- Sir Apfelot - A passion for Apple knights for over 20 years
Hacking - this is how you make your world easier ...
By hacking I mean improving and simplifying things. This can be the handling of programs or the improvement of hardware by making changes to it that the manufacturer has not actually intended.
For me, hacking has nothing to do with malicious attempts to break into any computer, it is just a word for cleverly altering existing things.
If you also have some good hacks in store, feel free to send them to me.
24. August 2021
If you get vaccinated against Covid-19, you will get a vaccination certificate. Either you can get it as a printout in the vaccination center, in the doctor's office or in the pharmacy. Perhaps it will also be sent to you as a PDF file. [...]
23. August 2021
I can just see that I let the pick of the week slide massively and actually even forgot week 31. Shame on my head. In order to deliver something quickly, today I am picking a practical [...]
1th of June 2021
Computers on a network have an IP address that can be used to identify and contact them. But does this also apply to the computer at home or in the office? Can people access my computer over the Internet [...]
31. March 2021
After updating Windows or playing around with pen input or "Windows Ink", it can happen that the stylus is used in Photoshop with a delay. When drawing a line or a shape, [...]
22. March 2021
How secure is my email password? How quickly can my app account be cracked? And how long does it take a hacker to crack my iCloud password? Some tools on the Internet want answers to these questions [...]
18. February 2021
In the “Objective-See” blog I found a message that could be of interest to anyone who uses an M1 Mac with the new Apple Silicon instead of an Intel processor. Because for the M1 chip it now appears that the first native malware [...]
3. February 2021
Some time ago I tried to run my Eve Thermo heating thermostats with batteries. Unfortunately, the app then constantly reports that the battery in the device is empty and in some cases it even accepts the batteries [...]
3. February 2021
Valve's game client "Steam" is one of the most popular marketplaces and digital repositories for video games. From December 2019 to December 2020 there was an account growth of around 7,2 million users from a total of 17,6 million [...]
22. September 2020
I have to say, Apple keeps surprising me with nice little features that weren't even on the screen when I updated iOS 14. I am currently looking forward to the opportunity to check [...]
4. August 2020
At the beginning of June, Apple rolled out macOS 10.15.5 on compatible Mac models. The update for the operating system called Catalina brought, for example, the "battery status management" to newer MacBooks with Thunderbolt 3 ports. The function ensures that the [...]