Steve and I are off to MacStock and then a week in Canada with the kids, and that means I really need your help to provide some listener recordings! In this week’s show we’ve got Steve Sheridan explaining how he capture the total eclipse in Chile in some amazing video segments. Then I’ll tell you […]
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Wyze Just Keeps Getting Better – Smart Bulbs
If you’ve been listening to the show for a long time, you know I’m a huge fan of the company Wyze, makers of a delightful and inexpensive security camera called Wyze Cam. Wyze branched out a while ago to add the Wzye Motion sensor and proximity sensors called Wyze Sense (think door/window open/close sensing). The […]
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Affinity Publisher First Look
Hi. Allister Jenks here, back again with a first look at some fantastic new software. Years ago my wife started a small business designing and selling cross stitch patterns online. While she is the one with artistic flair in our family when it comes to putting together a printed product, that falls to my technical abilities. […]
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Capturing the 2019 Chile Solar Eclipse on Video
Eclipse Viewing Setting in Vicuña Sunrise Over Vineyard in Vicuña Chile, Site of Our Eclipse Viewing Location Allison and I were fortunate enough to be able to view another total solar eclipse, this time from a vineyard in a small town called Vicuña in Chile. We traveled to Chile as part of a UCLA Alumni […]
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Security Bits – 14 July 2019
Security Medium 0 (more of a Followup) — 3rd-party Parental Control Apps Return to iOS Editorial by Bart: I’ve seen some very lazy reporting on this story, and I think the context and nuance are important, hence giving this apparently simple story the ‘Security Medium’ treatment. To understand what happened this week, it’s important to […]
Continue readingWhat Caused that Digital Honk?
Visual of the Digital Honk On NosillaCast episode 739, hosted by Allister Jenks while I was gone, the lovely Sandy Foster, aka my Wing Woman, submitted a recording about the AirFly. Unfortunately there was a teribble audio artifact in the final, produced podcast episode. You may or may not have heard this problem, as when […]
Continue readingNC #740 Digital Honk, Copy/Paste Plain Text on iOS, Tech on Travel, Security Bits
I can’t thank Bart and Allister enough for their help with the shows while we were vacationing in Chile. You may have received a version of Allister’s show that had the oddest digital honking noise on Sandy’s review – I’ll explain in this show what we think happened. Then I’ll answer a dumb question about […]
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CCATP #602 – Bart Busschots on PBS 81 of X – The JavaScript Promise Utilities
In this installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart teaches us how to use Promises, with a capital P to get promises when we already know the value we want to supply. That sounds funny but it will make sense in context. Then he shows us how we can control parallelization of promises using Promise.all(). It’s […]
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Tech on Travel – Chile Eclipse
Whenever I go on one of our big adventures, I learn something new about the tech I want to use on travel and how to get it to work best for me. It’s an evolving story that I think is helpful to document. This isn’t one, nice, cohesive explanation but rather a list of disparate […]
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Dumb Question Corner – How to Copy/Paste Plain Text on iOS?
Steve Davidson sent in a great dumb question. I define great as “Clearly explained without an obvious answer, and yet I eventually figure it out.” Here’s Steve’s question: Hi, Allison. I have a stumper for you. Using my iPad, I frequently find myself putting together a document by drawing information from multiple sources (e.g., planning […]
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