Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 US Court Blocks Spyware Vendor NSO Group from Targeting WhatsApp Users — cyberinsider.com/… (Maybe their recent change to US ownership will give this injunction more teeth!) Update on the Tea app which suffered […]
Continue readingCategory: Blog Posts
Learn Markdown — ScreenCastsONLINE Video Tutorial
A few weeks ago, I taught you some of the basics of Markdown in a written article, but if you learn better from a video tutorial, I have just the thing for you. My tutorial for ScreenCastsONLINE was just published, and it’s all about Markdown. I teach you the basics of Markdown syntax while demonstrating […]
Continue reading
Make Site-Specific Browsers with Unite
You may remember way back in 2008, when Bart Busschots taught us about site-specific browsers. A site-specific browser is kind of what it says on the tin: it’s a browser designed to go to one specific site. We’ll go through how site-specific browsers can be created, and I’ll explain what problems can be solved along […]
Continue reading
Adventures in OS 26 Screenshots
How Windows Changed in iPadOS & macOS 26 I recently wrote an article entitled Exploring Markdown Export from Notes. As I often do, I included lots of screenshots in the article to illustrate what I was describing. But there were some problems with several of my screenshots, and they were caused by changes in macOS […]
Continue reading
PowerPhotos — ScreenCastsONLINE Tutorial
Over the last decade, I’ve heard people sing the praises of the app PowerPhotos from FatCat Software. I’d take a look at it, but find the vast capabilities somewhat intimidating. When J.F. Brissette suggested I consider making a ScreenCastsONLINE video tutorial on PowerPhotos, I figured this was the best way to learn the tool once […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 12 October 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Another interesting twist in the NSO Group Saga: Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors — techcrunch.com/… (via Allison) ❗ Action Alerts Calls to action, if any stories in this section are […]
Continue reading
Demon Bots, I Rebuke Thee!
Podfeet.com is on a virtual server hosted by DigitalOcean. Bart and I have both been enjoying their services for quite a few years. A few years back, Bart convinced me to rent a second server to host the WordPress database. This setup has been working great. But then a few months ago, I noticed in […]
Continue reading
Why You Might Need a Great USB Cable Tester and Multimeter
As you know, I’m a mechanical engineer, not an electrical engineer, but I keep one on staff here at Casa Sheridan. I call him “Steve”. We both have our strengths in the two different fields, and we both enjoy figuring things out, and we enjoy gadgets and technology. Two distinctly different problems need to be […]
Continue reading
Exploring Markdown Export from Notes
I’m a big fan of Markdown, the markup language invented by John Gruber. If you’re not familiar with it, the idea of Markdown is that you can write in plain text, but still produce a nicely formatted document. Instead of using clumsy menu pics to format your text, you use this little markup language. It’s […]
Continue reading
The Kindle Nothing is My (New) Kindle of Choice
I’m a pretty avid reader. I don’t read quickly, but there’s never a gap between one book and the next. I’ve been a fan of reading on Kindle since 2010. While I do absolutely miss going to bookstores and literally judging a book by its cover, I still prefer Kindle. I also miss trading books […]
Continue reading