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, March 19, 2023, and this is show number 932.
Allison on Clockwise
I love being on Clockwise and this week’s episode was my favorite so far. I don’t know what it was but sometimes the chemistry just clicks. It was hosted by the usual suspects, Mikah Sargent and Dan Moren, with guest Lisa Schmeiser. She’s been on loads of times but I never got to meet her before. She was as delightful as I had hoped. The format of Clockwise is always four guests, four topics. Our topics this week were:
- 📷 How We Display & Enjoy Our Photos
- 🧼 Celebrating Digital Cleanup Day
- 🖥️ Software We Use Begrudgingly
- 🕸️ Our Device Replacement Strategies ← this one was mine, but it came from Jill from the Northwoods
Before we recorded, Mikah asked Lisa and me to add our Mastodon accounts to the shownotes so they could tag us when they posted the show. I thought it was interesting that they didn’t ask for our Twitter handles and no one batted an eye at that.
You can find this episode of Clockwise at www.relay.fm/clockwise… and look for #494.
CCATP #762 — Bart Busschots on PBS #147 – Bash Arrays
Macstock Expo
I’m thrilled to tell you that my favorite conference of the year, Macstock Expo is taking place July 22 & 23rd this year in Woodstock, Illinois, just North of Chicago, and I’ll be one of the speakers. I haven’t been in a few years for obvious reasons so I’m super excited to get to go again.
Weekend and single-day passes are available now – it’s $299 for a weekend pass and $159 if you can only go one day. I highly recommend that if you’re going to go, make it both days. The evenings hanging out with fellow Apple heads are fabulous. You get lunch both days, a limited edition Macstock VII t-shirt, and a free digital pass to rewatch the sessions.
If you’re flying out, don’t book your flights just yet as Barry Fulk has an announcement to make coming soon that might make you want to fly in a day early.
You can learn more about the conference at macstockconferenceandexpo.com/… and of course there’s a link in the shownotes.
Articles
CSUN ATC 2023: GoodMaps Indoor Navigation Aid
This week Steve and I made our annual (short) trek to the CSUN Assistive Tech conference in Anaheim, California. I think the first time I went was at the invitation of Donald Burr and every year possible we’ve been attending. In March of 2020, it was the first thing we didn’t do as the pandemic hit. Missing three of these was very sad, so we were really happy to get to go back this year.
The conference is a week of in-depth sessions, but we just go on the last day and go to the Exhibit Halls. It’s not huge, but for a one-day experience, it’s just right. In just a few hours we got 8 interviews and they were all gold — where gold means the person knew what they were talking about, could explain it articulately, were enthusiastic, and the product seemed interesting to me.
As usual, I’ll be doling out these interviews out over time rather than inundating you with them over time. Keep in mind that while you’ll hear the audio, if you have the gift of sight, you can also follow the link in the shownotes to Steve’s video recording of the interview. Before each interview, I told the person talking to pretend that I was blind, in hopes that they would describe what they were showing to me so the audio is nearly as helpful as the video.
After the interview, Mike told us that we should have come the day before because Stevie Wonder was there! Mike explained that he and Stevie go way back, so he was able to show him around which was great fun. I was chatting with Shelly Brisbin about the show and she said that Stevie always comes. Guess he likes being up to date on all the advances in assistive tech as the next person!
How to Have a Long (but Numeric) Passcode on iPhone/iPad
Adding Keyboard Maestro Macros to Quick Actions in Finder
Support the Show
One of the things I don’t do is pay attention to who stops supporting the show through Patreon after a while. I figure people all have their reasons and I don’t want to feel bad about it and I don’t want them to feel bad either. Maybe they’ve hit hard times, or maybe they’ve just moved on to other shows (I know that’s shocking to hear, but it can happen).
Even though I don’t watch it and worry about it, I do know that if we don’t get new patrons from time to time, the funding for the podcast does slow down. I can assure you that the cost of making the show doesn’t slow down to go with it! I seem to always be able to find a paid-for tool to make the sound better, be able to supply enhancements to the feed and to buy software and hardware to review for the show.
So if you’ve been thinking that everyone else is carrying the weight of supporting the show, consider the value you get out of the podcasts and if it’s worth a buck or two to you, head over to podfeet.com/patreon and become a patron of the fine arts.
Security Bits — 19 March 2023
Transcript of NC_2023_03_19
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