Category: 809: Wi-Fi, the Cloud, and your Newsstand

I received a question from a longtime reader asking me how comfortable I was with Wi-Fi synchronizing of apps versus using a cloud method. It’s a legitimate question; suddenly all our private data, normally kept within our own local network, is now being sent out to the Internet for (potentially) all to see. How safe…

Since getting an iPad I’ve slowly moved all my old analog reading material into the digital world. I’ve been very slowly obtaining digital versions of books that I have in print form, and with the advent of Newsstand, I’m now able to get nearly every magazine I read on the iPad as well. Many of…

What is Wi-Fi? Modern networking has slowly come of age, replacing wired interfaces with wireless connections governed by IEEE 802.11 standards. 802.11 communications function the same as wired connections, with the OSI physical layer moving from a hard wired connection to wireless broadcast and the OSI data link layer using the CSMA/CA (Carrier Sense Multiple…

Greetings! And happy…spring? Last weekend, New Hampshire got the most snow we have seen since the big one from last October. Some areas got 4-6 inches, while northern parts of the state got more, but this is the longest that the snow has actually stayed on the ground. That is due to change though, as…