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  • May 11, 2021: Stream Movies, Shows, Live TV, and More on PLEX, with Dave Hamilton

    May 23, 2021
    Aric

    Dave Hamilton returns this month to talk about the PLEX service and software which let you store your personal video, audio, and photos locally, then stream them to your devices wherever they may be. Plex also streams commercial video and movies on demand, live TV, and has additional paid service features.

    Dave comments, “There’s one topic I’ve always avoided presenting in person despite regular requests, but have recently found it works VERY well over Zoom: PLEX. With everyone looking at their screens, we can really have a truly interactive conversation about PLEX while truly showing things in a way that everyone can actually see what’s going on.”

    Join us to learn about this media steaming service!


  • Apple’s employee number one

    August 3, 2016
    Khürt Williams
    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 ...

  • Wireless Keyboard Security Vulnerabilities

    August 3, 2016
    Khürt Williams
    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. ...

  • Is Gorilla Glass 5 the End of the road for Sapphire Screens?

    August 3, 2016
    Khürt Williams
    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 ...

  • Six Colors on Apple Quarterly Results

    August 3, 2016
    Khürt Williams
    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 ...

  • How to work between Pages 5 and Pages ’09

    August 3, 2016
    Khürt Williams
    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 ...

  • QuickBooks Self-Employed: A much-improved business finance app

    August 3, 2016
    Khürt Williams
    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 ...

  • Announcing Lightroom for Apple TV

    August 3, 2016
    Khürt Williams
    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

  • Ford commits to Apple CarPlay, offering it with SYNC 3 for all 2017 vehicles

    August 3, 2016
    Khürt Williams
    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 ...

  • The week in Apple news: More iPhone 7 rumors, iCloud Music Library matching, Apple Car slips to 2021, and more

    August 3, 2016
    Khürt Williams
    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, ...

  • Stagefright malware for iOS and OS X: Just be sure to apply updates

    August 3, 2016
    Khürt Williams
    Featured articles from around the web. Glenn Fleishman, writing for Macworld: Talos found that maliciously constructed data saved as BMP, Digital Asset Exchange, OpenEXR, and TIFF image files could outwit the operating and allow code to be written and executed, including opening up a system to remote exploits. The ancient lossless image format TIFF using, however, is the worst culprit as Apple’s OSes will access a ...