Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 Allison mentioned the RIAA’s attack on the youtube-dl open source YouTube downloader library in a previous show. GitHub have now reversed their decision to uphold the RIAA’s DMCA takedown requests — daringfireball.net/… related: […]
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Keep All Your Apps Up to Date with MacUpdater – Joe LaGreca
Listener and friend Joe LaGreca contacted me to suggest we have a discussion on the NosillaCast about a tool he relies on called MacUpdater. This app’s job is to show you all of the apps you need to update on your Mac, and if possible to run the updates for you with a click of […]
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How to Update macOS Catalina and Not Upgrade to Big Sur
We all know that it’s important to “stay patched, so you stay secure.” But macOS is making that a bit harder these days. Apple really wants you to upgrade to macOS Big Sur, but if you’re not ready for that big jump, it may be hard to notice that you have macOS Catalina and Safari […]
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CCATP #661 – Bart Busschots on PBS 106 of X — Time Travel with Git
As we continue to learn Git from the command line for version control, Bart teaches us some tricks to travel through time. First he shows us how to view more compact Git logs so we can just see a shortened hash and the first line of our commit message. Then he shows us how to […]
Continue readingHazel 5 – Even Better as a Standalone App
Hazel 5 from NoodleSoft There is a category of apps that provide a unique functionality and for which the user community is split into two camps: Those who are zealous about the functionality and really “get” why it’s awesome, and those who don’t get why they would ever need the functionality. A perfect example of […]
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NC #810 Lost Apple Pencil, PixelSnap, Folge
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, November 15, 2020, and this is show number 810. mp3 download CCATP #660 – Lory Gil on M1 Macs It wouldn’t be an Apple announcement week without Lory Gil […]
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Can Folge Replace Clarify for Making Tutorials?
Folge from https://folge.me For many NosillaCastaways, a dark day in our tech lives was when our beloved app Clarify was end-of-lifed by its developers. I was heartbroken because I’d not only advertised the product on the show, I was a devout user of Clarify for all of the tutorials I made for podfeet.com and for […]
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PixelSnap by Terry Austin (and Allison)
Hi there, Castaways! Terry Austin here, online professor since 2012. Way before the pandemic. Let’s talk about a problem to be solved that I deal with pretty much every day. Making videos for my online class. Many of these videos involve taking my students, or other faculty I that consult with on video-based tours of […]
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CCATP #660 – Lory Gil on M1 Macs
It wouldn’t be an Apple announcement week without Lory Gil joining us, managing editor of iMore. We start the conversation by talking about what all of the new M1 Macs have in common, which is much more than we’re used to seeing. Then we talk about what System on a Chip (SoC) actually means and […]
Continue readingI Guess I Really DO Love the Apple Pencil
You know how sometimes you buy something and deep down you realize that maybe it really wasn’t as great as you thought it was but you justify it anyway because otherwise you’d realize that you did something dumb? I read about this very thing in the book “Mistakes Were Made, But Not By Me” by […]
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