February 2012
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Google Accounts, Privacy, and Our Clients
If you maintain any Google accounts (Google Apps, Gmail, YouTube, Google+, etc). Google will be changing their privacy policy to allow them to consolidate or share your web search history among their products.
We thought our clients and friends should be made aware of the possible impacts of this change.
From the Electronic Frontier Foundation:
On March 1st, Google will implement its new,...
October 2011
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iCloud, iOS 5 and Mac OS X 10.7.2
By now you’ve likely heard, Apple has released iOS 5 for mobile devices, OS X 10.7.2 for Macs, and iCloud. With the release of OS X 10.7.2, Lion appears to be ready for prime time. We have been testing iOS 5 and OS X 10.7.2 since its early beta release and we’re ready to pronounce them both “ready for primetime,” with some notable exceptions*. While download and activation...
August 2011
3 posts
tj asked: Preserving battery life: you can turn off cellular data entirely. Also, IIIRC turning off Wi-Fi's "Ask to Join Networks" will help preserve battery life. Same with Settings » Sounds » Vibrate [turn off]. (Also note: Turning off location services will help, but it will also mean that you can't use Google Maps to find your location or use "Find My iPhone".)
iPhone Battery Preservation Tips for the Hurricane
Hurricane Irene is set to arrive in the DC area tomorrow afternoon, and with it possible power outages throughout the Metro DC region. Here are a few tips to keep your iPhone lasting as long as possible:
Turn off Push Notifications. You really don’t need a message from Facebook that Janie’s dog did the cutest thing. Settings > Notifications > Off
Turn off Bluetooth....
Hurricane Irene
We’re currently monitoring the storm track for Hurricane Irene, which is currently down near Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The storm looks to be fairly serious, and as of this morning’s forecasts, the track would affect the greater DC Area:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/145015.shtml?5-daynl?large#contents
The storm is currently slated to make landfall in...
July 2011
2 posts
Watch our Tom Bridge this Sunday!
Our own Tom Bridge will be on the ABC 7 Washington Business Report this Sunday morning at 9:30am on WJLA in the Washington DC area. We’ll post the video when it gets put online. He’ll be talking about Cloud Computing and how it affects big and small businesses.
On the release of 10.7 Lion
Late on Tuesday, as part of their earnings call, Apple announced that its new operating system, OS X 10.7 Lion, would be released on Wednesday during the day. You may have many questions concerning the release of Lion, upgrade paths, upgrade features, group licensing, and compatibility. We’ll be working to answer those questions on a case-by-case basis as we go forward during the next few...
June 2011
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“Tech expert Tom Bridge from Technolutionary LLC believes the privacy risk is...”
– Facebook facial recognition features roll out world wide | TBD.com
May 2011
2 posts
“There is no consistent library for implementing SSL in the browser,” said...”
– A Step Towards a Secure Internet: Google Developers Make Progress with SSL False Start
SSL False Start, if approved, could drastically improve the performance of SSL-secured sites.
“Tom Bridge, a partner at a firm called Technolutionary, seemed to think that Mac...”
– Malware on the Mac: is there cause for concern? Ars investigates
Ars Technica spoke with Technolutionary partner Tom Bridge about the latest malware exploits on the Mac. While malware is certainly a growing concern, it has not yet reached epidemic proportion.
Some good guidelines about installing...