Remember back in 2010 when Apple first came out with the Magic Trackpad and it was made of glass? Well, I can prove that the Magic Trackpads are made of glass. Last Friday night I opened my M2 MacBook Air and saw what looked like a hair across my trackpad. With a dog, two cats, […]
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My View of the Bartender App Kerfuffle
You may or may not have heard that there was quite the kerfuffle this week about the beloved-by-many Mac app, Bartender. If you’re unfamiliar with Bartender, the problem it solves is to help you manage your menu bar items. My most recent article about Bartender was just in November when developer Ben Surtees came out […]
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Hide Your Menu Bar Items with Hidden Bar – by Physics Nerd Graeme
The Problem to be solved Bartender was a great app for hiding menu bar items, and it may well continue to be a great app for the myriad things it can now do for the new proprietors. But, I felt it wasn’t the right fit for me right now, so I went looking for a […]
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Which Pencils Work with Which iPads? The 2024 Edition of My Handy Dandy Diagram
Back in October of 2023, I tried to demystify the hot mess that Apple had made with so many different iPad models and Apple Pencils. It took me days to even figure out what all the options were to make one of my world-famous diagrams to explain it. One of the things that made it […]
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Tesla vs. CarPlay … Or the Best of Both Worlds
I’m a big fan of the giant screen in Teslas, especially because of how it displays navigation. In the Model S and X, the screen is vertical, while in the Model 3 and Y that Steve and I own, the screen is in landscape orientation. On the left side, you get a visualization of the […]
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How to Use Overcast as Your Podcatcher of Choice
This post has been superseded by a new walkthrough when Marco Arment released an entirely new version of Overcast: Overcast – New and Improved! – Another Walkthrough Sometimes an app or service is in such widespread use that it doesn’t occur to me to tell you how it works. But then someone asks me about it […]
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CSUN 2024: Brava Smart Oven that Cooks with Light
Allison interviews Travis Rea about the Brava smart oven that cooks with light. Brava uses coordinated pulses of infrared light to cook hotter, faster, and with more precision than conventional or microwave ovens. It is hot and fast enough to cook a meal in less time than it takes to preheat a conventional oven. Brava’s […]
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A Pencil with a Gyroscope Inside and More Fun with M4 iPad Pro and Magic Keyboard
There’s been a lot of hype around the new M4 iPad Pro just announced recently, mostly by tech pundits saying how amazing the hardware is and in their second breath telling us how disappointed they are in iPadOS. Apple made it thinner, lighter, faster, and gave us an OLED display but that wasn’t enough to […]
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Security Bits — 2024 May 26
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Attackers are continuing to compromise Google ads, and they’re now targeting apps in the news as well as developer & sysadmin tools: Arc browser’s Windows launch targeted by Google ads malvertising — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… Ransomware […]
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CSUN 2024: B.fter Aroma Art for Visually Impaired People
Allison interviews Angela Maeng from Another Day about their B.fter Aroma Art designed specifically for visually impaired people. B.fter is a paint kit designed to help the user distinguish colors by having a unique nature-oriented scent assigned to each color. Examples of the many scent/color combinations include lemon for yellow, cherry for red, and lavender […]
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