While I was at Macstock Conference and Expo, a lovely gentleman named Bob asked the table for advice on how to clean up his Contacts. He explained that he had a few things he wanted to fix. The first was that when he chose the Resolve Duplicates option, it showed that he had over 500 […]
Continue readingMore TagCategory: Blog Posts
CCATP #797 – Adam Engst on His Quest for Alarming Notifications
CCATP #797 for July 9, 2024, and I’m your host, Allison Sheridan. In case you missed the announcement, Adam Engst of TidBITS is now a member of the Podfeet Podcasts family as a continuing contributor to Chit Chat Across the Pond. In this week’s episode, we talked about why Adam believes we need persistent calendar […]
Continue readingMore Tag
CSUN 2024: XR Navigation Audiom Inclusive Digital Map
Allison interviews Chris Toth, CTO and Co-Founder of XR Navigation. His company provides the Audiom digital map service that is accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired. Audiom pulls GeoJSON map data from standard digital maps and renders the information into 3D audio. This audio can be used to navigate to a desired […]
Continue readingMore Tag
Security Bits – 2024-07-07
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. The Snowflake supply-chain breach fallout continues with another big name: Neiman Marcus confirms data breach after Snowflake account hack — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… (biggest danger seems to be targeted phishing) 🇧🇷 Meta’s plan to hoover up […]
Continue readingMore Tag
You May Need to Resubscribe to the NosillaCast
So … I made a wee mistake this morning when I accidentally told the NosillaCast feed to move to the Chit Chat Across the Pond feed! I thought I fixed it right away, but then Louis Trapani told me that he was seeing all of the NosillaCast content slopped into Chit Chat Across the Pond! […]
Continue readingMore Tag
Changes Coming to the Podcasts — All Good News!
Now that we’ve cleared the 1000 mark on the NosillaCast, I’d like to tell you about some changes coming to the podcasts. I promise you, they are all good. The problem(s) to be solved Of course, we have to start with the problem or problems to be solved. In order to explain the problem, I […]
Continue readingMore Tag
Physics Shorts 4 — Izotope RX11 Audio Processing by Physics Nerd Graeme
Intro Physics Nerd Graeme here, continuing my mini-series on my mega project creating A-Level (high school) physics videos for my students called Physics Shorts with Dr Sheppard. Previously I described how I record my audio, this time I’ll describe how I process that audio using Izotope RX11. This is a professional-grade piece of software that […]
Continue readingMore TagPhysics Shorts 3 — Audio Hijack Setup by Physics Nerd Graeme
Audio Hijack Recording Physics Nerd Graeme here, continuing my mini-series on my mega project creating A-Level (high school) physics videos for my students called Physics Shorts with Dr Sheppard. This time it’s just a quickie since Allison already reviewed Audio Hijack, but I thought I’d share my setup. I decided to just do audio recording […]
Continue readingMore Tag
Advanced Notability Tutorial on ScreenCastsONLINE
Just a bit ago I told you that my ScreenCastsONLINE tutorial video on the foundations of using Notability had been posted, and I teased that the Advanced Notability tutorial would be hot on its heels. In this advanced tutorial, I’ll show you how you can take notes with Pencil or with a keyboard while recording […]
Continue readingMore Tag
Follow-on Typora Review from Allison
You’ve just heard (or read) Physics Nerd Graeme explain why he chose Typora as the text editor to write his notes for his Physics Shorts videos. I had been planning on doing my own review of Typora, and while he beat me to it, there are some features I want to tell you about myself. […]
Continue readingMore Tag