get away from Vermont! I know they will welcome our weather here. The President came to Key West this week so I had…
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Apple Watch Series 3 is on my Wrist
I have been a fan of the Apple Watch since the first one came out. I hadn’t worn a watch since I was 12 but I have had one on my wrist since the Apple Watch was introduced. The Series 3 Apple Watch with cellular has become an essential tool for me. What do I…
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Our friend from Tidbits, Adam Engst, is the ghost writer of some of our content in Kibbles & Bytes. I have worked with Adam for a few decades and he and Tonya are directly responsible for the emergence of Kibbles & Bytes! It was a long time ago, in a galaxy far away, when Tidbits…
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Protecting Your Privacy On Facebook
Facebook has been in the news headlines of late, but not for good reasons. There were the 50 million Facebook profiles gathered for Cambridge Analytica and used in the 2016 presidential election. Perhaps even more shocking, Facebook has long been scraping call and text message data from Android phones. And within the Facebook iOS app,…
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HomePod On My Desk, First Look
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You know that I have a lot of gadgets at my house. So many, that at times Grace gets frustrated with all the home automation stuff. When we have our dog sitter come to stay Grace doesn’t even tell her how to talk to Siri or Alexa. Nevertheless, I have both of those assistants hanging…
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Spring break lasts a long time down here but we are going to soon be back to a calmer time with fewer tourists. The cruise boats will still come but the thousands of college kids taking a break from their studies will be done for the year. My gardens here seem to be doing well,…
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HomePod on My Desk – First Look
You know that I have a lot of gadgets at my house. So many, that at times Grace gets frustrated with all the home automation stuff. When we have our dog sitter come to stay Grace doesn’t even tell her how to talk to Siri or Alexa. Nevertheless, I have both of those assistants hanging…
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Dear Friends, It’s mud season in Vermont. If you haven’t lived there on a dirt road you just won’t get it. I have seen some pictures that show roads gobbling up even the most powerful 4WD vehicles. April in Vermont is a good reason for me to stay in Key West awhile longer. On the…
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Grace and I are heading up to Miami for a couple of Cubs vs. Marlins games as baseball season gets underway. Us life-long Cubs fans are looking for another title this year. Meanwhile, even though the Boston Celtics are completely decimated by injuries, they just keep winning. It is going to be an interesting spring!…
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New iPads with Pencil Support and Better iWork, too!
At a special education event on March 27th at a high school in Chicago, Apple introduced a new 9.7-inch iPad that offers faster performance, support for the Apple Pencil, and a few new camera-related features. The company also released new versions of the iWork apps—Pages, Numbers, and Keynote—that let users draw, sketch, and write with…