For years, the cool cats at Iconfactory have dispensed some incredibly nifty apps an utilities for the Mac. The company’s newest one, Tapestry, functions as an aggregator that works with some of your favorite sources across the Web. The app taps into sources such as Tumblr, Mastodon, RSS, as well as third-party connectors to offer […]
In these days of massive data breaches and multi-step authentication, perhaps the best question is whether your accounts have been breached in the first place? On Sunday, notable computer maven, philosopher and all-around wise human being Dirk A. Keaton pointed out the mighty haveibeenpwned.com, an aggregator web site that compiles breaches, lets people enter their […]
If you read yesterday’s post, I wrote about Safari’s new Push Notifications in Mavericks, and promised some news about a service that helps you use this feature while all those web sites toil to get it implemented. The name of the service is ProntoPush, and what it does is pretty simple. You create an account, […]
It’s the acquisitions that point to interesting stuff on the horizon. Per All Things D and VentureBeat, Apple has acquired a small startup called Matcha.tv, which provided a second-screen iOS app connected to various content outlets like cable TV, Internet streams and digital storefronts. Citing sources familiar with the story, VentureBeat reports that Apple acquired […]