Geofency is an application that does one thing, but it does it well, reliably, and simply. It is useful for me and probably for others. In short, what it does is lets you create a geofence around any location and name it, then it tracks when you enter or leave that location and how much […]
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Tiny Tip – Get Rid of Glare on Glasses with Dark Reader
Dark Reader Extension in the Mac App Store Before I go on other people’s shows that have video, I take extra care to make sure everything looks good. I launch Photo Booth on my Mac and set the camera to the one I’ll be using. I use a Logitech c920 webcam, but to be honest […]
Continue readingNC #815 Night Before Christmas, Apple Fitness+, Security Bits on SolarWinds and Apple’s Tracking Transparency
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, December 20, 2020, and this is show number 815. mp3 download For the last month or so, Bart’s RSS feeds for Security Bits have been unusually light and […]
Continue readingApple Fitness+ For the Win
Fitness+ for Apple TV and iOS I’ve mentioned a few times (a few hundred times?) that I’m a big fan of exercise. I grew up in a family that never exercised, and it wasn’t until I began dating Steve that I was even introduced to the concept. I remember one day he said, “let’s start […]
Continue readingCCATP #665 – Bart Busschots on PBS 108 of X — Merging & Tagging
In this installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots continues on his series within a series explaining the version control system Git. We advance in our branching strategy by working several commits on our dev branch and then learn to use a merge commit to bring only the final commit into the main branch, leaving […]
Continue readingThe Unsung Hero of macOS’s Built-in Screen Capture Utility
You know I’m a big fan of taking screenshots, and if I can find an excuse to annotate a screenshot I’m even happier. I have lots of tools to do this and if I’m doing lots of annotations I bring out the big guns like Folge or Captio. But if I want to do a […]
Continue readingNC #814 iPhone Camera Aspect Ratio, Handgrip for Phones from Ulanzi, StippleGen 2, M1 Mac mini Challenges
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, December 13, 2020, and this is show number 814. mp3 download CCATP #664 – Tom Merritt on Time Management I had a complete blast on Chit Chat Across the […]
Continue readingM1 Mac mini is Amazing – Until it’s Not
I received my new M1 Mac mini on Friday night after waiting a bit longer because I did a build to order to get a larger 1TB SSD. In theory, I bought the Mac mini to replace its aging predecessor, a 6-year-old 2.6GHz Intel Core i5. But let’s be honest with ourselves, I just really […]
Continue readingCreate Your Own Stipple Drawings – Sorta Like the Wall Street Journal
Grumpy Cat Hedcut from WSJ.png This week Dr. Alexander Salter, the son of our dear friends Diane and Bill, had an article published in the Wall Street Journal. As you can imagine, we’re all pretty chuffed about it around here. We were doing virtual high fives about it and I was trying to think of […]
Continue readingDo You Miss the Handgrip From Your Big Girl Camera?
Our phones are now our cameras, and their ability to capture photos and videos is only getting better and better. But you may miss one ergonomic feature of your now-dusty big-girl camera, and that’s the hand grip. Holding onto a rectangular slab of glass to take photos can get tiring after a while, especially if […]
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