Don Castle
Don Castle has spent more than 30 years in information technology, starting at seventeen, including 23 years supporting a university law school where he was the first IT hire. Now retired, he builds and publishes his own apps as an independent developer at CodeCrafted Apps, and he created Digital Life Compass to explain everyday technology, online security, privacy, and emerging digital tools in clear, approachable language.
Apple Reference Image: How iPhone Proves a Photo Is Real
Most photographs do not need to be proven real. If a vacation snapshot has a...
Why Is AI Everywhere Now? (Every Tech Site Is an AI Site)
Somewhere around a year and a half ago, late 2024 into the middle of 2025,...
Who Gets Into Your Accounts After You’re Gone?
There was a shelf in one of our storage rooms with several computers on it...
Your AI Now Hides a Watermark in What It Writes
I heard a rumor this week and did the obvious thing. I asked the AI...
Vibe Coding: What Is It, Is It Cheating, and Is It Here to Stay?
Someone may have recently told you they built an app. A nephew, a coworker, a...
Move Your Router Before You Buy a New One
If one room in your house has weak Wi-Fi, you have probably already been told...
The AI Didn’t Go Rogue. It Was Just That Focused.
At 4:01 in the morning on July 9, a program that was supposed to be...
What Is CISA, and Who Does Its Job in Other Countries?
Every big hack story ends the same way. Somewhere around paragraph four, after the breach...
