Applications Folder Shows Apple Apps Did you know that Apple apps aren’t REALLY in your top-level Applications folder with all of your other apps? If you open your Applications folder on your Mac using the Finder, you’ll see all of your Apple apps intermingled with your third-party apps, but it turns out they’re not really […]
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Security Bits by Bart Busschots – 05 September 2021
Bart had Tom Merritt of the Daily Tech News Show on the August episode of Let’s Talk Apple this week to have an extended discussion of Apple’s proposed child protection features. It’s a great discussion with someone who has been described (by a good friend) as being “pathologically unbiased.” You can find this episode of […]
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CCATP #698 – Bart Busschots on PBS 124 of X – Chezmoi Templates
Bart has been really excited to teach this next installment of Programming By Stealth where we really dig into learning about Chezmoi templates, including learning functions and arguments, how to declare variables, looping over arrays, and learning the sprig utility functions to extend Chezmoi. I thought he was going to jump out of his chair […]
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GitHub Copilot for VSCode Might Make Coding Easier
As a beginner developer, I find it very difficult to recommend coding tools to others because I’m worried the more advanced programmers will make fun of me. They’ll say my opinion is wrong because I don’t have the right experience, or I’ll accidentally step into a religious war like saying vi is better than Emacs. […]
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NC #851 Non-Realtime Communications, Joplin Pt 2, iCloud Passwords for Windows, Keep Links to Email
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, August 29, 2021, and this is show number 851. We just had a glorious weekend playing with our grandchildren, made possible by Allister Jenks and Jill from the […]
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iCloud Passwords for Windows – by Jill from the Northwoods
iCloud Passwords for Windows As you may know, I use Windows. I like Windows. There are always interesting conundrums involved when saving some of your data into Apple applications and other pieces of your data that are not in Apple. For example, I have this very nice password list of all the things I use […]
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Joplin Part 2 – a Deeper Dive
A couple weeks ago Knightwise told us about a fantastic open source, cross-platform notebook app called Joplin. After he told us about it, I raved about it as well. This week I asked Bart whether he thought it might be the right app to replace Evernote for him he said he was waiting for me […]
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Why Would You Want to Create a Deep Link to an Email?
I’m not one of those highly organized, Getting Things Done people with OmniFocus tasks and due dates that I actually achieve. I use a hodgepodge of techniques that seem to revolve around my email. I know, that made many of you cringe, but I’ve got a cool trick that is starting to help me connect […]
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CCATP #697 – Bodie Grimm Explains EV Fires and Teslas Hitting Emergency Vehicles
CCATP #697 for August 23, 2021, and I’m your host, Allison Sheridan. This week our guest is Bodie Grimm. Along with being a podcaster who specializes in the news about electric vehicles on his show the Kilowatt Podcast, Bodie is a firefighter and engineer on a ladder truck. He is in a unique position to […]
Continue readingNC #850 1Password Electron App, TikTok Happy Place, 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, August 22, 2021, and this is show number 850. mp3 download CCATP #696 – Bart Busschots on PBS 123 of X — Backing up and Syncing Dot Files […]
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