Last October, alert NosillaCastaway John Shaffer let me know that the VPN I’ve been recommending for many years, Encrypt.me, had been sold to Ziff-Davis. He wanted to know what this meant for the product. I reached out to the folks at Ziff-Davis, and had a nice conversation with them about their plans to incorporate Encrypt.me’s […]
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Tobenone Thunderbolt 3 Docking Station – by Ron Burch
Tobenone Thunderbolt 3 Dock ## My requirements: As the proud owner of a new 14” MacBook Pro M1 Max, I wanted to use the computer as both a desktop (in a clamshell mode) as well as a conventional laptop. Given the number of existing peripheral devices that I had connected to my previous desktop, a […]
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How Did I Break Keychain Access for My Local Server?
Undesirable Connect Prompt Back in March, I told you the story of how I wrote a Shortcut with a shell script to mount a share on my Synology network attached storage (NAS). I said that I had made fire because I was so proud of myself. I taught myself to write shell scripts and taught […]
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Keychron K6 Wireless Mechanical Keyboard – by Caleb Fong
Keychron K6 Wireless Mechanical Keyboard Hello fellow NosillaCast-aways. Originally this was going to be about the Wyze Watch, but given the black-eye they’ve taken over security lately, I’ll just say that the watch is fine for the price but buyer beware of the security policy of the company. So what am I going to talk […]
Continue readingTake the Click Wheel & Steer the Ship Towards a Better Tomorrow – by Kaylee Dayo
Hi. Hey. How’s it goin’? You been doin’ OK the past couple of years? Yeah, me neither. Sigh Modern life, am I right?! Ya know, I’m still definitely a geek, but the further we go into the future, the more I find myself longing for the past… well, at least, parts of it. But more […]
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Security Bits — 15 May 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇪🇺 The enforcement of the EU’s Digital Markets Act (the first of the two big bills to be announced) has been delayed until 2023 — www.macobserver.com/… (We did a deep-dive on it in early […]
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Tiny Tip – Find vs. Search in 1Password 8
Find vs Search Explained I’ve been enjoying the new 1Password 8 for its speed and ease of use, but I ran into an oddity that caused me to write to the folks at 1Password for an explanation. I have an entry for a toll service called FastTrack. Annoyingly, the website for FastTrack doesn’t have that […]
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Audio Hijack 4 – Tutorial on ScreenCastsOnline
You know I’m a huge fan of all products from Rogue Amoeba, and couldn’t do any of the podcast work I do without Audio Hijack. In my blog post entitled Audio Hijack 4 – So Much More than Just a New Coat of Paint, I sang the virtues of the newly redesigned Audio Hijack 4. […]
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FreeCAD Review – by Kurt Liebezeit
Old-fashioned Hand pump When I was a kid my grandpa used to take my sisters and me to a certain park in the Chicago Park District to perform a ritual on Sundays after church. We didn’t go there to play on the swings, or throw a ball for a dog; we went there to fill […]
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Todoist Saved My Productivity – by Jill from the Northwoods
This is Jill from the Northwoods. I’ve looked for a task manager for a long time. I have tried everything: pen and paper, the Franklin Planner, and all the different ways that you can keep track of tasks. I’ve tried the apps offered by Microsoft and some other apps out there. Nothing quite did it […]
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