I hate scanning almost as much as I hate printing, and I really hate printing. I hate dragging out my Fuji ScanSnap scanner. I hate making room on my desk for all the unscanned papers and for the ones that shoot out of the scanner. I hate fighting with getting the pages into the scanner […]
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Rowenta VU2660 is the Best Fan I’ve Ever Owned
People think of California as a really hot place and are always surprised when they come here and realize that the coastal areas really aren’t that hot. The weather people here have a standard line they replay most days: “Early morning low clouds, followed by hazy afternoon sunshine.” We can stay at a pretty much […]
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Affinity Publisher Beta – First Look
As you’re well aware, I’m a fan of the Affinity products from a company called Serif. They first came out with Affinity Photo as a challenger to Adobe’s Photoshop. Later they developed Affinity Designer as a challenger to Adobe Illustrator to compete in the vector-design arena. They’re at it again, this time with a beta […]
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Security Bits – Forced Smartphone Decryption Breaches 5th Amendment, Apple Fails to Remove Malicious App, Google & MasterCard Sharing Info
Followups Instapaper comes back to the EU at last — www.macobserver.com/… Facebook is refusing to comply with a GDPR data request, so a complaint has been lodged with the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPR). The DPR has opened an investigation, but has said the case is likely to get escalated from Ireland to the European […]
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Retouch Your Photos with TouchRetouch for iOS
Now that we take so many of our photos with our mobile devices, it’s even more important that we have good editing tools that fit the interface of a mobile operating system. You know I’m wild about Affinity Photo for iPad but it’s a sledgehammer of an app. Sometimes you just need to fix a […]
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Three iPad Apps to Entertain a Toddler
I remember when we had little kids, we just didn’t have nice stuff. What was the point, right? Everything was going to be covered in jelly and thrown around without discrimination. But now, our youngest child, Kyle, is 27 and he hardly ever throws his toys in the house anymore. These days, we sorta don’t […]
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Free Products in Return for an Amazon Review
ReviewMate shows incentivized reviews boost ratings significantly I’ve always tried to be ethical in my reviews that I do for the NosillaCast. If I’ve received a unit or software for free, I tell you that up front. I also tell you that I believe my reviews are not influenced by whether I paid for a […]
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Dumb Question – QR Code for WiFi Password from Lynda
I’m sure all of you out there listen all the way to the bitter end of the NosillaCast, just in case there’s something completely different at the end, right? Well, then I’m sure you remember when I did the shoutout asking for Dumb Questions, I mentioned that Lynda Gousha had sent in a bunch of […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits – Zero-Day on macOS, Facebook Rates User Trustworthiness, Facebook’s VPN Was Tracking Users, Excessive Google Tracking, Teenager Hacks Apple
Followups More speculation-based flaws in Intel Chips (Editorial by Bart: as with other recent Spectre/Meltdown variants, there’s no need for home users to panic, just keep your OSes patched. It’s cloud providers that really need to worry about these flaws.) L1 Terminal Fault AKA L1TF – Intel have released mitigations, and they don’t have significant […]
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Freemium Archisketch Helped Me Rearrange the Room of Crap
As I’ve mentioned a few times, Steve and I are having our bathrooms gutted and remodeled. It’s a pretty stressful thing to live with. There are workers arriving at random intervals during the day, and of course, there are the days we’re ready for them and they don’t show up which is even more stressful. […]
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