Apple’s Two-Step Verification has a good security backup
I was quite excited when I awoke this morning to find news that Apple has released 2 Factor authentication for Apple ID. Apple seems to have done a good thing…
New MacSparky Field Guide for Markdown
Since the dawn of this weblog, I've undertaken different approaches to my writing. I've used different content management systems (it's currently a self-hosted Wordpress blog, but I also have Squarespace…
Google announces closure of Reader service
In the week that I discussed moving back to Google for some of my usage, including RSS feeds, Google has announced that it is killing Google Reader. We launched Google…
My return to Google
In June of last year (2012) I posted about how I was concerned about how Google was becoming "creepy". At that time, I decided that I didn't want any one…
My iPad On The Go Setup
Anyone who has ever seen a scuba diver knows that diving is an activity that is intensely reliant on equipment. As a scuba instructor-trainer, I know that there is an…
Evernote’s password hack, and the security of your stuff in the cloud
Like all Evernote users, today I received an email (and blog post) advising that there has been an attempted security attack to their system, and that they have force-changed all…
iPads of March 2013
In March 2012 I decided to go for a month using my iPad as my primary on-the-go device - a month I called iPads of March. My iMac in my…
Grant Graves Redefines Failure
My friend Grant W Graves has published a very interesting piece about Redefining Failure, a topic he came to think a bit more deeply about as a result of a…
Photographers Rights, Trey Ratcliff and the Sydney Morning Herald
Prolific photographer, author of the great book A World in HDR and founder of the Stuck in Customs website, Trey Ratcliff has allegedly had one of his wonderful photos used…
Red On Blue
One of the beautiful flowers growing around the gardens of Uepi Island Resort, located in the remote and spectacular Marovo Lagoon in the Solomon Islands. I loved the colours of…