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Jan 8, 2025 | 
creators.com | Craig Boldman |Fernando Ruiz
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
mcafee.com | Fernando Ruiz
Authored by: Fernando RuizThe McAfee mobile research team recently identified a significant global increase of SpyLoan, also known as predatory loan apps, on Android. These PUP (potentially unwanted programs) applications use social engineering tactics to trick users into providing sensitive information and granting extra mobile app permissions, which can lead to extortion, harassment, and financial loss.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
finehomebuilding.com | Fernando Ruiz |Abby Cote
Fernando Pagés Ruiz makes a case for the value of in-person industry events for builders, contractors, and related professionals. Through personal stories and insights from tradespeople, he explains how building industry trade shows provide unique opportunities for learning, networking, and product discovery that online resources can’t match.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
finehomebuilding.com | Fernando Ruiz |Slide-By House |Abby Cote
Attending Batimat, Europe’s counterpart to the International Builders’ Show (IBS), felt like taking a crash course in a different building universe. While IBS keeps its pulse on U.S. homebuilding trends, Batimat dives deep into European techniques and materials that rarely make it to our side of the pond.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
finehomebuilding.com | Fernando Ruiz |Abby Cote
Gas tankless water heaters often struggle with hard-water scale, which reduces life expectancy and performance. This year, A. O. Smith launched the Adapt Premium Condensing Gas Tankless Water Heater with X3 Scale Prevention Technology. These tankless units use scale-control cartridges that alter the molecular structure of hard-water minerals, preventing scale buildup and doing away with the need for regular de-scaling maintenance.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
finehomebuilding.com | Fernando Ruiz |Abby Cote
If you’re a fan of indulgently long showers but conscious of wasting water, RainStick might be your guilt-free shower solution. This cutting-edge shower system captures, cleans, and recycles shower water, maintaining a lavish showering experience while using 80% less water and energy than standard low-flow fixtures. What Is a Recirculating Shower and How Does it Work? The RainStick system operates through a three-stage cleaning process.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
finehomebuilding.com | Fernando Ruiz |Abby Cote
Subfloor sheathing provides stability and a stiff surface for a finished floor. Builder Fernando Pagés Ruiz discusses the popularity of OSB over plywood sheathing, sheathing panel sizes, panel testing criteria, and additional moisture-resistance measures by subfloor manufacturers. He describes five manufacturers’ offerings that involve different subfloor material and solutions for edge swelling, along with an idea of pricing.
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May 30, 2024 | 
finehomebuilding.com | Brian Pontolilo |Fernando Ruiz |Abby Cote
Smart thermostats have a number of features that can help homeowners save energy and money with programmability, remote control, learning technology, geofencing and diagnostics, sensors for occupancy and humidity, and energy reporting. This article discusses these capabilities and describes a number of different smart thermostat brands of different price levels, as well as smart thermostats offered from HVAC companies to control entire systems.
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Dec 22, 2023 | 
mcafee.com | Fernando Ruiz
Authored by Fernando Ruiz McAfee Mobile Research Team identified an Android backdoor implemented with Xamarin, an open-source framework that allows building Android and iOS apps with .NET and C#.
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Jul 27, 2023 | 
finehomebuilding.com | Fernando Ruiz
I have a friend who owns forests, and he invited me to see how timberland produces lumber. As a former carpenter, I felt it was high time to learn where the raw materials of my trade came from and how trees were converted into 2x4s. A quick estimate on my calculator suggests that I am responsible for consuming about 1,400 acres of forest during my 40 years as a home builder. I jumped at the chance to learn firsthand about the entire cycle of this consumption.
