Author: prometheus

Husband. Father. Grandfather. World class Geek.

AT&T U-verse – A Review After 18 Months Of Service

In The Beginning: Nearly two years ago I gave up my Dish Network satellite, Vonage phone service, and my DSL Extreme ISP. An AT&T U-verse bundle was the reason for this change. Three hundred TV channels, Free Movie Channels, VOIP with many features, and a faster internet (18 MPS from AT&T verses 3 MPS from… Continue reading AT&T U-verse – A Review After 18 Months Of Service

OS X and Website Security – LarryTalksTech

Since LarryTalksTech.com came to life over three years ago, we have published over two dozen articles on how to secure your Mac OS X (and its data), as well as articles discussing how to secure your website.  Until today, our readers had to search for these articles by description.  In doing this, we felt  additional… Continue reading OS X and Website Security – LarryTalksTech

Buffer – A Freemium Social Media Manager

Who knew???

So Many Posts, So Little Time My business partners and myself are in the process of re-launching a commercial website, TimelessDesignedFurniture.com. To support our website, and help establish our brand, we created pages on Facebook, Google+, and Twitter. Though we will undoubtedly market some of our products on these social media sites, we will also… Continue reading Buffer – A Freemium Social Media Manager

iOS 8.3 and Bad Elf: UPDATE

Some very good news from Bad Elf:  “During Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) keynote yesterday, Apple announced several new services that will be included in iOS 8.4 and available by June 30th.  This release is expected to fix the open iOS bugs affecting external GPS receiver accessories.  Although we had hoped for a 8.3.1 update or… Continue reading iOS 8.3 and Bad Elf: UPDATE

Virtual Private Network (VPN) – Why And How To Use One

Surfing the internet is like driving on a freeway. You are cruising along, listening to some music, thinking about anything but the traffic around you. Then, suddenly, the car in front slams on its brakes, and you hit your brakes to avoid hitting that car. In a flash, your car is suddenly hit in the… Continue reading Virtual Private Network (VPN) – Why And How To Use One

Hacking Defined

While doing research for an upcoming article about protecting computers from Hacking, I found this slide presentation by Sal Sakoji, from Slideshare.net.  Its original title is: Hacking & Its Types.  Though I like to post my own original work, I feel this presentation is very well done, straight forward, and worth sharing.  You can find… Continue reading Hacking Defined

iOS 8.3 Update and Bad Elf Issues

What did iOS 8.3 do to my Bad Elf?

If you have an “older” iPad with a 30 pin connector using an external receiver, like the Bad Elf GPS, it is very likely the receiver is  not processing data correctly through this connector.  After attempting to use Bad Elf with my iPad2 yesterday, I found that my GPS software, CoPilot, was not responding.  I… Continue reading iOS 8.3 Update and Bad Elf Issues

21 Free Must-Have Mac OS X Apps

  Foreword Located deep in the bowels of a subterranean man-cave in Southern California, the LarryTalksTech computers patiently await daily instructions from their users. Though there is a sprinkling of Debian Linux powered computers, the main work-horses here are Macs. As our capital expenditure budget is next to “0”, so open-source software answers most of… Continue reading 21 Free Must-Have Mac OS X Apps

Simple Audyssey Tweaks For Your AV Receiver

 Audyssey is included in audio-video receivers made by Creston, Denon, Integra, Marantz, NAD, Onkyo, and Wisdom.  It makes speaker setup and calibration on an AV receiver fairly painless. For the most part, one simply needs to follow the manufacture’s instructions for speaker placement, speaker wiring, and peripheral connections. Then, connect a supplied microphone to the… Continue reading Simple Audyssey Tweaks For Your AV Receiver