“If there’s something strange in the Neighborhood, who ya’ gonna call?” “If there’s something weird, and it don’t look good, who ya’ gonna call?” Be grateful those pesky copyright laws spare you George FromTulsa’s rendition of the Ghostbuster theme song. I’ve been told my singing voice redefines demonic possession. Just for fun, I’m putting a […]
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Virtual Machine to Run Mojave and How I’m an Idiot
Mojave VM inside High Sierra Several times over the years, I’ve played around with Virtual Machines, also known as VMs. A VM is really handy if you want to run two different operating systems on one computer. One OS becomes the host OS, the other(s) become the guest(s). If you sometimes need Windows but you […]
Continue readingJump Desktop Controls your Mac/PC from your iOS/Android Devices
For a long time I’ve wanted an app that would allow me to control my Mac from my iPad. The problem to be solved is pure laziness. While I run/walk over 9 miles a day and around 18,000 steps, the idea of going up the stairs to do something quickly on my laptop when I’m […]
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How to Use Instagram from a Real Computer
I’m trying to be one of the cool kids and use Instagram. I don’t entirely get yet what it offers that I don’t get from Facebook and Twitter, but I’m trying. My niece says it’s her happy place because it doesn’t seem to be as filled with as much anger as Twitter and it doesn’t […]
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Security Bits – Mostly Good News
Followup Following on from security breaches at the 3rd-party companies all American cell phone companies were sharing real-time location data with, Verizon have announced they are ceasing all location data sharing (the other carriers have ended their relationships with some specifics companies, but not globally like this) — krebsonsecurity.com/… GDPR Fallout & Experiences: The Norwegian […]
Continue readingListening to Bart Really Pays Off
Bart has been teaching you and me for many years now. Between his Taming the Terminal series and now his Programming By Stealth series, he’s attempted to cram vast amounts of knowledge into our brains. My father used to say that children are like wine bottles – you should pour as much information into them […]
Continue readingPSA – In an Accident, Start Taking Pictures
2005 The day after Christmas in 2005, I was rear-ended when I stopped suddenly because of an unexpected pedestrian in the crosswalk. I was rather proud of my reaction to the accident at the time. It was a brand new car and yet my immediate reaction was, “thank goodness no one got hurt.” The young […]
Continue readingExplaining Compression, Encryption, and Archive
One of the hardest videos I’ve done recently for ScreenCasts Online is the one just published for an app called Keka. Keka is a sweet little $2 app designed to compress and expand files. Keka itself is simple and easy to use, but understanding the technologies behind it was where the real effort came in. In […]
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Batch Resize, Rename, and Watermark Images with PhotoBulk for macOS
Today everyone can be a great photographer, simply armed with a good phone camera. You may not care about your photos and only take them for your own enjoyment, or you might be quite serious about your photography. If you’re in the latter camp, you take great care to get the lighting right, to frame […]
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Be Like the Cool Kids – Easy Emojis with Rocket for macOS
Sometimes the problem to be solved is that we need to have more joy and silliness in our lives. A little while ago Bart mentioned an app he’d heard Mikah Sargent of iMore talk about, called Rocket, and it’s my new favorite app. In the words of the great early podcaster, Tim Verpoorten, it’s a […]
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