I’m back with Part 8 of Tiny Mac Tips. This is an ongoing series I started in order to teach Jill from the Northwoods how to move from an adequate Mac user to a proficient one. In case you missed the earlier installments, I’ve included links to the first 6 installments: Link to Tiny Mac […]
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NC #968 OCR PDFs with Linux, Smart String Lights from Hue and Twinkly, De-Teching with Tom, Security Bits
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, November 26, 2023, and this is show number 968. mp3 download Checklist 353 – A Letter on Passkeys from Allison Sheridan This week I got to be a […]
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Security Bits — 26 November 2023
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. The recent wave of malicious Google ads targeting software downloads continues, this time it’s malicious versions of the popular Secure FTP client WinSCP — thehackernews.com/… ❗ Action Alerts Calls to action, if any stories […]
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CCATP # 779 — Bart Busschots on PBS 156 of X — Extracting Data with `jq`
After the last episode of Programming By Stealth where Bart gave us an intro to jq and the problems it can solve, this week we start to get our feet wet by learning how to extract data from JSON files. We learn how to descend into dictionaries and arrays, and how to slice arrays. Learn […]
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Smart Light Strings from Hue and Twinkly — by Jill from the Northwoods
Hello everyone. This is Jill from the Northwoods. I didn’t have a Christmas tree for the last 16 years, primarily because of the cats. But this year, someone gifted me a new Christmas tree because they replaced it with something else. But here it was. I had no Christmas lights, at least none of them […]
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De-teching – by Tom from Ontario
Hi, Allison and fellow Nosillacastaways. This is Tom from Ontario. One issue that we all grapple with, often only in the back of our minds, is how to ensure our digital information is secure, but can be accessed by those who need it when we are having a medical crisis and can’t act for ourselves. […]
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OCR PDFs with Open Source Tools on Linux by George from Tulsa
George from Tulsa here responding to Allison’s request for a show contribution to reduce her load this Thanksgiving week. Years ago we paid a bank service company to microfilm file cabinets full of irreplaceable paper – some now 120 years old. The company then scanned the microfilm to image-only PDFs it delivered to us on […]
Continue readingMore TagNC #967 Airtable to Replace Pedias, Taking and Transferring Live Portrait Photos, Going Phablet with Bart Busschots
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, November 19, 2023, and this is show number 967. mp3 download Apps for Noteworthy Events – DTNS 4644 Last week I forgot to tell you that I was […]
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Bart joins me this week on the show to discuss the tradeoffs he made in buying an iPhone 15 Pro Max. Here are some of the thoughts he’ll share. After decades of resisting big phones, and being ‘that guy’ who was cranky when the iPhone X made the smallest modern phone notably bigger, it’s finally […]
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Taking and Transferring Live Portrait Photos
Introduction Every once in a while, I start working on a topic for the show and as I dig in, I realize it’s more complex than I first realized. More rational people would back away and move on to another subject, but if I don’t hit a roadblock, I keep digging in. And sometimes I […]
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