This might be my favorite Dumb Question of all time. It starts in Australia, passes through the US, saunters into The Netherlands, then hits two spots in Japan and ends up in our collective distant past. We’ll start with the original question from Trevor Drover in Australia: Trevor Trying to Size a Graphic in Pages […]
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Security Bits — 3 May 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Zoom continues to respond positively to problems with and criticisms of their platform: Zoom announces 5.0 update with tougher encryption and new security features — www.imore.com/… Last time Bart was not sure of the […]
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CCATP #637 — Bart Busschots on PBS 95 of X — Better JavaScript Class Attributes
This week Bart explains how to give our JavaScript classes better data attributes via a very powerful JavaScript feature: getters and setters. On my first read through the notes for the episode, my head was spinning a bit, but Bart explains this so well using concrete examples (like a circle with a radius) that I […]
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CCATP #636 – Adam Engst on 30 Years of TidBITS and other random topics
Adam Engst has been publishing TidBITS for 30 years so I asked him to come on the show to talk about that journey. While we technically had an agenda, this conversation wandered into all kinds of fun topics like why Adam still goes to the same dentist office even though the dentist left and why […]
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NC #781 Accessing Downloads, Midwest Mac BBQ Game Night, Magic Keyboard for iPads Pro
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, April 26, 2020, and this is show number 781. mp3 download
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Midwest Mac BBQ Game Night – Play Jackbox Games Remotely With Audio — by Barry Fulk
Jackbox Games In this current time of ‘work from home’, ‘stay from home’ – it was also time to ‘play from home!’ I often host a game night at my house with friends or coworkers. We like to play the Jackbox series of games from jackboxgames.com. This includes games such as Fibbage, Drawful, Quiplash, and […]
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Fell in Love with the Magic Keyboard for iPads Pro
Apple Magic Keyboard for iPads Pro Sometimes a product comes along in the Apple environment that you don’t need but you really want. This year it’s the Magic Keyboard for iPads Pro. At $300 for the 11″ and $350 for the 12.9″ iPad Pro, as Robb Dunnewood would say, “It costs a grip.” You can […]
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Create Long, Strong, Memorable and Typeable Passwords with xkpasswd.net
If you already know what xkpasswd is, and you want to jump right to the tutorial, click here. What is xkpasswd? Back in 2011, Randall Munroe, the author of the fantastically nerdy and hilarious comic strip XKCD wrote a comic he calls Password Strength. In the illustration he explains how by forcing humans to create […]
Continue readingNC #780 Three TV Tracking Apps, Time is Weird, Timezones Explained, Security Bits
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, April 19, 2020, and this is show number 780. mp3 download
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 19 April 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Correction: — the microphone cut-off switch in the new iPad Pros is not a physical disconnect, but it is completely independent of iOS and can’t be affected by malware because it’s in the T2 […]
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