Justin Pot, writing for How-To Geek:
Planning on selling or giving away your MacBook Pro with a Touch Bar? Even if you wipe your Mac and reinstall macOS from scratch, it won’t remove everything: information about your fingerprints and other security features are stored separately, and may remain after your wipe your hard drive.
Woah. I was not aware of this. Something to keep in mind if you’re planning to sell or transfer a recent Mac. Hit the link to see how to clear this data.
Michael Ansaldo, writing for TechHive:
To help you find the best security camera for your needs, we outline the key features to consider and share the results of our testing. Whether you’re looking for an easy way to check on your kids and pets, or a full-service sentinel to monitor for intruders, we’ll help find the right product for your needs.
This is a nice roundup, and other reviews share its praise for the Netgear Arlo. But I’m looking for two features that aren’t addressed here – HomeKit support, and compatibility with Synology’s Surveillance Station package. Cameras with support for the former are in short supply. I’m going to let this market settle a bit before investing too deeply in the home surveillance market.
Rajesh Pandey, writing for iPhoneHacks:
Interestingly, Apple also seems to be adding support for multiple voice recognition in HomePod. The icons discovered in the Home app suggest that Siri would be able to recognize an individual’s voice and offer them personalized results.
Although the Echo offers multiple user support, you have to tell it to switch users. I’m not aware that it supports voice recognition, so this would be a big differentiator for the HomePod. And of course leave it to Apple to allow for easy muting of the Siri, for privacy-minded users. That’s the benefit of Apple’s business model not being tied to advertising.
Marius Masalar for the Sweet Setup:
To be practical, an iPad photography workflow has to encompass everything from shooting, importing, culling, editing, and the final export. The ideal scenario is to be able to trust the iPad to replace a laptop as my daily photography companion. It needn’t do so entirely — I’m happy to continue using my desktop-based collection of apps when I’m at home and need their specific capabilities — but I should feel confident taking nothing but an iPad with me when I head out on a shoot or take my next trip.
If you’ve been looking for a comprehensive iPad photograph workflow, this is about as thorough as you’ll find, from apps to help plan photos, to software and accessories to streamline the process.
Federico Viticci, writing for MacStories:
But this isn’t a post-mortem for Transmit on iOS, which, according to Panic, may even relaunch as a new app on the Store someday. Instead, I’d like to take a quick tour of some of the alternatives for Transmit available on iPad today. In case Panic decides to pull Transmit from the App Store, or if the app stops working in a future release of iOS, these FTP clients and file managers should compensate for the features of Panic’s app. Most of them don’t offer the same sophisticated and polished UI design, but some of them may even turn out to be more flexible and better integrated with iOS than Transmit.
Panic announced two weeks ago it would be removing Transmit from the iOS App Store soon, since it wasn’t profitable for the company. If you’ve been wondering how you might replace Transmit, Federico Viticci’s article should get you started. I hadn’t heard of two of the three apps in his story. I’ll most likely stick with Transmit until a clearly better alternative comes along, or it stops working. If you know of a great iOS FTP client not mentioned in Viticci’s story, please let me know.
