When I explained to you how I mind mapped all of System Settings for macOS 26, I stumbled across some applications hidden in macOS that I’d never seen before. I explained that while I knew about those in /Applications/Utilities (which some folks may not have realized were there), I’d found some buried even deeper. I […]
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Stream Deck Button to Put Your Mac to Sleep
Do you ever do some repeated operation on your Mac that’s not hard but you find it annoying? If you can’t think of one, I’ll go first. The Problem to be Solved When I’m done working on my Mac at my desk, I like to put my laptop to sleep to save energy. I use […]
Continue readingNC #1049 Augmental MouthPad Smart Mouthwear, Elgato Virtual Stream Deck Devices, Raindrop.io Bookmark Manager
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, June 15, 2025, and this is show number 1049. mp3 download Road to Macstock My nemesis, Chuck Joiner of MacVoices, does a series every year leading up to […]
Continue readingElgato Brings Us Virtual Stream Deck Devices
The Problem to be Solved Certain hardware devices seem to go into vogue, and everyone who’s anyone with a microphone seems to be talking about it, and then after a while, you don’t hear anything about it. When everyone first started talking about the Stream Deck from Elgato, I wanted to be one of the […]
Continue readingAutomation Gives Me All the Feels
When Bart and I hatched our plan for him to teach me and the audience how to program, he called it Programming By Stealth for a very specific reason. His plan was to sneak up on us by teaching us a single language first and then when we weren’t noticing, keep adding to our toolkit […]
Continue readingNC #929 Mr. Ed on Emulating a Stream Deck with Better Touch Tool, Bart Evangelises macOS Spaces
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, February 26, 2023, and this is show number 929. mp3 download Remember how I got laryngitis over the holidays? And then while we were in Antarctica I got […]
Continue readingStream Deck — Down the Rabbit Hole, Part 3
At the end of Part 2, I had a really useful set of buttons, many with nice button faces, and I was looking into how to get live information to display on a button. I knew there were plugins that did this for their specific functions, but I could not figure out how I could […]
Continue readingStream Deck — Down the Rabbit Hole, Part 2
When we left our hero at the end of Part 1, he… I… had a working set of controls for my NanoLeaf lights. Once I had my buttons working, I decided I wanted to have some nice images to place on them to make the actions clear, and which were nice to look at. The […]
Continue readingNC #923 Correct Mail Group Addresses, Google Sign-in Popup, Stream Deck Part 1, Synology with rsync Over Tailscale, Photo Calendars with Mimeo Photos
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, January 15, 2023, and this is show number 923. mp3 download Well, this is the last live show recording before we head off to Antarctica. The next live […]
Continue readingStream Deck — Down the Rabbit Hole, Part 1
As is so often the case, I wish to blame Allison for what I’m about to tell you. I’ve had a project on the boil for a while now which had me seriously considering buying an Elgato Stream Deck. It is entirely Allison’s fault, however, that I actually bought one. I bought the Stream Deck […]
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