I told you about PFSense back in 2012 in NosillaCast #357, but six years later it’s time to revisit the topic. What is PFSense? A free and open-source router OS based on BSD Unix — pfsense.org/… Can run on just about any hardware — small embedded devices (regular home router hardware), micro-PCs based off things […]
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NC #711 Accessibility Tricks, How Big is My Image, Best Buy for Apple Battery Replacement, Remove Backgrounds, Night Before Christmas
I’ll tell you the story of how I helped a friend of mine’s father-in-law who had some recent vision loss combined with hearing loss and why I think the effort was successful. We’ve got a Dumb Question about how to figure out how big images are on iOS. We have two Tiny Tips – one […]
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Tiny Tip – Remove Backgrounds with remove.bg
One of the most challenging things in photo manipulation is pulling people out of a photo. Sometimes it’s to make beautiful artwork, sometimes you just want to make something funny. In any case, it’s hard to do without a great deal of time and effort. Tools like Affinity Photo make it easier where you do […]
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CCATP #576 – Dr. Maryanne Garry on Grammar Pet Peeves
This week we have returning guest, Dr. Maryanne Garry, from the University of Waikato but this time it will not be an intellectual, deep-learning experience about the mysteries of human memory. This time we’re going to talk about our grammar pet peeves. As Maryanne would say, we’re both quite pedantic on this topic. Sit back […]
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Tiny Tip – Best Buy for Apple Battery Replacement
If you’re like me, and procrastinated till the very end of Apple’s $29 battery replacement program, you might still be able to get it done before the deal disappears at the end of 2018. I procrastinated because the phones weren’t in really bad shape, they were all around 89% health. I finally decided to go […]
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Dumb Question Corner – How Big is My Image on iOS?
In our Facebook group (podfeet.com/facebook), John Mola asked what we like to call around here a “Dumb Question. In other words, a really interesting question that might trip up a lot of people. Here’s what he posted. How do you see how big a picture is? I took a screenshot and also a picture of […]
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Successfully Teaching Accessibility Tricks
A while ago a friend of mine contacted me because his father-in-law, Rich, had recently had a very sudden loss of vision. He knew that I dabbled in accessibility and wondered if I could help Rich get jump-started on what he could do to improve his situation. I have to admit that I was a […]
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The Night Before Christmas
Since it’s only a week until Christmas, I thought now would be a good time to resurrect the poem that has become a holiday tradition on the NosillaCast. So grab a hot beverage and some cookies, sit back, relax and enjoy a slightly modified version of The Night Before Christmas.
Continue readingNC #710 Apple Refurb Store, Apple Music on Amazon Echo, Security Bits
I was on Daily Tech News Show: Airplay 2: Remodel Boogaloo – DTNS 3429 at dailytechnewsshow.com. No live show next week. Bart comes on to tell us how much the Apple refurb store is. Then I’ll walk you through how to enable Apple Music on your Amazon Echo. The we have an extended play version […]
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CCATP #575 – Bart Busschots on PBS 68 of X – Bootstrap Navs
In this week’s installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots introduces us to how Bootstrap will help us create navigation in websites or web apps. This is using what Bootstrap calls the Nav component. As always we’ll learn how to style the navigation using Bootstrap Pills and Tabs. Then we’ll take it up a notch […]
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