Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 The scope of the Chinese State-sponsored hack of telcos expands: T-Mobile confirms it was hacked in recent wave of telecom breaches — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… A rare leak of what the GreyKey phone unlocking […]
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How to Sign Documents on macOS and iOS Without Saving Any Files
I participate in an Apple user group through email where I often answer questions from those requesting help. I can’t resist the urge to share my expertise if it will help others. Recently a woman posted that someone had emailed her a document and she wanted to open it, sign it, and send it back, […]
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Take My Money!
On last week’s NosillaCast, I told you about how Paul Nielan made a very generous donation to support the show using PayPal. I also read you his letter in which he explained that he would have done it sooner but he had trouble getting over the hump of creating a PayPal account. He also said […]
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I Finally Found a Use for Tab Groups (With Profiles) in Safari
When you finish reading this, you might want to check out a follow up post on the topic: Profiles in Safari – a Bug and a Workaround Way back in 2021, when Apple introduced macOS Ventura, they gave us a feature in Safari called Tab Groups. They said that it would help us to keep Tab […]
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Tiny Mac Tips Part 9 of X
Jump to Tips Scan from iPhone or iPad Quicklook Control the Dock I’m back with Part 9 of Tiny Mac Tips. This is an ongoing series I started in order to teach Jill from the Northwoods how to move from an adequate Mac user to a proficient one. In case you missed the earlier installments, […]
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Are You Baffled by iStat Menus 7’s Interface? Lee Garrett’s ScreenCastsONLINE Tutorial Can Help
Whenever I do a ScreenCastsONLINE tutorial video, I always tell you about it. I tell you how much fun I had creating the tutorial and what you’ll learn from it. I do this because I’m very proud of the work I do for ScreenCastsONLINE. What I rarely mention is that there are other terrific tutors […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 10 November 2024
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇦🇺 Apple is testing an enhancement to its child protection features in Australia – when Apple’s existing opt-in nudity detection AI feature flags an image as potentially problematic, a new option appears to allow […]
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How to Get to Images out of Apple Pages, Numbers, and Keynote
Have you ever been working with an Apple Pages, Keynote, or even Numbers file and wanted to extract the images? Here’s the process: Open the document Find the first image you want to extract Right-click on the image and choose copy from the contextual menu Open Preview Choose File → New from Clipboard (or use […]
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I’ve Changed My Mind About Apple’s New Password App
With the advent of macOS Sequoia and iOS 18, Apple upgraded its method of saving user passwords from the arcane Keychain Access to a fledgling full-fledged password manager. Because Apple likes to name its products so they’re impossible to search online, the app is called Passwords. I am a huge proponent of password managers, with […]
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Why Do People Like Apple Notes?
In the early days, Apple Notes were an okay way to jot down a thought, but Apple has put a lot of work into making them much more useful. Nowadays, I hear people on tech podcasts and in my nerd circles talking about how much they use and like Apple Notes. But I don’t get […]
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