In the olden days, it used to be really hard to add descriptions to images when posting to social media. You probably know that without an image description, people with visual impairments who use screen readers get zero values out of your posts. But it was so hard that a lot of people didn’t bother […]
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Security Bits — 19 September 2021
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. The NSO Group/Pegasus Saga: Apple have patched the vulnerability used by the NSO Group to deploy their Pegasus spyware, and the Citizens Lab have published a report on their discovery of the vulnerability which […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits by Bart Busschots – 05 September 2021
Bart had Tom Merritt of the Daily Tech News Show on the August episode of Let’s Talk Apple this week to have an extended discussion of Apple’s proposed child protection features. It’s a great discussion with someone who has been described (by a good friend) as being “pathologically unbiased.” You can find this episode of […]
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NC #752 Tunity Revisited, Flotato for iOS Apps on the Mac, Adding Forgotten Workouts to Apple Health, Sleep Tracking is Stupid, Security Bits
Terry Austin is back with a review of an app called Tunity that I reviewed ages ago (he’s got a different perspective). I’ll tell you about Flotato, an app that will let you run some iOS only-apps on your Mac. Then Sandy Foster tells us how to add a workout back into Apple Health if […]
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Flotato Brings iOS Apps to the Mac
The Problem to be Solved Flotato Interface One of my pet peeves in app development right now is how many services only work on mobile. I know I’m an old lady but I really like to type and interact with the world via a big-girl keyboard on a real computer. Don’t get me wrong, you […]
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CCATP #579 – Shai Yammanee on Pulling Back from Social Media
This week we have recurring guest Shai Yammanee back, but this time not to talk about photography, videography or performing as he has in the past. Shai recently decided to remove Facebook from his phone (he still accesses it from his computer) and I wanted to have him on to find out why and also […]
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How to Use Instagram from a Real Computer
I’m trying to be one of the cool kids and use Instagram. I don’t entirely get yet what it offers that I don’t get from Facebook and Twitter, but I’m trying. My niece says it’s her happy place because it doesn’t seem to be as filled with as much anger as Twitter and it doesn’t […]
Continue readingNC #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 […]
Continue readingCCATP #520 – Tom Merritt on How Social Media Makes Us Feel
Tom Merritt, host of the Daily Tech News Show along with many other fine podcasts, joins me to talk about how social media makes us feel. We talk about how we feel about pictures of food, how we curate Twitter, who in our family takes the photos, whether Instagram is a happy place, how we […]
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