When last we left our hero, she was lovingly packing her 2016 MacBook Pro into a box to ship back to Apple for repairs. At the very least we knew that the battery needed service (as verified by Apple in a hardware diagnostic they conducted over the inter webs), and we knew that the keys […]
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Dumb Question Corner – Security of Password-Protected iWork Documents
Gordon sent in a terrific Dumb Question for us a while ago and I’m finally going to answer him: Hi Allison – I have a question. You might say I have a dumb question. I wanted to know if password securing your documents is, well, secure. In my case I have a spreadsheet in Numbers […]
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Go64 Will Help You Triage 32-bit Apps
As we prepare for moving to macOS Catalina, we all need to look through our applications to make sure that no mission-critical app is 32-bit only since Catalina will only run 64-bit apps. In our slack someone suggested that Apple should have “announced” that more clearly but I think giving us a warning every single […]
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NC #748 Continuing Mac Processor Problem, Copy’em Paste, Security Bits
I forgot to tell you I got to be on the SMR Podcast last week and this week I got to be a guest on Daily Tech News Show. But things weren’t all rosy on DTNS as my computer woes continued. I’ll walk you through what went wrong this week, how Steve and I diagnosed […]
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Continuing Mac Processor Problem – Today’s Theory
Last week I went into great detail about all of the experiments Steve and I have gone through with my 2016 MacBook Pro because I can no longer stream video. As soon as I start streaming, my processor slows down from a nominal 2.6GHz to 1 GHz which makes the Mac nearly unusable. The conclusion […]
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Copy’em Paste – I’m in Love with a Clipboard Manager
Dave Hamilton of the Mac Geek Gab has been going on and on about how cool clipboard managers are and when I was at Macstock I cornered him to see if I could get him to show me why they were all that and a bag of chips. I wrote an article about how we […]
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Nite Ize RunOff Waterproof Containers Really Are!
Back at CES in January this year, Nite Ize gave me a product I never talked about on the NosillaCast. It wasn’t because there was something wrong with it, it was that I didn’t have a need for it, until now. You may recall hearing me talk about Nite Ize often before – they make […]
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We’ve got a first-time contribution from a 13-year listener named Christian about Prizmo 5, I’ll explain the tech behind Tesla’s self driving modes, I give Apple advice on how to fix Siri. Then I’ll tell you a long, sad, frustrating tale of how my 2015 MacBook Pro appears to be failing and all of the […]
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Prizmo 5 for iOS – by Christian Hölscher
Yes, I am aware of the fact that there have been a lot of scan apps for iOS that “replace” hardware scanners for some users. I have been a Scanner Pro user for years and that is a very good app. But, still, those apps are absolutely no replacement for a dedicated scanner as far […]
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Why Would a Processor Slow Down Under Load?
A little over a month ago, when Steve and I did the live show, he noticed that the video coming from me was out of sync with my voice. During that show, it only got worse the longer we went on. Eventually my video started doing what we affectionately call the Max Headroom effect. That […]
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