The audio of this episode was originally posted with several minutes missing. If you hear a jump from talking about Amazon reviews to the end of BANDIMAL, you have the old version. My apologies! The NosillaCastaways will be hanging out in the live chat room during the Apple announcement on September 12th at 10am Pacific […]
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Three iPad Apps to Entertain a Toddler
I remember when we had little kids, we just didn’t have nice stuff. What was the point, right? Everything was going to be covered in jelly and thrown around without discrimination. But now, our youngest child, Kyle, is 27 and he hardly ever throws his toys in the house anymore. These days, we sorta don’t […]
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Free Products in Return for an Amazon Review
ReviewMate shows incentivized reviews boost ratings significantly I’ve always tried to be ethical in my reviews that I do for the NosillaCast. If I’ve received a unit or software for free, I tell you that up front. I also tell you that I believe my reviews are not influenced by whether I paid for a […]
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CCATP #561 – Bart Busschots on PBS 61 of X — Bootstrap Jumbotrons & Badges
In this week’s installment, Bart explains how to create two simple Bootstrap components, the Jumbotron and badges. A Jumbotron is a show-case area at the top of a website’s front page that shouts out the site’s main message and usually has a call to action. Badges are the little bubbles next to titles or within […]
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Dumb Question – QR Code for WiFi Password from Lynda
I’m sure all of you out there listen all the way to the bitter end of the NosillaCast, just in case there’s something completely different at the end, right? Well, then I’m sure you remember when I did the shoutout asking for Dumb Questions, I mentioned that Lynda Gousha had sent in a bunch of […]
Continue readingNC #694 Fortnite Security for Android, Archisketch, Security Bits
We’ve got a pretty big discussion on Fortnite for Android and the decisions Epic Games made that affect user security. I talk about it in the show, we talked about it in Chit Chat Across the Pond with Robb Dunewood and Bart and I talk about it during Security Bits. I’ve got a review of […]
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Security Bits – Zero-Day on macOS, Facebook Rates User Trustworthiness, Facebook’s VPN Was Tracking Users, Excessive Google Tracking, Teenager Hacks Apple
Followups More speculation-based flaws in Intel Chips (Editorial by Bart: as with other recent Spectre/Meltdown variants, there’s no need for home users to panic, just keep your OSes patched. It’s cloud providers that really need to worry about these flaws.) L1 Terminal Fault AKA L1TF – Intel have released mitigations, and they don’t have significant […]
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Freemium Archisketch Helped Me Rearrange the Room of Crap
As I’ve mentioned a few times, Steve and I are having our bathrooms gutted and remodeled. It’s a pretty stressful thing to live with. There are workers arriving at random intervals during the day, and of course, there are the days we’re ready for them and they don’t show up which is even more stressful. […]
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CCATP #560 – Robb Dunewood on Android Sideloading for Fortnite
This Chit Chat Across the Pond occurred spontaneously without planning. I was curious about the ramifications of Epic Games’ epic decision to only allow downloading of the insanely popular game Fortnite by side loading on Android. Sideloading is a term that refers to the method by which Android users can acquire apps for their devices […]
Continue readingNC #693 AppDelete, Diagnosing Remote Networks, Raspberry Pi as a Web Server, MacAlly Lampcharge, Bash Script for ID3 Tagging
I was on the MacCast this week with Adam Christianson, Reggie Ashworth’s AppDelete will live on without him, a great story about Steve’s mom and how we remotely diagnosed a network problem she was having, Ed Tobias tells us how he created a web server out of a $35 Raspberry Pi, I got a MacAlly […]
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