Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. The industry is fighting back against the recent spike in supply-chain attacks targeting shared library platforms like NPM, PyPi, etc.: GitHub tightens npm security with mandatory 2FA, access tokens — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… 🇺🇸 Details are […]
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iOS 26 – Maybe a Little Too Early to Update?
This week, a woman on a user group message board I contribute to asked whether it was ok to update to iOS 26, or whether they should just apply the iOS 18.7 update and wait for a little longer for 26. I advised her to wait and applauded her for noticing that there was a […]
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Maybe 4 Times a Charm — Replacing Beats Fit Pro with AirPods Pro 3
In December 2016, when the very first AirPods came out, Steve bought me a pair as a surprise. They worked great, and I documented my excitement with an article entitled Apple AirPods – Bluetooth With Less Fiddling?. In March 2019, I bought the 2nd gen AirPods because, why not? Just a few months later, in […]
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How Does the iPhone 17 Pro Have 3 Cameras but 8 Focal Lengths?
The iPhone 16 Pro cameras and lenses kind of baffled me, and with the iPhone 17 Pro camera array, I am even more confused. The introduction of the “fusion camera system” is the main thing that makes me tilt my head and say, “Huh?” I asked Bart to come on the show to explain it […]
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The Great Podfeet Server Migration of 2025
History I start a lot of my articles with the phrase, “You may remember…” and this is another one of those times. You may remember back in 2022, when the delightful Bill Reveal helped me rebuild podfeet.com from scratch with a different operating system, new web server software, and more. My server was getting hammered, […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 14 September 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Some clarity has emerged on the spate of Salesforce-related data breaches mentioned in the previous instalment — krebsonsecurity.com/… & www.bleepingcomputer.com/… The issue was with how the third-party AI chatbot from Salesloft integrated with Salesforce, […]
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You CAN Add a (Good) CarPlay Screen to Older Cars
You may remember a few months ago when I told you about our adventures trying to add a portable CarPlay screen to our daughter Lindsay’s 2014 Subaru. Can You Add (Good) CarPlay and Android Auto to Older Cars with the 7″ LAMTTO Display? I don’t want to go through the whole story again, but the […]
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Tiny Mac Tips Part 10
Jump to Tips View Web Images Alone in Browsers Print to PDF … Faster See What List(s) a Contact is In Prefer Column View in Finder, But You Can’t Sort … Or Can You? Easy Way to See Changes in Photos Fun with Volume and Brightness Stationery Templates with Get Info Force Quit and Activity […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 31 August 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 The leaked data from the Allianz Life breach discussed last time has been added to Have-I-Been-Pwned, so you can now check if you are affected — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… There have been confusing developments in […]
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Why You Might Want to Run Multiple Disk Sweeping Apps
Over the decades that I’ve been writing and talking about the Mac, I’ve covered multiple applications that are designed to help you recoup disk space. It’s so easy to accumulate files that you really don’t need to keep, and many apps these days create large files in hidden directories that you might not even know […]
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