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Consumers are far too ready to give up their privacy for security and companies are far too lax when it comes to protecting either. This is another data point for my contention that I will not allow these kinds of “security” devices in my home.

I’m using a couple of these apps, along with an Apple Watch, to track my food and calorie intake along with exercise. I find it helpful to know how much food I’m eating and what the calorie amounts are. So far, I’m doing pretty good. I just need to exercise more.

There’s actually quite a few very interesting books that have just entered public domain status.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail was meme-worthy before that was even a word. I saw it when it first came out and I’ll still quote its silliness on a weekly basis.

This technology has been around for a lot of years but I’ve never used them. Many people who hate sticking earbuds into their ears may benefit from them though.

I love showing these visual effects reels to my 13-year-old. Blows his mind when he sees how much of it is “faked”.

Along with water, blood is the most important liquid in the world.

The questions from shareholders should be particularly heated this year.

I’ve always been a huge fan of Jackie Chan. Even when his movies were awful, you never took your eyes off of him during stunts and fight scenes.

Interesting. While I don’t go for walks in the woods very often being a City Kid, I always assumed it was OK to toss organics into the woods “for the animals”. Looks like that might not be such a good idea after all.

I so could have used this website in high school and college for my D&D games.

I got one of these a few months ago and I love it. I make rice, steam/roast vegetables, sear meat, make stews and pot roasts, and even cheesecake in it.

This busker is working hard for his money.

Apple was just the canary in the coal mine.

Slowly but steadily, Apple is building out its base and support of AirPlay 2 and HomeKit.

Many will, understandably, blow this off as Cook simply doing damage control – and he very well might be. But he’s also not wrong.

I don’t use Apple Music but I’m sure many of you are like me and like seeing this kind of data. Shame Apple doesn’t make it easy to create.

I’m sure most of us wouldn’t get caught out by something like this but not everyone is as tech savvy as we are. My wife almost got caught by this so it’s a good idea to warn family and friends to never answer these kinds of calls unless they are expecting them and specifically request the call.

Good examination from one point of view of what happened to Apple next week. The Quarterly Call at the end of this month will be very interesting.

As usual, an interesting list. Can you think what your Top Five most important technologies ever would be?

This is great news for those of you who use these products but I wouldn’t allow a “smart TV” into my home for love or money.

I have spent the last couple of days thinking about Apple and its recent troubles. There is no doubt Tim Cook’s message to investors lowering Apple’s earnings guidance for the first fiscal quarter sent shockwaves throughout the industry. For a company that continually crushed estimates to falter like this made people really think about the future of the iPhone, and indeed, Apple itself. But it’s not all bad.

Following the letter from Tim Cook to Apple investors, “revising our guidance”, Apple has updated their investor relations page with details about their upcoming Q1 2019 analysts call. It promises to be interesting, to say the least.

I can’t argue with this. My wife hadn’t seen Justified when it originally aired so we watched it together. We were both blown away by how good a TV show (except for the awful fifth season) and wished it had continued.

I was lucky enough to have a Your Mac Life listener gift me an Apple Watch 3 for Christmas so I’m determined to use it for my New Years Resolution – to lose 30lbs by March 20th, the day before I go to Lisbon for my Starting Point Photography “Photo Tourism” workshop.

There’s no doubt Facebook knows more about you than you realize but it also knows a lot about you that you gave Facebook voluntarily.

I wasn’t nearly as enamored of the ad as Segall was but I do agree on the confusing message it sends.

It was only after they’d sunk $40,000 and nine months of precious nights and weekends that Jordan McDowell and William Bjork realized how hard it is to make a passive income selling things on Amazon.

The couple had hoped to strike it rich—or at least quit their day jobs—buying goods from China and reselling them on the e-commerce site. Instead, they lost their savings.

I feel bad for the people that have lost money trying to sell products on Amazon, or any other service, but when people claim to have all the answers to make you successful, it’s usually a scam. Those people never lose money.

B&H has had its challenges over the years but I always dropped in during the New York Macworld Expos because it was such a cool, old-school kind of store. If you’re ever in New York City, stop by just for the fun of it – and the free candy. And now I know what the “B&H” stands for.

To stick around for 25 years is pretty remarkable (says the guy celebrating his 25th anniversary as a “podcaster” this coming March!) and these apps deserve all the accolades.