Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 Two years ago First American Financial made the news for leaking sensitive financial data on more than 800 million documents for people who bought or sold a house in the preceding 16 years. […]
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Screencasting Tips – Part Two: Best Practices
In part one of my Screencasting Tips article, I explained to you how to get set up for a successful screen recording session. The goal was to help create an environment that would set you up to be able to work as quickly as possible and create the best possible video that people would want […]
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Want to Play With the New Safari Without Running Beta macOS Monterey?
Safari Technology Preview Download One of the most controversial things shown at Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) was the redesign of Safari. Apple didn’t do a great job of explaining what problem they were trying to solve, but the interface is going to be different from any browser we’ve ever used. The redesign is […]
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Screencasting Tips – Part One: The Setup
Example ScreenFlow File Back when I was working, I used to make video tutorials for distribution inside my company. At the time, I was forced to use Windows Vista on an HP laptop and the only screencasting game in town was Camtasia Studio. Now I’m sure that in the last decade that software has improved […]
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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. Last time we learned Facebook abuse EXIF data to track users’ locations even when they ask not to be tracked. The day after we recorded this excellent article came out explaining how to strip […]
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On-Device OCR with TextSniper for macOS
TextSniper in the Mac App Store During Apple’s WWDC keynote, they showed off some amazing new text recognition features coming to the Mac and iOS. You’ll be able to select text right out of an image. They even demonstrated pointing an iPhone’s camera at a whiteboard and using a finger to drag across the hand-written […]
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Excited About My New Headphones – Non-Pro AirPods
“New” 2nd Gen AirPods I am so excited about my latest pair of Bluetooth headphones. I just bought a pair of AirPods. No, not AirPods Pro, AirPods. I already have a pair of AirPods Pro, and you know what? I really dislike them. There are a number of things I dislike about the AirPods Pro, […]
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Tiny Tip – High Contrast Focus Style on Apple TV
I have to give 100% credit for this tip to John Siracusa on the Accidental Tech Podcast. Here’s the problem to be solved. How many times have you been navigating your Apple TV interface, and you can’t tell what’s selected? On the Home Screen of the Apple TV interface, there’s a slightly more pronounced shadow […]
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How to Record Audio out of iPhone AND big-girl mic AND Video of iPhone
ScreenFlow Video and Clean Audio I recently created a super fun tutorial for ScreenCastsOnline entitled “14 tips in iOS 14”. It was super fun for several reasons. I think it will be well-received because the tips are so fast-paced, the audience can’t possibly get bored. If you don’t care about the camera app, how about […]
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Why Do I Need a Password Manager if I Have iCloud Keychain?
ICloud Keychain Offers to Save Password Recently in one of our community channels we were chatting about the announcement that 1Password is now available for Linux, and someone said that they use iCloud Keychain and that it’s good enough for them. I’ve heard this before, and I never sat down to really outline what a […]
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