Writings by Kirk McElhearn
New Mac malware can exfiltrate various types of data from your Mac, and a Chrome extension can steal Facebook session cookies. We discuss how stolen session cookies can give attackers easy access to your accounts, and potential ways to thwart this.
Follow the The Intego Mac Podcast, which I co-host with Josh Long. We talk about Macs and iOS devices, and how to keep them secure.
The new Apple Music Classical app deserves a “finally.” After many years, Apple has committed to classical music, as part of their Apple Music streaming service, with a standalone app. It’s not perfect, but it’s a big leap forward.
Read Apple Music Classical (Mostly) Plays the Right Chords on TidBITS.
Scrivener’s Binder is the nerve center of your writing projects. It organizes the many elements of your project in a familiar metaphor of folders and files. Various icons in the Binder, which is the left sidebar in Scrivener, help you see, at a glance, what these elements are.
There are lots of icons in the Binder, and in this article I’m going to show you what the different icons mean.
Read the rest of the article on The L&L Blog.
To learn how to use Scrivener for Mac, Windows, and iOS, check out my book Take Control of Scrivener 3.
Creative content we discover at certain times of our lives imprints on our brains, and we forever compare other music, movies, and books to those we discovered at the right time.
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Can malware use AI to modify itself after it’s been installed on a computer? Can AI help you in daily productivity tasks? And will passkeys replace passwords?
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When Apple released iOS 16 and macOS Ventura in late 2022, they introduced support for passkeys. Passkeys are an authentication technology designed to replace passwords. There are many advantages to using passkeys instead of passwords.
In this article, I will explain what passkeys are, how they work, and why they may be the future of secure authentication on websites and in apps.
Read the rest of the article on The Mac Security Blog.
Back in the analog days, many writers would use index cards to brainstorm and outline books. You would write some text about each chapter or scene on a card, then you could move them around and rearrange them on a corkboard or whiteboard, using pins or magnets. The free and flexible nature of index cards allowed you to arrange them any way you wanted, to rearrange them at will, and you could stack related cards to group them.
Scrivener’s Corkboard is an innovative feature that lets you outline a project using the visual metaphor of index cards but on a computer screen. In Organize Your Scrivener Project with the Corkboard, we looked at the basics of using the Corkboard; in this article, I show you 5 tips that will help you get the most out of this feature.
Read the rest of the article on The L&L Blog.
To learn how to use Scrivener for Mac, Windows, and iOS, check out my book Take Control of Scrivener 3.
Chris Niccolls joins us this episode to talk about zoom lenses! Chris gets to shoot using most new cameras and lenses for DPReview TV, so we wanted to tap into his extensive hands-on experience with zooms. Do they require too many compromises? Why are some so expensive? And can we put to rest the idea that real photographers only shoot with prime lenses?
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We think thoughts all the time. Why do we have these thoughts, and how do we deal with them?
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Apple has finally stopped selling the Apple Watch Series 3, which can no longer get security updates. The FBI shuts down 11-year old malware. And a $300 hacking tool enables phishers to defeat two-factor authentication using automated man-in-the-middle attacks.
Follow the The Intego Mac Podcast, which I co-host with Josh Long. We talk about Macs and iOS devices, and how to keep them secure.