Steve Davidson posted a great question on podfeet.com on my post about the Netgear Nighthawk X8 router: Allison, now that Apple has end-of-lifed the AirPort Extreme (my device of choice until now), I’m taking another look at the Netgear Nighthawk X8 (your endorsement has to be worth $$$ to Netgear). Besides the obvious reasons to […]
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CCATP #469 Allister Jenks on Affinity Designer
This week we’re joined by Allister Jenks of the Sitting Duck Podcast. I tricked him into using Affinity Photo (and he loves it) so he turns the tables and convinces me to buy into Affinity Designer. He’ll explain the difference between pixel and vector editors, and why you’d want to use one tool over the […]
Continue readingAirPods – Lag or No Lag?
I mentioned in my AirPods review last week that I did some tests of audio/video syncing for Dave Hamilton. I’ll review a little bit and then walk into some more advanced questions. Dave had asked me to watch some YouTube videos using the AirPods to see whether the sound was in sync and the results […]
Continue readingMissing MagSafe on Your USB-C Mac? Griffin BreakSafe Isn’t the Answer
When the MacBook and later the MacBook Pro came out with only USB-C there was a lot of moaning and groaning about dongles, but mixed reactions about the loss of the MagSafe power connector. It was designed to break away if someone hit the cable so your laptop wouldn’t go skidding across the table and […]
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NC #607 Primitive, Lost Voicemails, AirPods, Security Bits
It’s Christmas Day but there’s a fresh NosillaCast anyway – no best of show for us. Allister Jenks joins us to talk about the photo manipulation app Primitive for Mac from primitive.lol/…. I’ll tell you the tragic story of how Melissa lost her father’s voicemails and our joint discovery of how to get them back. […]
Continue readingMelissa’s Lost Voicemails, AKA Why I Do the Podcast
You know I do the podcast for the love of talking about tech. I get a big kick out of helping people and one of the ways I do that is with the tutorials I post on podfeet.com. I don’t know how many people find them or get value from them. I do get comments […]
Continue readingTransform Your Photos with Primitive – Guest Post by Allister Jenks
Hello Allison and NosillaCastaways. Allister here from New Zealand, once again, with a review of one of those apps you don’t need but which you might just fall in love with. A year ago, I subscribed to the then brand new Club MacStories newsletter. I love the information it brings me every week. Amongst the […]
Continue readingApple AirPods – Bluetooth With Less Fiddling?
I’ve mentioned many times that I got really lucky in the husband department. Last week highlights that. Steve gets up pretty early (especially for a retired guy) and when the AirPods went on sale early one morning, he immediately ordered me a set before the ship dates moved out to January. They arrived a day […]
Continue readingNC #606 Eye Chart Radio, Yahoo Breach and MD5, Amazon Duet, Nomorobo for iOS, Shelly & Steve Poems
We WILL have episodes of the NosillaCast (and live shows) on both Christmas and New Years day (unlike those other slacker podcasters). Check out last week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond with Chris Ashley from the SMR Podcast (fun with Windows!). I’m one of the new rotating co-hosts for Eye Chart Radio with […]
Continue readingBlock Spam Calls on Your iPhone with Nomorobo – by Terry Austin
Guest Post by Terry Austin of ielectrons.com Hi there Allison and my fellow NosillaCastaways. Terry here… Boy do I ever have a problem to be solved today! SPAM calls on my iPhone. I HATE those and some days it seems like they come in every ten or twenty minutes. The latest trick is a random […]
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