When Steve and I ordered our 14″ M1 Max Macs this week, we had very little time to consider the options available. We were both really looking forward to the announcement, so our little fingers were poised over our keyboards at the end of the announcement, with a plan of trying to buy pretty much […]
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What if Your Stove Had Dedicated Burners?
Which Stove is Better? I’d like you to imagine a stove with four burners. Two on the left and two on the right. In the morning, you want to make a fried egg, so you put your little frying pan on the front right burner. At lunch, you want to make soup and a couple […]
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Security Bits — 17 October 2021
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Another example of 2FA-bypass attacks in use in the wild: How Coinbase Phishers Steal One-Time Passwords – Krebs on Security — krebsonsecurity.com/… 🇪🇺 Pegasus Project: European Parliament awards journalism prize to investigation of use […]
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MedallionNet® on Princess Cruises – “The Best WiFi at Sea”? – by Charles Gousha
Hi folks! This is Charles Gousha, from the Silicon Valley Mac User Group. When I was last here, for NosillaCast #592, I was preparing to head off to Alaska with Princess Cruises. It was a great vacation, hopping between the Alaskan islands with some of the best American glaciers you can see, but internet connections […]
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Help Me Design the Layout of a Time Adder App
You’ve heard me drone on about how to add time using Excel, and that struggle over the years has inspired me to write a web app to add and subtract time. It seems like a fun project, and within grasp of my skills so far in programming. I’ve already started working on it, and at […]
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How to Add Elapsed Time in Excel
For literally decades I’ve been trying to figure out a way to add elapsed time in Excel, and this week, with the help of my friend Mike, we figured out how to do it. I feel like I have made fire. The problem with Excel (and all spreadsheet applications) is that by default, they treat […]
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Time Shifter Clock V2 is Released – Now With More Cities!
Time Shifter Clock V2 on iPhone I’ve been working on a major update to my Time Shifter Clock for quite a long time, and it’s finally released and is now available at timeshifterclock.com. I even bought it its own domain name! If you’re not familiar with my web app, let me tell you the problem […]
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Encrypt.me VPN Is Under New Ownership
Long time NosillaCastaway John Shaffer wrote in what he called a Dumb Question a few weeks ago that caught me by surprise. He told me that the VPN service Encrypt.me was combining with one called StrongVPN. He wondered how the change was going to affect the commitment to privacy and security. I’ve been using Encrypt.me […]
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Taking a Break from Facebook
The Whistleblower This week a whistleblower named Frances Haugen went before a US Senate subcommittee to testify about Facebook. You’ve probably heard about it. I actually watched most of her testimony, and I have to say, it was bone-chilling. Ms. Haugen was a data scientist who was part of a civic integrity committee, and in […]
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Tiny Tip – Per-App Accessibility Changes in iOS 15 – by Rick from Baltimore
Per-App Accessibility Settings Hi Allison. It’s Rick from Baltimore. One of my favorite features that I think debuted in IOS 15 is the ability to change font sizes by app rather than system-wide. The problem to be solved is I like to enlarge the font on both my iPad and iPhone to make things more […]
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