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#519 NAB and NMX, Is it Time to Jump to Photos, Taming the Terminal SSH Tunneling

Steve and I went to NAB and NMX this week so I give you a few thoughts on how fun that was (audio interviews to start next week, but video interviews are already starting to go up on podfeet.com). I try to answer the question of whether it’s time to jump to the new Photos App from Apple by going through how I answered that question for myself. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart covers the latest in Security Light, Medium and suggested reading as always followed by Taming the Terminal part 32 of n. It’s a marathon show!


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Hi this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Mac Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Macintosh bias. Today is Sunday April 19, 2015 and this is show number 519. I think we might have a marathon show here this week. Steve and I went to a conference so we’ve got interviews from that, I’m going to give you my thoughts about the new Photos app and what I’ve decided to do about it, and we’ve got Security Lite and Chit Chat Across the Pond with Taming the Terminal Part 32 of n where we get to do SSH Tunneling. Put on your seatbelts and let’s get going!

This week was the NAB Show (National Association of Broadcasters) and NMX (New Media Expo) out in Las Vegas and Steve and I got to attend both. We have been to NMX and it’s previous incarnations of the Podcast Expo and Blogworld many times, but this was the first time NMX was embedded inside NAB.

It was Chuck Joiner of MacVoices.tv who suggested it might be interesting. He’d been to NAB many times before and got a lot out of it. Dave Hamilton of The Mac Observer and Mac Geek Gab decided to go too, and Don McAllister of ScreenCasts Online jumped in too. Remember when we used to do the Mac Roundtable? Well it was originally started by four guys – Tim Verpoorten, Adam Christianson, Steve Stanger, and Joseph Nilo. We’ve only met Joseph once before at Macworld, and were delighted to find out that he was coming to NAB too. Now if that doesn’t sound like a party I don’t know what does!

I have to say that I think we’ve outgrown NMX. It sounds snarky to say that I have nothing to learn from the speakers there. I decided a few years ago that the solution was to not expect to learn, but to give back and teach. However, they’ve rejected my talks for the last two years. I was bummed about that because you know how I love to teach! I felt a little better when Don got his rejection notice…and he hadn’t even submitted a paper! Oh well!

The exhibit hall for NMX the last time we went was really really weak, maybe 20 booths tops and none of them interesting. The good news is that with the purchase of an NMX tickets this year, we got access to all of the NAB booths. Believe it or not, NAB fills the Las Vegas Convention Center, North, Central and South Halls. CES fills those three giant halls but also spills out into other hotels, but that still makes NAB pretty darn huge.

The downside of NAB is that much of the equipment and software is WAY out of our league. For example the bottom of the line Red Camera starts at $5000 but the model they were showing off at NAB starts at $50K! We went to the huge Black Magic booth, who sell interface boxes for video. All but two of the boxes were over $2000. Not exactly what we’re looking for, but keep in mind this show is geared towards people making television and movies.

The good news is that with a show this big, there’s still an awful lot within the podcaster’s salary level to enjoy. Steve and I did about a dozen interviews, so not quite as many as CES but I think we got some real keepers in there. We’ll start playing them a couple at a time like we did for CES.

I have to give a big shoutout to Allan Tépper from TecnoTur, because I did the worst thing possible to him. Remember I asked on the show if anyone else was going to be there? Well, Allan wrote to me to tell me he’d be at NAB, and then he recognized me as we were both going into an event called the Super Meet. He introduced himself and right then the line we’d been waiting in started to move and I said I’d catch up with him inside. And then I TOTALLY FORGOT TO GO FIND HIM! I think I might be the worst person ever. He found Don inside the hall and they had a great conversation so at least he had fun.

I wanted to mention one more thing about NMX before I move on and that’s that the Podcast Awards took place. I didn’t attend the award ceremony but I’m delighted to tell you that Tom Merritt’s Daily Tech News Show won for best Tech show overall! That’s a HUGE achievement considering it hasn’t been much more than a year since he started his show. Congratulations to Tom and his producer Jennie for a well-deserved award.

Blog Posts

Is it Time to Jump to Photos?

Clarify

If you’ve been listening to the show for any length of time you’ve heard me talk about my favorite tool, Clarify, for making tutorials with photos and text and annotations. One thing I don’t talk about very often is all the ways you can present the tutorials you create with Clarify. I went poking around on the Clarify-it website today and realized that there are a LOT of formats! First you can publish your tutorial to your own free site on clarify-it.com. You can store your tutorials inside Evernote which I’ve mentioned before so you have essentially a database of your content. You can publish to WordPress as a page or a post, but you can also simply get the entire html content and images so you can post it on other blog platforms. You can publish to a beautiful PDF with the built-in templates or create your own. Stuck with people who love Microsoft Word? Clarify has output for Word too. Maybe you’re a big fan of Dropbox, you can share to Dropbox and get a public URL that you can instantly send to anyone.

The greatest benefit of Clarify is the ability to share your knowledge so that you can help other people, keep them from asking you the same question over and over again, and make yourself look positively brilliant. Because you are, of course, brilliant but not everyone knows that yet! Go check out the free trial of Clarify over at clarify-it.com for Mac and Windows and be sure to tell them Allison sent you like Stefaan Lesage did just this week!

Chit Chat Across the Pond

Security Medium – Rootpipe

The latest security bug with a cute name is Rootpipe, and it affects OS X going back to at least 10.7. This is a privilege escalation bug, but for some reason the media have decided to call it a back door. This bug allows an app running as an admin user to gain full root access without needing the user to enter a password. Some reports say this bug only affects admin users, some reports say it also affects non-admin users. It’s not clear what exactly is going on.

Apple have patched Rootpipe for OS X 10.10 Yosemite, but will not be patching it on older versions of OS X. The advice in the security community seems to be that if you are running old versions of OS X, you should not run as an administrator.

Links with More info:

Security Light

Important Security Updates:

Important Security News:

  • Yet more proof that ads are dangerous for your digital health – malicious flash-based ads infect visitors to a number of sites, including the Huffington Post, with extortionware – http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/04/faked-flash-based-ads-on-huffpo-other-sites-downloaded-extortionware/ (Editorial by Bart: the issue is not really with advertising, but with sites out-sourcing ad acquisition to the lowest bidder, and with allowing dangerous technologies like Flash in ads. I think it is immoral to block ads, but I think it is foolish not to block Flash. End result – I see only safe ads, incentivising sites to move away from dangerous Flash ads.)

Noteable Breaches:

Suggested Reading:

Aside – please consider donating to the EFF

The EFF have succeeded in invalidating a patent that was being used to threaten podcasters into paying licensing fees to a so-called ‘non-practicing entity’ (https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-busts-podcasting-patent-invalidating-key-claims-patent-office) – this is great news for all podcasters, and, a good illustration of the EFF’s value to our society. I donate to them regularly, and would urge you to do the same.

Main Topic

Taming the Terminal Part 32 of n – https://www.bartbusschots.ie/s/2015/04/06/taming-the-terminal-part-32-of-n-ssh-tunnelling/

That’s going to wind this up for this week, many thanks to our sponsor for helping to pay the bills, the makers of Clarify over at clarify-it.com. Don’t forget to send in your Dumb Questions, comments and suggestions by emailing me at [email protected], follow me on twitter @podfeet. Check out the NosillaCast Google Plus Community too – lots of fun over there! If you want to join in the fun of the live show, head on over to podfeet.com/live on Sunday nights at 5pm Pacific Time and join the friendly and enthusiastic NosillaCastaways. Thanks for listening, and stay subscribed.

1 thought on “#519 NAB and NMX, Is it Time to Jump to Photos, Taming the Terminal SSH Tunneling

  1. Bert Yerke - April 30, 2015

    I thought I would mention that while in Woodstock, just for kicks, you can go to Harvard as well. It is just a hop, skip, and a jump up highway 14. I was surprised to hear you mention Woodstock was the venue for the shindig since it is my mother’s birthplace and a town I [used to] know very well. I am in California now but I was born in Harvard, IL. I sure wish I could attend but, sadly, I am in no position to travel that far just now. I sent along a link for the show to my aunt and uncle who, not only live in Harvard, but are ardent Mac enthusiasts. I hope you have a great time there.

    Bert

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