After I had written most of this article, I realized that I may have come up with a subject that interests absolutely no one but me. You see, this is about knitting like a programmer. How many of you both program, and knit? I mentioned this problem to Bart and he explained that there’s a […]
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Apple Podcasts – So Many Problems
Apple recently released some new “features” to the Apple Podcasts app, and if you don’t use a third-party app as your podcatcher of choice, you really want to listen up. Even if you do use a third-party app, some of this will apply to you, and I’m afraid it’s not great news. Before you start […]
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Parallels Toolbox Gets a New Coat of Paint
I’ve written a lot of posts about Parallels Toolbox, the menu bar app that gives you access to lots of tiny tools that each do one specific thing. The reason I’ve talked about Parallels Toolbox so many times is that they keep adding more and more tools to the toolbox, so every year or so, […]
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Let Me Try to Convince You to Take Screenshots from the Command Line in macOS
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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