In this week’s episode, Sandy Foster, aka @MacQuilter joins me to talk about why CarPlay is so awesome and how it influenced her decision to buy the top-of-the-line Prius, called Prius Prime. We also talk about the new tech in the Prius Prime including the fact that it’s not just a gas/electric hybrid, it’s also […]
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Tesla Tech – So Many Levels of Self Driving
I’ve been getting some good feedback on my Tesla tech series. It seems that people enjoy the strange things I’ve told you about the car. But I’ve also noticed that people seem to be getting the impression that I don’t like the car. I actually love the car! Let me explain why I have been […]
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Apple Doesn’t Honor Their Warranty on iPhone Cases
You know I’m a huge believer in AppleCare and that it has saved me more times than I can count. Who can forget the five 12.9″ iPad Pros and four keyboards Apple replaced for me? In all cases, I haven’t had to pitch any kind of fit to get them to honor the warranty when […]
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Clipboard Managers and Keyboard Maestro
On the Mac Geek Gab, Dave Hamilton has been singing the virtues of clipboard managers. These are tools that give you a clipboard history beyond the single most recent thing you’ve copied. I’ve been intrigued, as I love anything that increases productivity. I recently discovered that there’s a clipboard manager built into Keyboard Maestro, which […]
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NC #744 Tabliss, Freeplane, Clipboard Managers & Keyboard Maestro, Security Bits
Bart talks tech of bicycles on Chit Chat Across the Pond, Caleb Fong tells us about Tabliss for Firefox and Chrome, Ed tells us about the open source mind mapping app Freeplane and I’ll tell you how Dave Hamilton helped me automation chapter marks in Hindenburg and tried to convince me that clipboard managers are […]
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Security Bits – 10 August 2019
Security Medium 1 — Human Review of Voice Assistant Recordings The Guardian newspaper started what turned out to be a far-ranging controversy be reporting that when Apple said they kept anonymised Siri recordings for analysis, that analysis included grading by human beings. Specifically, by outside contractors.
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Bart Busschots joins us to talk about the technology decisions that go into buying a bike these days. I thought I knew about bikes, but I learned a lot about what’s changed just in the last five years. At the very end of the post, we have a video where Bart walks around his bike […]
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Freeplane Mind Mapping by Ed Tobias
I would like to review a mind mapping application called Freeplane. I know Allison has already extolled the virtues of mind mapping, so I won’t go into all of that. I just want to tell you why I use this particular app for mind mapping. Freeplane was born out of another application called Freemind which […]
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Tabliss for Firefox and Chrome – by Caleb Fong
We spend an ever increasing amount of time in our web browsers. This trend isn’t going down as even more things become accessible via the web. This means we spend a large amount of time looking and sometimes interacting with the default new tab screen. While this isn’t all bad, the information on these pages […]
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Dorothy’s Process to Search for the Best Secure Email Service
Intro Hello, NosillaCastaways. This is macLurker, also known as Dorothy, Allison’s gym buddy. For a long time, I have been wanting to change my primary email service & name. I’ve had it for years and years. It’s long since been sold into the dark web. It’s time to wipe the slate clean and start over. […]
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