MacTalk
Back Issue – February 2023
Use Live Text to Digitize Your Cookbooks
MacTalkFebruary 2023 ADAM ENGST 5 January 202320 comments Use Live Text to Digitize Your Cookbooks I love cookbooks. I’m a sucker for paging through them and trying to imagine how difficult recipes will be and what they will taste like. Some authors, like J. Kenji...
Second-Generation HomePod Supports Spatial Audio, Temperature/Humidity Monitoring, and Sound Recognition
MacTalkFebruary 2023 ADAM ENGST 18 January 202336 comments Second-Generation HomePod Supports Spatial Audio, Temperature/Humidity Monitoring, and Sound Recognition Continuing the surprise announcements for the week (see “New Mac mini and MacBook Pro Models Powered by...
Mastodon: A New Hope for Social Networking
MacTalkFebruary 2023 GLENN FLEISHMAN 27 January 202318 comments Mastodon: A New Hope for Social Networking Cast your mind back to the first time you experienced joy and wonder on the Internet. Do you worry you’ll never be able to capture that sense again? It’s worth...
Is Your Future Distributed? Welcome to the Fediverse!
MacTalkFebruary 2023 GLENN FLEISHMAN 27 January 20237 comments Is Your Future Distributed? Welcome to the Fediverse! A new concept with old roots has started to come to the fore on the Internet: federation. Instead of a centralized system, typically run as the...
iPhones and iPads Now Require a Passcode on Every Backup/Sync
MacTalkFebruary 2023ADAM ENGST 11 January 202350 comments iPhones and iPads Now Require a Passcode on Every Backup/Sync Back in late October 2022, annoyed reports started to appear on TidBITS Talk complaining that connecting an iPhone or iPad to a Mac to back up or...
An Annotated Field Guide to Identifying Phish
MacTalkFebruary 2023ADAM ENGST 16 January 202343 comments An Annotated Field Guide to Identifying Phish Do you like phish? Not the band, not tasty seafood dishes, and not the pretty tropical variety. I refer instead to the intellectual challenge of identifying...
New Members – February 2023
MacTalkFebruary 2023New Members: Bob Bullock Gordon Usipiuk Dave Parker Returning Member: Judith Wilson Contents Click for special offers to Mac Users Groups members.Website design by Blue Heron Web DesignsClick the image for information...