Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇫🇷 Pegasus spyware found on 5 French cabinet members’ phones — www.intego.com/… Social Media Developments: Facebook pauses Instagram Kids development following widespread concerns — www.imore.com/… YouTube Is Banning Prominent Anti-Vaccine Activists and Blocking All […]
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Pivot Tables Come to Apple Numbers!
On Tuesday I was delighted to hear from many Internet and real-life friends that Apple has added pivot tables to their Numbers app. It’s a well-known fact that I am wild about pivot tables. I realize, though, that this opening statement absolutely requires an immediate pause to explain first the problem to be solved, then […]
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Nuke and Pave Your iPhone, It’s Fun!
IOS 15 Compatible Devices If you’re a normal person, you wait a long time between buying new phones because there’s no reason to upgrade every year. This is especially true with iPhones. Of course the new ones have some increased capability, but for the most part, they’re all rectangular pieces of glass with essentially the […]
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AfterShokz OpenMove Headphones – A Niche Joy – by Jill from the North Woods
An Audio Problem To Be Solved AfterShokz Openmove Headphones in Blue I thought I would share with you a new toy that I think is just great. As some of you may have heard, I have a slight podcast problem. I listen to podcasts all the time. When I’m not listening to podcasts, I start […]
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Why My Blog Posts Take So Long to Write
Screenshot I Manufactured for the Blog I write around 5000 words per week for the blog and podcast, and I thought it might be fun to pull back the curtain to tell you about part of my process. As I’ve mentioned before, I start by writing my raw text in the cross-platform app Ulysses. With […]
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Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. The NSO Group/Pegasus Saga: Apple have patched the vulnerability used by the NSO Group to deploy their Pegasus spyware, and the Citizens Lab have published a report on their discovery of the vulnerability which […]
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Just A Few Thoughts on Apple’s September Event
By now you’ve all either watched the Apple event this week, or you’ve heard commentary or you’ve read the details of the announcements. I’m not going to cover every detail ad nauseam, but I do have a few observations that I’d like to share. iPad Nothing I continue to be really happy that Apple has […]
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1Password Redux and How to Win Over Customers
Remember a few weeks back I talked to you about 1Password and their move to an Electron app and how the Mac Internet lost its collective ever-loving mind about feeling abandoned and I didn’t see it that way? When I published my blog post, I included on the Tweet Agilebits’ Founder and author of 1Password […]
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Encrypted Off-Site Backups with Synology Hyper Backup
Synology 5-Bay DS1520+ $700 Without Disks on Amazon Synology – Not Just a Bunch of Disks When people look at the pricing of a Synology, the sticker shock is really shocking. I think there’s a couple of reasons why. The enclosures themselves are expensive. Filling the enclosures with drives is very expensive because you have […]
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Apple Apps Aren’t In Your Normal Applications Folder and Why You Might Care
Applications Folder Shows Apple Apps Did you know that Apple apps aren’t REALLY in your top-level Applications folder with all of your other apps? If you open your Applications folder on your Mac using the Finder, you’ll see all of your Apple apps intermingled with your third-party apps, but it turns out they’re not really […]
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