Hi Castaways! Has complexity or cost kept you from jumping into the smart bulb market? If so, I have a cool solution for you. The Reafoo smart bulb requires no hub, and runs on wifi, but before I talk about how much I love these bulbs, let me tell you why you might want to […]
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Tesla Tech – Dashcam Leads to Installing a Python Script
Tesla Model 3 Right Side Repeater Camera One of my favorite things about the way I tell stories here is how hard I make it for you to figure out where I’m going and how I’m going to get there. This is one of those times. This article is part of my Tesla Tech series […]
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CCATP #608 – Doug Ingram on Nightscape Photography
Doug Ingram joins us to talk about what he calls Nightscape Photography, which is a combination of astral photography (photographing the stars) and photographing of the surrounding landscape. His photographs of the Milky Way with the landscape are absolutely breathtaking. Doug explains his gear, the settings on his camera and the surprisingly little he does […]
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NC #749 Nightscapades, Zoom Mistake, Nite Ize Waterproof Containers, iWork Password Security, Go64, 64-bit Beta of Clarify, Video Streaming Woes Resolved?
This week I’ll walk you through why my Chit Chat Across the Pond recording with Doug Ingram didn’t have the audio quality I had hoped for. I’ll tell you about some reliable waterproof containers for your water adventures. I’ll answer a Dumb Question about whether iWork document passwords are secure. I’ll give you a tool […]
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Video Streaming Woes Resolved? – the Crossover Event of the Summer
When last we left our hero, she was lovingly packing her 2016 MacBook Pro into a box to ship back to Apple for repairs. At the very least we knew that the battery needed service (as verified by Apple in a hardware diagnostic they conducted over the inter webs), and we knew that the keys […]
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Dumb Question Corner – Security of Password-Protected iWork Documents
Gordon sent in a terrific Dumb Question for us a while ago and I’m finally going to answer him: Hi Allison – I have a question. You might say I have a dumb question. I wanted to know if password securing your documents is, well, secure. In my case I have a spreadsheet in Numbers […]
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Go64 Will Help You Triage 32-bit Apps
As we prepare for moving to macOS Catalina, we all need to look through our applications to make sure that no mission-critical app is 32-bit only since Catalina will only run 64-bit apps. In our slack someone suggested that Apple should have “announced” that more clearly but I think giving us a warning every single […]
Continue readingNC #748 Continuing Mac Processor Problem, Copy’em Paste, Security Bits
I forgot to tell you I got to be on the SMR Podcast last week and this week I got to be a guest on Daily Tech News Show. But things weren’t all rosy on DTNS as my computer woes continued. I’ll walk you through what went wrong this week, how Steve and I diagnosed […]
Continue readingCCATP #607 – Bart Busschots’s Podcast Recommendations
In this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart Busschots joins us to talk about how he arranges his podcast listening, how he categorizes them and then what kinds of shows he likes. Bart listens to around 6 hours of podcasts per day so this is quite a long list. He purposely didn’t […]
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Continuing Mac Processor Problem – Today’s Theory
Last week I went into great detail about all of the experiments Steve and I have gone through with my 2016 MacBook Pro because I can no longer stream video. As soon as I start streaming, my processor slows down from a nominal 2.6GHz to 1 GHz which makes the Mac nearly unusable. The conclusion […]
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