• Want to learn some powerful Mac keyboard shortcuts and how to create your own?
• Last week we spent some time in the Keyboard system preference pane, but you may have noticed many more features in there. Let's explore.
• Keyboard → Modifier Keys
• Text - abbreviations and completions
• Shortcuts - macOS comes with a ton of keyboard shortcuts, but you can add your own, or modify them as needed here
• If you want to create a keyboard shortcut to launch an application or perform a more complex action use Automator.
• Leo Laporte gives you helpful tips to get the most from your Mac every week on Hands-On Mac!

Host: Leo Laporte

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Smartwatches are great wearables to help keep up with your personal wellness. Ant Pruitt got his hands on the Withings Steel HR Sport smartwatch. He shares his experience and findings with the device that competes with the Apple Watch on this episode of Hands-On Wellness.

Host: Ant Pruitt

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If you're browsing the web on your iPhone, you've probably come across sites with tiny text, hard-to-read articles, advert-laden webpages, and so much more. Mikah shows you how to enable Safari Reader Mode, set up content blockers, and make adjustments to the webpages you visit from your iOS devices.

Host: Mikah Sargent

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On Hands-On Photography, Ant Pruitt shares how to make your photos stand out with the Painterly effect. This style of editing helps give your photos the look of drama and fantasy. A popular style used by photographer Trey Ratcliff.

Special thanks to Nate Blakely (@nblakelyphotography on Instagram)

Host: Ant Pruitt

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• Steve Gibson joins to talk about the unprecedented Twitter hijacking scam that involves a god mode console that only certain employees have access to.
• Rene Ritchie discussed how Apple News is rolling out new features that emphasize local news and audio podcast content.
• A new project called the Atlas of Surveillance attempts to collect and organize surveillance sources from around the US and Dave Maass from the EFF helped spearhead it.
• Twitter is rolling out new API changes for developers to have access to some features that have been exclusive to the official app for some time.
• Librarians are creating digital escape rooms using Google Forms in creative ways to keep students active in learning and reading.

Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent

Guests: Steve Gibson, Rene Ritchie, and Dave Maass

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Before you go to wipe that phone and start fresh, you will want to be sure that Google is backing up all of the important pieces of your phone. Jason Howell walks through Google's automated approach to cloud backup as well as fills in some of the missing pieces.

• Backing up to Google Drive.
• What is included in Google's automated backup?
• How to be sure you back up MMS messages.
• A look at SMS Backup and Restore.
• Using Google Photos for photo and video backup.
• Checking apps for their own backup functionality.
• Restoring a backup safely.
• Expanding storage on Google Drive.

Google One Drive - https://one.google.com/about

Host: Jason Howell

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Tim Duffy Announces the DXE Virtual Hamfest on July 25th, mobile antennas with Gordo, George does some IC-705 current tweaks, 2020 Field Day 10,000' above sea-level, Amateur Radio Newsline with Don, questions with Amanda and more!

Hosts: Gordon West, George Thomas, Don Wilbanks, and Amanda Alden

Guest: Tim Duffy

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• GINORMOUS TWITTER HACK
• Elon Musk, Obama, BillGates, and other verified Twitter accounts hacked in bitcoin scam
• All verified Twitter accounts shut down
• Zoom debuts a $600 all-in-one videoconference device
• Alabama is the only state not investigating Google for antitrust
• Twitter partner Dataminr sold Black Lives Matter protest surveillance to police
• Facebook might ban political ads - is this a good idea?
• Amazon shows off Dash Cart, a smart shopping cart that automatically checks you out
• Google Ngram gets a huge upgrade
• Why Tik Tok is winning, and why it is dangerous
• US cyber attacked Russian trolls in 2018
• Google's ATAP invents a remote control for your smart home
• Eric Schmitt's secret summer camp
• Apple wins $14.5 Billion Irish Tax battle on appeal
• Roman roads as a subway map
• The Google Changelog: Gmail integrates Meet, Chat, and Docs | Google Photos adds recent photos filter | Google Lens shortcut | Google Fit adds YouTube Playlists | 15 Years of Google Earth | Zoombombing protection for Google Meet

• Leo's Tool 1: WindowSwap
• Leo's Tool 2: Leo's mask fitters arrived!
• Stacey's Thing: 9 Words Formed by Mistakes
• Jeff's Number 1: Quibi lost 90% of free subscribers
• Jeff's Number 2: Disney+ signups increased by 641% due to Hamilton
• Ant's Stuff: BTS Ant's COVID-19 Regs
• Karsten's Mask: Bluetooth-connected face mask that can record conversations, amplify the wearer's voice, make phone calls, transcribe speech into texts and translate Japanese speech into 8 different languages.
• Leo's Mask: UVMask: Real-Time UV-C Filtration & Purification Face Mask
• Jeff's Mask: Martyn Percy shows off a mask by Cecilie Birk Dehli

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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• Microsoft releases a CU for Windows 10 version 20H2. Right. It's "done."
• Meanwhile, let's check in on 2004. New and fixed bug list updated
• New Dev Channel (Fast Ring) build has fixes, sound setting tweaks
• The Passing of Wintel? Jean-Louis Gassée makes one big mistake in his push for ARM on the desktop.
• Related: ARM pricing is going up
• It turns out most Surface PCs are still blocked from getting Windows 10 version 2004
• Semi-related: Thanks to COVID stay-at-home orders, PC sales grew 7.1 percent in Q2
• Microsoft announces 3 million features for four different versions of Outlook
• Microsoft is retiring OneDrive Fetch
• Microsoft and Citrix expand their partnership. But what's really new here?
• Here comes Microsoft Consulting (and some layoffs)
• Microsoft spins off creepy chatbot
• Microsoft talks up Xbox Series X storage tech

• Tip of the week: A workaround for OneDrive Fetch. A lot of people are outraged by Microsoft killing OneDrive Fetch. But it's not that big a deal if you know about another OneDrive feature.
• App pick of the week: Stardock Curtains. It's like Windowblinds on steroids, for Windows 10. Plus: Don't forget, Halo 3 is out on PC! And: Microsoft Launcher v6 is a big upgrade
• Enterprise pick of the week: Microsoft Inspire is next week. Microsoft's annual partner show is next week. There's usually some decent tech news unveiled at Inspire, along with strategy updates. It starts Tuesday with partner program announcements. Nadella, Smith, Julia White, Jared Spataro, and other product folks are speaking Wed. The keynotes seem to be open to anyone to stream: https://partner.microsoft.com/en-US/inspire/
• Codename pick of the week: Portmeirion. Project Portmeirion aims to explore hardware-software co-design for security in the Azure general-purpose compute stack. (thanks, Walking Cat). It's part of Microsoft's confidential computing push. And Portmeirion is a village in Wales, for those wondering.
• Beer pick of the week: The Bruery The Brite: Hibiscus Lime. A fun pink sour that's only 75 cals. It's a sour blonde ale that almost doesn't taste like a beer at all. It's from the excellent folks at The Bruery Terreux in Anaheim: https://www.thebruery.com/beer/brite-hibiscus-lime

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott

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Open source has enabled democratized communication in the tech world. Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett talk with Tim Pozar, who has been building out network infrastructure since the 80s. They discuss the philosophy of communication and the history of open source, how it got its start with broadcasting. Now, in the last 20 years, open source has exploded, however, we are in the digital age and still have limited access to ISPS. They discuss how Starlink, could be a great solution to fix that problem.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett

Guest: Tim Pozar

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