Ever since Mike Price started working on how to automate the creation of chapter marks into the podcast using Keyboard Maestro, I’ve been taking baby steps to do things with this amazing macro tool myself. I am definitely still on the bunny slope with the tool, but I feel like I’m starting to get how […]
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Test Your Website with ANDI – Accessible Name & Description Inspector
ANDI 7 Focusable Areas Dropdown In my article about accessibility in the Federal Government, I explained that they had created a tool to help them assess their own websites for accessibility errors. It’s called ANDI – Accessible Name & Description Inspector. I teased that I’d installed it and that I’d tell you more about how […]
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Everything is Fiddly – the Developer Edition by Claus Wolf
Open Access Helper Safari Extension Typically this section only includes the end user perspective, but today I wanted to tell you that things are fiddly for developers as well – or at least the hobbyist developer, like myself. I maintain a Safari App Extension called “Open Access Helper”, which helps you find legal Open Access […]
Continue readingEverything is Fiddly – Grammarly by Jill from the North Woods
Hi, this is Jill from the Northwoods. I’ve always been a math girl. The world makes sense in math. It has rules that you must follow. Logical! Orderly! Everything fits inside those rules. But when it comes to writing, that is an art that has so many fiddly parts. I’ve never been a very good […]
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CSUN Assistive Tech Conference 2021 – Section 508 is More Interesting Than You Think
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 […]
Continue readingEverything 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 […]
Continue readingI’m Hooked on Ear Hooks by CharJenPro
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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