Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. The Western Digital story from last time has continued to evolve: More devices are affected: Another 0-Day Looms for Many Western Digital Users – Krebs on Security — krebsonsecurity.com/… But there have also been […]
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(Trying to) Run Windows 10 on M1 Mac with a UTM Virtual Machine
I talked on the show a while back about how the one downside to an M1 Mac is that you can’t run Windows, or at least not without a lot of faffing about. I was actually surprised that in Knightwise’s recording about how much value he’s getting from his M1 MacBook Air, he never mentioned […]
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Dumb Question Corner – Which Macs are for Light vs. Heavy Duty?
Jill from the North Woods (who is a recovering Windows user) asks our Dumb Question this week: Are Macs like Windows in that desktops are for heavy-duty work, and laptops are portable but typically less capable? And are all-in-one computers for lightweight users? It seems as I look at it, the Macs are all the […]
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CCATP #676 – Jill McKinley on Windows to Mac Conversion
This week our guest is Jill McKinley, also know as Jill from the North Woods. I’ve been using a Mac since 1984, and other than a 3-year stint using Windows Vista at work, I’ve been heads down in the Mac operating system all that time. Jill has recently bought her first Mac, which as is […]
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NC #818 Jill’s Apple Watch, Straddling OSs and Architectures, Chocolatey, Hands-Free iPhone
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, January 10, 2021, and this is show number 818. mp3 download CCATP #667 – Mike Price on Keyboard Maestro Blog Posts A Week in the Life of Jill’s […]
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Package Manager Chocolatey – by Caleb Fong aka @geekosupremo
Greetings fellow NosillaCastAways (still not sold on intracap). Today I want to tell you all about a wonderful (mostly) Windows tool. It’s the package manager Chocolatey. In short, a package manager is a tool, to manage applications in a reproducible way. For example at my $DAYJOB I have to manage around fifty Windows desktops. The […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 22 March 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Following on from the iOS clipboard security weakness discussed in the previous instalment, security researchers have now observed many popular iOS apps periodically polling the clipboard for no apparent reason, and it’s not known […]
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Podcast Movement 2020: Hindenburg Multitrack Audio Editor
Allison interviews Chuck Wang from Hindenburg about their audio editing software. Hindenburg Journalist is a multitrack audio editor designed for podcasters, audio producers and radio journalists. Its focus is on storytelling and its functions include recording voice and interviews, adding sound and music, organizing the material, editing the audio, and publishing the story. Hindenburg Journalist […]
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CES 2020: FindOut Secure & Private Cloud and OCR Search
Allison interviews Alexandre Lach and Nawfal Sikal from FindOut about their private cloud and search engine. Using Findout, you can securely store all of your files (images, photos, PDFs, scanned documents, and all common file types) on your own personal cloud and view and edit them from anywhere you have an internet connection. With FindOut’s […]
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 […]
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