Speaking Digital

I hate to even mention the two words together – Mac scareware. Something about it makes me feel dirty. Inevitably, it was going to happen. Here’s how to spot the bogus “application” and not get sucked into the scam.

Lately, there has been a rash of spam coming from (apparently) compromised Gmail accounts. How the spammers are getting in is beyond me since I’m not watching your Gmail account 24/7/365. There have been two types of spam (that I’ve seen first-hand) – one with a single, clickable link in the message and another with [...]

Sorry for the long lapse in getting the next installment in the workflow series out the door. Holidays, work and sickness have kept me busy. Enough of the excuses and on to more important matters – my computer hardware and software setup for photography. Let me get this out in the open right away – [...]

I’ve had a rash of PC’s come in lately where their owners were having issues – random shut downs, inability to install updates or software, can’t search the web as expected, etc. There is one common thread between all of them – file sharing. Whether it was LimeWire, BitTorrent or web sites, it provided the [...]

Since I’ve last written about the Backblaze storage pod, I bought nearly the rest of my components – the hard drives and the power supplies. I still haven’t picked up my anti-vibration foam rubber pad that will sit between my hard drives and the top of the case, but I see this component as relatively [...]