This is Bruce from Tennessee with a review of the Moen Flo Smart Water Monitor. The problem to be solved is that both my church and a couple of friends had really bad experiences with water leaks that went on for days when nobody was around. I’ve also had the experience of the water company […]
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CES 2026: Donut Lab Solid State Battery and Motor Integrated into Verge Motorcycle
Steve Sheridan interviews Marko Lehtimäki, Co-founder and CEO of Donut Lab, about their production-ready solid-state battery designed to integrate into several platforms and applications. The Donut battery has a high energy density of 400 Wh/kg and can support 100,000 charge cycles. Due to its solid-state design, it is extremely safe and low cost when compared […]
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iMazing Saves Memories
Last year, right around Christmas, our beloved niece passed away. As you can imagine, it’s been a rough year, especially for her parents. They’re healing, but it’s a pain that will never truly go away. When we were visiting over the holidays, her mom showed me that they have her iPhone and can’t bring themselves […]
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Three Happy AppleCare Stories
I dislike having to call AppleCare as much as the next nerd, but sometimes you just have to. I have three stories to tell about recent AppleCare cases, all of which have happy endings. The first one starts out rough, but it gets there in the end. 1. Peacock Bundle On October 16, 2025, Apple […]
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From Surge Protectors to Mice to Displays — by George from Tulsa
Hi, George from Tulsa, phoning in from Christmases past. It must have been twenty years ago, maybe more, that I converted my friend Gary to Mac. This Christmas his wife gave him a new Mini to replace his long obsolete iMac. As I put together a list for them of my current favorite Mac desktop […]
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Learn Unite to Create Site-Specific Browsers with ScreenCastsONLINE Tutorial
I’m super excited about my latest video tutorial for ScreenCastsONLINE. In this tutorial, I first teach how you can make little standalone applications from websites. They’re called site-specific browsers, and they’re valuable as an easy way to open a web service as though it’s an app, and if done with the right tool, they can […]
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Building a Fiction Editing Pipeline Part 2 – Grammar — Eddie Tonkoi
Intro In my last article, (Building a Fiction Editing Pipeline with Regex and Python — Part 1 by Eddie Tonkoi), I introduced my pipeline, including the rationale behind my Narrative Analysis toolkit, ETNA. This time, I’ll be looking at the more subjective part, starting with grammar. The problem with grammar Unlike syntax and spelling, grammar […]
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Building a Fiction Editing Pipeline with Regex and Python — Part 1 by Eddie Tonkoi
Intro: Rationale and Regex My wife, Jern Tonkoi, is a discovery writer. She knows what she wants to write, but the characters and the locations don’t always play along, resulting in emotional depth with creative freedom. I have the task of editing and producing the novel, and so I am bound by mundane conventions such […]
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Security Bits — 18 December 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Yet another real-world example of the dangers of poor secret hygiene: Over 10,000 Docker Hub images found leaking credentials, auth keys — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… 🇬🇧 UK fines LastPass £1.2M over 2022 data breach impacting 1.6 […]
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Taming the Terminal — New Installment 41!
In October of 2015, Bart and I started a podcast called Taming the Terminal. It’s a fantastic and (mostly) evergreen series that helps demystify the Terminal. It’s not just for macOS users. Whenever possible, Bart included Linux and Windows commands. With the advent of the Windows Subsystem for Linux, it became even easier for Windows […]
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