Earlier this year I suddenly became very interested in the humidity of the rooms I spend a lot of time in — namely my bedroom, my kitchen, my home office, and my work office. Why? Because I discovered that if you are prone to nose bleeds, dry air is really not your friend. In the […]
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The Night Before Christmas
Since Christmas will soon be here, I thought it would be a good time to resurrect the poem that has become a holiday tradition on the NosillaCast. In 2019, we lost our beloved Honda Bob, a long-time NosillaCastaway and contributor to the show and a very dear friend. But his memory and the silliness he […]
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NC #1023 MindNode Becomes MindNode Next, Tiny Mac Tips Easier to Find, Adam Engst on Obituary Scams
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, December 15, 2024, and this is show number 1023. Before we get started, there won’t be a live show next week because our kids will be here on […]
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MindNode → MindNode Classic → MindNode Next
When the developer of iThoughts decided to shutter the doors on his business, I chose MindNode as my new mind mapping tool of choice. My post in April entitled RIP iThoughts is probably in my top ten most-commented articles. Many people jumped into the discussion just to say thanks for the trade study while others […]
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CCATP #803 Adam Engst on Obituary Scams Triggering iPhone Security Warnings
We have Adam Engst of TidBITS back again to talk about an unusual and clever scam experienced by one of his TidBITS readers. It involved fake obituaries triggering iPhone security warnings triggering App Store downloads. You can find Adam’s written article on the topic at tidbits.com/…. mp3 download Read an unedited, auto-generated transcript with chapter […]
Continue readingNC #1022 Profiles Bug in Safari, Jill from the Northwoods on Descript, Security Bits
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, December 8, 2024, and this is show number 1022. mp3 download PBS 174: Working with Submodules (Git) In this week’s installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart completes his […]
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Security Bits — 8 December 2024
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇨🇳 More details continue to emerge of just how deeply the Chinese government infiltrated the West’s telecommunications networks – it’s not just a few US carriers, it’s carriers in “dozens of countries”, and even […]
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Profiles in Safari – a Bug and a Workaround … that Fails
Warning — this post has been changed — see the Bottom Bottom Line at the end. A few weeks back I talked about my struggles to use Tab Groups and how I solved my particular problem by using Profiles in Safari instead. My goal was to have a way to open a handful of social […]
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Making Tiny Mac Tips Easier to Find
You’ve probably noticed by now that I have created quite a few Tiny Mac Tips posts over the last couple of years with a goal of helping people move from adequate users of the Mac to power users. I just ran a count, and there are 53 tips posted so far and I have even […]
Continue readingNC #1021 Ice on SCO, Stripe Replaced with Buy Me a Coffee, Milanese Loop by Bart, Scam Experience with Pat
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, December 1, 2024, and this is show number 1021. mp3 download Articles Instead of Bartender, Learn about Ice on ScreenCastsONLINE Kilowatt 49th Annual ThanksGiving Extravaganza You know Steve […]
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