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Security Bits — 9 July 2023

Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. We now have more details on how iOS 17’s new Check In safety feature will work: www.macobserver.com/… 🇪🇺 Six companies have confirmed to the EU Commission that they will fall under the Digital Markets […]

Tiny Tip — Firefox Developer Edition for Testing Responsive Design (and Regular Firefox and Safari)

A few times over the past couple of years I’ve mentioned an app called Sizzy that Helma from the Netherlands recommended to me. Sizzy is a very slick tool for people who are developing websites and web apps. The main problem it solved for Helma and me is that it shows you what your web […]

Security Bits — 12 December 2021

Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 🇺🇬 Apple informed the US State Department that at least 9 iPhones used by their staff were infected with the NSO Group’s Pegasus malware. It’s not clear which NSO Group customer is responsible, […]

Security Bits — 4 April 2021 Including Deep Dive on Firefox’s SmartBlock

Security Bits — 4 April 2021 Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 Following on from the excellent Motherboard reporting last time that showed how easy it was to hijack the SMS messages destined for a US cellphone number, the […]

NC #744 Tabliss, Freeplane, Clipboard Managers & Keyboard Maestro, Security Bits

Bart talks tech of bicycles on Chit Chat Across the Pond, Caleb Fong tells us about Tabliss for Firefox and Chrome, Ed tells us about the open source mind mapping app Freeplane and I’ll tell you how Dave Hamilton helped me automation chapter marks in Hindenburg and tried to convince me that clipboard managers are […]

Tabliss for Firefox and Chrome – by Caleb Fong

We spend an ever increasing amount of time in our web browsers. This trend isn’t going down as even more things become accessible via the web. This means we spend a large amount of time looking and sometimes interacting with the default new tab screen. While this isn’t all bad, the information on these pages […]

NC #686 Listening to Bart Pays Off, Instagram from a Computer, Security Bits

This week I’ll tell you a tale of how all the knowledge Bart has been pouring on us really paid off this week, then I’ll tell you how to play on Instagram.com from a real computer. Heck, I learned a lot of what I used there from Bart too! Then with even more Bart, we’ve […]

#231 Interview with Mitchell Baker of Mozilla

In this exclusive interview (don’t they always call it “exclusive” to make it sound cool?) I talk to Mitchell Baker the Chairperson and Chief Lizard Wrangler of Mozilla about how you go from a failure to 24% market share using primarily volunteer labor across the world. Links from our discussion include Mitchell and John Lilly’s […]

#197 AppleTV, VHS to DVD, Easy Wi-Fi, Spyder2Express

In Dumb Question Corner Kate asks, “what’s the big deal with the AppleTV” and Katie Floyd of themaccore.com joins us to answer. Brent trucklover and Steve spsheridan discuss VHS to DVD capture techniques. I learn about Easy Wi-Fi for AT&T iPhones from Devicescape Software on from iTunes, and then the listeners teach me how to […]