Jill with her Apple IIc This is Jill with reflections on the new-to-me MacBook Pro. I have been a Microsoft gal when I built my first 8088 in the early 80s and it had MSDOS v1. When I bought my Apple IIc in college, it was an extraordinary amount of money given to me by […]
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The Night Before Christmas
Since it’s only a week until Christmas, I thought now would be a good time to resurrect the poem that has become a holiday tradition on the NosillaCast. This year we lost our beloved Honda Bob, a long-time NosillaCastaway and contributor to the show and a very dear friend. But his memory and the silliness […]
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Security Bits – 15 December 2019
Note: This is the first of two episodes both recorded on the 15th of December 2019, but released over two weeks. 🧯Security Medium Preview 1 — VPNs Not All Hacked We’ll dig into the details in the second part of this two-parter, but for now, I just want to set everyone’s mind at ease — […]
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Capto – More than a Screen Shot Utility
I collect screenshot apps like other people collect shoes. It’s not that I haven’t found a good one, it’s that there are so many good ones to play with. I probably use the built-in screenshot utility in macOS more than any of them. ⌘⌃⇧4 to copy a screenshot to my clipboard is my constant go-to […]
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Taming the Terminal – by Tom on the Internet
You may know from way back that Bart and I did a podcast called Taming the Terminal. Bart was the instructor and I the student asking the “dumb” questions in which he taught me how to make the Terminal do my bidding. It was planned to be of limited length, and we stopped at 37 […]
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Learn to use draw.io to Make Diagrams – Video Tutorial on ScreenCastsOnline
This month on ScreenCastsOnline, I created a video tutorial on how to use the free, and open-source diagram tool, draw.io. I first told you about draw.io in 2016 and it’s still my go-to app for my diagramming needs. You may have seen my Live Show setup diagram where I put screenshots of all my app […]
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Manage Your Apps and Save Battery with App Tamer
One of the coolest things about being a Mac owner is how long your computer will remain useful. I hear stories about people using Core 2 Duo machines that are 12 years old! I’m not a big fan of recommending letting a Mac that’s not able to run a currently supported operating system get on […]
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Tesla Tech – Parts Electric Vehicles Simply Don’t Have
No Engine Under the Hood Shortly after I got my electric vehicle, I was driving past the gas station near my house and I realized, I will never go there again. I know it’s obvious that I don’t need to put gas in my car, but it was still a shock to the system to […]
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Followups: DNS over HTTPS: DNS-over-HTTPS is coming to Windows 10 — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… Related: 🎧 Steve Gibson reports the Windows 10 story, and uses it as a transition into a deep-dive into some of the exceptionally cool possible improvements HTTPS + HTTP2 & HTTP3 could bring to DNS — Security Now Episode 742: Pushing “DoH” — […]
Continue readingMy Quest to Leave Wunderlist
My Beloved Wunderlist You know I’m not a luddite and that I like new applications better than just about anybody. I may have illogical loyalty to an app here and there (like how long I stayed with SuperDuper! when I should have switched to Carbon Copy Cloner) but by and large I move on with […]
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