I took on the challenge of creating a tutorial for my favorite mind mapping app, iThoughts from toketaWare for Mac, Windows and iOS. Creating a screencast tutorial is the best way to learn a tool, and this one was no exception. I’ve been using it for over five years and had no idea of the […]
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NC #697 Affinity Publisher Beta, Rowenta Fan, Scanner Pro, 10 Reasons to Get an Apple Watch
My iThoughts tutorial for ScreenCasts Online is up and I’m really proud of it. I give Affinity Publisher beta a first look. I’ve found the perfect fan – the Rowenta VU2660 (and I throw in a heat transfer lesson for free). I’ll tell you how Scanner Pro from Readdle might make me not hate scanning. […]
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CCATP #563 – Bart Busschots on PBS 62 of X — A Basic Bootstrap Form
This week’s Programming By Stealth was great fun. Bart Busschots teaches us how to create a web form using the Bootstrap classes to do the job. He explains how Bootstrap literally insists that we make our code accessible, and how sensible it is to just that. We learn the importance of Form Groups, and how […]
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Scanner Pro Takes the Pain Out of Scanning Documents
I hate scanning almost as much as I hate printing, and I really hate printing. I hate dragging out my Fuji ScanSnap scanner. I hate making room on my desk for all the unscanned papers and for the ones that shoot out of the scanner. I hate fighting with getting the pages into the scanner […]
Continue readingRowenta VU2660 is the Best Fan I’ve Ever Owned
People think of California as a really hot place and are always surprised when they come here and realize that the coastal areas really aren’t that hot. The weather people here have a standard line they replay most days: “Early morning low clouds, followed by hazy afternoon sunshine.” We can stay at a pretty much […]
Continue readingNC #696 TouchRetouch, Security Bits
Why you should subscribe to the Podfeet Press (it’s for when I mess up the show). I was on Let’s Talk Apple hosted by Bart Busschots, and Chit Chat Across the Pond was amazing with Dr. Kramer. Be sure to join the friendly and enthusiastic NosillaCastaways in the live chatroom during the Apple announcement at […]
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Affinity Publisher Beta – First Look
As you’re well aware, I’m a fan of the Affinity products from a company called Serif. They first came out with Affinity Photo as a challenger to Adobe’s Photoshop. Later they developed Affinity Designer as a challenger to Adobe Illustrator to compete in the vector-design arena. They’re at it again, this time with a beta […]
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Security Bits – Forced Smartphone Decryption Breaches 5th Amendment, Apple Fails to Remove Malicious App, Google & MasterCard Sharing Info
Followups Instapaper comes back to the EU at last — www.macobserver.com/… Facebook is refusing to comply with a GDPR data request, so a complaint has been lodged with the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPR). The DPR has opened an investigation, but has said the case is likely to get escalated from Ireland to the European […]
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Retouch Your Photos with TouchRetouch for iOS
Now that we take so many of our photos with our mobile devices, it’s even more important that we have good editing tools that fit the interface of a mobile operating system. You know I’m wild about Affinity Photo for iPad but it’s a sledgehammer of an app. Sometimes you just need to fix a […]
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CCATP #562 – Dr. Michael Kramer on the Study of Digital History
I know I say this every week, but I had the best time recording this week with Dr. Michael Kramer, a digital historian from Middlebury College in Vermont. Michael talks about the impact of digital technology on history and culture and the humanities. We talk about the impact of women actually being the computers in […]
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