In yet another delightful conversation with Adam Engst, he fires up the WABAC machine and walks us through his journey of never successfully becoming a programmer. Two periods in time allowed him to unleash his creativity: HyperCard in the 1980s and today with AI-assisted programming. The basis for the conversation was his article on TidBITS […]
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NC #1111 Travel Musings, Peak Design Phone Bike Mount, Scrappy, 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 23, 2026, and this is show number 1111. mp3 download Trip Musings Before we get started, I wanted to muse about a few tech and non-tech things […]
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Security Bits — 21 August 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇬🇧 Here we go again 🙁: Apple challenges new UK demand to access encrypted iCloud data — cyberinsider.com/… (Another unconfirmed report from the FT because the court is secret and the law imposes a […]
Continue readingNC #1110 Elapsed Time Adder Released, MacBook Neo, Structured, ETENWOLF Air Compressor, Archiving Photos, Noise You Notice, Google Earth Pro
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 16, 2026, and this is show number 1110. I know you expected to hear Allister Jenk’s dulcet tones introducing the show, and don’t worry, you will during […]
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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 […]
Continue readingNC #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 […]
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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Security Bits — 2 August 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. At least one TV maker is (belatedly) cracking down on residential proxies: LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps — krebsonsecurity.com/… Another notable age-verification development: 🇺🇸 New York Rolls Out Final Rules […]
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Virtual ][ — an Apple ][ Emulator App for Modern Macs
Last week, I regaled you with tales of excitement running VisiCalc in a browser-based emulator for the Apple II. This was great fun. This week I was on the Clockwise podcast, and my question to the other participants was whether they enjoy dusting off super old technologies and playing with them. Jason Snell told us […]
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