Screenshot.app I love the Apple community, and this week I especially love the Apple community on Mastodon. Hashtags are super powerful there, so when I needed help this week, I added the hashtag #Apple, people came out of the woodwork to help me. Here’s the problem to be solved. I’m working on my presentation for […]
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You Can See Packages with the Dual-Camera Eufy E340 Doorbell!
Today, I’m going to give you part one of three of Steve and my adventures embracing even more of the products Eufy have to offer. When Wyze proved to be incapable of doing security correctly, we replaced all of our indoor cameras with the ones from Eufy. Let’s talk about doorbells! Shortly after Ring came […]
Continue readingCSUN 2025: Glidance Autonomous Self-Guided Mobility Aid
Allison interviews Amos Miller, Founder and CEO of Guidance, about Glide, their AI-powered mobility aid designed to help people who are blind or have low vision navigate with confidence, comfort, and ease. Glidance’s Sensible Wayfinding Service is a high-intensity computer vision and sense-making AI system built by Glidance. It connects all active Glides and powers […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 22 June 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Greyware spyware from Pegatron continues to be abused: Graphite spyware used in Apple iOS zero-click attacks on journalists — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… (This all happened a few months ago, and the zero-day was patched back in […]
Continue readingI Got to Ride in an Ambulance
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 […]
Continue readingUpdate 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 […]
Continue readingCSUN 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 […]
Continue readingCCATP #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 […]
Continue readingElgato 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 […]
Continue readingSindre 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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