Author: Mike Moffit
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You're My Firewall
A firewall is a piece of software or hardware that monitors incoming and outgoing network traffic using rules set up by the user or administrator. You can go and buy a fancy 3rd-party firewall, but Apple has one built into MacOS. With this built-in software firewall you can set what applications can have incoming and…
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What the heck is Adobe Flash Player?
As a computer technician, one of the most common questions I am asked is “What is Adobe Flash Player?”Almost everyone has seen a message on their computer at some point telling them that Adobe Flash Player needs to be installed or updated, but few people seem to understand what it actually is or what it…
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_Hello Fellow Technophiles,_ I would like to start out by saying that I am not sharing this to offer evidence that Apple is superior to Microsoft even though that is CLEARLY the case. I am merely sharing information… Yesterday, the 7th of March, Microsoft had a major service outage that affected many of their services.…
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What's Your Frequency?
As far back as the late 19th century, the visionary Nikola Tesla was predicting fantastic ideas and technologies that wouldn’t come into widespread use until over 100 years later. Tesla was a pioneer in research on radio and wireless communications. In 1898 he built and demonstrated a remote-controlled model boat. This was only a few…
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Over 1.21 Gigawatts!
p{text-align: center;}. !http://blog.smalldog.com/images/4994.jpg! I may have mentioned in my article last week that hydro power was always one of the things that fascinated me as a child. I grew up right on the Connecticut River in Massachusetts, right next to an old mill town complete with a dam and canals. For the most part, the…
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PRODUCT REVIEW: Apple AirPods
The AirPods, released in December 2016, are Apple’s newest and most high-tech iteration of their classic earbuds. I’ve had my pair for about three weeks, and I couldn’t be happier with them. I’ve used many different types of earbuds, both wired and wireless, but I was never quite satisfied with them. Every type of earbuds…