Last week Steve and I went to visit his parents who live about four hours away. His parents are fantastic about always staying up to date on their apps and doing all security patches on their own because, you know, “stay patched so you stay secure.” But when it comes to major macOS upgrades, we […]
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NC #943 Ironic Timing on Auphonic, Sonos Roam SL, Shottr
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, June 4, 2023, and this is show number 943. mp3 download Live Chat During WWDC If you’re listening to this on Sunday night or early Monday morning, don’t […]
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Oh, the Irony…
Last week you heard me sing the many virtues of Auphonic, the web-based tool I use to do so many wonderful things for my podcast. But things went horribly wrong last week. While I’m recording the live show, Steve always pulls images and links from my blog posts to paste into the live chat room […]
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Shottr — A Gem of a Screenshot Utility at a Surprising Price
Small details have been corrected in this article since it was originally posted. My friend Tim Verpoorten was addicted to buying speakers. My friend Victor Cajiao’s vice was buying disk drives. My addiction is to screenshot apps. It’s only been a year since I declared CleanShot X the best screenshot & annotation tool I’ve ever […]
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Impact of Adverse Conditions on EV vs. ICE Vehicle Efficiency
Allison and I have had a question for a long time about electric vehicles. The mileage you get driving an electric vehicle (EV) is highly affected by things like whether you’re driving into the wind, you’re driving up a hill, or you’re towing something. But mileage for gas-powered (internal combustion engine or ICE) vehicles doesn’t […]
Continue readingNC #942 Anker GaN Charger, Op-Ed on WWDC, Auphonic, 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, May 28, 2023, and this is show number 942. mp3 download CCATP #768 — Bart Busschots on PBS 151 of X — Bash: Printf and More MacVoices #23154: […]
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Security Bits — 28 May 2023
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. We now know that Pegasus was used in the war over the Nagorno-Karabakh region in Azerbaijan (an un-recognized independent republic with close ties to Armenia) from 2020 to 2022, with the Armenian foreign minister’s […]
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You NEED Another Charger — Anker GaNPrime 65W Charging Station
Anker 65W GaN Charging Station Just to prove to myself that I can write a review that isn’t 2000 words long, I’m going to explain why you might need yet another charger for your devices. It’s table stakes these days that any charger you buy is made with GaN (Gallium Nitride). Compared to the older […]
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CCATP #768 — Bart Busschots on PBS 151 of X — Bash: Printf and More
This week’s Programming By Stealth wasn’t a heavy lift but I managed to get confused a couple of times anyway so expect lots of questions from me in this one. Bart started the show by telling us about a clever tip from listener Jill of Kent about how to detect when the Terminal talking to […]
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Auphonic – Sweetens My Audio and More
Back in 2015, I wrote an article entitled Making Happy Audio in which I walked through the different technologies that I was using to create listenable podcasts. In that article, I sang the virtues of a free, cross-platform tool called The Levelator that would level the audio of an uncompressed recording. It was a marvelous […]
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