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, January 17, 2021, and this is show number 819. mp3 download CCATP #668 – Bart Busschots on PBS 110 of X – Merge Conflicts Blog Posts Bartender 4 […]
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Bartender 4 for macOS Big Sur – Video Tutorial on ScreenCastsOnline
Bartender has been one of my mission-crictical apps on my Macs for many years. Without it, I wouldn’t have room for all of my menu bar items, even thought I use a 16″ MacBook Pro. Bartender 4 from www.macbartender.com/… is out in public beta right now, redesigned only for macOS Big Sur. My video tutorial […]
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Security Bits — 17 January 2021
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. COVID Update: Apple have released iOS 12.5.1, bug-fix for the un-expected iOS 12.5 recently released to add COVID exposure tracking to older iPhones — www.macobserver.com/… Yelp have added fields to allow reviewers to mark […]
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Boot-Loop-a-Go-Go
A few weeks ago, I told you that the M1 Mac mini was pretty awesome but that shortly after getting it, it got into a boot loop. Eventually, I ended up in System Recovery and it seemed to ask me to reinstall the operating system. I think I know now why that happened and I’m […]
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I’m Cheating on Wyze with Hue and eufy
Quite a few years back, Steve and I were at CES and hanging out with our friend Joe LaGreca. I was bemoaning how I wasn’t happy with the $100 D-Link Omna security camera I’d bought and he suggested we take a look at the Wyze Cam. Fast forward to today and we now have 4 […]
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Dumb Question Corner – How to Answer iPhone Hands-Free
Recently, my good friend Kelly Guimont (aka @verso) asked me a question I couldn’t immediately answer. She asked whether there was a way, through accessibility on iOS, to answer a phone call on an iPhone without using your hands. This began a journey of discovery. I found several ways to accomplish this, and the methods […]
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Package Manager Chocolatey – by Caleb Fong aka @geekosupremo
Greetings fellow NosillaCastAways (still not sold on intracap). Today I want to tell you all about a wonderful (mostly) Windows tool. It’s the package manager Chocolatey. In short, a package manager is a tool, to manage applications in a reproducible way. For example at my $DAYJOB I have to manage around fifty Windows desktops. The […]
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Straddling Big Sur and Catalina and Intel and M1
Too Much Gear I’ve managed to make myself a little bit crazy this week, and it’s caused by having too good of a monitor, straddling two different operating systems, having just enough computers and being short by one dongle. Let’s start at the beginning with the problem to be solved, shall we? This week for […]
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Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. More Details Emerge on the Solar Winds Attack As expected, the private sector was targeted too: Big tech companies including Intel, Nvidia, and Cisco were all infected during the SolarWinds hack — www.theverge.com/… Microsoft Says […]
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A Week in the Life of Jill’s Apple Watch
Hi, everyone! This is Jill from the Northwoods. I thought I would do my own day in the life of my Apple Watch. I do a lot of the things that Allison mentioned in her podcast from October 15 about what she does with her Apple Watch. Of course, I use it to unlock my […]
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