Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Apple have decided to end their case against the NSO Group (authors of the infamous Pegasus spyware) because disclosure could do more harm to users than letting the NSO group off the hook — […]
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Rock Paper Pencil by Astropad Makes iPad Feel More Like Paper
Pencil on iPad is Slippery A few years ago, my friend Cheyenne, the elementary school teacher you’ve heard on the show a few times, told me that she uses a screen protector to make her iPad feel more like paper when she’s writing on it with Apple Pencil. Ever since then, I’ve been tempted to […]
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Appearance on “Beyond the Post” Podcast with Robb and Bodie
Shortly before we left on our Africa adventure, I had the great pleasure of being a guest on a relatively new podcast called Beyond the Post. The show is hosted by Robb Dunewood, who you may know from the SMR Podcast and the Tech Jawn, along with the infamous Bodie Grimm of the Kilowatt Podcast. […]
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Philips Hue Programming, Off the Charts (Part 3 of 3)
In the second instalment of this series, I left you with a couple of useful scripts — one to fetch the device ID of a light, given a name, and one to perform the conversion from RGB to CIE colour. I developed those two scripts as necessary parts of what comes next. I have demonstrated […]
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Tech on Travel – the Africa Edition
When Steve and I retired, people asked us if we planned to travel. We immediately said, “No…” But we were wrong! We’ve really enjoyed traveling all over the world, and our recent trip to Africa was our 7th continent. We went to South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Botswana. Every time we take one of these […]
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In 2018, I started using an app I really enjoy. I call it my automatic journaling app, which is called Life Cycle. Despite liking it quite a bit, I was always a little bit worried it was completely stealing and selling my data. The good news is that Apple came out with a description of […]
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MyNetDiary App and Website A decade ago, I decided to start tracking my calories, primarily to lose weight, but then I started running into some health issues, and food tracking became more important. I started working out with a trainer, and when I told her that Weight Watchers had been very good for me because […]
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Hi! George from Tulsa here, responding to Allison’s request for content while she and Steve safari off to Africa. In June 2024 Mac security company Intego published a blog article “When does an old Mac become unsafe to use?” Intego’s answer, “… if your Mac cannot run the latest version of macOS, it won’t get […]
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Sometimes, you see an emergency and want to know what’s happening around you. And there are some apps out there like Citizen that will show you videos or people reporting what’s happening. I had to travel to Los Angeles quite a bit for work. I didn’t have much to do when I was done for […]
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You might have heard on Allison’s August 8th episode that I set up a whole video system so that I could start a YouTube channel and get good at it. One of the pieces that she wanted me to do a bit of a deeper dive into was the Elgato Prompter. I said in the […]
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