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• Those days are gone

  By Shaun on January 3, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Back in September, a major bug with PDF-handling that led to Fujitsu temporarily warning ScanSnap owners to cease using their scanners with Sierra. The problem was later identified as a bug in the PDFKit framework in macOS 10.12. Take Control… Read More ›

• Is anything better value for money than a book?

  By Shaun on January 3, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  I was pondering this recently when I finished a book that had taken me 2 months to read. I am not a prolific reader by any means, but I like to catch a few minutes each day and also have… Read More ›

• Couriers are safer than encryption?

  By Shaun on January 3, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Speaking to reporters during his New Year’s Eve party at the exclusive Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, Trump addressed the thorny problem of cybersecurity. “I’ll tell you what: no computer is safe,” he said. “I don’t care what they say.” It… Read More ›

• What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2017?

  By Shaun on January 3, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Current US law extends copyright for 70 years after the date of the author’s death, and corporate “works-for-hire” are copyrighted for 95 years after publication. But prior to the 1976 Copyright Act (which became effective in 1978), the maximum copyright… Read More ›

• Apple’s AirPods for Android

  By Shaun on January 3, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  There are plenty of great Android-compatible Bluetooth headphones that are both cheaper and sound better than the Apple AirPods. But there are none that I want to walk around in my ears with as consistently, and that leads to me… Read More ›

• I love this dog

  By Shaun on January 3, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  Tamás Szarka has a boxer dog called Strawberry who is rather adorable. Some of the faces he pulls in this portfolio are brilliant.

• Assassin’s Creed Paper Parkour

  By Shaun on January 2, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Apparently the movie is awful, but the work above from Serene Teh is stunning.

• The little things mean a lot

  By Shaun on January 2, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Cute. Listen to a Star Wars song on Spotify and the progress bar turns into a lightsaber. Great tweet from Tom Mason.

• One second means a lot

  By Shaun on January 2, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  There probably were not a lot of us that noticed it during the countdown to midnight, and the New Year, last Saturday, but this year, time needed a tweak. At 23:59:59 on December 31, 2016, an additional second was added… Read More ›

• AirPods: A Magic Moment

  By Shaun on January 2, 2017 • ( 4 )

  I happened to wake up at around 11:30, and at that point figured I may as well stay up to see the ball drop. I quietly grabbed my phone, started my Slingbox and tuned it to ABC. When the time… Read More ›