Author: Mike Moffit
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_Hello Fellow Technophiles,_ I know I will sound like an old fuddy-duddy when I say this, but it seems like every day people need things faster and faster. While it was once considered acceptable to wait several minutes to load a website, we now expect to be able to watch video in full HD with…
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Compass 2 Stand for iPad, iPad mini, iPad Air, and Newton MessagePad
Being an active Apple Newton user and–more recently–an iPad mini user (see my review , I’ve had my eye on “**Twelve South’s**”:http://www.smalldog.com/category/?mmfg%5B0%5D=Twelve+South Compass product for years. With their “**Compass 2**”:http://www.smalldog.com/search?search=Twelve+South+Compass+2 product line, they brought full support for the iPad mini and I finally got around to picking one up for my iPad & Newton use.…
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Cable TV: Cutting the Cord
I remember when I was a kid, once a year the local library would put on a challenge to not watch TV for one whole week. This was always a huge challenge for pre-teen me. I lived for cartoons (especially after school) even if it was mostly PBS because we didn’t have cable. Jump 15…
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Scott Markoski
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Pets: An aquarium of neon tetras. Hobbies/Interests: Cycling, cars, piano, Android development, rally racing, vinyl. Favorite Books: 1984, One Man’s Wilderness. Favorite Bands/Artists: Jethro Tull, Tame Impala Favorite TV: Top Gear (UK), Portlandia Favorite Cars: Aston Martin DB9, Subaru Impreza WRX STI, 1980 Audi Quattro, 1996 Subaru SVX, Porsche 911. Favorite Movies: Scarface, Office Space.…
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Terminal Tidbits: mdfind
Last week we discussed the *locate* command, and the week before, the *find* command. This week I will talk about *mdfind*: how to use it, and how it differs from the previous two commands. *mdfind* indexes files on your OS that are used with Spotlight. It also searches user and system files by default and…
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Surf Safe: A Cautionary Tale
One of my first TT articles was a piece on a cold calling scam where someone would call you out of the blue and say that you have an issue with your computer and they had a fix: “Just let me remote in, install some software and for ONLY 200 dollars all of your problems…
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Charge Safe with a REAL MagSafe
Most of us have had the need to buy a second MagSafe charger for our Apple laptop at some point. Maybe our old charger has worn out over the years of use, or we simply want an additional one to keep at our home or workplace. There are many different types of MagSafe chargers for…
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_Hello Fellow Technophiles,_ We have become so accustomed to computers that devices that would have been considered too powerful to even imagine are now commonplace. We don’t even consider items like an iPhone a computer, even though the current generation has processors that would blow away the most powerful machine from just a few years…