Review of Alternote, an alternative GUI for Evernote from alternoteapp.com, I tell you the saga of how it took Steve and I and all of our strength to put a flash drive into an iPod Classic, Dorothy wrote a script we’re sharing with the world to extract high resolution icon image from Applications we’re calling […]
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Extract Application Icons
When I do a blog post about an application, I often like to include a high resolution version of the application icon. There’s a trick to getting that nice big icon. Simply: Open your Applications folder Right click on the Application for which you want the icon, and select Open Package Contents. Applications are really […]
Continue readingCCATP #411 – Bart Busschots on Programming By Stealth 3 of X – HTML Block Elements
In this week’s Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart Busschots takes us through Programming By Stealth Part 3 of X – HTML Block Elements. In the previous instalment we introduced HTML, learned about HTML tags in the abstract, and looked at a basic template for all HTML pages. Over the next few instalments we’ll be […]
Continue readingAlternote Brings a Nicer Interface to Evernote
I know we’re all supposed to love Evernote, but I just don’t. So many people tell me how they record everything in Evernote. I get the appeal of having a single place to record everything you want to remember, but there was something holding me back. I’ll get to that in a moment I did start […]
Continue readingFlash Memory in an iPod Classic – Don’t Try This at Home
I’ve been becoming more and more bold with hardware repair, becoming fearless at tearing open hardware to see what I can do. So when my friend David Roth asked me to do him a favor in which I could use my iFixit toolkit, I jumped at the chance. David found out that there’s a way […]
Continue readingNC #547 – Podfeet Press, AppleTV 4, Goodbye Clarify, Goodbye Auto-Correct, Hello Magic Keyboard & Trackpad
NosillaCast News is now called Podfeet Press, sign up at podfeet.com/blog/podfeet-press-signup/. Check out the screencast I did on Don McAllister’s ScreenCasts Online about Macphun’s Intensify CK: screencastsonline.com/mac/show/0527/. My review of the new AppleTV is mostly pros, with some cons. We say goodbye to long term sponsor Clarify from clarify-it.com. I tell you how I abandoned […]
Continue readingNow, With Fewer Typos!
When spell check first came out, it was a wonderful thing. Those nice squiggly lines showing us our typos was glorious. I’m a really good speller but I do make typos so having that visual indicator was great. For some reason I can spot typos a mile away in anyone else’s writing, but my own […]
Continue readingCCATP #410 Mark Pouley of Twin Lakes Images
This week we’re joined by photographer Mark Pouley of Twin Lakes Images where he explains how to take a photo in a place everyone else has taken shots and get something unique. You can find Mark’s work at twinlakesimages.com and you can find him on Twitter TLI_Mark and check out his other photography on Flickr […]
Continue readingApple TV + Siri = Joy
Steve and I bought the first generation Apple TV and we disliked it so much we sold it to Jonathan Cost for $50 just to get it out of our house. We bought gen 2 and 3 and liked them quite a bit better. Our use is split between Airplay (video podcasts thrown to the […]
Continue readingAre They Magic?
I was very excited when the new Apple gear got announced this year. While I wasn’t going to get an iPhone 6s because it was Steve’s turn, I was still really looking forward to getting a new AppleTV and a new iPad Pro and it’s new keyboard and especially the Pencil. But the months have […]
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