This Chit Chat Across the Pond occurred spontaneously without planning. I was curious about the ramifications of Epic Games’ epic decision to only allow downloading of the insanely popular game Fortnite by side loading on Android. Sideloading is a term that refers to the method by which Android users can acquire apps for their devices […]
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NC #693 AppDelete, Diagnosing Remote Networks, Raspberry Pi as a Web Server, MacAlly Lampcharge, Bash Script for ID3 Tagging
I was on the MacCast this week with Adam Christianson, Reggie Ashworth’s AppDelete will live on without him, a great story about Steve’s mom and how we remotely diagnosed a network problem she was having, Ed Tobias tells us how he created a web server out of a $35 Raspberry Pi, I got a MacAlly […]
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7 Hours on a Bash Script Saves 15 Seconds a Week
ID3 Editor applicaiton showing my ID3 tags & album artwork In the past few years, I’ve been highly influenced by a few people in tech. Bart Busschots and his Programming By Stealth series of course, but also Ray Robertson from his AppleScript Bootcamp at Command-D and Sal Soghoian. Listening and learning from these people doesn’t […]
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Raspberry Pi as a Web Server by Ed Tobias
This review was written and recorded by NosillaCastaway and personal friend of Steve and mine, Ed Tobias. We met him for coffee this week and he showed off his website www.edtobias.com, which was awesome, but how he built it was even cooler! I want to describe how I used a Raspberry pi as my web […]
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MacAlly Lampcharge Brings Light and 4 USB Ports
One of the many enjoyable events at Macstock Expo is the MyMac Game Show put on by Guy Serle and Tim Robertson. It’s a trivia game and you win real prizes if you successfully answer questions. Because MyMac is a fun, silly community, the rules of this game are quite adaptable. This year someone answered […]
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My mother-in-law Merlee is one of my favorite people on the planet. She’s one of the kindest, most caring people I know. But this week she made me love her even more, because of how geeky she is. A few months ago Steve’s parents moved from 2 hours away to 4 hours away. It’s not […]
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In this episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond I talk to Sal Soghoian and Ray Robertson. Sal was the Product Manager of Automation Technologies at Apple from 1997 to 2016. During his tenure, he was pretty much responsible for all of the automation in the Mac operating system and even the Terminal. Ray Robertson […]
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CCATP #558 – Bart Busschots on PBS 60 of X – Bootstrap & jQuery
In this week’s installment of Programming By Stealth Bart introduces us to Bootstrap Components how we can use jQuery to extend Bootstrap. This is the first baby step into JavaScript with Bootstrap. I’m glad Bart started slowly because my JavaScript muscles are just a bit stiff and dusty. You can find Bart’s tutorial over at […]
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After last week’s brain-bending segment on battery calculations, I’ll give you three easy steps to follow that literally summarizes the entire segment. Then I’ll explain why I tried to use Numbers when I wanted to use Excel and how I continue to be disappointed by Numbers. My CMD-D video is finally up from last year […]
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Security Bits – WebAuthn, Pentagon Says No GPS, Reddit Breach
Followups We looked at WebAuthn, a new protocol for password-less authentication on the web in a Security Medium back in April. At that stage Microsoft had committed to adding support for the protocol to their Edge browser in the future, they’ve followed through, adding support to Insider (think beta) version of Windows 10. If testing […]
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