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A better way to reduce file size in Preview with a tutorial at podfeet.com\/blog\/how-to-reduce-the-file-size-of-a-pdf-using-preview\/<\/a>. Interviews from CES: Tobii from tobii.com<\/a> with assistive technology for people with communication an mobility disabilities, Black Box Biometrics shows us the Linx Impact Assessment to track head impacts in youth sports from b3inc.com<\/a>, the AmpStrip heart sensor from Fitlinxx learn more at ampstrip.com<\/a> and Synaptics talks about their touch screens and fingerprint scanners over at synaptics.com<\/a>. in Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and I talk about David Cameron’s brilliant plan to try to stop secure communications in Britain and we get into a heated debate on whether Google did the wrong thing exposing a vulnerability in Windows when Microsoft missed their deadline. Finally we get to do the second half of Taming the Terminal part 27 of n, all about DNS<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nHi this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Mac Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Macintosh bias. Today is Sunday January 18, 2015 and this is show number 506. We have a MASSIVE show for you today. I’m going to start off with a cool tip I found on how to reduce file size in Preview (it’s not what you think), then we’ll plow through four more interviews from CES. By the way I’m skipping ones that either I didn’t think were that relevant or maybe they aren’t that interesting in audio only, but we’re posting all of Steve’s videos on Podfeet.com. Then in Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and I talk about David Cameron’s brilliant plan to try to stop secure communications in Britain (note sarcasm) and we get into a heated debate on whether Google did the wrong thing exposing a vulnerability in Windows when Microsoft missed their deadline. We end as friends as always but definitely have different opinions on the matter. In Chit Chat Across the Pond we get to do the second half of Taming the Terminal part 27 of n, all about DNS. Finally we get to play with the terminal again! Ok, we’d better dig in! <\/p>\n

Oh wait! one quick thing – I was on the Daily Tech News Show with Tom Merritt again this week – talking about Google Glass, dead or alive! link in the shownotes<\/a> of course. NOW we can dig in!<\/p>\n

Blog Posts<\/h3>\n

A Better Way to Reduce File Size in Preview<\/a><\/h4>\n

Tobii Technology\u2019s Eye Tracking Could Help Mobility and Communications Impaired<\/a><\/h4>\n

Linx Impact Assessment Records Head Impacts for Youth Sports<\/a><\/h4>\n

AmpStrip Heart Sensor Uses an Adhesive Bandage for 7 Day Wear<\/a><\/h4>\n

Synaptics Finds New Excitement About Trackpads and Fingerprint Sensors<\/a><\/h4>\n

Clarify<\/h3>\n

I always thought I’d run out of cool stories to tell about how Clarify helps me, but I haven’t run out yet. This week I needed to get one bank to let me transfer funds electronically to another bank. You would think this was easy but when I followed what looked like logical steps, I ended up with a javascript error. I whipped open Clarify, took screenshots and annotated them showing what buttons I was pushing and sent it off to the bank representative. <\/p>\n

She called me back and got another guy on the phone who walked me through a completely unintuitive path. I told him I might go just a smidge slower than he would hope, because I was going to take screenshots along the way.<\/p>\n

Again I snapped away using just the standard Clarify keystroke as he told me what to do and the good news is it worked. The better news was after I got off the phone I was able to annotate THAT document with the buttons to push so I could give it to Steve so he could do it too.<\/p>\n

Neither of these documents was a masterpiece filled with elegant step numbers or descriptions, but they were both really useful to helping me get on with my life. If you’d like to help yourself and others, check out the free trial of Clarify over at clarify-it.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chit Chat Across the Pond<\/h3>\n

Security Medium<\/h4>\n

UK Prime Minister David Cameron Attacks Cryptography:<\/strong><\/p>\n