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, August 31, 2025, and this is show number 1060. We now know that the Apple Fall event is going to be on September 9th at 10 AM Pacific […]
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Why You Might Want to Run Multiple Disk Sweeping Apps
Over the decades that I’ve been writing and talking about the Mac, I’ve covered multiple applications that are designed to help you recoup disk space. It’s so easy to accumulate files that you really don’t need to keep, and many apps these days create large files in hidden directories that you might not even know […]
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How to Back Up iCloud Photos When Your Only Mac Can’t Store Originals
ICloud Photo Library Optimize Storage My friend Diane was visiting her granddaughter, and, as one does, she was giving tech support to her daughter-in-law. She wanted to bounce ideas off of someone so she brought me in with the “phone a friend” option. The problem to be solved was one I hadn’t given much thought […]
Continue readingNC #565 Judiciary Hearing FBI vs Apple, Nuke and Pave vs OmniDiskSweeper, Security Bits
I watched the entire five hours of the Judiciary Committee Hearings in the case of the FBI vs. Apple, so you didn’t have to. I think you’ll like what you hear, it’s actually optimistic about our government officials. Next up I’ll tell you how I did not do a nuke and pave, and why you […]
Continue readingNuke and Pave or Do it the Hard Way?
Image courtesy of Bethany Erskine In our Google Plus community over at podfeet.com/googleplus, Tracey Baucells posted a problem with her main account on her Mac. For some unknown reason, on boot up, her account would freeze on the desktop picture. She did a TON of super geeky diagnostics and in the end (using Terminal fu) […]
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