Kabcon (Winner) with Magic Trackpad Hello fellow Castaways! Professor Terry Austin here with a problem to be solved and a review for the solution! As an online professor, and an education consultant, I spend a lot of time at my workstation. At that workstation, I’ve got a 2020 16” MacBook Pro that sits on a […]
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NC #846 Yoink, Weather & Radar Apps by Jill, 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 Saturday, July 24, 2021, and this is show number 846. You would have thought by now my voice would be back to 100%, but it seems to be running […]
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CCATP #693 – Bart Busschots on PBS 121 of X — Managing Dot Files and an Introduction to Chezmoi
As we’ve become nerdier while learning from Bart, we have started to add hidden configuration files to our Macs and PCs. On the Mac, these configuration files hidden by default by putting a dot in front of them, and hence they are called dot files. Maybe you’ve stored your ssh keys, or in our Git […]
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Get Great Weather & Radar Data Safely – by Jill from the Northwoods
Hello, everyone! This is Jill from the Northwoods. Today, we’re talking about weather apps. And I love weather, I’ve always loved weather. Ask my people at work. They know that I’m a weather geek too. I provide my own ad hoc forecast for people in my office, whether they want it or not. So when […]
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Yoink for iPadOS as Clipboard Manager
Exactly four years ago today, Bart Busschots came on Chit Chat Across the Pond to talk about three of his favorite apps. The first one he talked about was Yoink from Eternal Storms Software. As Bart explained it, Yoink lives as a little shelf on your Mac’s screen and allows you to drag things into […]
Continue readingNC #845 Solar with Sense for Data Nerds, Cocopar USB-C Display, Screencasting Tips Part 3
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, July 18, 2021, and this is show number 845. Last week when I was debating with the live audience on whether to maybe wait a day to see […]
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Solar (With Sense) is For Data Nerds
If you’re a data nerd, you really need to get solar. When last we left our heroes, our solar installation had just been completed. To review, we had 22 370-Watt solar panels installed, giving us a maximum theoretical instantaneous power generation of 8.14 kW (kilowatts). The little inverters on the back of each panel do […]
Continue readingNC #844 Seniors in Tech, Fission Tutorial, Call for Help 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, July 11, 2021, and this is show number 844. This episode of the NosillaCast is a bit rough as I had barely any voice, so rather than torture […]
Continue readingCCATP #692 – Bart Busschots on PBS 120 – Ignoring Files in Git
A few weeks ago I told Bart off the air that when he was done with his mini-series within a series all about the version control system Git, I’d like a few minutes with him offline so he could explain how to ignore files in Git. I knew there was a way to do it […]
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Screencasting Tips – Part Three
In part one of my screencasting tip series, I talked about how to set yourself up for a successful recording. In part two I explained some best practices that I’ve found help me create better screencasts. Now we’re going to get a lot more detailed about the recording and editing process. I’ve tried to keep […]
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