In this rather mind-bendy episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots takes into the weird world of POSIX special variables and options. He refers to some of them as being like handling nuclear power, at one point he suggests mind-altering drugs must have been involved in the design, and he even compares one of our […]
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Security Bits — 16 April 2023
Deep Dive 1 — Opera’s ‘VPN’ is Useful but Poorly Named Opera made some news by expanding out their free in-browser security feature they call a VPN to iOS, this makes the feature truly cross-platform, covering Windows, Mac, Android, and now iOS. This news triggered me to look into the feature before linking to the […]
Continue readingClean Up Background Noise with Hush for macOS — by Terry Austin
Hey, I’m talking over here – HUSH… just HUSH Hi there fellow castaways this is Terry from Texas with another (long overdue) review. First, the problem to be solved. As an online professor, I record videos for my students. As previously mentioned, I live in Texas where it gets hot. To solve the HOT problem […]
Continue readingTesla Full “Self-Driving” Beta 11 Wins the Most Improved Award
Charlie’s Trophy When I was 12 years old, my family had a collie puppy named Charlie who was in sore need of some training, so my parents signed me and Charlie up for obedience classes. When it came time for the final graduation ceremony, which involved the incredibly complex procedure of walking around a circular […]
Continue readingCCATP #764 — Adam Engst on Mac Cloud Storage Changes
Adam Engst of TidBITS joins me on Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite to talk about the changes Apple made recently to the File Provider Extension. These changes had a fairly significant effect on how cloud storage providers like Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and Box work with macOS. Whether you realize it or not, you’ve […]
Continue readingCSUN ATC 2023: Glean Personal Study Tool
Allison interviews Helena Harrison from Glean about their software tool that helps students get more out of the notes they take in class. Glean allows you to record class audio while adding your notes that are automatically time tagged with the audio. You can also combine class slides and other information along with your notes […]
Continue readingCSUN ATC 2023: WonderPax Reusable Warm/Cool Gel Packs
Allison interviews Marquavious Rice from WonderPax about their reusable gel packs that can help relieve muscle and joint aches and pains. WonderPax works without the need for electricity or microwave heating. WonderPax gel packs instantly warm up to 130 deg F with a click of a button which is located inside the gel pack. WonderPax […]
Continue readingNC #935 Tiny iOS Tip, Tale of Two iPads from Jill, OKO Navigation for the Blind, Under My Roof
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, April 9, 2023, and this is show number 935. mp3 download Al on Let’s Talk Apple I always enjoy it when Bart has me on Let’s Talk Apple, […]
Continue readingA Tale of Two iPads (and Two Keyboard Cases) by Jill from the Northwoods
Hello, this is Jill from the North Woods. The story of my buying an iPad goes all the way back to 2010. I oversaw a pool of medical tablets for medical staff to carry around and enter patient information through these tablets. I kept them healthy and gave them out when there were certain types […]
Continue readingTrack All of Your Stuff with Under My Roof
One of the most important applications I use is called Under My Roof from Binary Formations. Under My Roof helps you keep track of everything to do with your home through a beautiful user interface. Under the hood it’s a powerful database but that is hidden from the user so you don’t have to worry […]
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