On Tuesday, I was on my morning walk with our young dog Kepler, who isn’t very good at staying on his side. He usually trips me 2 to 3 times on every walk. On this day, when he tripped me the first time, I was quite proud of myself for regaining my balance quickly. I’ve […]
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Update on Recording Remote Incident Manager
When last we left our heroes, Chris Cooke and I were trying to figure out how I could record a video for her presentation at Macstock. She’ll be talking about how she uses a tool from Pneuma Solutions called the Remote Incident Manager to connect to another person’s computer to provide them technical support, all […]
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CSUN 2025: ImaginAble Solutions Guided Hands
Allison interviews Celeste D’Costa from Imaginable Solutions about their Guided Hands assistive device for people with limited hand mobility. The device enables anyone with limited fine motor skills to write, paint, draw, and access technology. Guided Hands does what the name says: it promotes guided hand movements. It has a 2-D sliding system that encourages […]
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CCATP #816 — Bart Busschots on Raindrop.io — the Bookmark Manager He Actually Likes!
Bart Busschots joins me to talk about his trials and tribulations finding a good bookmark manager to replace Pocket, which he never really liked in the first place. He tells us everything he loves about Raindrop.io. Unlike most Chit Chat Across the Pond episodes, there’s a full blog post below if you’d rather read than […]
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Elgato Brings Us Virtual Stream Deck Devices
The Problem to be Solved Certain hardware devices seem to go into vogue, and everyone who’s anyone with a microphone seems to be talking about it, and then after a while, you don’t hear anything about it. When everyone first started talking about the Stream Deck from Elgato, I wanted to be one of the […]
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Sindre Sorhus Apps Dato, Aiko and Velja on ScreenCastsONLINE
I’m very excited to tell you about my latest ScreenCastsONLINE video tutorial because I decided to focus on apps by Sindre Sorhus. Sindre is a crazy prolific Apple developer with 55 separate apps, as of the time I’m recording this! He’s added apps just since I created the tutorial. The apps I chose to teach […]
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Security Bits — 8 June 2025 — Including VPN Deep Dive
Deep Dive — Some VPN Nuance On last week’s Chit Chat Across the Pond segment, Allison & Adam had a great discussion on VPNs, and the vast thrust of the conversation was superb. But, there were two threads left dangling a little, and one point I want to quibble with. But nonetheless, the TL;DR is […]
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Challenging Recording of the Remote Incident Manager for Macstock
I mentioned recently that one of the reasons I like to play with my devices and new software is so that when I’m faced with a technical challenge, I have the Lego™️ bricks necessary to piece together a solution. This week, I got to exercise those skills in an interesting way. The Problem to be […]
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CSUN 2025: Augmental MouthPad Smart Mouthwear
Allison interviews Virgie Hoban from Augmental about the innovative MouthPad device, which provides hands-free and more accessible control for personal electronic devices. The MouthPad is smart mouthwear that enables hands-free control of your phone, computer, and tablet via a Bluetooth connection. Perched on the roof of your mouth, the device converts subtle tongue and head […]
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CSUN 2025: Maggie Vision iVR Headset for People with Low Vision
Allison interviews Elizabeth Evans, owner and CEO of Maggie Vision, about their lightweight, wearable headset designed for people with low vision. The Maggie iVR headset provides magnification and color contrast vision enhancement for the user. To use Maggie iVR, the user slides their iPhone into the back of the headset. The iPhone’s basic camera functions […]
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