Free Equinoxin the Mac App Store Greetings NosillaCastaways. It’s Allister here with a review of an app you didn’t know you needed. You know how macOS has Dynamic Wallpapers? Maybe you forgot. When macOS Mojave was released in 2018, the default wallpaper was a photo of a dune but, unlike traditional wallpapers, it changed tone […]
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Get Info
Most of you probably know that if you want to know more about a file in macOS, you can select the file and from the menu bar select File → Get Info. If you’re a keyboard shortcut person, ⌘I opens the Get Info window. Well, actually, ⌘I opens Get Info whether you’re a keyboard junkie […]
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CES 2026: WORX Robotic Mowers
Allison interviews Todd Zimmerman, Senior VP of Kress Sales/Operations, about their WORX robotic mowers. They use a combination of Real-Time Kinetic (RTK) Cloud positioning for satellite-guided mowing, cameras with AI-assisted vision, and Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (V-SLAM) to maintain precise mowing patterns, even when GPS signals drop. The system relies on Wi-Fi, GPS, and […]
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CES 2026: Clicks Power Keyboard & Communicator with Physical Buttons
Allison interviews Jeff Gadway, CMO and Founder of Clicks, about their Clicks Power Keyboard, a MagSafe accessory that combines a battery pack with a slide-out physical keyboard. It works with various phone sizes and connects via Bluetooth to multiple devices, offering a tactile typing experience that some users find more accurate and engaging than touchscreens. […]
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Astrophotography by Stealth Part Five — Learning to Edit by Brian Hoffman
Astrophotography by Stealth, from looking up at the night sky, to hanging a picture on the wall which takes your breath away. Learning to Edit. Hello and welcome back. I’m Brian Hoffman, and if you have been following along, you know I made it to the point where I stacked some of my pictures and […]
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Security Bits — 26 April 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Mozilla says Claude’s Mythos AI helped uncover 271 flaws in Firefox — cyberinsider.com/… Related: OpenAI Releases GPT 5.4 Cyber to Help with Defensive Security — www.macobserver.com/… 🇺🇸 FCC Hands Netgear an Effective Monopoly on […]
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CES 2026: HCMF Automotive Smart Doors & Integrated Displays
Allison interviews engineer Kai Hsiang Chen from HCMF Group about their advanced automotive door and glass technologies. HCMF designs entire door structures and integrated components for car manufacturers, consolidating mechanisms like window regulators, door locks, and handles into a single internal board to make doors lighter and simpler. Kai demonstrates a side window made with […]
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Spooky Action at a Distance — Why Are My Apps Quitting?
As you may have noticed, I love two things: automating things on my Mac and finding cool utilities to make my Mac do my bidding. As fun as this is, sometimes this can cause what Bart likes to call “spooky action at a distance.” Let’s start off with a scary story. Story Time One day, […]
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SoundSource Deep Dive: A ScreenCastsONLINE Tutorial
SoundSource from Rogue Amoeba is a powerful menu bar app that gives you full control over your Mac’s audio outputs, inputs, sound effects, and more — without ever opening System Settings. I use it every day, so when it came time to create a ScreenCastsONLINE tutorial on SoundSource, I figured it would be a quick […]
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Control Brightness on ViewSonic VP2788-5K with BetterDisplay
Retraction on Diatribe about ViewSonic 5K Display and Brightness Keys Last week, I told you about the $929 ViewSonic VP2788-5K display and sang all of its virtues. But then I went on a rant about not being able to control the brightness of the display using the brightness keys on my Mac. I described in […]
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