KW1303 – Everyday Carry
Sep 14
A little more than a decade after Amazon introduced the Kindle and turned the eReader market on its head, Knightwise reminisces about some of the earlier reading experiences and provides recommendations for a bunch of great reads.
What’s in the bag…?
- Logitech K811
- MS Sculpt
- Macbook Pro + DongleTown
- iPad Pro + Apple Pencil
- Ikea USB Charger
- Quechua Trekking Bags
Links
- Knightwise.com Facebook Group
Credits
Episode produced by Keith Murray
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KW1302 – A Look at Knightwise’s Kindle
Aug 11
A little more than a decade after Amazon introduced the Kindle and turned the eReader market on its head, Knightwise reminisces about some of the earlier reading experiences and provides recommendations for a bunch of great reads.
Devices
Books
- A Thousand Suns
- A mindfulness guide for the Frazzled
- Dr Who, The Turing Test
- Talk Like Ted
- 50 Shades of Linkedin
- We are anonymous
- Ghost in the wires
- On Basilisk Station
- Catalist
- The art of human hacking
- When digital becomes Human
- Leviathan wakes
- Belter Creole
- Badlands Book 1
- Little Brother
- Homeland
- Pirate Cinema
Links
- Knightwise.com Facebook Group
Credits
Episode produced by Keith Murray
Image courtesy of Constance Wiebrands on Flickr
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KW1301 – Getting iOS and Linux to Play Nicely Together
Jul 28
There are those times in life when you want to do things because you can… and sometimes you can leverage that in getting done all that you need to do.
Links
- Youtube-DL on GitHub
- PodGet on GitHub
- GoodReader for iOS
- Termius
- Knightwise.com Facebook Group
Code Snippets
- Download your ‘watch later’ playlist
youtube-dl -u <yourGmailAddress> -p <yourPassword> -f mp4 --playlist-start 1 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=WL
- Download ‘audio only’
youtube-dl -u <yourGmailAddress> -p <yourPassword> -f m4a --playlist-start 1 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=<your playlist id>
Credits
Episode produced by Keith Murray
Image courtesy of Blakespot on Flickr
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KW1300 – Gearing Up
Jul 21
We’re back and getting ready for another season of geeky goodness on the Knightwise.com podcast. Come check out this latest edition, and find out where to connect with the community as we’ve done a little house cleaning.
Links
- Knightwise.com Facebook Group
Credits
Episode produced by Keith Murray
Image courtesy of TheDigitalArtist on Pixabay
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How your “Tech Tells” help you get mugged
Jul 07
More then meets the eye! It’s the tagline for the classic Transformer series and also quite fitting for today’s blog about ‘security through obscurity’ when it comes to .. your laptop bag. You guys know i’m kind of a bag-man. I love my laptop bags, backpacks, messenger bags cases etc.
Most expensive laptop bags scream: “STEAL ME! Expensive stuff inside”
I have quite the collection (mostly Thule and Crumpler bags) and can spend quite a bit of time deciding which carry-bag is going to be appropriate for my daily mission on the road. Lately I have been traveling a lot via public transport and I started to notice something: Most expensive laptop bags scream: “STEAL ME! Expensive stuff inside”. It might be your company issues “stock” HP or Dell laptop bag (Ugh, I hate those) OR your pretty expensive hipster PC backpack that gets you into trouble. Why ? Not because your gear isn’t well protected against physical shocks, but because nefarious people KNOW by certain ‘tells’ that you might carry something valuable.
We all have certain “Tells”
These “tells” might be the brand and size of your bag but there are also other things that might tip people off. What kind of phone do you have there, what type of earbuds, how about the shoes you wear ? Or your clothes? All of those things pulled together might give a possible pickpocket a pretty good idea of how ‘wealthy’ you are and what the chances might be of getting a good ‘catch’ when they lift your gear without you knowing it.
Are their shoes shiny, clean and expensive? Is that an Apple Watch ?
Playing the “Tell” Game
Lately I’ve been playing the “tell” game on the train to Brussels: Trying to ascertain the “value” of a “target” using my powers of observation. (Just by looking) and it is a lot of fun to do when you get it right. Is commuter X in front of me nothing but a poor student with a crummy laptop or might there be a Dell XPS15 in that bag ? I take a look at their phone, the state the phone cover is in. I take a look at the headset he has on. Just a couple of no-name earbuds or are we talking a 500 dollar Bose here? Clothing gives a lot away. Are their shoes shiny, clean and expensive? Is that an Apple Watch ? (Then there should be an iPhone in there somewhere). When you really start paying attention there are a lot of ways we inform the outside world about our lifestyle and the tech we are carrying.
What are YOUR “Tells” ?
So I challenge you to take stock of your outward signs techno-wealth? Do you flaunt your Apple watch on the subway? Does your backpack show what brand of laptop might be inside? Are your noise cancelling headsets draped around your neck as you walk to class? What signs might you give pickpockets that you might be quite the catch?
Start by hiding the obvious
I’ve started thinking about this during my trainride into Brussels and thinking: How can I start hiding the obvious. One of the things I thought about was my backpack. So I started this little experiment in “hiding” my gear in something less “conspicuous”: A 25 euro general purpose backpack from Decathlon (a local sporting and outdoor store). These things are ubiquitous. College students, soccer-dads, blue-colar workers.. They all seem to have them and use them for a variety of uses. Schoolbooks, Lunch, Sporting gear .. you never quite know what is inside. Ideal for hiding my tech stuff. No ?
Of course the bag needs some “work”. I’m not gonna shove a naked Macbook Pro into a 25 Euro nylon sack. I’m not insane. The bag is going to need some adjustments to keep everything safe AND I also want some additional measures to fly “under the radar” of nasty people who want to steal my gear. I”ll tell you about those in my next post.
Link: https://www.decathlon.be/nl/p/rugzak-nh-500-20-liter/_/R-p-156340
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KW1204 – A Different Platform
Jan 07
Something a little different from Knightwise this week with a little soundseeing tour of the Brussels Central train station.
Links
- Brussels Central on Google Maps
Credits
Episode produced by Keith Murray
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
