Steve and I attended the press event CES Unveiled and partway through the event Tom Merritt of Daily Tech News Show fame asked me to do a rapid fire through what I’d seen. Steve recorded it, Tom transferred it to his Mac via SD card, sent it to Dropbox, and Roger Change edited in the […]
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NC #974 PETLIBRO Automated Pet Feeder Update, I’m Not Very Smart, Security Bits with Bart Busschots & Jill from the Northwoods
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 Friday, January 5, 2024, and this is show number 974. You’re getting the show a few days early this week because Steve and I are off to CES this […]
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Update on PETLIBRO Automated Pet Feeder – Vastly Improved Software
Recap Last August I told you about an automated pet feeder from a company called PETLIBRO. My goal was to have my two cats, Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper, get regularly scheduled feedings when we’re away from home rather than having a near-infinite supply of food from a plain gravity feeder. Grace will regulate her […]
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I’m Allison, and I’m Not Very Smart
Hi, my name is Allison, and I’m not very smart. Over Christmas, all of our kids and grandkids came to visit. It was positively glorious. Kyle and Nikki and their 3 little darlings flew in early to spend a full week with us. They came early to miss the flight rush, and so they had […]
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Mirror iPhone and iPad to Mac with Bezel
The Problem to be Solved In my work creating screencasts for ScreenCastsONLINE, if I’m demonstrating an app on iOS or iPadOS, I have to have a way to record the screen of the iPhone or iPad. We use ScreenFlow to record the Mac screen and in more recent versions it’s been possible to record the […]
Continue readingNC #973 OCR PDFs for Free with Shortcuts (and Automator), Story of Dark Patterns with Bart Busschots
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 31, 2023, and this is show number 973. Yes, the last show of 2023, which I’m guessing most of you will hear in 2024! I’m here by […]
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OCR PDFs using Free Open Source Tools with Apple Shortcuts (or Automator)
I’ve been talking a lot lately about different methods of running Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on PDFs using only free open source tools after George from Tulsa taught us about OCRmyPDF. All of the methods I’ve described work, but they’re pretty high on the nerd scale. OCR PDFs with Open Source Tools on Linux by […]
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CCATP #783 — Bart Busschots on PBS 158B – jq More Advanced Queries
Two weeks ago, Bart Busschots and I recorded a Programming By Stealth episode covering more queries using the jq language on our JSON files. We spent so much time working through the challenges from the previous installment that we only made it halfway through his tutorial shownotes. So this week we’re back with the second […]
Continue readingNC #972 Create GPTs with Bodie Grimm, Security Bits with Bart Busschots, Night Before Christmas with Honda Bob
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 Saturday, December 23, 2023, and this is show number 972. This week we’re going to start the show with a very important retraction of something I said last week, […]
Continue readingCCATP #782 — Bart Busschots on PBS 158A – jq More Queries
In Programming By Stealth this week, Bart Busschots and I start off by going through the challenges from our previous installment. Remember how I said I was really digging jq and querying JSON files because at heart I’m a data nerd? Well, I failed completely at accomplishing the homework. It was not for lack of […]
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