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 […]
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Clean 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 […]
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Tesla 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 […]
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CSUN 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 […]
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CSUN 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 […]
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A 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 […]
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Track 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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Tiny Tip – How to Add a Line Feed on iOS When There’s No Return Key
When you’re using an app that expects long-winded typing on iOS, you’ll get the standard iOS keyboard with four rows of keys. On the fourth row (of the American English keyboard), you’ll find a key labeled “return”. Hitting this key gives you a line feed, which is an expected feature for separating thoughts for readability. […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 2 April 2023
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇮🇹 🇱🇺 🇳🇱 🇵🇹 Apple expands Emergency SOS via satellite to six more countries — appleinsider.com/… (Austria, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands & Portugal) Deep Dive — Two aCropalypses TL;DR — the […]
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Corkulous for Organizing Ideas – by Jill from the Northwoods
Hi, this is Jill from the North Woods. When I bought my iPad way back in 2010, either the first app I bought or one of the first apps I bought was Corkulous from www.corkulous.com/…. It is a virtual corkboard. Now, part of the reason I like computing and computers so much is I can’t […]
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