Every year, I like to reflect on what I learned or experienced at Macstock. My goal is to make it interesting for everyone, not just a “look how much fun I had and you weren’t there” post. It might encourage you to go, but even if Macstock isn’t something you can attend, I still want […]
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Audiobook Audio (V3) Part 5: Remove the Safety Net
When the microphone starts hearing your habits The last few parts of this series have been about the capture side of V3: the recording chain, mic technique, consistency, and choosing a book voice on purpose. That work made the microphone more predictable. It started hearing the same voice, in the same way, every time. And […]
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Security Bits — 14 July 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 Texas’s controversial age rules for all mobile app stores will not be stayed while the law is challenged, but will remain in place while the court cases continue — www.macobserver.com/… 🇪🇺 EU revives […]
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NC #1105 Teaching Spreadsheets at Macstock, Cookies App for Privacy, Talk for Me with Darrin Altman
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Wednesday, July 8, 2026, and this is show number 1105. I’m doing the show early because we’re off to our annual pilgrimage to Macstock Expo. I can’t wait to […]
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The Cookie App: A Convenient Solution to Online Privacy — by Steve Davidson
Background — origins of “The Problem to be Solved” When our forefathers invented the World Wide Web, their vision was that it would be stateless — that is, static pages would be available for viewing through your Web browser. It was a unidirectional thing — information was provided, period. Coming back to a page would […]
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CCATP #838 — Darrin Altman on Talk for Me
On the Mac Geek Gab, they have a listener segment they call Cool Stuff Found. But once in a while, someone writes in with Cool Stuff Made. On episode 1143, Darrin Altman wrote in about an app he wrote originally for himself but has made available in the App Store. The app is called Talk […]
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Bad Idea for My Macstock Presentation?
With just a few exceptions, like the birth of my first grandchild and a pandemic, I’ve been honored to be allowed to speak at Macstock each year. I’m a very confident public speaker, but for some reason, about a month before Macstock, I find myself doubting whether my chosen topic will be any good. One […]
Continue readingNC #1104 OS 27 Photos Extend Saves a memory, Bruce Explains CDPATH, Eddie on Choosing the Audiobook Voice, Bart on Security Bits
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, July 5, 2026, and this is show number 1104. Steve and I had a lovely 3-day trip to see his parents, and an equally lovely trip to San […]
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Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Microsoft is continuing to tighten GitHub’s defenses against supply-chain attacks propagating via the platform: GitHub Updates actions/checkout to Block Common Pwn Request Attack Patterns — thehackernews.com/… ❗ Action Alerts Calls to action, if any […]
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Bruce from Tennessee Explains CDPATH
Hi. This is Bruce from East Tennessee, aka UseTheData, with a quick terminal tip about something called CDPATH. The problem to be solved is that I work in the terminal quite a bit, and I want to quickly get into my project folders, which are largely in Dropbox. In the terminal, we use the cd […]
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