I’ll tell you about an awesome image editor called CameraBag Pro that’s available in Setapp, then I’ll tell the story of the products I’ve bought to try to deaden the sound in my new studio – from a sound-absorbing blanket to a Dyson fan. Bart is back with a great Security Bits where oddly we […]
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Security Bits – 25 July 2019
Followups The Zoom webcam/webserver issue We now have confirmation that the vulnerability was also present in the RingCentral and Zhumu apps — www.imore.com/… Apple have rolled out an additional automatic security update to address the issues with these apps — www.macobserver.com/… Related Opinion: John Gruber addresses the question Isn’t [Apple’s response] “nonconsensual technology” too? in […]
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CCATP #603 – Laura Kane on Effect of Women on Business Success
This week our guest is Laura Kane, CFA, CPA, Head of Investment Themes Americas for UBS. Laura specializes in something called Sustainable Investing for UBS. As part of her research she has written several articles about investing through a gender lens. I’ve asked Laura to come on, not to talk about investing per se, but […]
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Quiet – Recording in Progress! Blankets and Dyson Fan Required
Dyson AM06 Fan as I Record I’ve recorded the NosillaCast from our bedroom for the first 13 years, but after we did a remodel and repainted the house, I decided to move into one of our spare bedrooms. This change has some great advantages. The best thing about having my own room is I can […]
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CameraBag – Amazing tool at an Amazing Price
I love photography apps and I’m finding some interesting ones. Today I’d like to focus on CameraBag Pro from nevercenter.com/…. It’s available inside Setapp, or you can buy it for $40 directly from the developer. Never Center also has CameraBag (without the pro) for $20. CameraBag is a photo editor, while CameraBag Pro can do […]
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Steve and I are off to MacStock and then a week in Canada with the kids, and that means I really need your help to provide some listener recordings! In this week’s show we’ve got Steve Sheridan explaining how he capture the total eclipse in Chile in some amazing video segments. Then I’ll tell you […]
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Wyze Just Keeps Getting Better – Smart Bulbs
If you’ve been listening to the show for a long time, you know I’m a huge fan of the company Wyze, makers of a delightful and inexpensive security camera called Wyze Cam. Wyze branched out a while ago to add the Wzye Motion sensor and proximity sensors called Wyze Sense (think door/window open/close sensing). The […]
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Affinity Publisher First Look
Hi. Allister Jenks here, back again with a first look at some fantastic new software. Years ago my wife started a small business designing and selling cross stitch patterns online. While she is the one with artistic flair in our family when it comes to putting together a printed product, that falls to my technical abilities. […]
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Capturing the 2019 Chile Solar Eclipse on Video
Eclipse Viewing Setting in Vicuña Sunrise Over Vineyard in Vicuña Chile, Site of Our Eclipse Viewing Location Allison and I were fortunate enough to be able to view another total solar eclipse, this time from a vineyard in a small town called Vicuña in Chile. We traveled to Chile as part of a UCLA Alumni […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits – 14 July 2019
Security Medium 0 (more of a Followup) — 3rd-party Parental Control Apps Return to iOS Editorial by Bart: I’ve seen some very lazy reporting on this story, and I think the context and nuance are important, hence giving this apparently simple story the ‘Security Medium’ treatment. To understand what happened this week, it’s important to […]
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