Have you ever been working with an Apple Pages, Keynote, or even Numbers file and wanted to extract the images? Here’s the process: Open the document Find the first image you want to extract Right-click on the image and choose copy from the contextual menu Open Preview Choose File → New from Clipboard (or use […]
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I’ve Changed My Mind About Apple’s New Password App
With the advent of macOS Sequoia and iOS 18, Apple upgraded its method of saving user passwords from the arcane Keychain Access to a fledgling full-fledged password manager. Because Apple likes to name its products so they’re impossible to search online, the app is called Passwords. I am a huge proponent of password managers, with […]
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Why Do People Like Apple Notes?
In the early days, Apple Notes were an okay way to jot down a thought, but Apple has put a lot of work into making them much more useful. Nowadays, I hear people on tech podcasts and in my nerd circles talking about how much they use and like Apple Notes. But I don’t get […]
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Security Bits — 27 October 2024
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. An example of a very advanced and powerful honeypot: Microsoft creates fake Azure tenants to pull phishers into honeypots — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… Apple have followed through on their promise to allow cybersecurity researchers to test […]
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Make Your Screenshares More Engaging with FaceScreen
FaceScreen in the Mac App Store A few weeks ago I told you about a nifty little app called Presentify by Ram Patra. As I often do for the devs when I talk about a piece of software, I dropped Ram a note telling him how much I enjoy Presentify and sent him a link. […]
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How to Use Audio Hijack – Video for SVMUG
Last night I taught the Silicon Valley Mac Users Group how to use Audio Hijack. I’m not telling you that to make you sad you missed it – they recorded the session and produced a high-quality video of the session. It’s not as structured as my ScreenCastsONLINE tutorial but I think it’s still pretty darn […]
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Plateaus Coming on LLMs – Discussion with Bart Busschots
The notes below formed the launchpad for a discussion I had on the NosillaCast #1015 with Bart Busschots. In the first part of our discussion, we talked about whether Bart was disappointed in me when I used ChatGPT 4o to write some JavaScript for me to embed in TextExpander instead of writing it myself. In […]
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ScreenCastsONLINE Tutorial – Overcast
In July, I wrote an extensive article walking you through the complete redesign of the podcatcher Overcast. If you like learning from text and screenshots, then you’re in luck. But if you prefer to learn through videos to actually see the app in action, you’re also in luck. We’ve just published my latest tutorial on […]
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Voice Synthesis – the 2024 Edition with Play.ht and Resemble AI
Last week, as you may remember, I lost my voice (yet again) and produced one segment of the show with an AI-generated voice. I promised to tell you how I did it this week. Ask ChatGPT In 2023 I used ElevenLabs.io to produce my voice, but I thought I’d ask ChatGPT what all the cool […]
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Quick Use of ChatGPT to Write JavaScript for TextExpander Snippet
When I add images to podfeet.com for blog posts, I use my blogging software of choice, MarsEdit. I just drag an image into the text of a post, and MarsEdit does all the formatting automatically, and uploads it to my server and links it up. On occasion I want to upload a different kind of […]
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