Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Connecting COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps Across Europe is Starting to Work — www.macobserver.com/… Deadline is December 8 for App Store Privacy Labels — www.macobserver.com/… Apple will require privacy “nutrition labels” from developers starting December […]
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espanso – Text Expansion for Nerds
espanso Home Page One of the darlings of the Mac community is TextExpander from Smile. I think it’s #2 on my priority list of apps to install, right after 1Password. If you haven’t used TextExpander, the basic idea is that it allows you to type short abbreviations that trigger longer snippets of text to be […]
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Ryan Gets “New” Apple Kit – PowerPC G5
Ryan here, you sometimes see me in the chat as “DopeyOne”. I keep hearing these great reviews for the new Apple hardware that you, or one of your listeners have purchased and I have to admit that I, sometimes, get a little envious. Today I want to talk about a purchase that I made for […]
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100th Issue of ScreenCastsOnline Magazine is Free (and Includes My Tutorial on Logoist 4)
ScreenCastsOnline Magazine In August of 2012, Don McAllister published the very first episode of ScreenCastsOnline Magazine. His vision was to provide a magazine with articles by brilliant writers with impressive Apple-based knowledge, but also much more than that. The magazine also includes all of the full-length SCO tutorials from the month and the tip videos […]
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Back Tap … A New Way To Use Your iPhone – by Rick Cartwright
I don’t know about you, but I love it when technology and life collide to create an amazing experience. And then there are those magical moments when you find pure joy from a new, shiny gadget. I am sure you have experienced this. One such experience for me was when I purchased and set up […]
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Journaling Apps Review – Day One, Momento and Moodnotes – by Jill from the Northwoods
Day One – India Hi, this is Jill from the Northwoods. Today we’re going to talk about diary apps, or journaling apps, however you like to call it. There are some really good journaling apps out there in the world, particularly when you’re talking about the iOS world. I started with Day One back in […]
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A Beginner Developer’s View of VSCode
I’ve been pondering doing a review of my favorite code editor for a long time, but for several reasons, this is a very dangerous undertaking. First and foremost, I am a very new programmer, so I don’t really know what’s important and why I should care about the more advanced features. This means that more […]
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Add Custom Watch and Band Frames to Your Apple Watch Screenshots with Watchshot Screenshots
Last week I wrote an article about all the different things I do with my Apple Watch on a typical day. As I started making notes for the article over the course of a few days, I took screenshots of my Apple Watch that would demonstrate what I was explaining in the article. To take […]
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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. COVID 19 Apps Update 🇺🇸 Apple updates COVID-19 app with new questions and recommendations — www.imore.com/… 🇺🇸 Washington D.C. Rolls Out App-Free COVID-19 Tracking System — www.macobserver.com/… Zoom Rolls Out End-to-End Encryption for Video […]
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Do LiDAR and Dolby Vision HDR on iPhone 12 Pro Really Make a Difference?
I’m sure you’ve been inundated with articles about the new iPhones 12 this week. I’m not going to do an exhaustive review but I’d like to touch on a couple of points I haven’t seen covered in great detail. It’s a well-known marketing strategy to create a small, medium, and large version of your product, […]
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