What the NYTimes Outage Taught Me About My Own Domain
The NYTimes and Twitter outages this week werent a server hack, they were a DNS hijack at the registrar level - which sent me straight into my own domain settings to fix what I found there.
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What the NYT Hack Taught Me About My Own Sloppy Domain Security
The Syrian Electronic Army took down nytimes.com by hitting a domain registrar, not the paper itself, which sent me straight to my own registrar dashboard to see how exposed I actually was.
Two Weeks With The $35 Chromecast
Two weeks with Google's $35 Chromecast: the power cable quirk nobody warns you about, what actually works today, and why I'm not ditching my Roku yet.
Life After Google Reader, One Month Later
A month after Google Reader's shutdown, a real-world comparison of Feedly, Digg Reader, and The Old Reader based on actually living with each one.
Chromecast, One Week In: What It Actually Does
My Chromecast finally arrived after the launch-day sellout, and it does exactly two things really well: Netflix and YouTube. Everything else, especially tab casting, still needs work.
Feedly, Three Weeks In
Three weeks after Google Reader finally shut down, I stopped procrastinating and moved to Feedly. Notes on the OPML import, the mangled folders, and what's actually better.
Three Weeks In: Life After Google Reader
Three weeks after Google Reader finally shut down, heres the RSS setup I actually landed on — Feedly as the backend, Reeder back on my phone, and a few lessons from the migration mess.
Two Weeks Without Google Reader
Two weeks after Google Reader finally shut down, a rundown of what I actually tried (Feedly, Digg Reader, The Old Reader, NewsBlur) and why I ended up back on the one with the least friction.
Two Weeks Into Life After Google Reader
Two weeks after Google Reader died, a real-world comparison of Feedly, Digg Reader, and NewsBlur based on actually using them, plus a quick take on the new Nokia Lumia 1020.
My Google Reader Replacement, Five Days Late
Five days after Google Reader finally died, I tried Feedly, Digg Reader, and NewsBlur to find a replacement, and picked the one nobody else seemed to be talking about.
Three Days Left on Google Reader
Google Reader dies Monday, so I spent the week testing Digg Reader and Feedly as replacements — here's why I'm going with Feedly, and why I'm mad I have to do this migration again.
Running the iOS 7 Beta Without Ruining Your Actual Phone
Two weeks into running the iOS 7 developer beta on a spare iPhone 4: what's genuinely good, what's still broken, and why you should never put this on your main phone.