Audio Workouts Rudely at the Top In 2021, Apple added a feature called “Time to Walk” in the Apple Watch. The idea is that while you walk (or run) you listen to someone famous telling stories. I’ve listened to a few, including Dolly Parton and Hannah Waddingham. They were both lovely experiences. Hannah walked in […]
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Tiny Tip — Do Not Disturb is Right at Your Fingertips
Focus in Control Center Back in 2021, Apple introduced a new feature called Focus Modes. Basically, it’s Do Not Disturb on steroids. I know it’s really capable and lets you do all kinds of fancy tailoring of who can disturb you under which modes so you can focus better on the task at hand, but […]
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NC #956 Three Microphones by Jill, Nerdy Explanation of Why Apple Might Change the iPhone to Titanium, 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, September 3, 2023, and this is show number 956. mp3 download We have the announcement date for the next Apple event — it will be at 10 AM […]
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Why Might Apple Create a Titanium iPhone?
Marks’ Handbook from My Dad in 1978 It’s the time of year when the wild and unsubstantiated rumors about the new iPhone and Apple Watch are resolving into less wild and more substantiated rumors. In less than two weeks we’ll know what’s coming but the frenzy doesn’t slow down just because we’ll know soon. One […]
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I’m Finally Sold on Yoink Because of Stage Manager
Way back in 2017, in an episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond where Bart walked us through some interesting apps he uses, he explained how valuable the app Yoink from Eternal Storms Software is to him. The elevator speech for Yoink is it’s a little shelf where you can drag things on your Mac, […]
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CCATP #775 — Bart Busschots on PBS 154 — Bash: Expansions & Brackets Redux
Bart Busschots joins us for Programming By Stealth with the final installment of our miniseries on Bash. He explains a few new concepts, but the real value of this installment and especially his fabulous tutorial shownotes is that he compiles a lot of info into some tables for us to use as reference for the […]
Continue readingNC #955 Balanced Audio, Whisper Transcription aka MacWhisper, Wahoo Tickr Heart Rate Monitor, Callsheet for TV and Movies
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 Monday, August 27, 2023, and this is show number 955. The trips we’re taking this summer just keep on coming. We ended up cancelling our trip to Houston (I […]
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Balanced Audio by Andy from New Hampshire
Bart’s Audio Dropoff in Last Week’s Show A few weeks ago when Bart and I did our test recording for Security Bits, his audio levels were super slow. He adjusted all of the appropriate software settings and nothing changed. But then he touched his mic and its cable and the problem went away. We thought […]
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Callsheet Finds Actors, Crew, Movies, and TV Without Ads
I distinctly remember the day my brother showed me this really cool new website called the Internet Movie Database at imdb.com. It was amazing. You could look up any movie or TV show or actor and find out everything about it or them. I loved using it for a long time, and while I never […]
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Whisper Transcription for macOS — by Jill from the Northwoods
Hi, this is Jill from the Northwoods. I told you recently how I was using AI to help me make podcasts show notes better. Again, I’m not using it to write my content. I really want to do that myself. But instead, I was using AI to get good show notes and get some good […]
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