I wanted to share some tips which you can feel free to use on your podcasts. I’m typically my mom’s driver for doctors appointments, but due to my broken shoulder, my husband has been helping out. I wanted to share contact info with him for one of her doctors so he could use Maps and […]
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Private, Secure, and Free Dropbox-like Experience with Syncthing by Bill Reveal
Greetings Allison, Steve, and my fellow Nosillacastaways. Bill here with too many problems to solve but for one; I am a grouchy obstinate old geek that is headstrong when it comes to computers. As the old saying goes, I hate all computers, I just hate my Macintosh the least. Despite being a long-time user of […]
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Back in October, I told you about how I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to automate a way to remove the alpha channel from transparent PNGs. The problem I was trying to solve was that the icons I was using from The Noun Project for featured images on my blog posts were nearly […]
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A few weeks ago Allison and Ron described Apple’s new Stage Manager feature, and why it works so well for them on NosillaCast episode 919. What I loved about that piece is that they started from the assumption that Stage Manager isn’t for everyone, and then helped people both understand the feature, and whether or […]
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One of the great joys of doing the NosillaCast for Steve and me is the live show on Sunday nights. Before I started producing the show in front of a live audience, it was just me, my script, and a microphone. It was ok, but it didn’t feel like I was talking to other people […]
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Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Following on from the warning linked last time about the dangers of using AirTags to track pets, The Mac Observer have some recommendations for trackers that are specifically designed to safely track pets — […]
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KYY 15.6″ 4K Display for $239 I’ve been a fan of portable USB-C displays for a while now. I started with a tiny 12” 2K display, and then later bought my daughter Lindsay the Cocopar 15.6” 1080P USB-C display. She doesn’t have an official office with a desk at her house, so having this light, […]
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Whenever Steve and I go on our wild adventures, I find myself learning something new about how to use our technology when away from home. The problems and solutions evolve over time. I wanted to give you a few things we learned on our Antarctica/Argentina/Brazil trip – some of which are successes and some of […]
Continue readingMore TagThe Darcy Method for Screencasting — Real-World Test
In October I had a gentleman named Darcy Hegarty on Chit Chat Across the Pond to talk about the process he uses to create video screencasts for the video tutorial podcast ScreenCastsOnline. I wanted to talk to him about this because he created a process that is vastly different from how I do it for […]
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Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Anker admits that Eufy cameras were never encrypted — appleinsider.com/… Apple have released their support for hardware Fido tokens for iCloud 2FA — sixcolors.com/… Editorial by Bart: remember that this feature comes with a […]
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