Allison interviews Igor Feinberg from Case For Vision about their phone case that assists visually impaired people or those who suffer from age-related vision loss. The Case For Vision is an innovative iPhone-based optical mechanical case that functions as a hands-free, high-quality magnifier. When used with the Case For Vision 2.0 specialized software app, it […]
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Everything is Fiddly with HomeKit – by Bart Busschots
This blog post was auto-generated by the descript service at descript.com/… It was heavily edited by me (Allison), not to get it anywhere near perfection, but rather to get it just correct enough to be readable and to get Bart’s point across. This was an experiment to test the usability of the transcriptions from descript […]
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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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The Photographer’s Ephemeris – by Kurt Liebezeit
TPE on iPad and iPhone This is a review of the iOS and iPadOS app called “The Photographer’s Ephemeris,” from Crookneck Apps. The Photographer’s Ephemeris is a photography planning application, specifically an app for planning landscape photography involving the sun or the moon. Recall for a moment Ansel Adam’s celebrated photograph of “Moon and Half […]
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Pixelmator Photo for iPad Review
Pixelmator Photo for iPad was launched, rather fortuitously, just before I went on holiday. It turned out to be almost the perfect app for processing RAW photos from my DSLR camera while on the go. There are some key features of Pixelmator Photo that stand out for me over other iOS photo apps. Pixelmator Photo […]
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NC #739 Retrobatch, AirFly, GTA Car Kit, Pixelmator Photo, Glitch.com, Photo Processing On the Go
Allister Jenks is standing in this week for a vacationing Allison and Steve, with the help of a couple of NosillaCastaways.
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Pzizz — Sleep and Focus Aid App by Allister Jenks
The date was January 2007. The iPhone was known but not released, the iPod touch was not known. I was a recent convert to a 20” iMac and my only other Apple product was a 5th generation iPod. Little did I know that iPod would fail horribly a couple of months later, but it was […]
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Explore Bike Share Made it Impossible to Actually Rent an Electric Bike
I’d like to start this particular review by saying that the customer support representative who refunded all of our money was awesome. That might give you an indication of how Steve and I feel about the Explore Bike Share service. We were in Memphis for the weekend and had walked a fair bit of the […]
Continue readingNC #670 Paintcode, Apple Watch Health Tracking, Stretch Timer, We.Stream, Bellus 3D, Cyber Essentials, Rings
Allister Jenks stands in for a vacationing Allison Sheridan. We have a review of Paintcode, a story of using the Apple Watch to track health in ways other than the Activity app, Allister’s own health app Stretch Timer, two interviews from CES with We.Stream and Bellus3D, some security tips with Cyber Essentials, and a fun […]
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Stretch Timer by Allister Jenks
In my story about PaintCode, I mentioned I had rewritten an app that I use for timing my muscle stretches. I’d like to tell you about that app now, in a bit of an ‘advertorial’. I first wrote the app in 2016 when I was having back trouble, and part of the treatment for this […]
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