HomePod mini Happy on my Desk When the first HomePod was announced, Steve and I bought one. As promised, it had beautiful sound. We’re not huge music listeners, but it has been nice to take it out to the back yard when we have a socially distanced cocktail with a couple of friends. We do […]
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Security Bits — 22 November 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 Allison mentioned the RIAA’s attack on the youtube-dl open source YouTube downloader library in a previous show. GitHub have now reversed their decision to uphold the RIAA’s DMCA takedown requests — daringfireball.net/… related: […]
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Keep All Your Apps Up to Date with MacUpdater – Joe LaGreca
Listener and friend Joe LaGreca contacted me to suggest we have a discussion on the NosillaCast about a tool he relies on called MacUpdater. This app’s job is to show you all of the apps you need to update on your Mac, and if possible to run the updates for you with a click of […]
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How to Update macOS Catalina and Not Upgrade to Big Sur
We all know that it’s important to “stay patched, so you stay secure.” But macOS is making that a bit harder these days. Apple really wants you to upgrade to macOS Big Sur, but if you’re not ready for that big jump, it may be hard to notice that you have macOS Catalina and Safari […]
Continue readingHazel 5 – Even Better as a Standalone App
Hazel 5 from NoodleSoft There is a category of apps that provide a unique functionality and for which the user community is split into two camps: Those who are zealous about the functionality and really “get” why it’s awesome, and those who don’t get why they would ever need the functionality. A perfect example of […]
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Can Folge Replace Clarify for Making Tutorials?
Folge from https://folge.me For many NosillaCastaways, a dark day in our tech lives was when our beloved app Clarify was end-of-lifed by its developers. I was heartbroken because I’d not only advertised the product on the show, I was a devout user of Clarify for all of the tutorials I made for podfeet.com and for […]
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PixelSnap by Terry Austin (and Allison)
Hi there, Castaways! Terry Austin here, online professor since 2012. Way before the pandemic. Let’s talk about a problem to be solved that I deal with pretty much every day. Making videos for my online class. Many of these videos involve taking my students, or other faculty I that consult with on video-based tours of […]
Continue readingI Guess I Really DO Love the Apple Pencil
You know how sometimes you buy something and deep down you realize that maybe it really wasn’t as great as you thought it was but you justify it anyway because otherwise you’d realize that you did something dumb? I read about this very thing in the book “Mistakes Were Made, But Not By Me” by […]
Continue readingPlug in More Devices with the Accell Cutie Surge Protector
Accell Power Cutie You know I love to tell a nice long story before I get to the point on my reviews, but I’ll have to dig deep on this one. Don’t worry, I’m up to the challenge. Some of you may have heard this story from me before, but it’s such a great story […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 8 November 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Connecting COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps Across Europe is Starting to Work — www.macobserver.com/… Deadline is December 8 for App Store Privacy Labels — www.macobserver.com/… Apple will require privacy “nutrition labels” from developers starting December […]
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