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Published in The Cacti Blog

·Sep 9, 2020

Passphrase Best Practices

Check out xkcd’s xkpasswd. It allows you to generate very secure passphrases with various configurations. The reason we use the word passphrase and not password throughout the Cacti Vault app is because we want to push you to use as long a passphrase as possible. The US National Institute of…

Passphrase

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Passphrase Best Practices
Passphrase Best Practices
Passphrase

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Published in The Cacti Blog

·Sep 9, 2020

What happens to your data if we shut down our service?

That’s a great question! tl;dr: Your data would be safe and sound. You would still be able to access it with no difference for at least a year or two (This is only limited by when the iOS version stops supporting the last app update we would have released.) The…

Posterity

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What happens to your data if we shut down our service?
What happens to your data if we shut down our service?
Posterity

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Published in The Cacti Blog

·Aug 17, 2020

Photos Not Loading in your Vault?

tl;dr — Lock your vault and unlock it to view these images. In some situations, images will not load in the Vault. This is done intentionally, don’t fret. All you have to do is lock your vault and unlock it to view them. The scenario If your vault is unlocked and you…

Encryption

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Photos Not Loading in your Vault? — Cacti Vault
Photos Not Loading in your Vault? — Cacti Vault
Encryption

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Published in The Cacti Blog

·Aug 17, 2020

Smart Manager

The Smart Manager on Cacti is your window into exploring and accessing your photos from various sources. Smart Manager would be the primary place from which you choose photos to add to your Vault. The Cacti App supports the following sources, and many more are in the works. Suggestions If Cacti…

AI

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Smart Manager — Cacti Vault
Smart Manager — Cacti Vault
AI

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Published in The Cacti Blog

·Aug 17, 2020

Photo Selections

Cacti will remember your selections between app launches. You can always continue your adding-to-vault workflow later. Photos chosen from Suggestions, any of your albums or media albums would all show under Selected Photos View. Once you’ve chosen enough photos, you can quickly add them all to the vault. Here are some points to keep in mind Cacti would…

Vault

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Photo Selections — Cacti Vault
Photo Selections — Cacti Vault
Vault

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Published in The Cacti Blog

·Aug 17, 2020

Vault Security

Cacti Vault is quite secure. Of course, nothing is a 100% secure; smart people are constantly trying to break into secure systems. Given that, we believe Cacti is secure enough due of the following reasons. Your data stays on your device: No Cloud We do not have a cloud component or a remote server for Cacti that stores…

Security

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Vault Security — Cacti Vault
Vault Security — Cacti Vault
Security

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Published in The Cacti Blog

·Aug 17, 2020

Cacti Biometric Unlock — Cacti Vault

Cacti’s Vault is primarily encrypted using your passphrase. Cacti offers an alternate way to unlock your vault using Face ID or Touch ID (Biometric Unlock) on iPhones. This article aims to inform you on the risks and exposure of using Biometric Unlock to help you make an informed decision. What happens under the hood? If…

Security

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Cacti Biometric Unlock — Cacti Vault
Cacti Biometric Unlock — Cacti Vault
Security

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Published in Life at Verizy

·Sep 30, 2019

How Verizy Handles over 1M Resource-Intensive Requests Every Month?

Verizy as a service is extremely simple to integrate into your product but, how it works behind-the-scenes is quite elaborate. Every document that Verizy processes undergo multiple layers of processing with various Machine Learning models and Computer Vision techniques. Our engineers and researchers are constantly working on improving our algorithms…

Machine Learning

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How Verizy Handles over 1M Resource-Intensive Requests Every Month?
How Verizy Handles over 1M Resource-Intensive Requests Every Month?
Machine Learning

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Published in Vishal V. Shekkar

·Mar 17, 2018

The Biggest Problem in Striving for Inbox Zero

And How To Overcome It — Iz: The state of being at Inbox Zero. It all started when Mailbox was released for iOS. The app motivated me to keep my inbox empty, it had fluid swipes which let me rip through emails, pushing them off the inbox and ultimately reaching my inbox’s state of zen —…

Email

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The Biggest Problem in Striving for Inbox Zero
The Biggest Problem in Striving for Inbox Zero
Email

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Published in Vishal V. Shekkar

·Feb 9, 2018

An Apple Music Inconsistency

I started using Apple Music from the first day of its release. It has been a constant companion. Apple has revamped the Music app on iOS and iTunes a few times since launch. There was one major visual overhaul and many feature additions and bug fixes till date. But, what…

Apple

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An Apple Music Inconsistency
An Apple Music Inconsistency
Apple

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