Whenever Steve and I go on our wild adventures, I find myself learning something new about how to use our technology when away from home. The problems and solutions evolve over time. I wanted to give you a few things we learned on our Antarctica/Argentina/Brazil trip – some of which are successes and some of […]
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The Darcy Method for Screencasting — Real-World Test
In October I had a gentleman named Darcy Hegarty on Chit Chat Across the Pond to talk about the process he uses to create video screencasts for the video tutorial podcast ScreenCastsOnline. I wanted to talk to him about this because he created a process that is vastly different from how I do it for […]
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Security Bits — 5 Feb 2023
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Anker admits that Eufy cameras were never encrypted — appleinsider.com/… Apple have released their support for hardware Fido tokens for iCloud 2FA — sixcolors.com/… Editorial by Bart: remember that this feature comes with a […]
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Steam Deck Brings Back Gaming — by Jill from the Northwoods
Hi, this is Jill from the Northwoods. When I switched to Mac, I lost many of my Windows games. So that was the last piece I couldn’t figure out how to get on my MacBook. Some of the games do play on Mac, like Minecraft or even Civilization, which are two of my favorites. But […]
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Finder and Terminal in the Same Window – Fun with Scripts — by Bruce from Tennessee
This is Bruce from Tennessee, aka UseTheData, with a tip for working with the Finder and Terminal. The problem to be solved is that, when working with files, I find some operations to be easier in the Finder and others to be easier in the Terminal. There are times where I needed a terminal window […]
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Stream Deck — Down the Rabbit Hole, Part 3
At the end of Part 2, I had a really useful set of buttons, many with nice button faces, and I was looking into how to get live information to display on a button. I knew there were plugins that did this for their specific functions, but I could not figure out how I could […]
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Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. LastPass Update: It gets worse, we now know there were some people with just 500 rounds of PBKDF2, and even a few with one round 🙁 There was a brief false dawn when some […]
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Stream Deck — Down the Rabbit Hole, Part 2
When we left our hero at the end of Part 1, he… I… had a working set of controls for my NanoLeaf lights. Once I had my buttons working, I decided I wanted to have some nice images to place on them to make the actions clear, and which were nice to look at. The […]
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Microsoft Remote Desktop, Core Shell, and Transmit Allison asked me to hijack this format for a special instalment where I share three related apps I’m still using that share a theme — connecting to remote computers. My day job has changed in many ways in recent months as I’ve transitioned from being a vanilla sysadmin […]
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forScore on iPad This is Bruce from Tennessee, aka UseTheData, with some thoughts about working with sheet music on an iPad. First of all, what’s the Problem to be Solved? Well, the real Problem is that I’m a geek who likes toys. But we’re not going to solve that problem here, and I’m not sure […]
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