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Paul Miller on the Facebook “Grind”

Paul Miller sums up the differences between his (and coincidentally my) Facebook and Twitter usage : I’m often asked if I’ve lost touch with a lot of friends and family since I’ve left the internet. “Not really,” I say. I was never much of a “Facebook guy,” I explain, and I talk to my mom on [...]

Authentication Woes

One blogger. Thats all it takes it seems to trigger a whole industry to wake up to the fact that we are not secure.One piece of clever social engineering set of a series of events which had said blogger locked out of his Google Account, his Apple account, his Mac wiped, and his Twitter hacked [...]

Site for Retina-ready Mac Apps

I’ve been using my Retina Macbook for just under a week, and while I think its the best machine I’ve ever owned, It’s resulted  in some ways, my most unproductive of the summer. Yes, that could be partly due with having to configure a new machine, but it’s more than just being busy  with other [...]

John Siracusa on Mountain Lion

From the comprehensive Ars Technica Mountain Lion review : The biggest threat to Apple’s success is not the company with the most innovative devices and OS (arguably, still Microsoft); it’s the one with the most powerful, successful suite of online services—Google. In this context, the Mac’s continued independence of character seems even more assured. Apple’s online platform [...]