macdrifter.com
Ghostery for Mac and Windows
http://www.macdrifter.com/2015/08/ghostery-for-mac-and-windows.html
Ghostery for Mac and Windows. August 04, 2015. Ghostery is a browser plugin. Available for Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Opera and it. Let's just take one notorious site. This is what Ghostery blocks on The Verge landing page. On THE LANDING PAGE. The landing page of The Verge is just a navigation portal and yet a minimum of 12 tracking sites are called for every one visit. The Ghostery database covers most of the offenders in the tracking and malicious abuser networks. If you really want Adobe TypeKit...
macdrifter.com
Macdrifter - iOS
http://www.macdrifter.com/tag/ios.html
ICab 9.5 Update. August 26, 2016. My favorite iOS browser has a good update out today. iCab 9.5. Adds smart folders, bookmark coloring, download and bookmark searching. There's a lot in this update as usual. Just take a look at the version history. For an idea of how powerful this browser is. Here's a great tip if you share devices with anyone else in your family. iCab supports multiple accounts. Droplr Lifetime Sale [Link]. August 06, 2016. A Droplr lifetime subscription is available from StackSocial.
macdrifter.com
Overview
http://www.macdrifter.com/pages/overview.html
This is a high level overview of bigger topics. Research with an iPad. TapCellar: Never Drink a bad beer twice.
macdrifter.com
VPN for Security and Convenience
http://www.macdrifter.com/2015/08/vpn-for-security-and-convenience.html
VPN for Security and Convenience. August 05, 2015. When I travel I use a VPN. It's a nice little bit of security when on a strange WiFi network. It's not bullet proof but it's a minimal layer between me and a coffee shop or hotel. If you're unfamiliar with VPN, it's a private tunnel between your machine and another machine on the Internet. You connect to the VPN host and the VPN host handles all of your requests out to the Internet. As I discussed with my co-host on Nerds on Draft. Cloak has the absolute...
macdrifter.com
iThoughts Preview on iOS 9
http://www.macdrifter.com/2015/08/ithoughts-preview-on-ios-9.html
IThoughts Preview on iOS 9. August 04, 2015. Toektaware (makers of iThoughts) have posted a few previews potential iOS 9 features and I have to say, I'm pretty excited for this stuff. Blog comments powered by Disqus. TapCellar: Never Drink a bad beer twice.
macdrifter.com
Highlighted Posts
http://www.macdrifter.com/highlights.html
December 31, 2012. Once a year we get to pretend that there's a global do-over. It's a wonderfully wacky thing that we all just somehow agree to do without ever talking about it. At this moment every year many swell with childlike dreams for a new beginning and ready their hand . October 21, 2012. This resembles the truth. Normal Is Not Normal. August 31, 2012. August 02, 2012. June 13, 2012. Apple may be a computer manufacturer, but they primarily sell expectations. Apple's designs set the standard ...
macdrifter.com
Blink for iOS
http://www.macdrifter.com/2015/03/blink-for-ios.html
March 19, 2015. Is a nice little app that's really only useful if you have an affiliate account with Apple. It's a way to search for Apple media and quickly create an affiliate link. Blink is simple enough. You search for something and then generate an affiliate link. The formatting of the link can be adjusted and includes customizable Markdown generation. And grabbed it from there. It's the "11I5Ug" after the &at=. In the affiliate link. Https:/ linkmaker.itunes.apple.com/us/? Once the affiliate code is...
macdrifter.com
The Backblaze 2015 Hard Drive Failure Results [Link]
http://www.macdrifter.com/2015/07/the-backblaze-2015-hard-drive-failure-results-link.html
The Backblaze 2015 Hard Drive Failure Results [Link]. July 29, 2015. Basically, Western Digital is still way better than Seagate. Even with a smaller sample size for WD. Seagate drives have failed me so often that I refuse to buy anything with one of their platter drives in it. Blog comments powered by Disqus. TapCellar: Never Drink a bad beer twice.
macdrifter.com
Miyazaki Collected Works on BluRay Coming to Amazon [Link]
http://www.macdrifter.com/2015/08/miyazaki-collected-works-on-bluray-coming-to-amazon-link.html
Miyazaki Collected Works on BluRay Coming to Amazon [Link]. August 03, 2015. Due out exclusively from Amazon on November 17th, The Collected Works of Hayao Miyazaki contains each of the maestro’s eleven feature films: Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Castle in the Sky, My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Porco Rosso, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, Ponyo, and The Wind Rises. Blog comments powered by Disqus.
macdrifter.com
Sponsorships
http://www.macdrifter.com/pages/sponsorships.html
Macdrifter.com is a unique place on the Internet where regular readers come to learn about atypical Mac, iOS, development, design and science. This is not a shovel-news site. It's an opinion site with lots of tips and tricks and the readers come back day after day. Macdrifter.com gets about 630,000 page views a month from 54,000 unique visitors making 100,000 monthly visits. If you'd like to see some examples of the ads I've produced for this site, take a look at these:. The Elegance of PCalc [Sponsor].
