Internet of Things devices (IoT), are proliferating into our lives, saving us from the incredibly arduous tasks of turning off light bulbs and closing our blinds. If you’ve been playing with IoT for any length of time, you know what I’m talking about. Setting up IoT devices usually follows this generic set of steps: Launch […]
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Tiny Tip – How to Save Images from your Contacts – by Shai Yammanee
Shai here in very sunny Las Vegas, and I have a little tip that I discovered and promised Allison that I would share with everyone. First, what was the problem to be solved? A little while back I was having dinner with Allison and Steve and mentioned that I came across an issue that I […]
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Tiny Tip – The Magic Up Arrow
One of the banes of our online existence is writing something on the Internet, and only later noticing that there’s a typo in what we wrote. I can’t tell you how many Tweets I write and delete, write, and delete because I keep messing them up. I sure wish I could edit them. Another place […]
Continue readingMore TagTiny Tip – Falling Asleep with Overcast and YouTube – by Andrew Darlow
Hello, Allison and the NosillaCastaways! Andrew Darlow here. I was so impressed by the 15 Year Anniversary Show and everyone’s outpouring of love and respect for what you and Steve do every single week. And I’m happy to be able to submit two quick tips. Falling Asleep with Overcast Overcast Sleep Timer The first is […]
Continue readingMore TagTiny Tip – Organize System Preferences for Findability – by Sandy Foster
This is Sandy Foster with a little tip to try to make life easier for some of us. Have you ever gone into your Mac’s System Preferences and had to figure out which row was hiding a particular preference? And who decided how to organize the categories, anyway? If you hate scouring the icons for […]
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Two responses from Mac to Android — One succeeds, one fails We all know the struggle of the blue-bubble people vs. the green-bubble people in Messages. You love your Android friends, and they may even be family. There’s all the stress of how threads get splintered and people get left out because of the blue/green […]
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Tiny Tip – Mark Up Emails on iPad or iPhone without a 3rd Party App
Last year I answered a Dumb Question from Rod Simmons on whether it was possible to mark up emails on an iPad. In those instructions, I explained how to get an email into PDF format and then save it into Notability, a $10 app from GingerLabs. Rose left a comment on that post, expressing her […]
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Tiny Tip – Accessibility Shortcuts to Dim Screen & Magnify on iOS by Rick from Baltimore
Rick from Baltimore sent in this awesome little tip that solves a real problem: Hi Allison, I wanted to share a quick IOS tip that solved two problems for me. Problem One: I want to read on my iPad in bed, but the screen is too bright in the darkened bedroom, even with auto screen […]
Continue readingMore TagTiny Tip – How to Get the App Switcher Back to the Correct Display on macOS
This might be the tiniest tip ever posted on Podfeet.com. If you have external monitors hooked up to your Mac, it’s really awesome. Most of the time. Sometimes it gets confused. You probably know that in System Preferences, you can identify which display is the main monitor, meaning that’s where apps first open and such. […]
Continue readingMore TagTiny Tip – Screen Record Apple TV
I posted a Tiny Tip recently about how to put your Apple TV and all connected components to sleep with one button press on the Apple TV remote. In the post, I included a screenshot of the Apple TV screen. You might be wondering how I captured it. The other day I launched QuickTime with […]
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