Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, June 13, 2021, and this is show number 840. mp3 download Follow up from Last Week about Photos Backup Last week I told you about how I was […]
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Security Bits — 13 June 2021
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Last time we learned Facebook abuse EXIF data to track users’ locations even when they ask not to be tracked. The day after we recorded this excellent article came out explaining how to strip […]
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CCATP #688 – Bart Busschots on PBS 118 of X — JavaScript Apps with GitHub Pages
In this installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots teaches us how to use a free service of GitHub called GitHub Pages. This service literally gives you free web hosting for the web apps we’ve learned to make in Programming By Stealth. Bart starts by explaining to us the difference between static and dynamic webpages, […]
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On-Device OCR with TextSniper for macOS
TextSniper in the Mac App Store During Apple’s WWDC keynote, they showed off some amazing new text recognition features coming to the Mac and iOS. You’ll be able to select text right out of an image. They even demonstrated pointing an iPhone’s camera at a whiteboard and using a finger to drag across the hand-written […]
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Excited About My New Headphones – Non-Pro AirPods
“New” 2nd Gen AirPods I am so excited about my latest pair of Bluetooth headphones. I just bought a pair of AirPods. No, not AirPods Pro, AirPods. I already have a pair of AirPods Pro, and you know what? I really dislike them. There are a number of things I dislike about the AirPods Pro, […]
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Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, June 6, 2021, and this is show number 839. Hey, should we spend the next 40 minutes or so talking about what we hope will come out tomorrow […]
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Tiny Tip – High Contrast Focus Style on Apple TV
I have to give 100% credit for this tip to John Siracusa on the Accidental Tech Podcast. Here’s the problem to be solved. How many times have you been navigating your Apple TV interface, and you can’t tell what’s selected? On the Home Screen of the Apple TV interface, there’s a slightly more pronounced shadow […]
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How to Record Audio out of iPhone AND big-girl mic AND Video of iPhone
ScreenFlow Video and Clean Audio I recently created a super fun tutorial for ScreenCastsOnline entitled “14 tips in iOS 14”. It was super fun for several reasons. I think it will be well-received because the tips are so fast-paced, the audience can’t possibly get bored. If you don’t care about the camera app, how about […]
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Why Do I Need a Password Manager if I Have iCloud Keychain?
ICloud Keychain Offers to Save Password Recently in one of our community channels we were chatting about the announcement that 1Password is now available for Linux, and someone said that they use iCloud Keychain and that it’s good enough for them. I’ve heard this before, and I never sat down to really outline what a […]
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How to Back Up iCloud Photos When Your Only Mac Can’t Store Originals
ICloud Photo Library Optimize Storage My friend Diane was visiting her granddaughter, and, as one does, she was giving tech support to her daughter-in-law. She wanted to bounce ideas off of someone so she brought me in with the “phone a friend” option. The problem to be solved was one I hadn’t given much thought […]
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