The WWDC Keynote was very interesting, and also targeted towards the press and consumers. Alt Conf also streamed the State of the Union. I had no idea what to expect, other than that it would be quite a bit more technically oriented. I was afraid it would be way over my head, but because of […]
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WWDC 2019 Keynote Observations
AltConf Screening of WWDC Keynote Steve and I attended an event called AltConf, which is a WWDC-adjacent conference. We got to see the keynote from Apple’s Word Wide Developer Conference live with all the developers that wanted to be in the area but couldn’t get into the conference. I’m sure by now you’ve either watched […]
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NC #734 Write by Hand, (no) Tesla Tech – Repairs, Security Bits
I start the show by trying to convince you to write by hand instead of with a keyboard when you’re trying to think. I wrote up a stor called Tesla Tech, this one sadly entitled, “How to Get Your Tesla Repaired After an Accident”, but alert listener Kevin M pointed out that I totally forgot […]
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Tesla Tech – How to Get Your Tesla Repaired After an Accident
My Model 3 after rear end If you managed to make it to the end of the show last week, you would have heard me say that my next installment of my Tesla Tech series would be on how to get body work done on a Model 3 when someone rear ends you when your […]
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Security Bits – 1 June 2019
Followups Andrew Orr at TMO got a bit of a sneak-peak at Cloudflare’s soon-to-be released Warp VPN (Editorial by Bart: support for a split tunnel is a nice touch) — www.macobserver.com/… Security researchers have found that there are still nearly a million devices out there on the internet vulnerable to the BlueKeep RDP vulnerability Microsoft […]
Continue readingCCATP #595 — Bart Busschots on PBS 79 — Introducing JavaScript Promises
Bart has been promising us Promises for ages now and he finally fulfills his promise by explaining thenables. Promises are a tool to get us out of “callback hell”, which we experienced a while back. I think he made us suffer through that so we’d appreciate Promises. In this episode he shows us the beauty […]
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Google Image Search for “No PowerPoint When I was working, I had to do a lot of big thinking stuff. I needed to get ideas down, organize them, and then figure out a compelling way to make my point. This was often to try to change policies in the company, influence technical decisions, justify the […]
Continue readingNC #733 Samsung Accessibility, DTNS, Clockwise, Powerbeats Pro, Tesla Tech on Charging, Keyboard Maestro Field Gide, EVs and Sound
David Woodbridge joins us for Chit Chat Across the Pond to talk Samsung accessibility, my appearances on Daily Tech News Show and Clockwise, Steve (Sheridan) does a great review of the Powerbeats Pro earphones, we’ll listen to the proposed sounds different electric vehicles will make come this September in the US and in 2021 in […]
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Electric Vehicles Will be Required to Make Sound
In Chit Chat Across the Pond this week, I talked to David Woodbridge about Samsung tech and we wandered off topic a while when I mentioned that I bought a Tesla. It spawned a discussion of how you can’t hear an electric vehicle coming. My buddy Ron, who has driven Teslas for the last 5 […]
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MacSparky Presents — Keyboard Maestro Field Guide
Good friend of mine and great geek David Sparks has created another one of what he calls his Video Field Guides. This one is all about Keyboard Maestro. Keyboard Maestro is really misnamed. It’s not just a tool to make something happen when you hit a keystroke. It’s really a very advanced automation tool designed […]
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