We start with how wrong I was last week, with two huge mistakes. I posted a teaser video about a Monosnap screencast I did for ScreenCasts Online, and how I was on Daily Tech News Show #3248 where we talked about whether the announcements from Apple will help them get back in the game with […]
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Security Bits – SESTA/FOSTA, CLOUD Act, Apple’s HSTS Clever Fix
Followups Cambridge Analytica & Facebook Kerfuffle Followup Additional developments: It’s been revealed that Facebook scraped call and text data from Android phones for years. Technically users did opt in to the collection, but it doesn’t seem to have been informed consent based on the public reaction to the reporting: Facebook scraped call, text message data […]
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Back in January I told you guys about a really slick tool called Monosnap. I explained that it’s so much more than a screen capture tool. Anyway, I am so enchanted with Monosnap that I decided to do a video tutorial for Don McAllister’s ScreenCasts Online. I had a blast making this video because the […]
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Click to Open in iBooks on iOS or macOS Every year when we go on vacation, especially if it’s to an exotic place, I write a travelogue of our adventures. I write a page a day while on the trip, and include photos from the day. I do this the old-fashioned way, in an email […]
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I am an amateur photographer and enjoy travelling and taking pictures, lots of pictures. One of the problems I had, and the reason for this review, was to find a product which allowed me to see all of my pictures on all of my devices. Both Apple and Adobe have products which address this but […]
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On Tuesday I had the pleasure of being on the Daily Tech News Show again with Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane and Roger Chang. The main discussion topic was the announcements from Apple as we tried to answer the question of whether Apple can break back into the top spot for schools. Using a Screen […]
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Allison interviews Duane Tsutsui from Second Sight about their implants that help some blind people “see”. The first device, called Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System, provides electrical stimulation to a retinal implant to induce visual perception to blind individuals with severe to profound Retinitis Pigmentosa. The Argus II System is comprised of a miniature video […]
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After a big trip, I generally like to chat a bit about how tech worked out while traveling. I’ve got a few new observations this year. Project Fi Back in 2016, Mike Elgan came on the show to talk about tech he uses as a digital nomad. In that episode he told us about a […]
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The Cliff Notes Version of the Story This story was broken by two major news paper organisations cooperating with each other — the Guardian (through it’s publication the Observer) in the UK, and the New York Times in the US:
Continue readingMore TagFantastic Auto-HDR Mode on Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II
It’s easy to get caught up in the rush to buy the newest gadget to replace your old one. The NosillaCast specializes in making you want to do it. When I got the Olympus OM-D E-M10 micro four-thirds camera in 2014, it was a delightful upgrade to my giant DSLR camera. It was light and […]
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