You MIGHT have heard that California is having a wee bit of a drought while many other places in the world are suffering with record rainfall. Until we figure out how to level things out across the globe (which will end up causing some other natural disasters I’m sure), we in California are looking for […]
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1Password Across NosillaCast HQ
Steve and I have been living in a split household for the last year. It’s been a trying time, and finally we have unity in the NosillaCast Headquarters. I’ve been using 1Password from agilebits.com as my password manager while Steve’s been using LastPass. You might remember from an article I wrote last October that LastPass […]
Continue readingYou NEED the new DJI Phantom 3 Quadcopter
Allison interviews Michael Perry from DJI about their latest quadcopter, the Phantom 3. The Advanced Phantom 3 includes a 3-axis stabilized 1080p camera that streams 720p video to your smart device. The Professional model includes a 4K video camera. Flight time of the Phantom 3 has been extended to 23 minutes under ideal conditions. The […]
Continue readingA 240GB SSD in the Form Factor of a Thumb Drive from OWC
Whether you have a diminutive ultrabook like a Macbook Air with a tiny SSD or a beefy desktop with a giant drive in it, you still want more storage. You know how it is, the more space you have the more you need, right? I think it’s like with houses, if you have 4 bedrooms […]
Continue readingA Mac You Can Charge from a Portable Phone Battery
If you’re anything like me, you’re constantly surveying rooms in hotels and at conferences and at friends houses for places to plug in your electronics. Smartphones phones, tablets, computers and now even watches are all seeking a charge. Heck, even my books need to be charged now that I use a Kindle. One of the […]
Continue readingHow Does the Photos App Manage My Storage?
In Dumb Question Corner this week we hear from Rick. He writes: Hi Allison, I have a dumb question about Photos.app. I have all my photos in Photos.app and use iCloud Photo Library. My iMac is set to store all the originals, and my Macbook Pro, iPad and iPhone all are set to Optimize Storage. […]
Continue readingHow to Choose a Mac Laptop
Apple has brought out several new products lately that are making it hard to choose a laptop. It’s easy to tell people what to buy based on your own needs but that doesn’t mean your answer would be right for them. Now that Apple has a pretty deep bench of laptops, it’s even harder to […]
Continue readingHow Hard Can Screencasting Be?
One of my favorite things about doing the NosillaCast is the emails I get from people when they send in their first audio review for the show. They usually go something like this, “Wow, that was HARD! I had to re-record 28 times and it took me forever to do a 3 minute review! How […]
Continue readingHonda Mechanic Repairs a Cracked iPhone Screen
My daughter was nicknamed Jibblies by her roommates in college because she has shaky hands. Most of the time her jibblies aren’t a problem but a few weeks ago she wanted to take a picture and asked her husband for his iPhone…which she promptly dropped and shattered the screen. Two days later, she dropped her […]
Continue readingDaily Tech News Show 2498 – I Spy with my Five Eyes…
I had the pleasure to be on the Daily Tech News Show yesterday. Tom and I had a great time talking the day’s news and digging into the topic of whether technology is ruining our human interactions and how addicted we might be. You can find the show notes and subscribe over at http://dailytechnewsshow.com. Using […]
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