If you just want to learn to drive a stick, don’t buy one. Borrow one from a friend. A single weekend should be enough to learn.

Quote: The company says there’s a one in one million chance a random person could pick up your iPhone X and unlock it with their face, compared to a 1 in 50,000 chance on Touch ID devices.”

As the article notes, keys are useless. They may tempt you to move in close, but having done so, they won’t help. A little pain won’t deter a serious attacker. If that attacker is substantially stronger and can get in close, no weapon short of a gun (or serious martial arts training) will give you a decent chance. …

Make what you can’t replace your first priority. You can get a new passport and driver’s license. You can’t replace those family pictures.

Obviously neither. To paraphrase Groucho Marx, I won’t have anything to do with any club that can’t understand its own name.

Commercial TV is in a death spiral. Fewer viewers means declining ad interview. Declining ad review means more ads. More ads means fewer viewers.

If you’d rather lie down, try setting a timer on your smartphone for 15 minutes, that’s about the best time for a power nap. You may be able to push that to 30 minutes but no further. Longer than that, you drop into deep sleep and waking up from it is likely to make you miserable. The key to a power nap is keeping it…

How much the author gets depends on how the book is printed. Mine are released POD (print-on-demand) through Ingram or Amazon. There’s a slight difference in what each pays, but I always get paid for the first sale and there are no remainders cluttering the market.

As always, the smart move is to track which store is the cheapest for each item and shop there.

I’m not sure its still possible, but once upon a time an autoworker buying a car from his company could not only order it from the factory, but follow it through the line not only ensuring it was done right, but getting an extra dip of undercoating.

Quote: “If the battery does somehow die on you, just plug in the included 3.5mm cable, and use them like regular headphones.”

Quote: “If the battery does somehow die on you, just plug in the included 3.5mm cable, and use them like regular…

Meet the New Apple not like the Old Apple. If it isn’t broke (Touch ID), they fix it (Face Recognition). If it works fine (headphone jack), they remove it for something more profitable (their BT headphones).

White privilege only applies to those with (D) after their name and applies with particularly force only if their last name is Clinton.

Quote: “... but when he arrived at the airport he found out why: He’d been selected for a Secondary Security Screening.”

Quote: ... with the company expecting you to handle all that app-related business on your iOS device itself. So long, app syncing.

Apple may not have devoted any event time to it, but macOS High Sierra is more interesting for many of us than anything Apple did announce. You can find the major new features here:

On good use for an old tablet or smartphone is as a weather display. Find a weather app you like, set the device not to sleep, and run it off AC power.

I love my Polar Bottle Steel Thermos. It keep fluids cold or hot for a long time. Once you master the twist-to-drink technique, it’s easy to sip from while driving, biking or whatever.

I love my Polar Bottle Steel Thermos. It keep fluids cold or hot for a long time. Once you master the twist-to-drink…

Quote: “You can complain about the crisis all you want—but you can only carry on to the people who are outside you in the ring. To the people closer to the center than you, you should provide comfort only. That’s it.

Mothers like you give motherhood a bad name. Let them read what they like not what mommy wants to read.