I’ve mentioned a few times that Steve and I have an aging Mac Mini connected to our family room entertainment center. It’s a 2009 Mac Mini with a screaming Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 2 whole GB of RAM. I have to admit that we haven’t used it too much over the years, but […]
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How to Export LastPass Vault and Import to 1Password
A while back I published a post about how to get your LastPass data out of your vault and move it over to 1Password. The process is a little bit weird to follow so I created a tutorial on it and published it today. You can find it at the link in the shownotes or […]
Continue readingPlay Flash on the iPad Using the Puffin Browser
On Monday night my daughter Lindsay called me with an emergency. She and her husband Nolan were out at a restaurant and had planned to do their Fantasy Basketball draft on ESPN using their iPads and iPhones. When they went to the ESPN website on their iOS devices, they were faced with a Flash interface. […]
Continue readingCommand-C Lets You Copy and Paste Between iOS and OSX
As you know I’m good buddies with the SMR podcast guys, Robb, Rod and Chris. Their communication tool of choice is WhatsApp, mostly because it works on Android, Windows Phone and iOS so there’s never a compatibility problem. It’s fine for a chat client, supports text, audio, video, and photos. There’s one huge problem with […]
Continue reading#494 ChromeSafe, Partial Solar Eclipse, ApplePay, Unprotected WiFi, Taming the Terminal Part 23a Networks
How to protect Chrome on OS X from POODLE vulnerability using Dorothy’s Tutorial. Capturing imagery of a partial solar eclipse – Steve’s video, my photo. A little rocky trying to use ApplePay for the first time, but it worked in the end. Unprotected wifi fun thanks to Andy sending in the link to medium.com and […]
Continue readingHow to Protect Chrome on OS X from POODLE Vulnerability
Last week on the show Bart talked about the POODLE vulnerability that was avoidable if you told your browser to remove support for SSL. I hopped over to podfeet.com to find the link he posted on how to tell Chrome to ignore SSL. The instructions given were anything but clear. They made me hop from […]
Continue readingUnprotected WiFi Fun
Andy sent in a link to a really interesting article over on medium.com about exactly how easy it is to be hacked if you’re using open wifi networks. Mauritius Martijn takes a trip to a random cafe in Amsterdam with Wouter Slotboom who uses a small black device to spoof the wifi network in the […]
Continue readingCapturing Imagery of a Partial Solar Eclipse
This week there was a partial solar eclipse around 2 in the afternoon in Los Angeles. Steve suggested a play date up to the hills in Palos Verdes where we’d have a nice view of the city and the Santa Monica Bay, he could take video, I could take photos, and we could maybe play […]
Continue readingA Little Rocky Trying to Use ApplePay for the First Time
Like so many others I had to go out right away and try ApplePay on the iPhone 6 on day one. I knew I’d have to put in my credit cards first, so I opened up the languishing Passbook app and tried to scan in my credit card. The little box kept bouncing in and […]
Continue reading#493 – Move Mouse, Security of old Mac, Chronicle, POODLE Vulnerability, and Security from a Mac User’s Point of View with George Starcher
Bart Busschots is guest-hosting the show this week. Allison tells the story of Move Mouse – a Mac app written for a Nosillacastaway by a Nosillacastaway! Bart answers a great dumb question from listener Lynda on the security of old Macs, Ken Wolf from the Manhattan Repertory Theatre reviews Chronicle, Bart fills us in about […]
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