Jackbox Games In this current time of ‘work from home’, ‘stay from home’ – it was also time to ‘play from home!’ I often host a game night at my house with friends or coworkers. We like to play the Jackbox series of games from jackboxgames.com. This includes games such as Fibbage, Drawful, Quiplash, and […]
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Fell in Love with the Magic Keyboard for iPads Pro
Apple Magic Keyboard for iPads Pro Sometimes a product comes along in the Apple environment that you don’t need but you really want. This year it’s the Magic Keyboard for iPads Pro. At $300 for the 11″ and $350 for the 12.9″ iPad Pro, as Robb Dunnewood would say, “It costs a grip.” You can […]
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Create Long, Strong, Memorable and Typeable Passwords with xkpasswd.net
If you already know what xkpasswd is, and you want to jump right to the tutorial, click here. What is xkpasswd? Back in 2011, Randall Munroe, the author of the fantastically nerdy and hilarious comic strip XKCD wrote a comic he calls Password Strength. In the illustration he explains how by forcing humans to create […]
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NC #780 Three TV Tracking Apps, Time is Weird, Timezones Explained, 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, April 19, 2020, and this is show number 780. mp3 download
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Tiny Tip — Accessing Downloads Folder
I think I really should call this one a Pico Tip because the “Tiny” moniker is much too grand for it. Before I describe this tip, I have to give credit to John Siracusa who idly mentioned it during an episode of Accidental Tech Podcast. It’s a great show and if you’re not already subscribed […]
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CCATP #635 — Bart Busschots on PBS 94 of X — Basic JavaScript OO with Class
My Diagram Explaining Classes, Constructors, Objects and Instances In the early days of Programming By Stealth, Bart tried to explain JavaScript classes, objects and instances. He talked about it in Installment 17 before ES6, and then took another run at it in installments 27-31. But it never felt to Bart like he had explained it […]
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3 Apps to Help You Track TV Shows & Movies — by Jill from the Northwoods
Hello! It’s Jill from the Northwoods. It’s time to watch TV and movies! When I had a DVR, I would keep track of the shows and movies I wanted to see by recording them. It’s been three years since I cancelled cable and moved to streaming everything. I am not talented enough to write my […]
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Time is Weird
My New Clock With Timezone Options I have never been good at time zones, probably because of my poor arithmetic skills caused by New Math in the 1960s. If there’s an 8 involved in a subtraction situation (like GMT -8) then I’m doomed. Bart and I are 8 hours apart in time zones, so that’s […]
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CCATP #634 — Mikah Sargent on Favorite TextExpander Snippets
This week our guest is Mikah Sargent of the Clockwise Podcast and the TWiT network. Mikah was talking on some show about how much he loves TextExpander, and I thought it might be fun to have a session where we talked about our favorite TextExpander snippets. We found we use the same TextExpander trigger character […]
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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, April 12, 2020, and this is show number 779. Chit Chat Across the Pond This week’s Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite was really wonderful. I asked Anthony […]
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