There has been a lot of (justified) kerfuffle about a recent article by Joanna Stern in the Wall Street Journal regarding a relatively easy method for someone to “shoulder surf” to see your four-digit passcode and from there be able to steal your entire Apple ID. Android users have the same problem — with the […]
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Adding Keyboard Maestro Macros to Quick Actions in Finder
A few weeks ago, Bob Cassidy taught us some tips about how to get Keyboard Maestro to do our bidding. He was helping me with a specific macro that needed to be triggered on a Finder item. At the end of his explanation, he wrote: I think the ideal way to trigger this macro would […]
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ScreenCastsOnline Tutorial: Create Projects with Apple Photos
I had so much fun creating my latest ScreenCastsOnline tutorial video. It’s all about how to create projects with Apple Photos. I thought I knew a lot about the options because I’ve been making a physical calendar with Apple Photos’ Mimeo Photos plugin for years. But as I explored a bit more, I learned how […]
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A New Take on Web Browsers with Arc from The Browser Company – by Tom from Ontario
Hello Allison & fellow Castaways! It’s Tom from Ontario. I have to admit that this review will break the prime directive of not starting with a problem to be solved. However, I found, after installing the product, that it did actually solve a problem I had not expected it to. More on that later. The […]
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Version Control with Git for Your Keyboard Maestro Macros
I’ve talked quite a bit lately about learning to automate things on the Mac using the fabulous tool Keyboard Maestro. Keyboard Maestro is essentially like a little programming language with a graphical user interface, but it’s missing an essential part of any document creation tool – there’s no way to save versions of what you […]
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Security Bits — 5 March 2023
Deep Dive 1 — The Last Pass Breach Reports Since we last recorded, LastPass have released a lot of very detailed information. This is finally the level of detail I expect to see from responsible organisations. The structure and contents of the various reports are in line with industry norms at last. The best entry […]
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Tiny Tip – Filter Contact Fields When Sharing iOS Contacts – by Donna Campbell
I wanted to share some tips which you can feel free to use on your podcasts. I’m typically my mom’s driver for doctors appointments, but due to my broken shoulder, my husband has been helping out. I wanted to share contact info with him for one of her doctors so he could use Maps and […]
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Private, Secure, and Free Dropbox-like Experience with Syncthing by Bill Reveal
Greetings Allison, Steve, and my fellow Nosillacastaways. Bill here with too many problems to solve but for one; I am a grouchy obstinate old geek that is headstrong when it comes to computers. As the old saying goes, I hate all computers, I just hate my Macintosh the least. Despite being a long-time user of […]
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Keyboard Maestro Tips from Bob Cassidy
Back in October, I told you about how I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to automate a way to remove the alpha channel from transparent PNGs. The problem I was trying to solve was that the icons I was using from The Noun Project for featured images on my blog posts were nearly […]
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Evangelising macOS Spaces
A few weeks ago Allison and Ron described Apple’s new Stage Manager feature, and why it works so well for them on NosillaCast episode 919. What I loved about that piece is that they started from the assumption that Stage Manager isn’t for everyone, and then helped people both understand the feature, and whether or […]
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