NC #1117 Tiny Mac Tips on ScreenCastsONLINE, European Travelogue, Excuses, Siri AI Successes, Voice Control with Adam Engst

I'm going to make a confession to you now.

I only have one long article for you this week.

Now, it's not for lack of trying.

I have a 24-minute article completely written, but I ran into so many technical difficulties this week that I didn't have time to embed all of the images and proofread it.

Now, the ending might be a bit more satisfying if it waits till next week anyway.

We've got a great conversation with Adam Engst, so it's not like this is going to be a short show, but I'd really hope to get it done in time for this show.

Here's an example of the kind of things that kept me from succeeding.

My article you won't get to read or hear about this week is all about Tailscale with exit nodes and grants explained.

I needed to connect to my Mac Mini in order to take some screenshots, but it wasn't showing up at Tailscale for me, or it was showing disconnected.

I didn't see anything immediately wrong, but I decided I should probably upgrade it to Mac OS 27.

But of course, I really should update all the apps first.

I tried to run the update, but I got a pop-up saying that one app couldn't update.

But it wasn't the one you're used to seeing in the App Store where it tells you which one can't update.

This one just wouldn't tell me which one.

I had Cancel or Proceed, and neither one caused anything to change.

I think at one point I saw a talk about Office 365, so I opened up Excel and it was complaining that I hadn't logged into the license server in a while.

Fine, I'll log in.

I'll just pop open 1Password.

and it wouldn't launch on the Mac Mini.

It was the weirdest thing.

I kept trying to launch it, and it was just like it was just going, nope, not going to do anything at all.

I couldn't reboot because of this stupid pop-up about this app saying it needed to be updated.

So I downloaded 1Password again from the App Store, and I fell for that version 7 thing that they do in the App Store.

I don't know why they have that there.

So you actually have to go over to the website in order to get it.