CSUN AT with Sign Language Interpreter One of my favorite conferences of the year is the CSUN Assistive Tech Conference. Steve and I were really on the fence whether to attend last year in person, and pulled out at the last minute as all of our friends’ companies had canceled their trips. In retrospect of […]
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Everything is Fiddly – the Audio Edition
I was watching a video on my iPad Pro and I wanted a richer, louder sound, so I used Control Center to switch it to the HomePod mini sitting right next to it. That worked great. After a bit, I wanted to change rooms, so again using Control Center I switched the audio output to […]
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CharJenPro Ear Hooks I told you a while ago that I took Frank’s advice recently and got the CharJenPro AirFoams Pro ear tips, which dramatically improved the sound and sealing in my ears, and that they also stayed in my ears much better than Apple’s original ear tips. When Frank heard my review, he posted […]
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Add Glanceable Information to Your Mac Menu Bar with SwiftBar
Hello Allison and NosillaCastaways, Allister from New Zealand here, once again, with a review of a geeky tool that will let you flex your Taming the Terminal muscles. On an episode of the Upgrade podcast Jason Snell talked about an open source utility called BitBar. This utility puts customisable information in the macOS menu bar […]
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Security Bits — 7 March 2021
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Silver Sparrow Mac Malware Update: Correction: in the previous Security Bits we made it sound like 30K M1 Macs were infected with this new strain of malware, and that it only affected M1 Macs. […]
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Tiny Tip – Annotate with Perfect Lines and Bonus Preview Tips
I’ve done a lot of reviews of screenshotting apps, and recently explained the hidden treasure that is the built-in screen capture utility. To be perfectly honest, 95% of the time, that’s what I use on the Mac. I take a lot of casual screenshots, open them in Preview mark them up real quick and send […]
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I Have Written All the Blog Posts
This week I’ve been hard at work on an advanced tutorial for ScreenCastsOnline on Screenium. I decided to do the advanced version right on the heels of the basics tutorial because I was already on a roll with the app. I had the mind map about 80% done, I had my tools all open and […]
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Screenium – Incredibly Powerful and Yet Inexpensive Screencasting App
Screenium Video Editor I’ve been making video tutorials for ScreenCastsOnline for around 5 years. I enjoy making the tutorials because it forces me learn new tools really well. It’s absolutely true that the best way to learn something is to teach it. There are a lot of pitfalls when choosing a tool to teach. In […]
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Back in 2015, I wrote an article entitled “Everything is Fiddly” where I basically ranted about all of the things that are supposed to “just work” and yet don’t. In 2018, Helma from the Netherlands followed up with her own story for us of how everything is fiddly. As my life continues to be filled […]
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Telegram Improves Another Feature Better than Messages
Last year I wrote an article explaining why I like the cross-platform app Telegram so much better than Apple Messages. I talked about how there’s no blue/green bubble nonsense, how group threads never get tangled, how it syncs across devices instantly, how it has built-in GIF search, and most importantly how you can edit and […]
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