I bought my first USB-C Mac in 2015 when the MacBook Adorable first came out. That was seven years ago and I’ve been a huge advocate of USB-C ever since. I’ve gotten into flame wars on the topic as recently as this week from people clinging to the old and undeniably irritating USB-A connector. These […]
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CCATP #748 – Darcy Hegarty on His Unusual Screencasting Process
This week I’m pleased to introduce you to Darcy Hegarty on Chit Chat Across the Pond. Darcy is a fellow screencaster for Don McAllister’s ScreenCastsOnline and I’m really impressed with the videos he creates. They’re tight, they tell a coherent story, and he even starts with the problem to be solved! I started chatting with […]
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Prowlithin USB Vacuum Solves My Cat Problem
Grace Uses My Stream Deck as a Headrest I don’t know what it is about a computer desk, but cats simply love them. Even cats that are normally standoffish will leap onto your desk and try to lie on your keyboard, and helpfully drape their tails across your trackpad. Our cat Grace, named after computer […]
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NC #911 Inverse Parental Controls, Automating PNG Conversion, Scan Your World in 3D with Scaniverse, iPhone 14 Pro Cameras Explained
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, October 23, 2022, and this is show number 911. mp3 download I’m Still Using It Last week I told you about a fun new audience participation game I’m […]
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Automating Conversion of Transparent PNGs to Opaque
Last month I told you about a really cool service called the Noun Project, which for a small fee gives you access to thousands of really nice line art icons. I’ve been enjoying jazzing up blog posts with Noun Project icons when I don’t have a suitable screenshot to keep readers from getting bored. When […]
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This week our guest is Dan Moren (https://dmoren.com/). Dan is the author of the Galactic Cold War series of sci-fi espionage capers, a former senior editor at Macworld, a writer for Six Colors and TidBITS amongst other publications, and a prolific podcaster as co-host of Clockwise and The Rebound. But I did not have him […]
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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, October 16, 2022, and this is show number 910. mp3 download If you’re hearing this before 5 PM Pacific Time on Sunday, then you’ll hopefully realize that there’s […]
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Scan Your World in 3D with Scaniverse
The hallmark of a good NosillaCast review is that we must start with the problem to be solved. There’s one exception to this hard and fast rule. Sometimes there’s something that’s just cool and doesn’t solve any problems at all. The other day I was listening to a podcast where they were droning on and […]
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The Day the Drobo Died … Again
A Walk Down Memory Lane Over the years I’ve regaled you with tales of our various network-attached storage (NAS) devices. Steve and I use our NAS for storing sensitive financial data that we don’t want to be stored in the cloud, along with hosting our PLEX video library Steve has ripped from our DVD/Blu-Ray collection […]
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Antonio Rosario bills himself as a full-time unemployed photographer, part-time semi-employed videographer and photography instructor, and a volunteer bimonthly podcaster. He sent out a tweet in which he said, “Dear podcasters: Will someone PLEASE interview me about the #iPhone 14 ProMax?!” I expected that Antonio wanted to come on and have a discussion about the […]
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