- 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.
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 [...]
25th of June 2020
Today I had the opportunity to become a little smarter myself. The reason for this was a CSV file from my wife, which had listed all euro amounts in a column, but with a point "." were separated and [...]
18th of June 2020
A reader wrote to me today that her Mac no longer boots after throwing TeamViewer off the disk. What exactly happens is the following: The Mac boots, but it won't finish because [...]