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 23, 2023, and this is show number 937. mp3 download CCATP #766 — Dr. Maryanne Garry on Influencing Delusions About Highly Complex Skills Articles Tesla Full “Self-Driving” […]
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CCATP #766 — Dr. Maryanne Garry on Influencing Delusions About Highly Complex Skills
This week our guest is your favorite psychological scientist, Dr. Maryanne Garry of the University of Waikato in New Zealand and www.garrylab.com/… Dr. Garry and four of her colleagues published a paper recently in the Royal Society Open Science called “Trivially informative semantic context inflates people’s confidence they can perform a highly complex skill”. The […]
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Retrobatch for Automating Image Manipulation
Remember a few months ago when I spent a stupid amount of time automating the incredibly complex procedure of unchecking a box in Preview’s Export window to remove the alpha channel from PNG files? The problem to be solved is that images with an alpha channel have transparency, and if they’re dark images, they’re impossible […]
Continue readingNC #936 Hush, WonderPax, Anker Magnetic Phone Grip, 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 16, 2023, and this is show number 936. mp3 download Chit Chat Across the Pond – Two for the price of one! CCATP #764 — Adam Engst […]
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Keep Your Phone Secure in Your Hand with Anker Magnetic Phone Grip – by Sandy Foster
Anker 610 Magnetic Phone Grip This is Sandy Foster with a short review. We all like to take photos with our iPhones, but I have on occasion been a bit nervous about leaning out somewhere to take a photo — maybe on a ship or somewhere like that. The most readily available method of holding […]
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CCATP #765 — Bart Busschots on PBS 149 of X — Better Arguments with POSIX Special Variables and Options
In this rather mind-bendy episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots takes into the weird world of POSIX special variables and options. He refers to some of them as being like handling nuclear power, at one point he suggests mind-altering drugs must have been involved in the design, and he even compares one of our […]
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Clean Up Background Noise with Hush for macOS — by Terry Austin
Hey, I’m talking over here – HUSH… just HUSH Hi there fellow castaways this is Terry from Texas with another (long overdue) review. First, the problem to be solved. As an online professor, I record videos for my students. As previously mentioned, I live in Texas where it gets hot. To solve the HOT problem […]
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Tesla Full “Self-Driving” Beta 11 Wins the Most Improved Award
Charlie’s Trophy When I was 12 years old, my family had a collie puppy named Charlie who was in sore need of some training, so my parents signed me and Charlie up for obedience classes. When it came time for the final graduation ceremony, which involved the incredibly complex procedure of walking around a circular […]
Continue readingCCATP #764 — Adam Engst on Mac Cloud Storage Changes
Adam Engst of TidBITS joins me on Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite to talk about the changes Apple made recently to the File Provider Extension. These changes had a fairly significant effect on how cloud storage providers like Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and Box work with macOS. Whether you realize it or not, you’ve […]
Continue readingNC #935 Tiny iOS Tip, Tale of Two iPads from Jill, OKO Navigation for the Blind, Under My Roof
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 9, 2023, and this is show number 935. mp3 download Al on Let’s Talk Apple I always enjoy it when Bart has me on Let’s Talk Apple, […]
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