Category: 857: Marine iPad and iPhone Solutions, FileVault or Vile Fault?, Find My iStuff

It was a sad day when Apple decided to stop production on their MacBook line. It was an iconic, durable, and fairly priced machine. Luckily for you, we have a limited stock of used white MacBooks for sale. To get with the times, we are including a 4GB RAM and 500GB hard drive upgrades. We…

iHome is well known for their myriad of iOS-related docks and speaker systems. The iP90 is exactly what you’ve come to expect from iHome — the perfect accessory for your iOS device. Save $30 on either the black or silver models of the iP90!

If you have ever tried to partition your USB flash drive before, then this product by Quirky is perfect for you. Essentially, what Quirky has done is squished two 4GB flash drives into one product. This lets you have both your personal and business content in one convenient location while keeping them separate and secure.…

Built in to iOS 5+ and OS 10.7 and later is the ability to use iCloud. iCloud lets you back up and sync contacts, email, photos, and a host of other data. Not everyone __needs__ all of these features, but everyone is advised to take advantage of the security features, “Find my iPhone” and “Find…

Last week our protagonist was in a coffee bar on public wi-fi surrounded by criminal hackers. They were closing in and things were looking grim. OK so maybe it’s not that bad but the risk is certainly real. And as casual use of public wifi increases so will incidents of information and identity theft. In…

Starting in OS X 10.7 Lion Apple introduced a new version of FileVault, referred to as FileVault 2. FileVault 2 is Apple’s answer to a longstanding complaint that the Mac users lacked the option of operating securely from a workspace that includes full disk encryption. Previous versions of FileVault, going back to OS 10.4, worked…

As a Small Dog Consultant, I implement Macintosh and iOS solutions for my clients, but I also do tech stuff for fun in my personal life. One of my passions is sailboat racing, and I have gotten to know a lot about various marine usage of iPads, iPhone, Macs and wireless technology. The iPhone and…

Hello all, The “snow event” is over, and now we dig out. Thanks to the glut of data available nowadays, I have seen some really crazy images from this storm. I really enjoy the immediacy it brings, but sometimes I don’t get it. People will stop running from an avalanche to post on Facebook, it…