Our phones are now our cameras, and their ability to capture photos and videos is only getting better and better. But you may miss one ergonomic feature of your now-dusty big-girl camera, and that’s the hand grip. Holding onto a rectangular slab of glass to take photos can get tiring after a while, especially if […]
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NC #813 Family Sharing of In-app Purchases, CodeNewbie, Alt-Tags on Twitter, Feeder 4, 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, December 6, 2020, and this is show number 813. Normally I like to write you epic tomes where I dig deep into some arcane subject or at least […]
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Do LiDAR and Dolby Vision HDR on iPhone 12 Pro Really Make a Difference?
I’m sure you’ve been inundated with articles about the new iPhones 12 this week. I’m not going to do an exhaustive review but I’d like to touch on a couple of points I haven’t seen covered in great detail. It’s a well-known marketing strategy to create a small, medium, and large version of your product, […]
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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, October 18, 2020, and this is show number 806. mp3 download Chit Chat Across the Pond This week’s Chit Chat Across the Pond was a blast as my […]
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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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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 24, 2020, and this is show number 785. mp3 download Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite On this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, […]
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An $11 12X Zoom, Macro, Fisheye Kit for Mobile Phones Can’t Be Any Good, Can It?
Two weeks ago I told you about a $16 camera kit for mobile phones from a company called Criacr. My title questioned whether that could possibly any good. As I explained the downsides of a cheap kit like this (lens aberration for example) I also explained that I was having a great time with it […]
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A $16 Macro/Wide Angle Lens Kit Can’t Be Any Good, Can It?
Recently Dorothy, aka @maclurker, posted some really amazing macro shots she took of some flowers in her backyard. She used her big-girl camera and a new macro lens she got for Christmas. She inspired me to drag out my big-girl camera, slap on the macro lens and take it for my walk. I love taking […]
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DxO PhotoLab 3 by Allister Jenks
Apple’s Aperture was hung out to dry, Adobe’s Lightroom changed to a subscription model, and Apple Photos started out and continues to be severely limited. What was I going to do to manage and process my growing DSLR photo collection? Initially, I found Luminar from Skylum. At the time it didn’t have a digital asset […]
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Significant Improvements in New Photos App on iOS 13
Ada & Grace in New Photos Showing Adjustments I’ve been a fairly happy user of Apple Photos on iOS and macOS ever since it came out. Sure I complain about how long it takes to download my 77K photos when something goes wrong, but the feature of having all of my photos everywhere is glorious. […]
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