Screenshot I Manufactured for the Blog I write around 5000 words per week for the blog and podcast, and I thought it might be fun to pull back the curtain to tell you about part of my process. As I’ve mentioned before, I start by writing my raw text in the cross-platform app Ulysses. With […]
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Security Bits — 19 September 2021
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. The NSO Group/Pegasus Saga: Apple have patched the vulnerability used by the NSO Group to deploy their Pegasus spyware, and the Citizens Lab have published a report on their discovery of the vulnerability which […]
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Just A Few Thoughts on Apple’s September Event
By now you’ve all either watched the Apple event this week, or you’ve heard commentary or you’ve read the details of the announcements. I’m not going to cover every detail ad nauseam, but I do have a few observations that I’d like to share. iPad Nothing I continue to be really happy that Apple has […]
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1Password Redux and How to Win Over Customers
Remember a few weeks back I talked to you about 1Password and their move to an Electron app and how the Mac Internet lost its collective ever-loving mind about feeling abandoned and I didn’t see it that way? When I published my blog post, I included on the Tweet Agilebits’ Founder and author of 1Password […]
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Encrypted Off-Site Backups with Synology Hyper Backup
Synology 5-Bay DS1520+ $700 Without Disks on Amazon Synology – Not Just a Bunch of Disks When people look at the pricing of a Synology, the sticker shock is really shocking. I think there’s a couple of reasons why. The enclosures themselves are expensive. Filling the enclosures with drives is very expensive because you have […]
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Apple Apps Aren’t In Your Normal Applications Folder and Why You Might Care
Applications Folder Shows Apple Apps Did you know that Apple apps aren’t REALLY in your top-level Applications folder with all of your other apps? If you open your Applications folder on your Mac using the Finder, you’ll see all of your Apple apps intermingled with your third-party apps, but it turns out they’re not really […]
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Bart had Tom Merritt of the Daily Tech News Show on the August episode of Let’s Talk Apple this week to have an extended discussion of Apple’s proposed child protection features. It’s a great discussion with someone who has been described (by a good friend) as being “pathologically unbiased.” You can find this episode of […]
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GitHub Copilot for VSCode Might Make Coding Easier
As a beginner developer, I find it very difficult to recommend coding tools to others because I’m worried the more advanced programmers will make fun of me. They’ll say my opinion is wrong because I don’t have the right experience, or I’ll accidentally step into a religious war like saying vi is better than Emacs. […]
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iCloud Passwords for Windows – by Jill from the Northwoods
iCloud Passwords for Windows As you may know, I use Windows. I like Windows. There are always interesting conundrums involved when saving some of your data into Apple applications and other pieces of your data that are not in Apple. For example, I have this very nice password list of all the things I use […]
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Joplin Part 2 – a Deeper Dive
A couple weeks ago Knightwise told us about a fantastic open source, cross-platform notebook app called Joplin. After he told us about it, I raved about it as well. This week I asked Bart whether he thought it might be the right app to replace Evernote for him he said he was waiting for me […]
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