Sometimes when I’m noodling what to talk about on the show, I bring up Launchpad and just scroll through all of the pages of pretty app icons for inspiration. I’ve been podcasting about tools for the Mac and iOS for so very long that this is normally a fruitless effort. But this week as I […]
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Tiny Mac Tips Part 3 of X
Welcome to Part 3 of my Tiny Mac Tips. This is an ongoing series I started in order to teach my dear friend Jill from the Northwoods how to move from an adequate Mac user to a proficient one. Link to Tiny Mac Tips Part 1 Link to Tiny Mac Tips Part 2 As I’ve […]
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Keyword Search Video Tutorial on ScreenCastsOnline
In February I told you about a really nifty, free Safari extension called Keyword Search. I was so enamored with this tool to vastly speed up my web searches for specific sites I visit often, that I decided to do a video tutorial about it for ScreenCastsOnline. I had so much fun recording this one […]
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I’ve started a series of Tiny Mac Tips for Jill of the Northwoods who just recently switched from Windows to the Mac. It’s easy to use a Mac but there are a lot of little tips and tricks that will make you more productive and enjoy it even more. This is part 2 of this […]
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Security Bits — 26 June 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. An interim report on the EU’s investigation of the NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware reveals that the company has admitted to selling its product in at least five EU countries (the company are not sure […]
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My Hazel Script of Doom™️
In March of this year, I wrote a blog post entitled, “I Have Made Fire – Shortcut with Shell Script to Mount a NAS Share”. I was so proud of my little self because I’d written my first shell script to solve a real problem and I’d used a Shortcut with it just to prove […]
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Steve Sheridan Clarifies EV/Solar/Battery Charging Terminology
When you start to consider buying an electric vehicle, you’ll be barraged by numbers with units that are very easy to confuse. Kilowatts vs. Kilowatt-Hours is one of my greatest confusions. Then there’s Level 1, 2, and 3 charging you’ll hear about EVs. Then there are whole home batteries and solar panels – it all […]
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Time to Charge an EV vs. Fill an ICE Car with Gas
How Far I Walk to Charge My Car One of the questions electric vehicle drivers get asked the most often is, “How long does it take to charge?” I answered this question back in May of 2019 shortly after I first got my electric vehicle. As I explained, “it depends”. I went into great detail […]
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Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 An interesting (and slightly depressing) look at the DOJ’s change in official policy around the CFAA from the security researcher’s POV: What Counts as “Good Faith Security Research?” — krebsonsecurity.com/… Social Media Developments […]
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NosillaCastaway Jill from the Northwoods recently made the full switch from Windows to the Mac. Jill had been a Windows user for a very long time and was so proficient that she was the one her family, friends, and co-workers relied on for support. She was a Windows admin and taught classes on Windows. She […]
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