In April 2019, my wife and I embarked on our first overseas trip together in 21 years, to celebrate my 50th birthday. We spent a week in Singapore followed by a few days in Melbourne, Australia on the way home. One evening, a few days into the trip, I started to realise I was already […]
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Security Bits — 9 January 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Log4Shell (Log4J): Log4Shell-like security hole found in popular Java SQL database engine H2 — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… 🇺🇸 FTC threatens “legal action” over unpatched Log4j and other vulns — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… 🇬🇧 Meta (né Facebook) have decided […]
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Replaced AirPods Pro with Beats Fit Pro
Beats Fit Pro in Stone Purple When the first generation AirPods came out, I loved them. They fit my ears and then sounded just fine for podcast listening, which is my main use for them. But after a while my first pair started having problems with charging. I always charge the case while on my […]
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40 Tools in Parallels Toolbox : ScreenCastsOnline Tutorial
I’ve talked about Parallels Toolbox many times on the NosillaCast, but it was high time to do a full video tutorial on it for ScreenCastsOnline. If you haven’t heard of Parallels Toolbox before, it’s a suite of small utility apps that are all available from a single menu bar app. Most of the tools aren’t […]
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The Wonder of Thunderbolt Hubbing with the OWC Thunderbolt Hub
OWC Thunderbolt Hub One of the great joys of the USB-C life has been the proliferation of USB-C docks that are cross platform for Mac and PC. Over the years I’ve tested a lot of them, settling on the CalDigit TS3+ dock as my favorite. I did a full review of the CalDigit TS3+ three […]
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Ōura Ring in Gold Ōura Health Limited is a health technology consumer electronics company based in Oulu, Finland, founded in 2013. Their most popular product is the Ōura Ring, a wearable now in its third generation. The second generation product was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Best Inventions for 2020. The Ōura Ring (3rd […]
Continue readingMore TagLet’s Get Small – by Frank Petrie
Recently, I purchased some new Apple gear. This was initiated from a concept born over a year ago. I wanted to see if I could create a quality-looking video with entry-level hardware. I kicked off this experiment with the iPhone SE 2020. It had only one lens, but it had a sizable amount of the […]
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PhpStorm – An IDE Not Just for PHP – by William Reveal
Hi Allison and fellow Castaways, long-time listener to the Podfeet family of podcasts and even longer-time developer. As is typical of me, I have been in stealth mode, supporting you through your product links. I thought I might throw in my 2 cents regarding a handy tool for coding, an IDE called PhpStorm by Jet […]
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Everything is Fiddly with HomeKit – by Bart Busschots
This blog post was auto-generated by the descript service at descript.com/… It was heavily edited by me (Allison), not to get it anywhere near perfection, but rather to get it just correct enough to be readable and to get Bart’s point across. This was an experiment to test the usability of the transcriptions from descript […]
Continue readingMore TagSecurity Bits — 22 December 2021
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. NSO Group/Pegasus: Google’s Project Zero has released a very detailed report into how the ForcedEntry zero-click iMessage bug exploited by Pegasus worked — it’s deep deep reading, but this analysis highlights the key point […]
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