If you’ve ever needed to get feedback from a group of people, using the free Google Forms is a great way to do it. You can create surveys, get feedback on a class you’ve taught, help organize a family reunion, or even create quizzes. I’ve used it to organize the party we used to throw […]
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NC #962 Is Fantastical Fantastic, Sonoma Desktop Widgets with VoiceOver, Freewire Technologies
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 Tuesday, October 10, 2023, and this is show number 962. I know, it’s only been two days since the last show came out but Steve and I are off […]
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Adding Widgets to Your Desktop in Sonoma with VoiceOver
Michael Babcock, cohost of the awesome podcast Unmute Presents with Marty Sobo, sent in an audio tip on how to add widgets to your desktop in Sonoma. It will be played in this week’s NosillaCast coming out on October 10th. Below is the transcript of his tip. Any words you see as quotes are what […]
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Nuke and Pave – 2023 Edition – Battery Tests
One of the greatest sources of content for the NosillaCast is the adventures I go through each time I do a nuke and pave on a Mac. By nuke and pave, I mean a clean install of the operating system and not migrating any apps or settings from my previous installation. The process I follow […]
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Two Years Ago Today I Left Facebook and Instagram
Two years ago on October 5th, I stopped using any services from the company Meta, e.g. Facebook and Instagram. I didn’t quit these services, I just quit going into them and removed them from my devices. I made this change after Frances Haugen, former data scientist at Facebook, testified before Congress. While working at Facebook […]
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Tiny Tip – How to See All of the Preinstalled macOS Apps
One of the great joys of macOS is how many apps come preinstalled on your Mac. These aren’t bloatware — they’re actually quite useful apps. When you first get your Mac, or after you nuke a Mac (erasing everything and reinstalling the OS), you can see which apps the Mac comes with. But what if […]
Continue readingNC #960 iPhone Speaker Problems, MacBook Pro Battery Problems, Questioning the Need for a MacBook Pro, 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, October 1, 2023, and this is show number 960. mp3 download We met Steven Goetz! If you’ve been listening to the NosillaCast for a long time, or even […]
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Do You REALLY Need a MacBook Pro?
When the first Apple Silicon-based MacBook Pros came out, we had a lot of options to choose from, and very little information on the repercussions of the decisions. The possible configurations were so vast that I wrote an article to accommodate a diagram I’d created called M1 Pro and M1 Max Decision Tree – a Diagram […]
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What Would Make an iPhone Answer on Speaker?
A couple of years ago, Steve started having a problem with his iPhone while connected via Bluetooth to his Tesla Model Y’s entertainment system. If while actively playing a podcast, he received a phone call, the iPhone would disconnect from Bluetooth, stopping the podcast, and answer on the phone’s speaker. As annoying as that was, […]
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How’s that MacBook Pro Battery Problem Going?
Typical 11% Battery Drain Over Night It’s been a while since I gave you an update on my seemingly never-ending battery saga with my 14” M1 Max MacBook Pro. I haven’t talked about it because I’ve hit an impasse with Apple. Allow me to do a quick recap to bring everyone up to speed. I […]
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