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Live show will be on Saturday at 3pm Pacific Time on 25 July as I’ll be on vacation on Sunday. There will be no live show on Sunday 2 July. I was on the SMR Podcast on Episode #262 entitled Little Community<\/a> and the Daily Tech News Show Episode 2538 entitled Amazon is Past Its Prime Day<\/a> this week. Learn how I lost all my Apple Watch activity data but that it was because Apple really does protect our private data. I’ve started teaching a young boy a bit about electricity and magnetism and it’s making a difference to him and his mom. Bart joins us but JUST to talk security. He tells about the hackers getting hacked this week, gives us some Security Lite and Important Security News. Then for Chit Chat Across the Pond we’re be joined by Serenity Caldwell from imore.com<\/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 July 19, 2015 and this is show number 532. This week’s show is going to be formatted a little bit differently. I’ve got a couple of stories for you, then Bart is going to join us but JUST to talk security with us. He’s going to talk about the hackers getting hacked this week, give us some Security Lite and Important Security News. Then for Chit Chat Across the Pond we’ll be joined by Serenity Caldwell from iMore. Next week Bart will be back to join us along with Steve Sheridan for a special episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond. <\/p>\n

Before I forget, next week’s live show will be on SATURDAY, not Sunday at 3pm Pacific Time. I’m going on vacation for a week (I know, “what’s vacation when you’re retired?” And “didn’t you just get back from India?”) so I wont’ be around on Sunday. Allister Jenks will be doing the show that will air the weekend of August 2nd so there will be NO live show on August 2nd. If you’ve been meaning to do a recording for the show, dust off that microphone and send it in! You can send them to me and I’ll forward them on to Allister for inclusion in the show. If you buy the NosillaCast App, you will get notifications of these changes!<\/p>\n

Before we get started I wanted to tell you about a couple of shows I was on this week. First I was on the SMR Podcast on Episode #262 entitled Little Community<\/a>. Robb was out so I joined Rod Simmons and Chris Ashley and we had such a blast! If you haven’t heard the show before go check it out, what a great geek time. On Thursday I was on the Daily Tech News Show Episode 2538 entitled Amazon is Past Its Prime Day<\/a>. Tom and I talked about whether the desktop Office suite is dead, go check it out. Ok, now let’s jump into the show!<\/p>\n

Blog Posts<\/h3>\n

Apple Really Does Protect Your Health Data<\/a><\/h4>\n

I Wonder What Would Happen If\u2026<\/a><\/h4>\n

Clarify<\/h3>\n

\"image_captureI’m a member of a local user group in town but I don’t attend the meetings. I do like to read people’s questions that they send in email though mostly because I just enjoy the heck out of knowing the answer to a problem and helping someone along the way. This week a gentleman named Michael was complaining about Apple Photos and how he HAD to use it and how he couldn’t use iPhoto any more. I explained in one response that iPhoto is still there and you can still use it. He explained back that his workflow has been stolen by Photos though because Photos keeps opening. I suspected the problem was that his default setting was to open Photos when inserting his memory card, camera, or phone. I explained that simply changing the behavior in Image Capture would fix his problem. He wrote back that it didn’t work.<\/p>\n

I finally did what I should have done in the first place. I whipped open Clarify, inserted a memory card, opened Image Capture, took 3 screenshots, put an arrow pointing to the upwards-facing teeny tiny disclosure triangle that lets you see the control of what happens when you insert a device, and showed him that you could indeed still choose iPhoto to open. I put a couple of words in to explain that you do have to insert the device to be able to get access to these controls. <\/p>\n

This wasn’t a masterpiece I really needed to post online so I simply went to Edit and chose Copy Document to Clipboard and chose Text and Images, and then pasted it into the email and hit send. This took far less time than I’d spent with Michael going back and forth in words! I wanted to read to you what he wrote back:<\/p>\n

Ahhhhh, Thank you Allison : ) Yes I did try the Image Capture thing in response to your first email, but I *think* I may have not had the SD card plugged in at the time, and perhaps it sets the options per device? Either way, your illustrations were perfect THANK YOU. How wonderfully kind of you, your patience penetrated my frustration, you’re awesome. Have I said thank you enough? Just in case: THANK YOU AGAIN!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If that isn’t a good enough testimonial, I don’t know what will get you to go over the clarify-it.com<\/a> and download the free trial for Mac or Windows or both. <\/p>\n

Security With Bart<\/h3>\n

Security Medium – When the Hackers get Hacked<\/h4>\n

An Italian security company called Hacking Team were themselves hacked, and 400GB of data exfiltrated. It takes time to analyse that much data, so there has been a steady stream of revelations since the new of the hack broke on the 6th of July, and that stream is still on-going.<\/p>\n

Because this is a story that is likely to run and run, Ars Technica have created a “series” for the story on their site – basically, a single page where they continue to list all their stories related to the hack – http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/series\/hackingteamhacked\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Practical Consequences of the Hack – VULNERABILITIES!<\/strong><\/p>\n

So far, four zero-days have been found in the leaked data:<\/p>\n