Fall 2013 — Vol 35 No 3
Source
Open PDF • Fall 2013 (October) • Vol 35 No 3 • 38 pages
Overview
Mac & Health themed issue — the Charters family (Kathleen G. Charters PhD + Lawrence I. Charters) collaborate on a health-tech series: - Your Mac and Your Health (Kathleen G. Charters + Lawrence I. Charters, 8) - Fitbit for Fit Activities (Lawrence I. Charters + Kathleen G. Charters, 10) - Withings Blood Pressure Monitor (Kathleen G. Charters + Lawrence I. Charters, 13)
Plus: A Review of Take Control of Your Online Privacy by Joe Kissell (Jay Castillo, 15). How I Upgraded to a Solid State Drive and Lived to Tell the Tale (Gerald A. Berman).
Table of contents
| Article | Author | Page |
|---|---|---|
| President's Page | Diana King | 4 |
| Editor's Page | Jay Castillo | 5 |
| Comic Pi | — | 6 |
| Hot Links | — | 7 |
| Your Mac and Your Health | Kathleen G. Charters & Lawrence I. Charters | 8 |
| Fitbit for Fit Activities | Lawrence I. Charters & Kathleen G. Charters | 10 |
| Withings Blood Pressure Monitor | Kathleen G. Charters & Lawrence I. Charters | 13 |
| Take Control of Your Online Privacy (Kissell) | Jay Castillo | 15 |
| How I Upgraded to a Solid State Drive | Gerald A. Berman | — |
Highlights
Charters Family Mac+Health series
Three back-to-back articles by Kathleen G. Charters PhD (nursing informatics) and Lawrence I. Charters — Mac/health tracker integration. Significant because Pi has long had nurse-informatics-and-Mac voices but here the spouse byline becomes regular.
Online Privacy book review — Jay Castillo
Joe Kissell's "Take Control of Your Online Privacy" — post-Snowden privacy awareness era (Snowden disclosures began June 2013).
SSD Upgrade story — Gerald A. Berman
DIY SSD upgrade narrative — continues the Pi-member-as-DIY-Mac-upgrader theme.
Fitbit
Fitbit Force/Flex era — wearables enter mainstream. Pi members exploring quantified-self.
Entities
People: Diana King, Jay Castillo, Lawrence I. Charters, Kathleen G. Charters, Gerald A. Berman, Joe Kissell, Larry Kerschberg Topics: Mac and Health, Fitness Wearables, Online Privacy Post-Snowden, Charters Collaboration References: Fitbit, Withings Blood Pressure, Take Control of Your Online Privacy
Connections to other issues
- Mac and Health = new health-tech thread; will continue in 2014-01 — V36 N01 (Fitbit Followup)
- Online Privacy Post-Snowden reflects June 2013 Snowden disclosures