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  • My backup ate my password (or did it?)

    My backup ate my password (or did it?)

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    Imagine the situation, I’m hurtling down the highway and I’m walking through the Carbonite iPhone app with my wife, looking for data we know is sitting on a password encrypted file back at home. Carbonite offers the options to log into your filesystem via a computer browser, or to access your files directly via the…

  • Top 10 From The Last 500 Fat Ones

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    Last Week, Steph published the 500th post from on our 2FatDads site, a site he and I created far too long ago. Over the years we invited Ben, Eric and Steve to join us; not only writing some pretty awesome tech reviews and rants but also in creating the DadCast which will be resuming it’s…

  • Neven Mrgan on Apple TV with Siri

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    But the idea that Siri would be the main interface of Apple TV is as silly as making Siri the main UI for the iPad. Siri is good at letting the user submit hard-to-categorize, multi-part, uncertain inputs in the most expressive and effortless way we humans have: spoken language. I think TV mainly revolves around a…

  • Forkbombr: Mac Community Crushed By Lion’s Non-Release, Cries out for Mercy

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    This is one if the funniest and most clever ForkBombr pieces by Stephen in a long time, I am so glad he is finally putting that journalism degree to good use. No quotes, no summaries, just head on over and read it…. RIGHT NOW! Forkbombr — Mac Community Crushed By Lion’s Non-Release, Cries out for…

  • On Hackintoshing For Dollars in General

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    Johnny Canuck
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    Hackintoshing used to be a complicated process, but since Hackintosh expert tonymacx86 came around it’s gotten a lot easier. [..] While I had Whitson around to help me out, if you have some knowledge of how to build a computer this is likely something you can do. I am still surprised that the process was…

  • The Lion, The iPhone and the Cloud

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    Today Apple held its annual Worldwide Developer Conference and announced it’s latest release of their iOS mobile operating system. Here are some of the big lines from Steve Job’s announcement: NOTE (Pictures and quotes are all from Apple.com) iOS 5 Round-up from Apple’s WWDC The conference led off with Lion, the latest release of the…

  • The iPhone Goes Where No Mac Has Gone Before

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    Johnny Canuck
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    After a year of using a MacBook full-time in the workplace, my new job has placed me in a position where I am using a Windows Lappie again. There are some good things that are worth giving up for even better opportunities. No matter how humbling it is for a developer to suddenly have his…

  • DadCast Episode 26 • The Lion In Waiting

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    Nearly Live from the WendyHouse Studios of Valois Bay… This week we have the pleasure of being joined by with our first ever special guest dad: Stephen Hackett of founder of Forkbombr.net, guest writer for MacGasm.net and all around awesome dad of two great kids. Stephen joins us to discuss this week’s “Back to the…

  • Pixelmator 1.6 “Nucleus” released – FatDads Approved!

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    Johnny Canuck
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    Pixelmator 1.6 “Nucleus” released I’ve been using Pixelmator for a few years now. I discovered it through a Macheist bundle and have since upgraded a few times. It’s an amazing graphics tool for most of day to day ‘shoping needs. One of the things I like the most about it is how it can very…

  • Getting Ready for WWDC?

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    Johnny Canuck
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    As you probably already know, the WWDC is on today and Apple does NOT broadcast it live. Most of us are relying on “liveblogs”. So here is the run down of what we are monitoring. You might want to try these links: Engadget.com TWiT.tv with Leo Laporte and Tom Merritt Andy Ihnatko GDGT.com Ars Technica…