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, June 9, 2024, and this is show number 996. mp3 download Before we get started, a couple of housekeeping notes. This may be late notice but the live […]
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Magic Trackpads Really ARE Made of Glass
Remember back in 2010 when Apple first came out with the Magic Trackpad and it was made of glass? Well, I can prove that the Magic Trackpads are made of glass. Last Friday night I opened my M2 MacBook Air and saw what looked like a hair across my trackpad. With a dog, two cats, […]
Continue readingMy View of the Bartender App Kerfuffle
You may or may not have heard that there was quite the kerfuffle this week about the beloved-by-many Mac app, Bartender. If you’re unfamiliar with Bartender, the problem it solves is to help you manage your menu bar items. My most recent article about Bartender was just in November when developer Ben Surtees came out […]
Continue readingHide Your Menu Bar Items with Hidden Bar – by Physics Nerd Graeme
The Problem to be solved Bartender was a great app for hiding menu bar items, and it may well continue to be a great app for the myriad things it can now do for the new proprietors. But, I felt it wasn’t the right fit for me right now, so I went looking for a […]
Continue readingCCATP #795 — Bart Busschots on PBS 167 of X – jq: Recursion, Syntactic Sugar, Some old Friends and a Few Honourable Mentions
It was actually bittersweet for Bart and me this week as he taught the final installment in our series of Programming By Stealth about jq. As Bart says partway through our recording, he thought this would just be a few episodes but it took 13 episodes to go through everything Bart thought was fun about […]
Continue readingWhich Pencils Work with Which iPads? The 2024 Edition of My Handy Dandy Diagram
Back in October of 2023, I tried to demystify the hot mess that Apple had made with so many different iPad models and Apple Pencils. It took me days to even figure out what all the options were to make one of my world-famous diagrams to explain it. One of the things that made it […]
Continue readingNC #995 Bad Audio Last Week, B.fter Aroma Art, Overcast Guide, Blended Braking vs. One-Pedal Driving
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, June 2, 2024, and this is show number 995. mp3 download Bad Audio on Last Week’s Security Bits (no blog post) Hey everyone, how come Darren Hendley was […]
Continue readingTesla vs. CarPlay … Or the Best of Both Worlds
I’m a big fan of the giant screen in Teslas, especially because of how it displays navigation. In the Model S and X, the screen is vertical, while in the Model 3 and Y that Steve and I own, the screen is in landscape orientation. On the left side, you get a visualization of the […]
Continue readingHow to Use Overcast as Your Podcatcher of Choice
This post has been superseded by a new walkthrough when Marco Arment released an entirely new version of Overcast: Overcast – New and Improved! – Another Walkthrough Sometimes an app or service is in such widespread use that it doesn’t occur to me to tell you how it works. But then someone asks me about it […]
Continue readingNC #994 Macstock Coupon, Pencil with a Gyroscope and M4 iPad Pro and Magic Keyboard, j5create Docks, 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, May 26, 2024, and this is show number 994. mp3 download Allison on Daily Tech News Show 2777 I had the great fun of being on the Daily […]
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