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Send in your recordings for the 500th episode next week, if you’re doing holiday shopping at Amazon, please use the search box on podfeet.com to get us a little love. Slau’s “If Every Day Were Christmas” is coming out on iTunes any minute now, watch my Twitter\/G+\/FaceBook accounts for the announcement when it goes live. Bart’s secure, random and memorable password generator Version 2 has gone live at xkpasswd.net<\/a>. Should I Sleep<\/a> review from Leon Sargent. Why you do want notifications on your wrist. New sponsor – Hover at Hover.com<\/a> listen to the show (or look at the sidebar) for a 10% off coupon code for new customers. Why you need to know how your VPN works. In Chit Chat Across the Pond, Donald Burr of Otaku no Podcast<\/a> teaches us how Apple’s development tools are helping developers deal with the plethora of screen sizes we have now.<\/p>\n

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\nHi this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Mac Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Macintosh bias. Today is Sunday November 30, 2014 and this is show number 499. We’re almost there guys, just one more week till we hit 500 episodes together! This week Steve posted a letter to the NosillaCastaways in our Google Plus community and asked me to send out a letter to those subscribed to the NosillaCast News inviting you to send in any thoughts you’d like to share about the show in commemoration of this momentous event. I made a wee typo and said the 500th show was on December 6th, but it should have been December 7th (since that’s a Sunday). If you’ve thought about sending in an audio recording in the past and never got around to it or if you’re a regular contributor, now might be a lovely time to send something in. Heck, you could re-use the text and put it an iTunes review too! Double the fun. <\/p>\n

As you dig into your holiday shopping, please consider using the Amazon search box on podfeet.com in the left sidebar. If you start your search there, anything you buy during that Amazon session will send a small percentage over to the show to help us cover costs. I really appreciate it, as it makes a huge difference in my ability to be able to afford to bring you the show each week. And as always it doesn’t cost you a dime!<\/p>\n

Correction<\/h3>\n

On Last week’s show, Bart and I talked about the insecurity of using a hotel computer, even to print out your boarding pass. Both Rod Simmons and Bruce Wilson let us know that you can print your boarding pass out without actually logging in. Evidently just using your confirmation number, the 6 digit record locator number, you can print your boarding pass. Both Bruce and Rod travel a LOT and they avoid the hotel computer like the plague so they know what they’re talking about! Thanks guys, I had no idea this would work.<\/p>\n

Slau – If Every Day Were Christmas<\/h3>\n

Remember last week I told you how awesome it was to meet up with Slau and learn how he makes music by watching him mix audio real time? The song he was preparing is called If Every Day Were Christmas, and it’s actually finished! He has submitted it to CD Baby which feeds into the iTunes store, so it should be up in iTunes any minute now. I want to encourage everyone go check it out and if you like it buy it. Slau gave us a copy of the song and agreed that I could play you the first 30 seconds of it so let’s have a listen:<\/p>\n

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Isn’t that beautiful? I’ll be posting about it on Twitter and Google Plus and maybe even Facebook when it gets into iTunes so keep an eye out for that.<\/p>\n

xkpasswd.net<\/h3>\n

\"xkpasswd_logo\"<\/a>Ok, ONE more thing about last week’s show. Bart had in the shownotes that he has finished the new version of his secure, memorable, and typable<\/em> password generator over at https:\/\/xkpasswd.net\/s\/<\/a>. We talked a lot a while back about how it works, and if you’re in the Google Plus community (at podfeet.com\/googleplus<\/a>) you even got to be a beta tester for the interface. I have become a huge fan of this service, especially for those times where you have to type a password because you’re looking at it on the iPhone but you need to type it somewhere else. Anyway, go check out all of the enhancements to how you pick the padding and separators and enjoy all the good math behind it. Again, it’s at xkpasswd.net – and if you like it, push that donate button and throw Bart a little bit of love!<\/p>\n

Leon sent in a review last week but I had so much content I couldn’t squeeze it in, so let’s start out with his review now.<\/p>\n

Leon Reviews Should I Sleep<\/h3>\n

\"should<\/a>What problem does this application solve for me? <\/p>\n

Having energy saver set to 15 minutes for screen and 30 minutes for system sleep works fine while I am on the Mac and actively interacting with trackpad and keyboard.<\/p>\n

Where does this app come in handy?<\/p>\n

Lets say I am reading something on my Mac that pertains to fixing a problem on my iPad and I am switching my attention between the two. I happen to look back at my Mac to continue reading and the screen is asleep or the Mac has gone to sleep. Though not an earth shattering situation having to do this many times is ANNOYING. Using the Face Detection Sensor checks for movement with the FaceTime camera and keeps the screen and Mac awake until there is no further movement and then lets energy saver pref take over.<\/p>\n

Other points:<\/p>\n

  • One of the sensors of Should I Sleep I use the most is Download Monitor, name is a little misleading as it monitors network activity in both directions. <\/li>\n
  • Ever had a download \/ upload stop because your energy saver prefs kicked on?<\/li>\n
  • You can set this sensor to a minimum kb to keep the Mac and screen out of sleep and when it drops below your setting energy saver then kicks in.<\/li>\n
  • This has been very useful for those long, long crash plan initial backup and my TimeMachine to Drobo backup.<\/li>\n
  • You can toggle a setting that allows the LCD to sleep but keep the computer awake if you just need CPU usage but you don\u2019t need to see what is happening.<\/li>\n
  • Support is excellent from the developers.<\/li>\n

    Link to Should I Sleep in the Mac Appstore<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Price $1.99 included two sensors with additional sensors as in app purchases individually for .99 each or all sensors for $2.99.
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