Back in 2015, I wrote an article entitled “Everything is Fiddly” where I basically ranted about all of the things that are supposed to “just work” and yet don’t. In 2018, Helma from the Netherlands followed up with her own story for us of how everything is fiddly. As my life continues to be filled […]
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CCATP #673 – Lindsay Tondee on Working from Home
Lindsay Tondee, Senior Manager in Quality Assurance at a global pharmaceutical company, joins us to talk about whether it’s a good or a bad thing that companies are thinking about having their workforce continue to work from home indefinitely. I originally thought this would be a great thing because we’ll have fewer cars on the […]
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Telegram Improves Another Feature Better than Messages
Last year I wrote an article explaining why I like the cross-platform app Telegram so much better than Apple Messages. I talked about how there’s no blue/green bubble nonsense, how group threads never get tangled, how it syncs across devices instantly, how it has built-in GIF search, and most importantly how you can edit and […]
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matias Wireless Keyboard – by Kyle Borah
Matias Wireless Aluminum Keyboard I received the Matias Wireless Aluminum keyboard as a Christmas present in 2020. I am running a 2015 13” MacBook Pro. For many years, I used the built-in keyboard of the laptop. But recently, since the 2020 CoVid lockdowns, I have been using an Apple wireless Magic Keyboard (the old one […]
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NC #824 The Wrong Headphones, Singapore and Contact Tracing, 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, February 21, 2021, and this is show number 824. mp3 download Chit Chat Across the Pond CCATP #672 – Bart Busschots on TTT 37A of n – SSH Agents […]
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CCATP #672 – Bart Busschots on TTT 37A of n – SSH Agents
In 2017 on Taming the Terminal installment 37 of n, Bart taught us about SSH agents and the advantages of using a passphrase to further protect your SSH keys. In the intervening four years, things have changed a bit in macOS, so we decided to do a supplemental update to installment 37. We review a […]
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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, February 14, 2021, and this is show number 823. mp3 download CCATP #671 – Allison Sheridan on American Council of the Blind Radio Clockwise #385: QuibHouse – Relay FM […]
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This week the tables are turned and you’ll actually hear me being interviewed. I was asked to be on the Magic Mac Show, which is on the American Council of the Blind’s streaming radio channel. Hosts Tyson Ernst, Katie Frederick and Jason Castonguay asked me on so they could learn about how I got interested […]
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Singapore Government Uses Contact Tracing Data to Solve a Murder
Back in June of 2020, Desmond Lim wrote in telling us that Singapore had created their own COVID contact tracing app called TraceTogether and as expected, it had some big problems. He said the backlash was quick as peoples’ phone batteries were dying quickly since they accessed your location constantly in the background. It was […]
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The Wrong Headphones
I have an embarrassing story to tell and I hope it can serve as a lesson to us all. Let me start by saying, “I’m an idiot.” When Apple announced the AirPods Max, I was immediately enchanted with them. I HAD to have them. They were so cool! I mean, Apple wouldn’t make something I […]
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