If you’ve been playing along for a while, you’ll remember that I was super sad when the MyScript folks decided to stop supporting their MyScript Stylus 3rd party keyboard for the iPad. This magical keyboard allowed you to use Apple Pencil to write by hand, and executed real-time optical character recognition so everything you scribbled […]
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Security Bits – 20 October 2019
Security Medium 1 — Apple Card is not Magic A story made a lot of news this week because it involved a physical Apple Card being skimmed. It underlines the fact that people do not understand that when they fall back to using the physical card or entering the virtual number into a website manually, […]
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MacTech Conference 2019 – Python, Catalina Volumes, Script Debugging and Sal’s Secret Trick
What is MacTech This week I attended the MacTech Conference for the first time. I’d heard about it for ages from Dave Hamilton of the Mac Geek Gab, but for two reasons, I hesitated for a long time about attending. Even though it’s conveniently in Los Angeles, it’s super expensive. I used a pre-registration discount […]
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Making of: macOS Clean Install Tutorial – ScreenCastsOnline
I am really excited to tell you about my latest video tutorial for ScreenCastsOnline, how to do a clean install of macOS. I’m excited because it was one of the most terrifying and challenging tutorials I’ve ever created. This was a very difficult video to create for several reasons.
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I Built a Hackintosh – By Trevor Drover
Creating a Hackintosh is not endorsed by Podfeet Podcasts. This post is meant to inspire the geek in all of us and to look at creative ways to make tech work for you. See relevant Laws in your own country before testing a solution like this. When Mojave was released last year I was disappointed […]
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In Case of Emergency, Open Home Inventory
The Theft Many years ago, Steve and I traveled to Florida with the kids on an airline that no longer exists called Trans World Airlines, also known as TWA. I made the critical error of carrying my jewelry in my checked luggage. I’m sure you’ve guessed the second part of that story. When TWA gave […]
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Sleep Tracking Isn’t Stupid – by Jill McKinley
Better Sleep from Going to Bed Earlier I am Jill from the Northwoods. I have listened quietly to Allison and Bart for years. I work for a software company and used to be a systems administrator. I love learning how fully use gadgets and software to make life better and more enjoyable. I heard somewhere […]
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Why You NEED a DJI Osmo Pocket – by Joe Dugandzic
DJI Osmo Pocket Size vs iPhone 8 Plus So you’ve heard about those camera gimbal gizmos, right? Maybe you’ve even seen them out “in the wild” and thought they were pretty cool. But still, you think, “I have the iPhone 11 Pro Max with three cameras on it, and Tim promised that it would be […]
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Apple Watch Series 5 and the Phone Call of Sadness™
Lately, Steve and I have started upgrading our phones and watches every single year. I’m starting to seriously question this strategy. While we can afford to do this, and it’s great fun, in two cases I don’t think we’ve gotten our money’s worth. Last year we promised the kids that we’d flow down our iPhones […]
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I Found an Electronic Doorbell!
My Father the Scavenger My father grew up during the Great Depression and as a result, he became a bit of a scavenger. If he found something interesting like a screw or a nut on the ground, it was quite likely to come home in his pocket. Late in his working career, he was making […]
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