Apple Magic Keyboard for iPads Pro Sometimes a product comes along in the Apple environment that you don’t need but you really want. This year it’s the Magic Keyboard for iPads Pro. At $300 for the 11″ and $350 for the 12.9″ iPad Pro, as Robb Dunnewood would say, “It costs a grip.” You can […]
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Create Long, Strong, Memorable and Typeable Passwords with xkpasswd.net
If you already know what xkpasswd is, and you want to jump right to the tutorial, click here. What is xkpasswd? Back in 2011, Randall Munroe, the author of the fantastically nerdy and hilarious comic strip XKCD wrote a comic he calls Password Strength. In the illustration he explains how by forcing humans to create […]
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Security Bits — 19 April 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Correction: — the microphone cut-off switch in the new iPad Pros is not a physical disconnect, but it is completely independent of iOS and can’t be affected by malware because it’s in the T2 […]
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Tiny Tip — Accessing Downloads Folder
I think I really should call this one a Pico Tip because the “Tiny” moniker is much too grand for it. Before I describe this tip, I have to give credit to John Siracusa who idly mentioned it during an episode of Accidental Tech Podcast. It’s a great show and if you’re not already subscribed […]
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3 Apps to Help You Track TV Shows & Movies — by Jill from the Northwoods
Hello! It’s Jill from the Northwoods. It’s time to watch TV and movies! When I had a DVR, I would keep track of the shows and movies I wanted to see by recording them. It’s been three years since I cancelled cable and moved to streaming everything. I am not talented enough to write my […]
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Time is Weird
My New Clock With Timezone Options I have never been good at time zones, probably because of my poor arithmetic skills caused by New Math in the 1960s. If there’s an 8 involved in a subtraction situation (like GMT -8) then I’m doomed. Bart and I are 8 hours apart in time zones, so that’s […]
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Cubo Ai Baby Monitor is One of the Best-Designed Consumer Electronics Device I’ve Used
Cubo Ai Detects Lovely Siena At CES this year we learned about a unique baby monitor called Cubo Ai from us.getcubo.com/… Obviously, with two new granddaughters on the way, this topic was highly interesting to me. I thought the product was very intriguing and Cubo sent me a review unit to test. We spent a […]
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The Box of Happiness and Why You Should Learn VoiceOver
When Lindsay found out she was pregnant, she asked us if we would come stay a week with her and Nolan like we did when Forbes was born. She really wanted us there to help out, and to keep Forbes out of their hair as they got into the rhythm of the new baby. We […]
Continue readingBye-Bye Amazon Affiliate Links
For many years now, the Podfeet Podcasts have been partially funded by the use of Amazon Affiliate Links. The idea is that if I talk about a product and provide a link to that product on Amazon, a small percentage of what you spend on Amazon will come back to me. Unfortunately, Amazon has cancelled […]
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RØDE Complete Studio Kit with Audio Interface – by Joop, aka @oetgrunnen
Hello Allison and NosillaCastaways! This is Joop from a windy home sheltering Netherlands. As a follow up to your item on your podcasts setup last week, I would like to give you a small review of a new microphone setup I bought recently. So I wanted a condenser mic with XLR connection, and you need […]
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