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About Aidan Fitzpatrick
Aidan Fitzpatrick is a British technology entrepreneur. He is Founder & CEO of Reincubate, a London-based technology company. He is an occasional investor and an active member of the Entrepreneurs Organization.
He published "So, you want to work in tech?" in 2016.
He published "So, you want to work in tech?" in 2016.
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Blog postThe rapid growth of remote and home-working has led to manya lot of users getting webcams or setting up Zoom equipment in their own homes, and in many cases, often in rooms or parts of the house where there wasn’t previously a computer.
Our summary of sensible precautions There are real risks to not covering a webcam, but for users with Macs and iPhones the greatest risk is most likely accidentally broadcasting themselves or unknowingly being unmuted by a meeting host, rather than bei1 month ago Read more -
Blog postI'm writing today about a security incident that may have exposed data from users' Reincubate accounts.
These are the accounts automatically created on our site as users purchased iPhone Backup Extractor or other products. They do not include data from devices or backups, or credit card data.
The data comes from a backup we created in November 2017. We have automatically reset passwords to Reincubate user accounts: these are and always have been securely encrypted. Any account1 month ago Read more -
Blog postTheo and his wife, Jannine, launched Hidden Jazz Club in 2017. We talked to Theo about how they use Camo to keep performing during lockdown.
My wife and I founded the Hidden Jazz Club as a way to play music for small groups of people in remote locations around the world. Before the pandemic hit, we’d lined up a big range of shows for the year; in the UK, New York, Paris. Obviously, given the current climate they haven’t been able to happen, so this year we’ve had to change our approac1 month ago Read more -
Blog postHappy Traum has worked in the music industry for over 50 years, playing with musicians such as Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, and Pete Seeger, as well as providing video musical instruction via his company, Homespun Tapes. We talked to Happy about his experience with Camo, and the impact of COVID19 on the music industry.
“I stumbled upon Camo in an article, and I thought it looked cool, so I decided to try it. I record videos for YouTube and my website, and I thought Camo could help me to impr1 month ago Read more -
Blog postToday's update to iPhone Backup Extractor includes a number of fixes. Just in time for the new Apple announcement, too! 🙂
Fix: We've added an experimental update to our ECG enabler for iOS 14 devices. The more feedback we get, the better. Let us know how you get on. Fix: We've resolved a problem that was affecting a small number of Windows users creating backups on iOS 14. Fix: We've resolved an unusual crash that was caused by untrusted devices connecting to Windows machines.2 months ago Read more -
Blog postColleen Doyle is a sign language interpreter. Since transitioning to working from home, Colleen has been using Camo to provide sign language interpretation online. We talked to Colleen about her experience with Camo.
“Before I got Camo, I was using the built-in webcam on my 13 inch MacBook Pro. Like a lot of people, I’ve been working from home much more this year, using video conferencing apps like Zoom and Microsoft Teams to provide live sign language interpretations in university an2 months ago Read more -
Blog postWe're excited to be releasing iPhone Backup Extractor 7.7.30, with a number of improvements for message display from iOS 14 devices. We hope you enjoy it!
Improvement: We've added support for iOS 14-style threaded SMS messages. This is the default, and can be turned off by enabling "Forensics Mode" in Preferences. Improvement: We've made a number of improvements to how all sorts of messages are previewed in iPhone Backup Extractor. We show the date and sender of a message in a f2 months ago Read more -
Blog postPaul Gallagher is a published author from Melbourne, Australia with several works to his name, including a biography of John Anderson, Faith and Duty. Paul suffers from an autoimmune condition that necessitated strict isolation during the pandemic. Through the use of Camo, Paul was able to find other ways to stay connected. We talked to Paul about his experience.
“When I first came across Camo, it seemed remarkably affordable for the problem I was trying to solve. I suffer from Multip3 months ago Read more -
Blog postWe've been particularly busy at Reincubate HQ working on new things these last couple of months. Today's iPhone Backup Extractor update ensures new backups work nicely on iOS 14 devices. We can't wait for the launch!
Fix: iPhone Backup Extractor can now create backups from iOS 14 devices when needed.3 months ago Read more -
Blog postWe're releasing iPhone Backup Extractor 7.7.28.3077 to resolve an issue users have found in connecting to our API for iCloud access.
Fix: Users connecting to iCloud could see a "WebException". This update resolves that.4 months ago Read more -
Blog postI’m thrilled to be announcing the release of Camo today. Camo lets you use the amazing camera in your iPhone or iPad as a webcam. You can get it here.
Why did we build Camo? Three months ago I was frustrated. I had an amazing Mac, but friends who joined calls on their iPhones got much better video quality. I got a high-end webcam — $350! — but the software sucked, the colours were cold, and it kept refocusing all the time.
Experts I spoke to said the solution was to get a DSLR4 months ago Read more -
Blog postToday's iPhone Backup Extractor update is a minor macOS only fix to resolve an issue connecting to iCloud.
Fix: Fixed an issue for macOS users when completing 2FA/MFA.5 months ago Read more -
Blog postApple's WWDC developer event was a little unusual this year, being open to all online, and not taking part in San Jose or Cupertino. We missed the opportunity to meet others in the community and members of the Apple team, but enjoyed the labs that they run during the event, and got involved with the Indie Sticker Pack project as part of the excitement.
Now's my time to write what I've written every year for the last 12 years: iPhone Backup Extractor is compatible with the first beta v5 months ago Read more -
Blog postWe're starting July with an update for iPhone Backup Extractor.
After three and a half years of version 7, we're hard at work on iPhone Backup Extractor 8, due later this summer. Once we release that, we're going to be taking a more structured approach in tying new features to major version updates (8.0, 8.1, 8.2) and so on, and fixes in the release in between those.
In the meantime, what's new today? Let's take a look.
Feature: iOS 14 beta support. Hurrah! We showing all5 months ago Read more -
Blog postFollowing our analysis in May of UK's NHSX tracking app, the news that the UK is switching to use Apple & Google's Exposure Tracking APIs, and the recent appearance of contact tracing on iPhones, I'm sharing analysis of what's happened since.
There's been plenty of politics at play in terms of how the British COVID response has been communicated, and there are a number of common misconceptions.
The first misconception is that the Government was committed to pursuing "5 months ago Read more -
Blog postI’m excited to be opening up the beta of Reincubate Camo today. After a lot of hard work, we’ve built something that I feel is rather special.
Camo lets you use your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch as a pro quality webcam It’ll be available July for iOS and macOS, with a paid upgrade option, and Windows support is coming soon iPhones provide much better quality than the best webcam on the market, and are substantially cheaper Camo is a product I’ve wanted to make for a couple of years; it’5 months ago Read more -
Blog postToday's release contains a single fix for some users who have experienced problems when connecting their devices over USB.
Fix: Resolved issue for some users when connecting over USB.5 months ago Read more -
Blog postThat's right, it's time for an iPhone Backup Extractor update. What's new today? Quite a bit. Today's build is ostensibly a fix build but it contains much of the work necessary for us to ship a new feature. Which we'll probably be doing in the next release.
Fix: We've hidden the overview and app view for Watch data; only "Expert mode" is now available for watches. We've also fixed expert mode — in some cases, it was showing all files from the parent device. We've made these chan6 months ago Read more -
Blog postToday's release of iPhone Backup Extractor is almost all about tidying up a handful of small issues. We're already looking forward to sharing the next release with you!
Improvement: As we mentioned after the last release, we're including a handful of additional iCloud enhancements, including restoring the ability to remember a password, restoring support for iOS 12 Screen Time recovery over iCloud, selection of the iCloud account after login, and better handling of expired sessions. Fix:6 months ago Read more -
Blog postBuilding on last week's iCloud release, we're releasing a few more tweaks today. More coming soon!
Improvement: We display company name first for contacts with no forename or surname, and we've updated the contacts icon. Improvement: We've simplified the sample backup's intro screen. Improvement: We've updated the sample backup to iOS 13.4.1. Improvement: We've made a number of behind-the-scenes changes to make our iCloud support more robust. Fix: Restored support for locked notes on iOS6 months ago Read more -
Blog postHot on the heels of Monday's update, here's a neat new feature for iPhone Backup Extractor: access to photos, videos and voice memos directly from your iPhone or iPad. We hope you enjoy this — please let us know! More soon! 🎉
Feature: Extract photos, videos and voice memos directly from your connected iOS device. Improvement: We've renamed "Recordings" to "Voice Memos" across the app to reflect more accurately what Apple call them. Improvement: We've enhanced the inst6 months ago Read more -
Blog postApple made a number of changes to iCloud at the start of April, and we've been busy updating iPhone Backup Extractor to support those changes. Today's release has restored full support for iCloud Photo Library and contacts. We've got more work to do for other iCloud data types, and we're balancing those changes alongside deepening this functionality and addressing user requests for other new features.
Feature: Support for iCloud Photo Library and contacts — again! — following Apple's rece6 months ago Read more -
Blog postThe NHS COVID-19 contact tracing beta is now open source for both iOS and Android, along with some documentation. As a follow-up to our “Staying alive” post, we’ve taken a deep-dive into the source code. It’s pleasantly surprising to find it licensed under MIT, indicating an NHSX commitment to transparency and quality.
Over the course of the last two days, a number of engineers have been reviewing the app to discover whether — and how! — it is able to stay alive. Understanding this ha7 months ago Read more -
Blog postThe NHS COVID-19 app appears to work correctly when running in the background on iOS devices, unlike the Australian COVIDSafe app The app prevents false reports by providing users with symptoms with a reference code: that code is then associated with formal test results before action is taken NHS COVID-19 instructs healthcare workers to turn off Bluetooth on their device whilst wearing PPE, explaining “your interactions at work should not be captured when you are wearing PPE” Update 0925 BST7 months ago Read more
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Blog postWell, hello. We're back with another update to iPhone Backup Extractor. We've been juggling a few fairly big updates here. This is the first of them, with a user-interface change we've been keen to make for a little while. We hope you like it. Let us know!
Feature: Rather than showing information on a selected backup or device at the top of the app's window, we now show it in a new vertical column. We've made this change because we think it makes the app more intuitive, flowing from one s7 months ago Read more -
Blog postWe hope you're keeping safe and well in these strange times. It's been a few weeks since we last shipped an update. That's not because we're not on the case, but rather because we're working on a few bigger-than-usual things. However, today we're releasing a roundup of enhancements for iPhone Backup Extractor. Watch this space.
Improvement: Backups for some devices are now faster to create. Improvement: PDF text is now searchable and copy-pastable. Improvement: The "Extract" but8 months ago Read more -
Blog postThis article was updated 2nd April to reflect 18+ quiz content and Internet Matters’ guidance.
Video chat apps such as Houseparty have seen a significant increase in users over the last few months, as people around the world spend more time at home, and interact more with their friends and colleagues online. When companies grow this quickly, their user-protection can often fall behind. Long-standing communication apps that are built into platforms, such as WhatsApp, iMessage, and Face8 months ago Read more -
Blog postWith a huge number of people around the world currently self-isolating, online dating is set to become a lot more popular. Online dating may be as old as the internet, but it can still be difficult to find the right person when you’re not talking face-to-face, especially if you’re not talking at the same time of day.
We surveyed users to learn when they're most active on dating apps such as Tinder, Bumble, Grindr and Hinge, to help you find the best time to get a date. With Tinder rep8 months ago Read more -
Blog postToday's release is a minor update fixing an iCloud bug we introduced in yesterday's build. Apologies if you received an error from it.
Fix: We resolved the "invalid operation" error that might have popped up when working with iCloud; this issue was introduced fewer than 24 hours ago.8 months ago Read more -
Blog postFunny how things can be more complicated than they seem, isn't it? Today's release has a major overhaul of how iPhone Backup Extractor displays message previews. Users will find they start to appear much more rapidly when browsing conversations: there's no more waiting around for them all to appear. We've also made the interface look more similar to the iOS messages app. In doing so, we bid farewell to macOS 10.10; this release doesn't change Windows compatibility, but it does mean macOS user8 months ago Read more
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Blog postIt's been an unusual while since our last update, hasn't it? 3 weeks. You'd be forgiven for thinking we were up to something, and we are. We've been laying the groundwork for a reworked feature, and you should get to see that in the next week or so. In the meantime, we're shipping an improvement to our Screen Time passcode removal and ECG activation processes, making them easier than ever to use.
Improvement: Tweaks to the Screen Time passcode removal and ECG activation processes: after y8 months ago Read more -
Blog postToday, Netflix is used by more than 167 million people around the globe. That’s countless hours of content streamed each day across multiple platforms and devices. As our lives become increasingly reliant on technology, we’re more at risk than ever of our data being hacked or breached. In the first 6 months of 2019, more than 4.1 billion personal records were breached through data hacks. This number is only expected to rise as cybercrimes become more advanced, whilst cybersecurity teams play8 months ago Read more
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Blog postWe're pleased to be shipping 7.7.15.2610 with a roundup of improvements to notes, WeChat and Apple Watch data. In the meantime, we're deep into preparing the next build. Watch this space!
Feature: Encrypted notes from iOS 10 or above are now supported on Windows. We shipped support for these on macOS in the prior release. Improvement: We now show the time at which a backup was created at the top of the backup info pane, making life easier for users with a lot of backups created close to e9 months ago Read more -
Blog postToday's release of iPhone Backup Extractor 7.7.14 is a big one, with some massive performance improvements to backup access. Let's take a look at what's new:
Improvement: We've made a wide-reaching changes to how we load data, optimising loading of the file list of a backup, counts of data in backups, and how we extract photos. Loading backups should be around 2-4x faster for most users, and photos extraction should be around 10x faster, although the larger the backup and the most photos10 months ago Read more -
Blog postIn 2018 it was discovered that Cambridge Analytica had harvested the data of at least 87 million Facebook users without their knowledge, after obtaining it via a few thousand accounts that had used a quiz app.
Online data collection is insidious and continuous. Today, more data can be collected than ever before: people create as much data every two days as they did from the beginning of time until the year 2000. When looked at on this scale, personal data might seem innocuous.
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Blog postWe're off to a pretty busy start this year with updates, and it's exciting to be shipping the second release of the week. Today we're rounding up a collection of optimisations and bugfixes.
Improvement: iPhone Backup Extractor will be much faster when it comes to counting your data in the overview. More to come here. Fix: We've resolved a rather strange issue whereby some messages from the sender would end up grouped in an "unknown" conversation. Sorry about that. Fix: We've res10 months ago Read more -
Blog postToday's release is a Mac-only update that resolves an issue where recent macOS versions of iPhone Backup Extractor weren't able to update themselves without the Mac being rebooted. Who wants to reboot their Mac? We don't.
Fix: iPhone Backup Extractor can now update itself properly again (as it used to be able to do!)10 months ago Read more -
Blog postThis week's a double release week, with our second update to iPhone Backup Extractor arriving today. We hope you like this one, and we'd love to hear feedback on the new ECG/EKG functionality.
Feature: iPhone Backup Extractor now includes a function to enable the Apple Watch's ECG capability for supported devices that are territory locked. We're launching this feature as a beta as it works for some quite specific use cases. We'd love to read your feedback on it. Improvement: iPhone Backup10 months ago Read more -
Blog postWe've got a bunch of improvements and tweaks ready to find their way into iPhone Backup Extractor, and we're off to an early start this week with today's build. Hi!
Improvement: Switching between backups is now faster than it was before, as we've made the loading process less intensive, and users should find switching backups is now more responsive. This has come about from a series of changes to different parts of the process. Improvement: Loading of data is now a little faster, too. Fix10 months ago Read more -
Blog postWe're pleased to be shipping our first release of 2020, with a number of improvements to help users make the most from their licenses. We've got a host of new functionality that we're looking forward to shipping over the coming months. Happy new year!
Improvement: We've changed how we display the differences between the free and paid editions of iPhone Backup Extractor within the app. The language and interface we use now is hopefully clearer and simpler — and looks a good deal more moder10 months ago Read more -
Blog postThis release is a minor update for Windows users that resolves a crash affecting the free edition.
Fix: Resolved crash problem on Windows. Sorry for the inconvenience!11 months ago Read more -
Blog postAfter another busy week at Reincubate HQ we're shipping some neat updates to iPhone Backup Extractor. Today's release includes:
Feature: It's now possible to open files directly from "Expert mode": just right-click and choose "Open file". This makes life a lot easier when exploring large backups for data. Feature: "Expert mode" now makes it possible for users to remove folders and their contents. Feature: We've added support for pulling live device info using11 months ago Read more -
Blog postThis release is a minor patch, addressing an issue that broke some functionality with rictl in the last release.
Fix: Restored rictl device functionality.12 months ago Read more -
Blog postWe're gearing up for a few neat releases before Christmas, and here's the first of our December updates.
Improvement: The "Recover Screen Time password" menu item is now enabled when users have a backup selected, and will prompt them to connect a device. We've tweaked some of the copy in the app around Screen Time, too, to make it clearer. Improvement: We've done a lot of reworking of our left-hand menu. Previously, if you repeatedly selected a number of different backups before12 months ago Read more
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Bad British Jokes is the book of terrible dry jokes you’ve always wanted, lovingly illustrated with delightful naïf art drawings. The book has jokes about bears, bars, doctors, pirates, and even cheese. Your dad would love it.
“My old man was one never to go down without a fight. That’s why I’ll never get in a lift with him again.” Zap!
“An Irishman walks into a bar with a parrot on his head. The bartender says “Hey, where’d you get that?”
The parrot replies “Ireland, there's thousands of ‘em.”” Biff!
“They recently found a mummy in Egypt, covered in chocolate and nuts. Apparently it’s Pharaoh Rocher.” Pow!
“My old man was one never to go down without a fight. That’s why I’ll never get in a lift with him again.” Zap!
“An Irishman walks into a bar with a parrot on his head. The bartender says “Hey, where’d you get that?”
The parrot replies “Ireland, there's thousands of ‘em.”” Biff!
“They recently found a mummy in Egypt, covered in chocolate and nuts. Apparently it’s Pharaoh Rocher.” Pow!
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