Dark Reader Extension in the Mac App Store Before I go on other people’s shows that have video, I take extra care to make sure everything looks good. I launch Photo Booth on my Mac and set the camera to the one I’ll be using. I use a Logitech c920 webcam, but to be honest […]
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NC #815 Night Before Christmas, Apple Fitness+, Security Bits on SolarWinds and Apple’s Tracking Transparency
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, December 20, 2020, and this is show number 815. mp3 download For the last month or so, Bart’s RSS feeds for Security Bits have been unusually light and […]
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Security Bits — 20 December 2020 – SolarWinds, Apple’s Tracking Transparency
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Listener Thomas Cooper Question — Is TikTok a National Security Threat? TL;DR — nope We got some listener feedback asking about the US’s proposed ban on TikTok on national security grounds. This is very […]
Continue readingApple Fitness+ For the Win
Fitness+ for Apple TV and iOS I’ve mentioned a few times (a few hundred times?) that I’m a big fan of exercise. I grew up in a family that never exercised, and it wasn’t until I began dating Steve that I was even introduced to the concept. I remember one day he said, “let’s start […]
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CCATP #665 – Bart Busschots on PBS 108 of X — Merging & Tagging
In this installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots continues on his series within a series explaining the version control system Git. We advance in our branching strategy by working several commits on our dev branch and then learn to use a merge commit to bring only the final commit into the main branch, leaving […]
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The Night Before Christmas
Since Christmas will soon be here, I thought it would be a good time to resurrect the poem that has become a holiday tradition on the NosillaCast. In 2019, 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 he […]
Continue readingThe Unsung Hero of macOS’s Built-in Screen Capture Utility
You know I’m a big fan of taking screenshots, and if I can find an excuse to annotate a screenshot I’m even happier. I have lots of tools to do this and if I’m doing lots of annotations I bring out the big guns like Folge or Captio. But if I want to do a […]
Continue readingNC #814 iPhone Camera Aspect Ratio, Handgrip for Phones from Ulanzi, StippleGen 2, M1 Mac mini Challenges
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, December 13, 2020, and this is show number 814. mp3 download CCATP #664 – Tom Merritt on Time Management I had a complete blast on Chit Chat Across the […]
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M1 Mac mini is Amazing – Until it’s Not
I received my new M1 Mac mini on Friday night after waiting a bit longer because I did a build to order to get a larger 1TB SSD. In theory, I bought the Mac mini to replace its aging predecessor, a 6-year-old 2.6GHz Intel Core i5. But let’s be honest with ourselves, I just really […]
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Create Your Own Stipple Drawings – Sorta Like the Wall Street Journal
Grumpy Cat Hedcut from WSJ.png This week Dr. Alexander Salter, the son of our dear friends Diane and Bill, had an article published in the Wall Street Journal. As you can imagine, we’re all pretty chuffed about it around here. We were doing virtual high fives about it and I was trying to think of […]
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