Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Thanks to the iOS 17 & macOS Sonoma Betas we now know more about how password sharing in iCloud Keychain will work — www.macobserver.com/… (iOS) & appleinsider.com/… (macOS) Everyone needs to have an iCloud […]
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Create a Test Volume to Diagnose Your Mac with APFS
Battery Graph from iStat Menus Showing Massive Battery Loss Overnight As you probably know, my 14” MacBook Pro has been plagued by battery life well below the advertised numbers pretty much since the day I got it in late 2020. Apple continue to work with me to try to figure out the root cause and […]
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Mona for Mastodon — by Tom Mattock
Mona Showing Podfeet Profile and Posts Hello fellow castaways, this is Tom from New Hampshire – as seen on TV. Previously Allison mentioned Mastodon, how she enjoys people there, and how she likes the interactions. I enjoyed it myself. I think I enjoy it much more than I ever did Facebook or Twitter. I’ve gone […]
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Chevy Bolt Electric Vehicle – Pretty Awesome for the Price – Even with Charging in Texas
Steve Looking Cool in Front of Chevy Bolt One of the problems with jumping straight from an internal combustion engine (aka ICE vehicle) to a Tesla is that Steve and I have no perspective at all on what normal EVs are like to drive or to charge. On our recent trip to Houston to visit […]
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Anker 733 2-in-1 Wall Charger — by Marty Sobo
Anker 733 Charger Powerbank Hey all, Marty here. Today we’re going to be talking about the Anker 733 2-in-1 wall charger. On the front, you have one USB-A and two USB-C ports. This also has a 10 mAh battery built right into it. This is awesome because you can plug this thing in, plug your […]
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ShadeMAGIC Fluorescent Light Diffusers and KOPJIPPOM Large Print Backlit Keyboard — by George from Tulsa
Hi, I’m George from Tulsa – a long-time listener and once upon a time frequent contributor. As regular listeners know, Allison is an effective and passionate advocate for assistive technologies that enable those with visual, auditory, and physical challenges to enrich their lives through computing. She’s also geek-famous for her “What’s the problem to be […]
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Learn Retrobatch Through my ScreenCastsOnline Tutorial
You’ve heard me describe the awesome batch image manipulation app Retrobatch recently. If you’d really like to learn the tool in detail, ScreenCastsOnline has just published my latest tutorial about Retrobatch. I start from the very beginning and go step-by-step building up a few different scenarios and I explain the interface along the way. I’m […]
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Portal — Immersive Soundscapes for Focus or Relaxation
Recently, there has been a groundswell of ambient noise applications. These are intended to provide a background level of noise to help you focus, relax, or even sleep. The simplest may offer white noise, and a few other colours of noise. More feature rich examples may add in other, natural sounds like rain, a crackling […]
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Deep Dive — Security & Privacy Highlights from WWDC As with most things WWDC, this is a glimpse of the future rather than new tools we get to use today, but I think it’s still worth taking a little time to look at some of the security and privacy enhancements Apple announced. Apple’s current Communications […]
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CCATP #769 — Bart Busschots on visionOS
This week our guest is Bart Busschots but this is not a Programming By Stealth episode, it’s a Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite. At least within my personal definition of Lite! Bart joined the show this week to talk about visionOS, the new operating system that will power the Vision Pro headset Apple announced […]
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