The latest release of AgileBits's popular digital vault take full advantage of everything your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch have to offer.
Marco Tabini |
01 Oct |
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Unless you've been living under the proverbial rock, you've probably noticed how, in the last year or so, a parade of Apple executives has worked hard to bring the problem of digital privacy--and their company's solution to it--to the forefront of our attention.
Marco Tabini |
20 Jun |
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Despite the fact that it is, at least so far, a U.S-only affair, I think it's fair to say that Apple Pay has become a rousing success. With dozens of partner banks, thousands of merchants, and millions of credit card enrolled in the program, the folks from Cupertino seem to have pulled off a feat that has, so far, eluded every last one of their competitors: Creating a digital wallet that is as easy to use and widely accepted as the traditional payment methods it replaces--and much more secure at that.
Marco Tabini |
01 Apr |
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If you're a frequent Macworld reader, the topic of "good" passwords is unlikely to be new to you. My colleagues and I never seem to tire of recommending the use of a password manager to help you keep tabs on your digital secret handshakes--alongside other bits of private data like credit card numbers--and avoid falling into bad practices that can have dire consequences on everything from your job to your finances.
Marco Tabini |
05 Nov |
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By now, the news that criminals have hacked into the cloud accounts of several celebrities and stole their photos--often including those of a ... personal nature--has been widely covered in the mainstream media, the trade press, and social media circles.
Marco Tabini |
05 Sep |
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Is Apple's iMessage the new favorite tool of spammers worldwide? A widely-quoted recent article written by Wired's Robert McMillan suggests it is, even going so far as to claim that iMessage "is being taken over by spammers."
Marco Tabini |
23 Aug |
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As iOS 8--and, presumably, new iPhone and iPad hardware--approaches its release day, big changes are on the horizon for Apple's Touch ID, a technology that has been met with less enthusiasm than it deserves.
Marco Tabini |
22 Jul |
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A newly-released document on Apple's website outlines the company's policies when it comes to sharing the personal information of iOS users with U.S. law enforcement.
Marco Tabini |
09 May |
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In the past couple years, apps that store secure data on a Mac or iOS device have become a pretty common sight; the need for some kind of "secure vault" where you can stash everything from passwords to credit card numbers has become so prevalent, in fact, that Apple even built the ability to do so right into OS X Mavericks with iCloud Keychain.
Marco Tabini |
23 Apr |
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Security is an extra-hot topic these days, as all sorts of government agencies short on letters but long on budgets keep getting accused of spying on their own citizens, and debates rage on whether what look like accidental bugs may actually turn out to be quite intentional.
Marco Tabini |
28 Feb |
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Target; Nieman-Marcus; Michaels. Lately, it seems that a week doesn't go by without some major retailer being forced to inform customers that their payment systems have been compromised, potentially affecting millions of cardholders and their finances. Of course, that's on top of the myriad scams that happen every day on a smaller scale and end up costing both consumers and businesses billions of dollars every year.
Marco Tabini |
07 Feb |
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Hot beverage powerhouse Starbucks has released an updated version of its iOS app in response to reported security issues that could cause the disclosure of sensitive customer information.
Marco Tabini |
17 Jan |
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Canadian developer AgileBits has always positioned its 1Password password management software as a premium product, focusing on a combination of performance, portability, and ease of use to command a premium price and develop a significant following. Such continues to be the case with 1Password 4 for Mac (Mac App Store link), which the company released at the beginning of October.
Marco Tabini |
15 Oct |
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If you like to keep your information private, there's never been a better time to save that info on your Mac and iOS devices: The Apple market is chock-full of products that help you securely store--and easily retrieve--everything from passwords to credit-card numbers, including one, dubbed iCloud Keychain, that Apple itself is busy baking right into OS X and iOS.
Marco Tabini |
10 Oct |
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Despite having to contend with a market that's increasingly crowded by competitors, AgileBits' 1Password is still my go-to repository for every last bit of information that I want to keep safe and secure, like my passwords, software licenses, and banking data.
Marco Tabini |
03 Oct |
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