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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Security Bits – 8 September 2019
Followup Apple draws a line under the ‘Siri Grading’ kerfuffle with a a public letter apologising for not reaching their own high standards, explaining how Siri protects user privacy, and outline some changes to how grading will be carried out in future — www.apple.com/… Apple send as little as possible data to Siri, using on-device […]
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Copy’em Paste – I’m in Love with a Clipboard Manager
Dave Hamilton of the Mac Geek Gab has been going on and on about how cool clipboard managers are and when I was at Macstock I cornered him to see if I could get him to show me why they were all that and a bag of chips. I wrote an article about how we […]
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Nite Ize RunOff Waterproof Containers Really Are!
Back at CES in January this year, Nite Ize gave me a product I never talked about on the NosillaCast. It wasn’t because there was something wrong with it, it was that I didn’t have a need for it, until now. You may recall hearing me talk about Nite Ize often before – they make […]
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Prizmo 5 for iOS – by Christian Hölscher
Yes, I am aware of the fact that there have been a lot of scan apps for iOS that “replace” hardware scanners for some users. I have been a Scanner Pro user for years and that is a very good app. But, still, those apps are absolutely no replacement for a dedicated scanner as far […]
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Why Would a Processor Slow Down Under Load?
A little over a month ago, when Steve and I did the live show, he noticed that the video coming from me was out of sync with my voice. During that show, it only got worse the longer we went on. Eventually my video started doing what we affectionately call the Max Headroom effect. That […]
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Dear Apple: Here’s How to Fix Siri
Dear Apple: I know that you are constantly getting flack from people about problems with Siri, and I’d like to offer a solution. You were recently under fire for having human reviewers listen to snippets of anonymized recordings to help improve the service. You’ve promised to give us a way to opt into helping you […]
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Followups GitHub joins WebAuthn club — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… Human Review of Voice Assistant Recordings: Facebook got humans to listen in on some Messenger voice chats — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… Microsoft have humans review your conversations, and they’re not up for changing that fact: Microsoft won’t shift on AI recordings policy — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… Humans may have been listening to […]
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Why Some CarPlay Isn’t Wireless – by Brad from LA
As a follow up to the Chit Chat Across the Pond episode #605 on wireless Carplay with Sandy Foster, I wanted to provide information regarding why wireless Carplay is not more widespread. As was pointed out in the episode, almost all new cars that have Carplay support offer only wired CarPlay. Until recently only BMW […]
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Tiny Tip – Organize System Preferences for Findability – by Sandy Foster
This is Sandy Foster with a little tip to try to make life easier for some of us. Have you ever gone into your Mac’s System Preferences and had to figure out which row was hiding a particular preference? And who decided how to organize the categories, anyway? If you hate scouring the icons for […]
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