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...
LastPass Shares Details of Connected Security Breaches
MacTalkJanuary 2023 ADAM ENGST 24 December 2022No comments LastPass Shares Details of Connected Security Breaches LastPass CEO Karim Toubba has announced that the password management company suffered a security breach last month, with attackers making off with...
Consider Switching from Creative Cloud to Affinity V2
MacTalkJanuary 2023 ADAM ENGST 5 December 202240 comments Consider Switching from Creative Cloud to Affinity V2 Earlier this year, I stopped subscribing to Adobe Creative Cloud, saving myself $54 per month. I had no particular complaints about the software, nor did I...
Beware When Pasting Phone Numbers Copied from Contacts
MacTalkJanuary 2023 ADAM ENGST 16 December 202224 comments Beware When Pasting Phone Numbers Copied from Contacts Have you ever had trouble pasting a phone number copied from Contacts into a Web form? It may not be a common problem, but it’s one that TidBITS reader...
Apple’s Advanced Data Protection Gives You More Keys to iCloud Data
MacTalkJanuary 2023 ADAM ENGST 8 December 202216 comments Apple’s Advanced Data Protection Gives You More Keys to iCloud Data Critics of cloud services often point—with a bit of finger-wagging—at the fact that cloud-stored data is theoretically vulnerable to being...