Terminal `man screencapture` I think I need to find a support group for people who are addicted to screen capture utilities. I went through all of the articles on podfeet, and I’ve talked about macOS’s built-in screen capture, Loom, Capto, Monosnap, Teampaper Snap, Parallels Toolbox, Folge, and the now deprecated Clarify and Stepshot Guides. And […]
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Let The Backpedaling Commence – by Frank Petrie
After the conclusion of Apple’s April event, many You Tubers and bloggers (myself included) began our assault on the new M1 iMac. Personally, I likened the design to a 5th grader who used the iPad software feature where you can make a square, circle, rectangle, what-have-you perfect by merely drawing the shape then holding the […]
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Accidentally Outsmarting an AirTag
Weak AirTag Signal Everyone and their sister has been reviewing AirTags this week with various opinions on whether they’re awesome or not. I’m not going to do a full review of AirTags but I do have a funny story to tell. The review I was originally going to write was going to be entitled something […]
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Security Bits — 2 May 2021
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Apple are letting Parler back into the iOS AppStore, they have apparently sufficiently reformed their moderation practices — www.imore.com/… SolarWinds are changing their name to N-able! — www.n-able.com/… Deep Dive(s) ❗ Action Alerts Calls […]
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Logitech Zone Wireless Plus headset – by Bruce aka @UseTheData
This is Bruce from Tennessee, with a review of the Logitech Zone Wireless Plus headset. First, what’s the problem to be solved? Logitech Zone Wireless Plus headset I’ve been on distributed teams and doing phone conferences and web meetings for decades, and I’ve historically used a wired USB headset with a boom mike. I preferred […]
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Is There Anything That’s NOT Fiddly?
I think I’ve been going about this Everything is Fiddly thing all wrong. I should have created a segment about what’s not fiddly. That would have created unique and unusual stories. With Everything is Fiddly, there’s just too darn much material to work with. TextExpander Let’s start with the name Everything is Fiddly. I knew […]
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Logitech 4K Pro Magnetic Webcam
My Trusty Logitech C920 is Still Great After Seven Years In January of 2014, I reviewed my fancy new webcam, the Logitech C920 that Steve got for me for Christmas to replace the built-in iSight camera on my Mac. Back then the C920 ran $64 and it was a fantastic upgrade. Not only was that […]
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Synology QuickConnect + Drive for Work from Home – by George from Tulsa
On March 24, 2020 Tulsa issued a COVID stay at home order. As I locked our office door that night, I had no idea when I’d be back. My real concern wasn’t work-related, it was the April 19 due date of my daughter’s second child, exactly on what was predicted would be the very worst […]
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I Thought Regular Expressions Were the Answer
In the Programming by Stealth podcast I do with Bart Busschots, we had an assignment a while back to create a web app that would show the time in two different cities of their choice. I took the assignment up a notch and added a little slider you could drag to change the time in […]
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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. 🇬🇧 (🏴 & 🏴) Both Apple & Google have stopped the NHS from publishing an update to their COVID app to insert location tracking. This is expressly forbidden in their COVID exposure notification API […]
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