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We’ve already looked at many of the multitasking features you’ll find in iPadOS, but one of the most useful may be the Mac-compatible Sidecar mode, which lets you use your Apple tablet as a secondary display.

 [Disclosure: Microsoft is a client of the author.]

Last week, Jony Ive left Apple under a cloud which in and of itself is fascinating. The leaks out of Apple suggest that Tim Cook no longer cares about design and Ive’s talents were being wasted, so he is moving on.

Cook is disputing this vigorously using a Trump-like “Fake News” argument…even though we’re all hard-pressed to point to many innovative designs since Steve Jobs’ death. Granted there was the Apple Watch, but even though it is arguably best in class... Читать дальше...

It's patch protection time again.

Sometimes when Windows patches arrive, they need to be installed immediately. We saw that happen in May with the BlueKeep patches. But in most cases, you stand a greater chance of getting hurt by a bad patch (which are legion) than by getting zapped by a just-patched security hole.

That’s an unpopular opinion, but one that’s served me well for more than a decade. There’s a detailed manifesto in The case against knee-jerk installation of Windows patches. Читать дальше...

While blockchain holds tremendous potential for creating new financial, supply chain and digital identity systems, it's often erroneously seen as a panacea for business problems.

Consultant joins pilot fish’s project, and he quickly becomes notorious for his nonstop talk about his vasectomy. Soon everyone on the team knows that he and his wife had one child, she announced that she didn’t want any more, and he got snipped. But just telling them about this doesn’t seem to be enough for him; he keeps harping on the subject, extolling the virtues of the procedure, and citing statistics about the medical risks of pregnancy and the costs of rearing children. Everyone gets the... Читать дальше...

When things have gone wrong on standalone Windows machines — and they often have — one of my repair tricks of last resort has been to restore the Windows Registry to an earlier known good state. A lot of times, doing a restore was faster than a backup.