Hello Allison and NosillaCastaways, Allister from New Zealand here, once again, with a review of a geeky tool that will let you flex your Taming the Terminal muscles. On an episode of the Upgrade podcast Jason Snell talked about an open source utility called BitBar. This utility puts customisable information in the macOS menu bar […]
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CCATP #670 – Ken Ray on Apple’s Record-Breaking Earnings Call
This week our guest on Chit Chat Across the Pond is Ken Ray, host of the macOS Ken Podcast, hosted at macosken.com. You may have been wondering why Ken had never been on Chit Chat Across the Pond before, but I just wanted to make sure he was going to stick with it. Since he […]
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MagSafe Duo Charger – It’s Cool But You Need an Electrical Engineering Degree to Use It
MagSafe Duo Charger I obviously don’t do much traveling right now, but when Steve and I do travel, about 1/3 to 1/2 of what we pack is electronics, cables and chargers. I don’t even go to dinner at our son Kyle’s house without a backpack containing a laptop, iPad and all the chargers and cables. […]
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Security Bits — 27 December 2020 – Oblivious DNS over HTTPS or ODoH
Deep Dive — Cloudflare & Apple add Privacy to Secure DNS with ODoH Cloudflare, Apple, & hosting company Fastly have collaborated to create a new secure and private DNS specification that extends DNS over HTTPS (DoH). They’ve both released the spec, and released sample implementations of the various components in Ruby and Go. The Problem […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 13 September 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Recently we were alerted by Allister Jenks and Joe Preiser in our slack at podfeet.com/slack to a problematic idea I had on the last Security Bits. We were talking about how choosing an alphanumeric […]
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Observations on House Judiciary Committee Hearing with Tech Giants
As you have undoubtedly heard, a U.S. House of Representatives committee called the CEOs of Apple, Alphabet (Google), Facebook, and Amazon to testify before them this week. Steven Goetz texted me in Telegram that it was really good TV. I was head down working on something during the day so I didn’t get a chance […]
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NC #791 Lory Gil on CCATP, Juice Watch, Dumb Question on Database vs. Spreadsheet, Tom Merritt on Apple’s App Store Policies
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, July 5, 2020, and this is show number 791. This is going to be a rather unusual NosillaCast in terms of the format. We’re going to start with […]
Continue readingCCATP #639 — Lory Gil on All Things Apple
Lory Gil of iMore On this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, I was joined by the most awesome Lory Gil, managing editor of iMore and co-host of MacBreak Weekly on the TWiT network. Lory and I had an absolute blast talking about all things Apple. We talked about the supposedly seamless interface […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 26 January 2020
Feedback & Followups Following on from Apple’s introduction of support for FIDO2 in iOS 13, Google now allow you to use an iPhone as a hardware security token — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… 🇺🇸 Following on from YouTube’s recent $170 million fine for breaching COPPA, a bi-partisan bill has been introduced in the US House of Representatives named […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits – 20 October 2019
Security Medium 1 — Apple Card is not Magic A story made a lot of news this week because it involved a physical Apple Card being skimmed. It underlines the fact that people do not understand that when they fall back to using the physical card or entering the virtual number into a website manually, […]
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