How to Secure Your Mac From Potential Theft
Thanks to The Loop and The Chronicle for promoting this post … follow me @reifman for updates. Let’s get started helping you to secure your mac: My residence was recently broken into (the alarm malfunctioned on entry and only went off...
2nd Generation Apple TV Units Sell for Premium
While most technology gadgets decline in price pretty quickly, I noticed that 2nd Generation Apple TV units routinely sell for $200 – $300 in the used market on Amazon and eBay while 3rd Generation units (current version) sell for $65-$80...
Build Your Own Email Features with Open Source Filtering Software
Filtered is an open source PHP-based IMAP mail filtering platform. While Filtered provides basic mail filtering features and learns from the folders you drag and drop your email to, it is also a powerful foundational platform to enhance and innovate...
How to Store Two Way Encrypted Passwords (and Credit Cards) in MySQL
As part of my open source IMAP mail filtering applet, Filtered, I wrote code to securely encrypt and store email user names and passwords in a MySQL database so that they can be decrypted as well. The technique is outlined...
Breakups and Cutoff Culture
Cutting off exes not only hurts our former partners but limits our own growth as well. Most of us don’t blink when a friend says they’ve cut off an ex. But if you’ve ever been cut off by someone you...
How to Encrypt Selected Messages in Gmail
Since the revelation of NSA access to Google Gmail servers, it’s clear that Gmail is readily browsable by authorities without a warrant. Furthermore, using PGP encryption with your contacts is difficult to set up and get both parties to use...
The New Ada’s Technical Books and Cafe in Seattle is Beautiful
Recently, Ada’s Technical Books opened a newly remodeled space with a wonderful cafe on 15th Street in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. It’s quite beautiful, light, airy and yummy food options. Each table in the cafe is actually its own artwork,...