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Featured articles from around the web. Every keystroke you make on some wireless keyboards can be spied on by hackers lurking nearby, according to research released by a cybersecurity firm. Read more at In Homeland Security

Featured articles from around the web. Craig Cannon, interviewing Apples’ first employee (beyond Steve Jobs and Woz), Bill Fernandez: Craig: So at what point do Woz and Jobs come together and decide that they want to start working on Apple? Bill: Okay, well during this Hewlett-Packard period when Woz and I were both there, Woz in the after hours designed his own Pong game. Pong was the ...

Featured articles from around the web. Bastille Networks ran an experiment where they tried to intercept transmissions of some wireless keyboards. This would let the bad guys capture a user’s keystrokes from a remote computer and even inject their own keystrokes on your device. It all comes down to poor encryption. They’ve got a list of keyboards they were able to intercept and it’s pretty spooky. ...

Featured articles from around the web. A few years ago, Apple made a very interesting decision to pursue sapphire screens for use in iPhones. The reason is that sapphire is virtually scratch proof and one of the hardest materials next to diamonds. They had struck a deal with CT Advanced in Arizona who had proven to them they had the type of furnaces that could ...

Featured articles from around the web. Speaking of Jason Snell, his Six Colors website did a bang up job on coverage of Apple’s quarterly earnings call today. Not only does Six Colors make pretty charts, Jason’s knowledge and vast experience covering Apple make his commentary some of the best there is. It’s nice to see iPad results improving. I hope this translates into Apple putting ...

Featured articles from around the web. Natasha Scott asks about finding a simple way to work between two different versions of Pages: Pages ’09 (version 4) and Pages 5. She writes: From my research online it appears that they do not work compatibly together; I need to be able to open the documents he sends to me and edit them. I was also curious if there was ...

Featured articles from around the web. I’m away on vacation this week and too far away from my servers to make our last two NetInstall episodes work, so this week we’ll take a look at QuickBooks Self-Employed. Next week it’s back to the NetInstall service. It’s been about a year and a half since I last looked at QuickBooks Self-Employed, Intuit’s business finance app aimed directly ...

Featured articles from around the web. I use Flickr right now as a way to show off my images on an Apple TV but this would allow me to keep up with any edits I may make to them. ∞ Read this on The Loop Read more at The LoopThe Loop

Featured articles from around the web. Ford just made a big commitment to Apple CarPlay. The company announced that all 2017 models equipped with its SYNC 3 infotainment system will come with the ability to run Apple’s phone-to-car interface.  With CarPlay enabled, anyone running an iPhone 5 or later can connect their phone to their vehicle dashboard for displaying directions, using phone functions, listening to music, and accessing ...

Featured articles from around the web. Apple headlines for the week ending July 22, 2016 The summer makes for a slow news season. The big news this week was the release of updates to the iOS 10 and macOS Sierra Public Betas. Apple also put out updates for iOS 9, OS X El Capitan, watchOS, tvOS, and iTunes. While you’re waiting for those updates to install, ...