John’s Long Path Name in Spotlight In our awesome Slack community at podfeet.com/slack, John Endahl asked what he dubbed a Dumb Question. I thought I had a clever answer to his question, but Calum B came up with an answer that is a fabulous Tiny Tip. First, the problem to be solved. John asked: This […]
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CCATP #720 – Jill from the North Woods on Switching from Windows to Mac
Jill from the North Woods, host of the delightful and inspiring Start with Small Steps Podcast at smallstepspod.com decided a few years ago that she wanted to switch from Windows to the Mac. I was a bit of an enabler on this, so I’ve been watching her adventure with great interest. She recently made the […]
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Create Tutorial Guides with Folge – It’s Ready for Prime Time
In late 2020 I told you about a tool called Folge from folge.me that is designed to simplify the process of creating tutorial guides with annotated screenshots and text explanations, and then exporting them into nicely formatted documents. This was the replacement we’d been looking for when my beloved Clarify was discontinued. When I reviewed […]
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Signia Pure Charge&Go 7X Hearing Aid Review – by Ron Heiby
Introduction I feel a bit strange about giving a review for hearing aids when I do not actually have a hearing impairment. This is about my wife’s hearing aids. But since I am my family’s CTSO (Chief Tech Support Officer), I do have a perspective on anything tech in the household. And modern-day hearing aids […]
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NC #880 Apple Lost Simplicity, Steve’s NosillaCastaway Shanty, Eschenbach Foldable Magnifier, Bonocle Braille Mouse, 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, March 20, 2022, and this is show number 880. mp3 download Last week I told the story about how I created an Apple Shortcut with an embedded shell […]
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CCATP #719 – Bart Busschots on PBS Tidbits 3 of Y
In this Programming By Stealth adjacent installment labeled Tidbits 3 of Y, Bart Busschots talks to us about the dangers of using other people’s code in your code, and the danger of not using other people’s code. He explains this seeming dichotomy and gives us ways to approach the problem taking a middle ground. He […]
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Has Apple Lost Steve Jobs’s Vision of the Simple 2×2 Matrix? – More Diagrams
I’ve been obsessed with diagramming the new Mac models recently and in discussion with Tom Merritt of the Daily Tech News Show we started thinking about how things were at Apple before Steve Jobs’s triumphant return to Apple on September 16, 1997. Steve looked at the product lineup and immediately saw that there were far […]
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NC #879 Podfeet is Wicked Fast, Gator Frameworks Boom Mic Stand, Apple Shortcut Plus Shell Script Fun
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, March 13, 2022, and this is show number 879. This has been a crazy last couple of weeks and I can’t wait to tell you why. I’ve got […]
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Podfeet is Wicked Fast Now!
New vs Old Web Server CPU Load I have something VERY exciting to tell you about, and instead of telling a 2500-word story first and saving the punch line, I’m going to tell you the news first. I’m still going to tell the 2000-word story but you just won’t have to wait for the dramatic […]
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The Apple M1 Family as of March 2022 – a Diagram
Last October I created a diagram to try to explain all of the different options available in laptops for the M1 Pro and M1 Max Apple Silicon processors: M1 Pro and M1 Max Decision Tree (click to embiggen) This diagram is still valid, but this week Apple added yet another version of Apple Silicon, the […]
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