The new hip thing today is these Internet of Things devices, right? Steve and I have been dipping our toes in with the Ring video doorbell, the Chimes that go with it, the Hue Lights that automatically change in time with The Expanse series on SyFy, the Nest Protect smoke alarm that’ll tell us if […]
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CCATP #430 – Programming by Stealth – 11 of x (Tables)
Finally, after many months of making us wait, Bart has decided it’s time to look at tables on web pages. We’ll start by describing the HTML markup for tables, and then look at how to style them with CSS. Follow along with Bart’s full tutorial at pbs.bartificer.net/… mp3 download
Continue readingNC #566 mSATA SSD on Drobo, Garbage Collection, Authy, New Country Amazon Affiliates, Samsung T3 SSD, Moving Photos to External SSD
We’ll learn about Garbage Collection in the context of a failed (and replaced) mSATA SSD from Crucial. New to podfeet.com – Amazon Affiliate links for Canada, Germany and the UK. A quick review of the Samsung T3 External USB 3.0 SSD (with USB-C connectivity). Joe LaGreca tells us about Authy, a brilliant two-factor authentication tool […]
Continue readingAnnouncing Amazon Affiliate Links for Canada, Germany & UK
I’m one of the luckiest people around to have the NosillaCastaways as my friends and supporters. One way many of you have shown your support is by using my Amazon Affiliate link to buy your gadgets and sundries and such. A lot of you live outside of the US and have been asking me for a […]
Continue readingMoving Apple System Photo Library to an External SSD is Terrifying
So now that I’ve got my shiny new Samsung T3 USB3 external SSD, let’s see if I can figure out how to use this for my real Photos library. Since not everyone uses Photos, let me explain some details of how this works. Photos, like its predecessors iPhoto and Aperture, can handle multiple libraries. But […]
Continue readingSamsung T3 – 1TB External USB 3.0 SSD
I mentioned a few weeks ago that I’d decided to move my giant photo library of doom (tm Donald Burr) off of my Mac and onto an external drive. I didn’t want to sacrifice any speed, so I bought the Samsung T3 1TB USB 3 drive with USB-C connectivity to accomplish this goal. As I’d […]
Continue readingCCATP #429 Stewart Cheifet on AI, Self-Driving Cars and Virtual Reality
Stewart Cheifet hosted shows on television about technology from the 1980s through 2002. The Computer Chronicles and Net Cafe are still fascinating to watch because of Stewart’s ability to see the current technology and map out the path to the future. I asked Stewart to come on and talk about Artificial Intelligence, self-driving cars, and […]
Continue readingmSATA SSD Failure on Drobo and Learning About Garbage Collection
I’ve mentioned quite a few times that Steve and I had a Drobo FS network attached storage device which was really slow, so we replaced it with a Drobo 5N. The 5N is also network attached but it has an accelerator bay, which accepts an mSATA SSD. This accelerator card caches frequently accessed data and […]
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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