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Cracking Time for Passwords with Eight vs. Nine Characters 19 Aug 2013 | 08:57 am
On page 18, in the discussion of how much faster brute-force cracking has become since 2006 (when I estimated it would take 21 years to crack an eight-character password by brute force, and centuries ...
Save 50% in Our Back to School Sale through August 15th! 8 Aug 2013 | 08:54 pm
Our teenage son prefers to deny it, but as we move into August, it’s hard not to think about the start of school. For those of you for whom learning is a lifetime endeavor, we’d like to make it a litt...
MacVoices Covers Launch of Take Control of LaunchBar 17 Jul 2013 | 10:58 pm
Chuck Joiner of MacVoices interviews Kirk McElhearn about his latest Take Control book, which covers one of the favorite apps of the Take Control staff: LaunchBar from Objective Development. Kirk, who...
Scanning Change in PDFpen and PDFpenPro 6.0.4 17 Jul 2013 | 10:37 pm
In the sidebar "Scan setting side-effects" (pg. 51 in the PDF), the following note appears: Because of Apple’s sandboxing rules, changing the destination of your scans from the Pictures folder with t...
On Learning LaunchBar - Don’t Reach for the Mouse! 12 Jul 2013 | 06:49 pm
If you've taken the step of buying "Take Control of LaunchBar" you are well on your way to learning the utility. But, reading can take you only so far. Here's how I became more competent with LaunchBa...
LaunchBar to the Rescue! 9 Jul 2013 | 07:52 pm
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Joe of Tech on Backups 13 Jun 2013 | 01:51 am
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New AirPort Base Stations with 802.11ac and AirDrop for iOS 7 11 Jun 2013 | 09:27 am
Among the many announcements today at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) was the introduction and immediate availability of new models of the AirPort Extreme Base Station and the Time Capsu...
When a browser plug-in update fails 10 Jun 2013 | 08:02 pm
If you have ever encountered the problem of your Web browser telling you that you haven't installed the latest version of a plug-in that you are trying to use, even when you think you have—or, in fact...
Ebooks, Footnotes, and Skeuomorphs, Oh my! 5 Jun 2013 | 08:25 pm
If you’ve been wondering about the place of traditional footnotes in a Multi-Touch book, you might find this article on TidBITS, "Ebooks, Footnotes, and Skeuomorphs, Oh My!," 4 June 2013, of some inte...
