Author: Mike Moffit
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Drone Etiquette
No longer the stuff of science fiction, drones are becoming more and more prolific in our modern world for personal and commercial use. Sounding like an angry beehive on steroids, most popular consumer-level drones are what are classified as quadcopters, having 4 propellers providing lift and control. Powered by batteries and electric motors with a…
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Stay Cool
Summer officially started this week. Has anyone checked with Mother Nature? Are we sure she got the memo? Seriously, sometimes I can’t tell where we are with the weather. I don’t really mind the hot weather at all, as long as I can do things like jump in a river, or ride my bike. The…
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Terminal Tidbits, CP Command
To make a copy of a file or folder in terminal is really simple and handy. The command is cp and the syntax looks like this… cp “/Volumes/LocalUSB/Photos/” “/Volumes/RemoteUSB/Photos/” cp copy What you want to copy and it’s location: “/Volumes/LocalUSB/Photos/” and the destination “/Volumes/RemoteUSB/Photos/” There are a few options and you add these right after…
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VPNs and You, Part Two.
A few weeks ago I touched on the basics of VPNs, but what does a VPN actually do behind the scenes? Let’s think of accessing the Internet linearly for a second. Without a VPN, if you were to access the Internet in the comfort of your home, you’d simply hop on a website and start…
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HEIF, Have You Heard the News?
Last week, Apple changed the tech landscape in a dozen ways, but I’d like to review one of the smallest changes that could have the biggest impact on your iPhone usage. Since the very first iPhone, Apple has used the standard JPEG image file format for images created with your iPhone camera. You may have…
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Summertime Advisories
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Summertime is just around the corner, and when Mother Nature decides to cooperate, those hot summer days spent basking in the sunshine are not far off. Living in the information age, naturally we love to take our portable devices with us everywhere we go. How else are your friends going to know you spent your…