Converting very old file formats to a more modern file format wot WPMacAPP on your Mac running 10.11

I’ll cut to the chase here. If you use a current Mac with OS X 10.11.x and you want to convert a bunch of old Word 5.1a for Mac or WordPerfect 2.x for Mac files into a Word 97-2004 .doc file that Word 2016 can read, then you need to download WPMacApp from Edward Mendelson’s Website, wpdos.org.

 

You go here to get to the page on WPDOS.org with the specific WordPerfect on Mac information. This site covers just about every instance of WordPerfect, Wordperfect for DOS in particular, on MS-DOS, Windows, Macintosh, and Linux. So you could get lost. Just look at the top for links to the various pages on the site. 

READ THE INSTRUCTIONS MR. MENDELSON HAS POSTED ABOUT USING THIS APPLICATION WITH OS X. YOU HAVE TO MAKE TEMPORARY CHANGES TO THE SECURITY SETTINGS BEFORE IT WORKS. 

This page does not have a big obvious icon for you to click on to download this app. The link is the second item down on a bulleted list. It says in bold text Download the disk image file (Warning: About 530 MB)

Mr. Mendelson  has included WordPerfect for Mac 1.05, WordPerfect for Mac 2.1, WordPerfect for Mac 3.5, and WordPerfect for Macintosh 3.5e,  and WordPerfect Works for Macintosh 1.2 and the Envoy app, which competed with Adobe Acrobat.

That covers it for WordPerfect for Mac apps. As for Word for Mac, he includes an installation of Word for Mac 5.1a. Look in the Applications folder on the WPMac HD volume. 

You’ll also find MacLink Plus 11, which can convert a wide range of documents and images that you may have on your system and didn’t know what to do with. Archaic WordStar files? MacLink Plus can convert it into Word 97-2004 format. Old images files in ZSoft .pcx format? Again, MacLink Plus can convert it into JPEG or PNG format or GIF format, which your Mac’s Preview app can read. 

Finally, can you install Appleworks 6 from your old iMac G3 CDs? Yes, you can. 

Just copy the installer app, about 27 mega bytes in size, over to your /Users/<Username>/Documents folder. From there, copy the installer over to the WPMac HD virtual hard drive icon in the upper right-hand corner of the window from the Unix virtual hard drive icon.

The Unix icon is really just a link to the folder on your Mac chosen by WPMacApp to serve as the conduit between your emulated old Mac and your physical new Mac. 

Appleworks 6 installed. WPMacAPP quit upon finishing installation. I restated. After rebuilding the desktop, all is fine. Using the already installed MacLink Plus 11, I can import and export in a wide variety of formats. 

That’s my brief introduction to reading very old file formats on your Mac through the use of WPMacApp. Go at it! And Donate to Mr. Mendelson if you use some of his work. He’ll appreciate it. 

Tom Briant

Editor, MacValley Blog

 

Senior Correspondent Arnold Woodworth's Weekly Web Wrap-up for Mothers' Day 2016

iPhone is the most influential gadget of all Time

http://bgr.com/2016/05/04/iphone-time-most-influential-gadget/

check all the other gadgets in Time’s top 50 at this link.

http://time.com/4309573/most-influential-gadgets/



Video:
The iPhone has a hidden 'childproof' mode — here’s how to enable it

A surprisingly long process.

http://www.techinsider.io/iphone-hidden-childproof-mode-2016-5



Turning Down an OS X Upgrade

If you are being pestered with OS X notifications on your Mac to install the current version of the operating system (OS X 10.11, also known as El Capitan), and you are not ready to make the change, you can “hide” the update.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/technology/personaltech/turning-down-an-os-x-upgrade.html?emc=edit_ct_20160428&nl=personaltech&nlid=11893479



One Year With The Apple Watch: I'd Buy It Again, But It's Not For Everyone

Has the Apple Watch been a success? That all depends on who you ask.

Like any gadget, the Apple Watch is going to work well for some people, and be a resounding disappointment for others.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/bradmoon/2016/04/29/one-year-with-the-apple-watch-id-buy-it-again-but-its-not-for-everyone/#3ac764d52cbe



The Apple Watch keeps my iPhone addiction under control

Notifications provided by the Apple Watch allow me to have my phone on silent all the time because I know I will always see that tweet or email or text that matters to me the most. While allowing me to be in control, notifications also prevent me from getting sucked into email or Twitter. I can see what is happening, and I have to make a conscious decision to reach for the phone to reply or interact which, in turn, forces me to judge whether something is urgent enough to interrupt what I am actually doing at the time.

http://recode.net/2016/04/28/the-apple-watch-keeps-my-iphone-addiction-under-control/



Video:
To Break a Phone Addiction, Turn Your Screen Gray

Red is the color that stimulates excitement.  It’s why signs in Las Vegas have lots of red.
Red is the color that is most effective at enhancing our attention to detail.

The person in this video checks his iPhone much less often when his screen is set to grey-scale.

72% of smart phone users check their phones at least hourly.

http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/480240/adventures-in-grayscale/



Mossberg: A smart new email app for the iPhone

now comes the simply named Mail by EasilyDo. EasilyDo’s new mail client handles Gmail very well, but isn’t just Gmail-centric.

Unless you don’t use Gmail, are a moderate emailer, and primarily use iCloud, I recommend you settle on an alternative to Apple Mail for iOS. You may have your own favorite, but I think the new EasilyDo contender is worth a try. An iPad version is coming this fall and an Android version later this year.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/4/11584224/walt-mossberg-easilydo-mail-gmail-best-iphone-email-apps



The 10 best ways to make space on your iPhone

http://www.techinsider.io/10-best-ways-to-clear-iphone-storage-2016-5



Video:
11 Ways To Make Your iPhone Run Faster

http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2016/05/11-ways-to-make-your-iphone-run-faster/



Huawei Just Copied the iPhone—Down to the Last Screw

http://www.wired.com/2016/05/huawei-iphone-screws-ifixit/



This 15-Year-Old Owns an Apple Museum—What Have You Done Today?

http://gizmodo.com/this-15-year-old-owns-an-apple-museum-what-have-you-don-1774327391



Teen uses lawn-mowing money to fund incredible Apple collection

Alex’s Apple Orchard holds more than 250 pieces, most of which he purchased with money earned from mowing neighbors’ lawns.

http://www.cultofmac.com/417572/teen-uses-lawn-mowing-money-to-fund-incredible-apple-collection/#more-417572



Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously.

Through the Apple Music subscription, which I had, Apple now deletes files from its users’ computers. When I signed up for Apple Music, iTunes evaluated my massive collection of Mp3s and WAV files, scanned Apple’s database for what it considered matches, then removed the original files from my internal hard drive. REMOVED them. Deleted. If Apple Music saw a file it didn’t recognize—which came up often, since I’m a freelance composer and have many music files that I created myself—it would then download it to Apple’s database, delete it from my hard drive, and serve it back to me when I wanted to listen, just like it would with my other music files it had deleted.

the only way to prevent this from happening over and over was to cancel my subscription to Apple Music and to make sure my iCloud settings did NOT include storing any music backups.

I recovered my original music files only by using a backup I made weeks earlier. Many people don’t back up as often as they should, though, so this isn’t always an option.

If you’re wondering why Apple hasn’t been sued yet, it’s because the iTunes Terms of Use vaguely warn of this issue, then later indemnify Apple and preclude any litigation from users who’ve been boned.

For about ten years, I’ve been warning people, “hang onto your media. Even information that you yourself have created will require unending, recurring payments just to access.

When giving the above warning, however, even in my most Orwellian paranoia I never could have dreamed that the content holders, like Apple, would also reach into your computer and take away what you already owned. If Taxi Driver is on Netflix, Netflix doesn’t come to your house and steal your Taxi Driver DVD. But that’s where we’re headed. When it comes to music, Apple is already there.

When our data is finally a full-blown utility, however, “just don’t use the product” will cease to be an option. Apple will be in control, bringing their 1984 commercial full circle into a tragic, oppressive irony.

https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/



Snopes debunks an iPhone rumor

CLAIM: Apple Music is purporsefully deleting files from personal computers.

WHAT'S TRUE: Some users have had music files deleted after signing up for Apple Music. 

WHAT'S FALSE: Apple is not "stealing" music from people's personal computers; the deletion of files was likely the result of user error or a problem with software.

http://www.snopes.com/apple-music-deleting-files/



300 free wallpapers that will breathe new life into your iPhone (or Android phone)

I wrote a quick post about how I make my iPhone look so much better than yours.

Now I've decided to let people in on the not-so-secret secret of how I make the wallpapers I use.

I have a number of different resources but my favorite recent one is a single post on Reddit … They’re all high-quality, they’re all free.

http://bgr.com/2016/05/02/best-free-iphone-wallpapers-download-android/

https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/4gac76/comment/d2g9f4f

https://imgur.com/a/gk4GM



Interesting article about batteries

http://www.market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=231368



We tested out these glasses that keep computer screens from destroying your eyes

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-stop-computer-screen-glare-felix-gray-glasses-review-2016-5



19 LinkedIn hacks that could help your business make tons of money

http://www.businessinsider.com/19-linkedin-hacks-that-sell-more-2016-1



5 email newsletters that will teach you more than an MBA

http://www.businessinsider.com/5-email-newsletters-that-will-teach-you-more-than-an-mba-2016-5



This man says a Google mistake completely destroyed his business

http://www.businessinsider.com/matt-haughey-when-google-update-hurt-metafilter-2016-5



How to find out everything Google knows about you

http://www.businessinsider.com/everything-google-knows-about-you-2016-5



Taking the Stigma Out of Buying Used Electronics

GameStop’s refurbishment of video game consoles underlines how a used electronic sold by a reputable brand can often be as good as buying new.

Amazon’s in-house program for pre-owned products is called Warehouse Deals. The giant online retailer sells used products in 25 categories.

items get a grade. “Like new” means it was probably untouched and in perfect condition; “very good” describes an item that was well cared for and lightly used; a “good” item might show signs of wear and tear but works perfectly; and “acceptable” would be something that has cosmetic issues like scratches and dents but otherwise works.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/technology/personaltech/taking-the-stigma-out-of-buying-usedelectronics.html?emc=edit_ct_20160428&nl=personaltech&nlid=11893479&_r=0



Video:
Scientists Discover Human Brain Is a Living Word Cloud

http://www.marketwatch.com/video/scientists-discover-human-brain-is-a-living-word-cloud/44356A90-9A46-408B-91B3-42B193DD70A8.html



IBM has a powerful new research project that anyone can use for free.
New quantum computing project is available to play with online.

Anyone from university researchers to tech savvy teenagers can apply through IBM Research’s website to test the processor.

http://fortune.com/2016/05/04/ibm-research-quantum-cloud/



the most difficult part of building a quantum computer is not figuring out how to make it compute, but rather finding a way to deal with all of the errors that it inevitably makes.

In order to flip the qubits back to their correct states, physicists have been developing an assortment of quantum error correction techniques. Most of them work by repeatedly making measurements on the system to detect errors and then correct the errors before they can proliferate. These approaches typically have a very large overhead, where a large portion of the computing power goes to correcting errors.

Eliot Kapit has proposed a different approach to quantum error correction. His method takes advantage of a recently discovered unexpected benefit of quantum noise: when carefully tuned, quantum noise can actually protect qubits against unwanted noise. Rather than actively measuring the system, the new method passively and autonomously suppresses and corrects errors, using relatively simple devices and relatively little computing power.

unwanted error states are quickly repaired by engineered dissipation, without the need for an external computer to watch the circuit and make decisions.

The new method can correct photon loss errors at rates up to 10 times faster than those achieved by active, measurement-based methods.

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-autonomous-quantum-error-method-greatly.html



Welcome to your Smart Future

One of the biggest mistakes most tech investors make is that they take a look at where a certain technology is at a certain point of time and decide that innovation and entrepreneurial innovation has stopped. It's best to remember that you can't take a snapshot of the smartphone technology in 2016 and think that it has much relevance to what the smartphone technology will be in 2021.

We are two innings into the nine-inning smartphone and apps revolution.

These days, I've been shifting my focus to the burgeoning and still barely existent Wearables Revolution.

We haven't even conceived of many of the incredible applications and innovations that Wearables and Virtual Reality Revolutions will bring to the world as they end up complementing and advancing each other.

The patent for smart contact lenses that Sony just filed this week calls for the ability to record — and watch — videos right from your own eyeballs.

all those complaints about VR-Face redlines and uncomfortable viewing masks for virtual reality are going to be silly and moot in another five years when people put on their smart contact lenses.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/welcome-to-your-smart-future-2016-05-04



Video:
These high-tech classes are the coolest thing happening in schools today

America is in the midst of a "Do It Yourself" (DIY) renaissance. Spurred on by networks like HGTVand DIY, as well as websites like Pinterest, people of all stripes are getting in on the action.

One of the hotbeds of this maker movement? Schools.

Classes that used to teach factory skills (i.e., woodworking or shop classes) now teach how to use 3D printers.

Kids learn best when actually doing things.

http://www.techinsider.io/makerspaces-diy-schools-2016-5



The key to repairing your bones may come out of a printer

Orthopedic surgeons are relying more and more on 3-D printing to build replacements for their patients’ defective or worn out bones.

the biggest potential benefit is the ability to design implants that are specific to an individual patient’s body.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-key-to-repairing-your-bones-may-come-out-of-a-printer-2016-5



Estonia is the most technologically advanced nation in the world

Estonia, in the Baltics, has completely transformed its economy by supporting startups

The Baltic nation of only 1.3 million citizens stands out from its Eastern European neighbors in that it has an advanced economy and a high standard of living. And it’s a technology paradise. You may know it as the home of Skype. But there’s a lot more to the tiny country than that.

It’s easy to start businesses there, even if you are a foreigner.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-tiny-country-is-the-most-technologically-advanced-in-the-world-2016-05-05

Reader comment:
Estonia is 1.3 million people, and mostly one ethnicity and language. The U.S.A. is > 300 million people, on the same scale as the USSR which failed.
Getting agreement is easier the fewer and more homogeneous the population is.



Texting and Driving? Watch Out for the Textalyzer

The most provocative idea, from lawmakers in New York, is to give police officers a new device that is the digital equivalent of the Breathalyzer — a roadside test called the Textalyzer.

It would work like this: An officer arriving at the scene of a crash could ask for the phones of any drivers involved and use the Textalyzer to tap into the operating system to check for recent activity.

The technology could determine whether a driver had used the phone to text, email or do anything else that is forbidden under New York’s hands-free driving laws, which prohibit drivers from holding phones to their ear. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/science/driving-texting-safety-textalyzer.html?emc=edit_ct_20160428&nl=personaltech&nlid=11893479



Fraudulent hotel booking sites are more common than you might think — here's how you can spot them

The safest way is to book directly through a hotel's website, instead of a third party web site.

http://www.businessinsider.com/avoiding-fraudulent-hotel-booking-sites-2016-5



A ransom-demanding computer virus is promising to donate the money it extorts to charity

http://www.businessinsider.com/ransomware-cryptmix-promises-to-pay-ransoms-to-charity-extortion-virus-2016-5



The 272 million 'hacked' Gmail, Hotmail, and other accounts appear to be fake

http://www.techinsider.io/russian-hack-email-2016-5



A hacker is selling 57 million accounts on the dark web — but where they're from is a mystery

While it's not entirely clear where the accounts are from, it is clear that most are genuine.

http://www.techinsider.io/hacker-dark-web-accounts-2016-5



You Can't Escape Data Surveillance In America
The Fair Credit Reporting Act was intended to protect privacy, but its provisions have not kept pace with the radical changes wrought by the information age.

“People do not realize, for example, that their own credit files are accessible to virtually anyone who understands the workings of credit bureaus and has a few dollars to spend on a report,” said one study in 1969.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/04/credit-reporting-spying/480510/

Senior Correspondent Arnold Woodworth's Weekly Web Wrap-up for 5-1-2016

Video:

Here’s what happens when you block someone on your iPhone

 

http://www.businessinsider.com/iphone-block-contact-how-to-2016-4

 

 

 

iPad Pro 9.7 Review – On the road with the laptop killer

 

 I’ve been surprised just how much I’ve been able to get done on the iPad Pro.

 

http://www.slashgear.com/ipad-pro-9-7-review-on-the-road-with-the-laptop-killer-25437649/

 

 

 

iPhone SE Review: Apple's Outdated Innovation

 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2016/04/30/apple-iphone-se-review/#500ffcc556e1

 

 

 

Apple's updated MacBook is indeed faster with longer battery life

 

http://www.engadget.com/2016/04/25/apple-macbook-review-2016/

 

 

 

With iPad Pro and True Tone, Apple finds reason to nerd out over iOS color management

 

Unless you're someone for whom color is important — a photographer or a designer, perhaps — you'll probably never notice color management at work. For that small group of insiders, though, color management is often absolutely critical.

 

iOS and OS X are now essentially at feature parity with respect to ColorSync.

 

http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/04/25/with-ipad-pro-and-true-tone-apple-finds-reason-to-nerd-out-over-ios-color-management

 

 

 

The top games Apple thinks everyone should have on their iPhone

 

http://www.techinsider.io/best-iphone-games-according-to-apple-2016-4

 

 

 

This is how I make my iPhone look so much better than yours

 

Better “wallpaper”.

 

http://bgr.com/2016/04/29/best-iphone-wallpapers-2016-free-download/

 

 

 

110 Best iPhone Apps for 2016

 

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2016/04/28/best-iphone-apps-for-2016/

 

 

Video:
The Return of the Dumb Phone

http://www.marketwatch.com/video/the-return-of-the-dumbphone/A5DF8F50-D9BD-443E-B85E-22BE942354CF.html

 

33 of the hardest questions Apple will ask in a job interview

 

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-hardest-apple-interview-questions-2016-4

 

 

 

ALICE COOPER Featured In New Apple Watch Commercial

Good humor.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCNB1z360A0&feature=youtu.be

 

 

 

Another cute Apple Watch ad

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1VwPwKmciQ

 

 

 

Apple - 40 Years in 40 Seconds

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtY0K2fiFOA

 

 

 

Elders React to Apple Watch

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSM08bzrxTg

 

 

 

We tried out the genius invention that fixes the MacBook's biggest design flaw

 

Actually, the flaw is NOT in the computer, but in how it’s plugged in while being recharged.

 

A very simple but very neat idea for a fix.

 

While it's great if you're plugging your MacBook into a wall, it's less optimal if you're plugging it into a horizontally-oriented power strip.

 

http://www.techinsider.io/blockhead-macbook-charger-review-2016-4

 

 

 

Apple Learns a Bitter Lesson in China

 

China’s recent decision to ban Apple from offering its iTunes Movies and iBooks Store services must have come as a shock to executives at Apple.

 

Apple has invested heavily in cultivating good relations with the Chinese government.

 

Yet the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) does not seem to value such demonstrations of goodwill.

Beijing wants to keep foreign firms from dominating China’s information sector and from posing an existential threat to the CCP’s monopoly of power.

 

http://fortune.com/2016/04/25/apple-china-market/

 

 

 

Carl Icahn dumps Apple stake amid China concerns

 

Icahn‘s investment firm owned 45.8 million shares of Apple as of Dec. 31, 2015.

 

activist investor Carl Icahn said he sold his entire stake in the company.

 

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/carl-icahn-dumps-apple-stake-amid-china-concerns-2016-04-28

 

 

 

Don’t Make The Same Mistake Carl Icahn Just Did By Dumping Apple

 

Apple’s a bargain in the mid-$90s for any investor with the right perspective.

My take is Apple is still worth $200 a share.

 

corporate activists are not in it because they believe in the goodness of their actions. They’re in it for the profits – pure and simple.

 

Activist investors force false attention on the short-term metrics they need to make their highly leveraged and short-term investment positions pay off. That’s why they push for things like giving cash back to shareholders, spinning off business units, or making a series of acquisitions using cash on hand to boost returns. It’s also why they push for board seats and changes in corporate governance.

 

More often than not, activist investors significantly weaken the companies they target over the long term.

 

http://totalwealthresearch.com/2016/04/dont-make-the-same-mistake-carl-icahn-just-did-by-dumping-apple/

 

 

 

We expect Apple stock to continue lower.

 

the decline we expect from Apple will likely be much longer lived than the one that happened before.

We maintain our bearish posture and suggest that investors who engaged short positions on the heels of our recommendations maintain those positions as well.

 

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/where-apples-miss-leaves-the-shares-2016-04-28

 

 

 

This guy got Windows 95 running on an Apple Watch

 

http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-windows-95-on-apple-watch-2016-4

 

 

 

Windows 95 on your Apple Watch? Yes, you can, but it runs slower than molasses

… waited almost an hour just for the operating system to boot, mainly because emulation is not the best method to try and run an operating system.

 

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/windows-95-apple-watch/

 

 

 

The author of this articles says

Microsoft's first laptop knocks out the MacBook and the iPad with one punch

 

http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-surface-book-review-2016-4

 

 

This incredible map shows the movement of every ship on the planet

http://www.businessinsider.com/kiln-interactive-map-of-global-shipping-2016-4



Inside 10 of the world's most ancient and beautiful libraries

http://www.techinsider.io/the-oldest-libraries-in-the-world-2016-4

Video:

Neil deGrasse Tyson explains why killer robots don't scare him

 

http://www.techinsider.io/neil-degrasse-tyson-artificial-intelligence-killer-robots-2015-11

 

Video:

Physicists came up with a simple way you can outperform supercomputers at quantum physics

 

http://www.businessinsider.com/gamers-beat-computers-quantum-physics-science-atoms-study-2016-4

 

https://www.scienceathome.org/games/quantum-moves/game

 

 

 

He was literally a rocket scientist. And even he couldn't figure out Windows

 

Originally, Oran says, it was called the "System" button, and it lived at the top of the screen. But for whatever reason, maybe because it sounded too technical, users in these Windows studies wouldn't click a System button no matter what. 

But once they renamed it the "Start" button, people understood it intuitively.

 

http://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-the-windows-start-button-2015-7

 

 

 

A hacker told me how to make a super strong password I can actually remember

 

Start with a sentence that’s easy to remember.

Make your password from the first letter in each word of your sentence.

 

For example:  “To be or not to be, that is the question” — becomes — “tbontbtitq”.

 

many people still resort to weak passwords, which hackers can easily guess.

 

http://www.techinsider.io/hacker-strong-password-2016-4

 

 

 

a USB stick is a hacker's best friend (and your worst nightmare)

 

Don’t trust any USB stick unless you know where it came from.

 

the threat posed by USB sticks in the workplace — and even the US military — is very real. 

And there's not really an easy solution.

 

http://www.techinsider.io/hackers-usb-sticks-2016-4

 

 

 

The Supreme Court approved a rule change that would let U.S. judges issue search warrants for access to computers located in any jurisdiction despite opposition from civil liberties groups who say it will greatly expand the FBI's hacking authority.

http://www.businessinsider.com/r-us-high-court-approves-rule-change-to-expand-fbi-hacking-power-2016-4

Senior Correspondent Arnold Woodworth's Weekly Web Wrap-up for Saturday April 23 2016

Reader comment to an article about Apple:

One of the reasons why there's fewer Apple products in the recycle chain is that they last longer (I'm writing this on a late-2008 MacBook Pro) or they still have value when they're replaced (Pads and phones being handed down or sold).   And while market share has been increasing in recent years (although lower overall sales), the vast majority of computers sold in the past have been PC clones.  In my family, Macs and iPhones get handed down like old clothes.

 

 

 

Apple Shares New 'Siri and Liam' TV Ad for Earth Day

 

Short but humorous.

 

http://www.macrumors.com/2016/04/22/apple-siri-liam-earth-day-ad/

 

http://mashable.com/2016/04/22/liam-meets-siri-video-earth-day/#ExsRt_QkYgqf

 

 

 

21 tiny design features that show Apple's incredible attention to detail

 

http://www.businessinsider.com/best-apple-design-details

 

 

 

Review: Apple's 9.7-inch iPad Pro Is the Best of Both Worlds

 

Neat video too.

 

http://fortune.com/2016/04/18/ipad-pro-9-7-review/

 

 

 

Review: Apple's newer, smaller iPad Pro a terrific tablet

 

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-apple-smaller-ipad-pro-terrific.html

 

 

 

Review: Apple’s New MacBook Is a Gorgeous Laptop With 1 Drawback

 

The good: Super thin and light; Beautiful screen; Comfortable keyboard

The bad: Only includes one port; Expensive

 

http://time.com/4301353/apple-macbook-review-2016/

 

 

 

Video:

Camera comparison – The Galaxy S7 Edge vs. the iPhone 6S Plus

 

http://www.cnet.com/videos/shoot-out-the-galaxy-s7-edge-vs-the-iphone-6s-plus/

 

 

 

How to recover music that disappeared from your iPhone

 

This article suggests several different tricks to try.

 

http://www.geek.com/news/how-to-recover-music-that-disappeared-from-your-iphone-1652617/

 

 

 

How to Turn Off “Hey Siri” on the iPhone and iPad

 

“Hey Siri” is a feature in iOS which lets you activate and query Siri, Apple’s personal digital assistant service, by voice alone and without the need to touch your device.

 

Many iPhone owners find that Hey Siri frequently activates at unintended times.

 

you can turn off Hey Siri with a quick trip to Settings.

 

http://www.tekrevue.com/tip/turn-off-hey-siri/

 

 

The Smartphone Revolution is dead; long live the smartphone

I'm sick of people looking at their smartphones, checking Facebook, group messaging friends, reading emails, checking the news or otherwise not focusing on the real world going on around them. I'm as bad as most other people about doing that, too. We're all sick of smartphone-dominant culture, but we all do our part to create that smartphone-dominant culture anyway. Is that going to change?

Sort of.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-smartphone-revolution-is-dead-long-live-the-smartphone-2016-04-22

 

How to tell if someone has blocked your phone number on their iPhone

 

You can't easily find out for certain whether you've been blocked, but if you check for the telltale signs you can get a good idea of what's going on.

 

there's no way to be certain this is what's happened, so be careful before you start throwing around accusations!

 

A single ring and then being diverted to voicemail is a sign that you might have been blocked - but bear in mind that this can also result from the phone being switched off or set to auto divert.

 

To rule out the phone being switched off or set to auto divert, you can immediately ring again from a different number.

 

http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/iphone/how-tell-if-someone-has-blocked-your-phone-number-on-their-iphone-3638817/

 

 

 

It is possible to bypass call blocking on an iPhone, but NEVER do it lightly:  You might be violating stalking or harassment laws.

 

http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/iphone/how-call-iphone-thats-blocked-your-number-in-ios-7-3516908/

 

 

 

5 annoying Apple Watch problems, and how to fix them

 

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/don-t-let-apple-watch-145853599.html

 

 

 

Best Apple Watch buying guide 2016

 

http://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/apple/best-apple-watch-buying-guide-full-price-list-where-to-buy-spring-2016-3605135/

 

 

 

No, your Apple ID is NOT about to expire - don't fall for the scam!

 

iPhone users are being targeted by a scam that tricks them into handing over the Apple ID and other personal details

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/no-your-apple-id-not-7779317

 

 

 

Watch out, iPhone users. A text-message phishing scam, disguised as a note sent by Apple Support, aims to lure unsuspecting iPhone owners to share their usernames and passwords.

The scam, which appears as a shady text message, is reportedly informing users that their Apple ID has expired and they’ll need to visit a fake website to receive a new one.

 

"As a general rule, never send credit card information, account passwords, or extensive personal information in an email unless you verify that the recipient is who they claim to be,” Apple states. “Many companies have policies that state they will never solicit such information from customers by email."

 

http://mashable.com/2016/04/21/iphone-texting-scam/#fg1MSWIX1iqb

 

 

 

10 paid iPhone apps on sale for free for a limited time

 

http://bgr.com/2016/04/18/best-free-iphone-apps-ipad-apr-18/

 

 

 

One chart shows how mobile has crushed personal computers

The year was 2007, and Apple Inc.’s shiny handheld computer was finally being unwrapped after years of speculation. Not everyone could have predicted that just four years later, mobile devices would officially overtake the PC.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/one-chart-shows-how-mobile-has-crushed-pcs-2016-04-20

 

’60 Minutes’ asked a security firm to hack an iPhone and we’re all basically screwed

 

For the Apple haters out there, hold on to your hats… the hack perpetrated on Lieu will work on any phone, using any carrier, running any operating system, and it’s all thanks to a security flaw in a piece of technology you’ve probably never heard of.

Signaling System 7 (SS7) is a global network that connects all phone carriers around the world into a singular hub, of sorts. The hack exploits a known security flaw in SS7, but one that’s proven relatively difficult to fix due to the way SS7 is governed, or not governed, in this case.

 

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/04/18/60-minutes-asked-a-security-firm-to-hack-an-iphone-and-were-all-basically-screwed/

 

 

 

The SS7 flaw can be used to hack any phone at any time, as long as the phone number is known. However, Nohl said that most people would not be a target for this type of attack. Politicians and other high-profile people would be more likely to fall victim to the SS7 flaw.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/60-minutes-smartphone-hack-ss7-flaw/

 

 

 

How To Avoid That Scary 60 Minutes iPhone Hack

 

The best option is to forego your phone’s normal calling feature in favor of communication apps that offer what’s called “end-to-end encryption.” With them, your conversations are secured from the time they’re sent to the moment they’re received. One popular example is Signal, favored by journalists and security experts. (Edward Snowden is among the software’s fans.)

 

The lnM60 Minutes’ demonstration highlights a wrinkle in the ongoing debate over privacy and national security. While law enforcement groups say encryption apps like Signal make it harder to solve crimes, others argue they offer law-abiding citizens a way to keep their communications safe from prying eyes and ears.

 

http://time.com/4297477/60-minutes-iphone-hack/

 

 

The biggest security mistakes people make when buying things online

1)  DON’T use a debit card.  A credit card has better protections.
2)  Advertisement E-mails:  NEVER click a link from any corporate E-mail.  Hackers send fake E-mails that look like corporate all the time.  A few hackers write stunningly good quality fakes. They’ve even been known to fake E-mails from friends and acquaintances.
3)  Fake E-mails often contain links to fake copies of corporate web sites where hackers attempt to trick you into giving them your personal info, such as social security number and credit card number so they can steal your money.
4)  Instead of clicking on a link in an E-mail, type the URL of a web site in the web browser.

Every one of us is in the cross-hairs of identity thieves.

http://www.businessinsider.com/security-risks-online-shopping-adam-levin-2016-4

 

Video:
Closing of iTunes Movies Shows Apple Isn't Immune to Chinese Regulators

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-22/apple-says-itunes-movies-book-services-closed-down-in-china



Cartoons about encryption

http://dilbert.com/strip/2016-04-18

http://dilbert.com/strip/2016-04-19

http://dilbert.com/strip/2016-04-20

http://dilbert.com/strip/2016-04-21

http://dilbert.com/strip/2016-04-22

http://dilbert.com/strip/2016-04-23

 

 

Apple and the FBI return to Capitol Hill to talk encryption — this is why you should care 

Apple Inc. and Federal Bureau of Investigation officials, joined by independent experts, will face off in a House of Representatives hearing.

Law enforcement has argued that strong encryption that technology companies use to protect user communications allows criminals to “go dark,” or hide without being noticed.

Security experts ... say the current debate fails to recognize that creating a backdoor for the government means weakening security for all users and making people more vulnerable to hackers at a time when computer security is already poor, and breaches are all too common.

A draft of a Senate bill crafted by Republican Richard Burr of North Carolina and California Democrat Dianne Feinstein, released last week, calls for companies to comply with court orders to give the government information — making it impossible for a situation like Apple’s pushback in the San Bernardino case to occur again. Privacy advocates, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, called the bill “simply anti-security.”

Security experts and technology companies also say if they allow U.S. law enforcement to have a backdoor, they’d be forced by other governments worldwide to abide by similar requests.

This has happened before. In 2007, lawmakers on Capitol Hill chewed out Yahoo’s then-chief executive, Jerry Yang, for complying with the Chinese government to turn over information about journalist Shi Tao. The company said the government forced its hand with documents similar to subpoenas. Rep. Tom Lantos, a Democrat from California, told Yahoo then that “while technologically and financially you are giants, morally you are pygmies.”

“We talk about the Jerry Yang moment,” Matthew Prince, chief executive of the security company CloudFlare, told MarketWatch in a recent interview.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-latest-battle-over-smartphone-security-2016-04-19



FBI admits it can’t keep up with advances in technology

The FBI has long struggled to convince tech whizzes to take jobs at the bureau. Private companies offer higher salaries, the background-check process for a government job is onerous and, on top of all that, the agency won’t hire people who have used marijuana in the last three years or any other illegal drug in the last 10 years.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/fbi-admits-it-cant-keep-up-with-advances-in-technology-2016-04-19

Reader comment:
The consequences of this idea to develop back doors to encryption will have devastating effects on all US tech companies that do business around the world. As soon as the US passes a law requiring tech companies to do this then every other Govt in the world will demand the same access and then lots of rogue officials in those Govt's will sell the access to criminal and terrorist organizations 
Either something is secure or it is not. The entire future depends on secure encryption so if we do this as a country we wreck our tech industries and make all American citizens a lot more vulnerable to malicious attacks.

FBI Got Useful Information Off San Bernardino iPhone

 

Interesting video.

 

According to CNN‘s sources, the iPhone shows no evidence of Farook communicating with known ISIS members or supporters.

 

http://fortune.com/2016/04/20/fbi-san-bernardino-iphone/

 

 

 

FBI Paid More Than $1.3M to Crack San Bernardino iPhone

 

The hack works on only one model:  The iPhone 5c.

 

The FBI was also able to comb through his contacts for leads and confirmed that he was not in contact with ISIS members before the attack.

 

http://fortune.com/2016/04/21/fbi-paid-crack-san-bernardino-iphone/

 

 

 

On Encryption Battle, Apple Has Advocates in Ex-National Security Officials

 

In their years together as top national security officials, Michael V. Hayden and Michael Chertoff were fierce advocates of using the government’s spying powers to pry into sensitive intelligence data.

But today, their jobs have changed, and so, apparently, have their views on privacy. Both former officials now work with technology companies like Apple at a corporate consulting firm that Mr. Chertoff founded, and both are now backing Apple — and not the F.B.I., with which they once worked — in its fight to keep its iPhones encrypted and private.

 

With the F.B.I. still pushing to open other locked phones, Apple’s backers are preparing for a long fight.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/23/business/on-encryption-battle-apple-has-advocates-in-ex-national-security-officials.html

 

 

 

Drug cartels have turned social-media sites like Facebook into one of their most potent weapons

kidnappers and extortionists have seized on resources like Facebook and Twitter to identify new targets.

If they know where you are, if they know where you've been, if they know who your family are, then this is all information that they can use against you to try to extort more money.

http://www.businessinsider.com/drug-cartels-using-social-media-sites-for-crime-extortion-2016-4

The internet is the best set of parents a millennial could ask for

Baby Boomers had the skills to pass on, but withheld them out of fear that they would make their kids' lives difficult. So it should be no surprise that the generation raised on car seats, school lockdowns, and helicopter parenting grew into adults that often feel totally unprepared to open a bank account or schedule their own doctor appointments.

The one thing millennials have mastered is the internet.

the internet serves as a handy way to learn a life skill without admitting to the universe that you still feel like a child.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-internet-is-every-millennials-third-parent-2016-4

 

Video:1
How Hacking Is Advancing the World of Farming

Dwindling farm incomes and open-source software are inspiring homespun hackers, helping advance farming technology. Manitoba farmer Matt Reimer has created a tractor that drives itself. 

http://www.marketwatch.com/video/how-hacking-is-advancing-the-world-of-farming/A66DE277-DB35-4EF2-B9C2-676DA65188B1.html

 

 

This company secretly runs the internet, and now it's raised another $8 million to rule everything else, too

Nginx — pronounced "Engine-X”.

As it stands right now, Nginx's flagship web-server technology is immensely popular, with 150 million websites using it.

Nginx's popularity also puts it in a difficult position. Most of those Nginx fans are using the free, open-source version of Nginx, where they never have to pay the company a dime for the software. But it does have two businesses: A premium version of its software and a consulting business.

http://www.businessinsider.com/nginx-raises-8-million-telstra-2016-4