This may not be quite as wonderful as Apple painted it — Apple announced that its part of the FIDO/W3C alliance will be ready in IOS 16. That alliance, nine years old as I write this, was formed to “help reduce the world’s over-reliance on passwords”. Google was among the founders, Microsoft joined in 2015, and Apple signed on in 2020. Italicized…

But I’m not ready to try the betas quite yet — The first thing I thought of when Apple demonstrated Stage Manager at this year’s WWDC was “This will be available on iPad too!” and it was. My second thought was, “It’s like Tab Groups for everything!” And then my third thought was, “Wait! Why am I excited about this, and…

Advantages and disses — We already had a camera that points at our front porch, but because it needs to plug in, it peeks out through a window at a sharp angle and doesn’t get a good view. It’s good enough to alert us of someone coming to the porch, yet it annoys us…

The Continuity features just announced will be taking this to a whole new level — I recently read a post where the author said that he hates Android phones. He was actually poking a bit of fun at Android haters and Apple haters; it’s a fun read. I’ll put a link to it at the end of this post to save you scrolling back up…

Because it doesn’t work as well — I get dizzy fairly easily. All it takes is a little bending over or standing up too quickly, and sometimes not even that, to set my head spinning. I’ve even fainted while just walking back to bed from getting a sip of water. Yes, yes, I’ve been to the doctor…

It’s so heavy now — When I was a somewhat scrawny teenager in the early sixties, I could lift a 100 pound dumbbell over my head with either hand. I do mean lift: pushing it up in a controlled motion and letting it down, not jerking it up with the help of my legs. Yeah…

Or endoscope if you want to be fancy about it — Have you ever needed to look under your fridge without moving it? Have you ever dropped something important behind something too heavy to move? Or have you ever just wanted to look inside something that you can’t open? No, I haven’t either. Oh, wait, you have? Well, curiosity killed the…

Don’t mess with Tony — Kids can be cruel. Socialization tames most of us eventually, but at my elementary school playground of the early nineteen fifties, only the presence of teachers prevented us from devolving into savagery, and the teachers couldn’t watch everyone at once. I am and was a wise ass. To be more…

New floor, new carpet — We are having new carpet put into two rooms this week. The house is both neat and a freaking mess; neat because both rooms are nearly empty except for things too heavy to move or two necessary until the last minute and messy because everything else is piled up in…