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NC #1067 OXO Sweep & Swipe, OS 26 Screenshot Fun, Adam Engst on Taming Liquid Glass

·1 hr 25 min·5 clips

Ken Case’s Screenshot.app method uses Control-Shift-Command-4, spacebar, and Option-click to remove the drop shadow.

1. NosillaCast Apple Podcast #1067 centers on an OXO Sweep and Swipe Laptop Cleaner demo, a macOS and iPadOS 26 screenshot workflow, and a Chit Chat Across the Pond interview with Adam Engst about liquid glass. 2. Allison Sheridan hosts the show from podfeet.com, and Adam Engst appears as the TidBITS writer whose article “How to Turn Liquid Glass into a Solid Interface” anchors the interview. 3. The episode asks what tools and settings make Apple OS 26 screenshots and interfaces easier to use, capture, and read. 4. Allison says Bart recommended the OXO Sweep and Swipe Laptop Cleaner after seeing her clean her keyboard, and she uses it for dust, cat hair, and an iPad screen. 5. She describes the device’s sliding brush, its soft hairs, and the microfiber-covered end that wipes smudges off a laptop or tablet screen. 6. The cleaner costs $15, and Allison calls it a stocking stuffer for people who already have too many tech gadgets. 7. The screenshot section starts with Apple Notes on iPadOS, where rounded corners produce black wedges and disappearing edges in a Markdown export article. 8. Allison says iPad screenshots can be taken with Command-Shift-4 on a Magic Keyboard, with the power button plus volume buttons, or with Apple Pencil dragging from the lower-left corner. 9. She notes that the crop handles themselves are rounded, but the resulting captured window becomes sharp-cornered and shows ugly colored wedges. 10. On macOS, Shotter and CleanShot X behave differently, and Allison says CleanShot X preserves rounded corners while Shotter often shows wedges when copying a window. 11. Ken Case of Omni Group suggests using Control-Shift-Command-4, spacebar, and Option-click in Screenshot.app to capture a window without a drop shadow. 12. Allison describes using Quick Look, the share icon, and copy actions to move screenshots to the clipboard, then finding that pasted images can still show wedge corners. 13. Dan Morin asks whether the difference is PNG versus JPEG, and Dr. Drang’s Script Editor command get clipboard info reports PNG for transparent corners and TIFF for wedge corners. 14. Dr. Drang also links to his leancrew.com article about a Python-based screenshot workflow that adds rounded corners and a narrow border. 15. Allison’s first fix uses Shotter’s paid Backdrop tool, which can add a very thin gray border and an outer-radius slider that matches the new Apple OS 26 window shape. 16. Her second fix uses RetroBatch with clipboard input, an add border node, and a clipboard output node, plus a Keyboard Maestro macro to run the workflow with one keystroke. 17. Steve Harris of KeepIt and Feeder helps Allison estimate Apple’s window radii, which she reports as about 50 to 52 pixels for toolbar windows and about 30 pixels without a toolbar. 18. Allison says reduced transparency is her favorite Mac setting because it makes the menu bar more legible and keeps screenshot backgrounds from bleeding through. 19. The conversation with Adam Engst is interview-style, technical, and highly specific, with repeated comparisons across the Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. 20. Listeners who care about Apple UI settings, screenshots, and accessibility will get the most from it, while people wanting light entertainment or no technical detail may skip it.

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Practical Apple troubleshooting with a human pace and a sharp eye for screenshot annoyances.

Allison Sheridan takes a set of ordinary Mac annoyances and makes them feel useful instead of abstract: screenshot quirks, translucent layers that can make windows and widgets harder to read, and basic hardware checks like a USB cable tester or multimeter.

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If you fight translucent Mac UI and messy screenshots, this one is for you.

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