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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Everything is Fiddly – Call for Listener Contributions
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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matias Wireless Keyboard – by Kyle Borah
Matias Wireless Aluminum Keyboard I received the Matias Wireless Aluminum keyboard as a Christmas present in 2020. I am running a 2015 13” MacBook Pro. For many years, I used the built-in keyboard of the laptop. But recently, since the 2020 CoVid lockdowns, I have been using an Apple wireless Magic Keyboard (the old one […]
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Security Bits — 21 February 2021
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. In the previous instalment we joined in the mockery of a Chinese railroad company that relied on Flash for their operations. Listener Tom Merit got in touch with a follow-up article which casts some […]
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Singapore Government Uses Contact Tracing Data to Solve a Murder
Back in June of 2020, Desmond Lim wrote in telling us that Singapore had created their own COVID contact tracing app called TraceTogether and as expected, it had some big problems. He said the backlash was quick as peoples’ phone batteries were dying quickly since they accessed your location constantly in the background. It was […]
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The Wrong Headphones
I have an embarrassing story to tell and I hope it can serve as a lesson to us all. Let me start by saying, “I’m an idiot.” When Apple announced the AirPods Max, I was immediately enchanted with them. I HAD to have them. They were so cool! I mean, Apple wouldn’t make something I […]
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Nuke and Pave 2021 – All New Enhancements!
No Turning Back Now If you’ve been following me for years, then you already know that I’m a huge proponent of nuking and paving computers. By nuke and pave, I mean a clean install of the operating system, but the truly nuke version of clean. I try to do this every year “or so” where […]
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