With just a few exceptions, like the birth of my first grandchild and a pandemic, I’ve been honored to be allowed to speak at Macstock each year. I’m a very confident public speaker, but for some reason, about a month before Macstock, I find myself doubting whether my chosen topic will be any good. One […]
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Security Bits — 5 July 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Microsoft is continuing to tighten GitHub’s defenses against supply-chain attacks propagating via the platform: GitHub Updates actions/checkout to Block Common Pwn Request Attack Patterns — thehackernews.com/… ❗ Action Alerts Calls to action, if any […]
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Bruce from Tennessee Explains CDPATH
Hi. This is Bruce from East Tennessee, aka UseTheData, with a quick terminal tip about something called CDPATH. The problem to be solved is that I work in the terminal quite a bit, and I want to quickly get into my project folders, which are largely in Dropbox. In the terminal, we use the cd […]
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Extend Feature in OS 27 Beta Photos Saves a Precious Memory
I wanted to tell a quick story of how OS 27 saved an almost great photo I took while we were on vacation in Florida. We went out on a pontoon boat, and I asked everyone to gather at the stern of the boat for a casual family photo. It was a fabulous, joyful photo… […]
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Audiobook Audio (V3) Part 4: Choosing the Book Voice
From repeatable sound to chosen sound The previous part of this series treated mic technique as processing. Not metaphorically. Literally. Distance changes tone. Angle changes sharpness. Height changes the balance of the voice. And once I accepted that, I had to make microphone position boring and repeatable. Same stool. Same mic. Same place in the […]
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Show keyboard Shortcuts While Conducting Demos with KeyScreen
You know I’m really proud of the work I do creating ScreenCastsONLINE video tutorials. But it’s also a lot of work. I remember a long time ago, someone I worked with said making video tutorials was easy. I agreed, but said that making good ones was hard. My usual process is to spend at least […]
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Audiobook Audio (V3) Part 3: Mic Technique Is Processing
Learning the MV7+ Like an Instrument In the last segment, I stripped my recording chain down until there was nowhere left to hide, removing all the links in the chain that were there to fix my audio and that immediately exposed something uncomfortable: If I wasn’t going to fix things later, then everything had to […]
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Security Bits — 21 June 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Some notable anecdotes to illustrate why Bart and Allison are so cautious about agentic AI: Over 20,000 Instagram accounts stolen in Meta AI support hack — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… (An agentic support agent could be easily […]
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My MindSpace Tutorial is Live on ScreenCastsONLINE
In May, I told you about a fabulous mind mapping tool called MindSpace that is also surprisingly inexpensive. While I did walk through the capabilities in some detail, I think there’s no better way to learn a tool than with a video tutorial. The good news is that my latest video for ScreenCastsONLINE is all […]
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PrismCast to Stream TV to Channels Failure
Do you ever work really hard on something, and no matter how much time you spend, it just doesn’t work? I’ve had that kind of week. The Problem to be Solved In December of 2022, I told you about how we cut the cord and replaced cable TV and our aging TiVos with YouTube TV […]
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