Every year for the last 25 or 30 years, I’ve created a photo calendar for my family. These monthly collages make us all very happy. I can tell they really like it because once or twice I’ve tried to opt people out to save money only to get huge protests and be forced to add […]
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Security Bits – 3 Jan 2019
Notable Security Updates Microsoft released an emergency fix for an IE Zero-day — krebsonsecurity.com/… Logitech have released a critical security update for their Logitech Options app (used to configure some of their devices). Unfortunately the fix was two days too late, coming two days after Project Zero released details of the bug (time was up) […]
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CCATP #577 – Darren Carr of the Mac Quadcast
This week I’m joined by Darren Carr, host of the Mac Quadcast. Darren is an Apple blogger and podcaster and he’s also paralyzed from the neck down. We spend a bit of time talking about how on earth he does all of this. Just learning how he types 20-30 words per minute using only his […]
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NC #712 Puzzling Gmail Send/Reply Problem, Ember Mug, Rocketbook, PFSense Router
I had the pleasure of being on the Daily Tech News Show 2019 Predictions show at dailytechnewsshow.com. Terry Vogelaar explains how he diagnosed and fixed a very curious problem where mail he sent via Gmail appeared to come from his wife. I’ll tell you about how happy my Ember Ceramic Smart Mug makes me. Troy […]
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Rocketbook Review by Troy Shimkus
I’ve long been interested in taking written notes during meetings and turning them into shareable electronic artifacts. Ever since I was a student, I have had to attend meetings or classes and needed a better way to take notes. In grad school, I had an HP tablet (it is still in a closet somewhere), one […]
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Keep Your Beverages at the Perfect Temperature with the Ember Ceramic Mug
Being retired, I have the luxury of very slowly sipping a cup of coffee in bed every morning while I play on the Internet with my iPad. The problem of slowly sipping coffee is that quite quickly it gets cold and I prefer very hot coffee. For my second cup of coffee, which is consumed […]
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Diagnosing Puzzling Gmail Send and Reply Problem – by Terry Vogelaar
Terry Vogelaar ran into a very puzzling problem with his Gmail and enlisted Steve’s help in diagnosing the problem. It’s a unique problem but I think his explanation will be something to tuck away for a rainy day when someone else has a similar problem. Hi, this is Terry Vogelaar from Holland. Recently I ran […]
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Replacing My PFSense Router
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 […]
Continue readingNC #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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