Important info, before you read on… I wrote this article over a month prior to publication. After finishing the writing, and recording for the podcast, Google announced the Google Earth Pro desktop application was being sunsetted! You can still download the application until June 2027, so I decided to publish anyway. Just know that while it […]
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Audiobook Audio (V3) Part 7: The Noise You Notice
The noise that steals attention Quick experiment to start. Imagine you are listening to a narrator in a quiet room, and underneath the voice there is a faint something. Not loud. Not obviously bad audio. Just a little texture. Now imagine that texture changes every twenty seconds. That little moment of checking is the problem […]
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Apple Photos – Making Your Memories Last with an Easy to Access Archive
Over the last Christmas holidays, I saw a Toot on Mastodon from Rui Carmo saying that Apple Photos had dreadful exporting and archiving features. He thought there was a better way and so wrote a Mac command line tool, using Swift, to address what he saw as the shortcomings. Reading the instructions on GitHub, it […]
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ETENWOLF Zephyr S3 Air Compressor
A few years ago I thought it might be a good idea to get a home air compressor. I had two problems to solve: Inflate my car tyres while they are cold (the target pressure in the manual assumes cold tyres) Maintain my bike tyres at their recommended high pressures (65 PSI on the mountain […]
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MacBook Neo – Can It Replace an iPad mini?
When rumours began circling about a new low-end MacBook, many commentators pointed back to the unique 12” MacBook from 2015. I owned one of those. It was underpowered and that single USB-C port was frustrating, but the form factor was sublime. At only 992 grams, it was over 20% lighter than today’s lightest Mac — […]
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Elapsed Time Adder is Live in the App Store!
Have you ever needed to add (or subtract) elapsed time? You may not need to do this on the daily, but when you do, you might turn to a spreadsheet to do this task for you. Spreadsheets aren’t designed to calculate elapsed time; they only work with clock time. And that’s why I developed and […]
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NC #1109 Spreadsheet Workshop Video, ChatGPT with CarPlay, Leave Headroom Recording Audiobooks, Turbo Fan, Kerry Murphey of Final Lap Weekly and Whooshn
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 Thursday, August 6, 2026, and this is show number 1109. mp3 download Announcements Last week I forgot to tell you about TWO THINGS! The first I sort of obliquely […]
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Turbo Fan from JisuLife
We’re off to Spain, Portugal, and Ireland soon, and we’re very excited. But one thing we’re not excited about is the heat dome that seems to have just settled over Europe this summer. On my best day, I am pretty intolerant beyond a fairly narrow temperature band. When in my car, I constantly raise and […]
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ChatGPT with CarPlay — by Jill McKinley
The Question Siri Couldn’t Answer I was in a small town called Two Rivers with a friend, driving around, when we wondered out loud: what are the actual two rivers that give the town its name? I asked Siri, and she had no idea. It offered up Two Rivers bowling, Two Rivers pizza, and a […]
Continue readingNC #1108 Excel Dependencies, Virtual ][ Emulator, Renaming Files Using Numbers, 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, August 2, 2026, and this is show number 1108. The show I’m recording right now is the last live show before our great European vacation. I’ll be publishing […]
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