As a card-carrying Apple fan, you would think that I would be a big promoter of Apple Messages. But I’m not. I seriously dislike the app. Instead of Messages, my preferred communication tool is an app called Telegram https://telegram.org. It’s been one of my missions over the last five years to convert everyone with whom […]
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SoundSource 5 to Take Control of Your Audio
I’m sure you think I’m on the payroll of Rogue Amoeba by now (I’m not). But this week I want to tell you about yet another great app they make called SoundSource. This week Rogue Amoeba released SoundSource 5 and it’s even better than before. SoundSource is a menubar app that allows you to control […]
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iOS/iPadOS Markup Tutorial on ScreenCastsOnline
A few months ago I made some fun discoveries about the built-in Markup tools in iOS and iPadOS and wrote an article telling you about my discoveries. I decided to do a video tutorial on the tools for ScreenCastsOnline and as usually happens, I learned even more about the tool as I created the tutorial. […]
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Taming the Terminal is Now a Published Book!
Taming the Terminal in the Apple Books Store Several years ago I got it into my head that it would be really cool if the tutorials Bart Busschots has written for the Taming the Terminal series could be an ebook. If you’re unfamiliar with this series, it’s a podcast with me and tutorials written by […]
Continue reading100 Years Ago Today the Podmom was Born
Jeanne as a Baby 100 years ago today, my mother Jeanne Madonna Jacques was born. If you’ll indulge me I’d like to tell you a little bit about this extraordinary woman. Jeanne was the oldest of 7 children. My aunt Carolyn (who was 19 years younger than her) described her as this elegant stranger who […]
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Observations on House Judiciary Committee Hearing with Tech Giants
As you have undoubtedly heard, a U.S. House of Representatives committee called the CEOs of Apple, Alphabet (Google), Facebook, and Amazon to testify before them this week. Steven Goetz texted me in Telegram that it was really good TV. I was head down working on something during the day so I didn’t get a chance […]
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Motorola g7 Android Phone Finally Got Updates
Android 10 Comes to Moto g7Like My Fancy Drawing With Android’s Markup Tools? Back in March, I wrote a blog post entitled I Really Don’t Understand Why People Choose Android. I wrote it because I was so frustrated that my seven-month-old Moto g7 Android phone wasn’t getting recent security updates. At the time, the phone […]
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Virtual Macstock – High Fidelity & Jitsi Meet Made it Closer to Real Life
Yesterday was the very first virtual Macstock. While it wasn’t the same as getting to be near the friends we’ve met in real life, the tools Mike Potter used to get it as close as possible were really fantastic. I started to write it up but my descriptions sounded really flat when what I wanted […]
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Security Bits — 26 July 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Example of Financial Institution Authentication Two weeks ago we talked about the new method of authentication I’d encountered with my bank and you had it too, where you go to log in on a […]
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Making Progress Learning the Basics of Synology
As I mentioned a while ago, my aged Drobo 5N died after many years of good service. The 5N, for the last few years, had the role of backup NAS to the newer Drobo 5N2. When the 5N died, I did what I’ve been itching to do for quite some time – I bought a […]
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