We’ll start with part 2 of my year in review of the apps and hardware I’ve talked about in 2017 and I’ll let you know whether I’m still using them. After that, we’ll be joined by Caleb Fong with a couple of Tiny Tip segments on tools for programming. Then Denise Crown will give us […]
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US Streaming TV Shoot Out – by Denise Crown
Hi Castaways! It’s Denise Crown with a US streaming service shoot out and a castaway challenge at the end! Get excited! Here’s the problem to be solved: I resent the amount of money I pay for TV. It’s $250 per month by the time we add HBO and NFL football. My husband loves football so […]
Continue readingTiny Tip – Vimmy & Oh Sh-t Git! By Caleb Fong
The review below is from Caleb Fong, aka @GeekoSupremo on Twitter. Caleb is a long time NosillaCastaway who is also following along with Programming By Stealth. His review is pretty geeky (goes well with his Twitter handle) so I thought it might help to explain a couple of terms he uses. He’ll use the term […]
Continue readingHunt for Missing Menus
This week we ran into a real puzzler of a technical problem for my father-in-law, Ken. I had to enlist the help of not just the NosillaCastaways through our Facebook and Google Plus groups, but also the Mac Geek Gab community. In the end, it was Bart who cracked the code on the solution. I […]
Continue reading2017 Year in Review Part 2 – What Am I Still Using?
Last week I went through the first half of the year, talking about all of the hardware and software I reviewed in 2017 to see what I’m still using and what has fallen by the wayside. If you haven’t read the first half, you can find it here. Let’s continue our journey and take a […]
Continue readingNC #659 Solving Network Problems, 2017 What Apps Am I Still Using Part 1, Security Bits
This week I was on the Clockwise Podcast episode 220 at relay.fm/…. Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone talked about my iOS 11 settings Mind Map of Doom on iOS Today episode 372 at around 57:30 into the show. Helma from the Netherlands brings us some networking tips. I bring you the first half of my […]
Continue readingCCATP #516 – Bart Busschots on PBS 46 – ES6 Spread Operator, Arrow Functions & Classes
In this installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart adds one more thing to the list of changes to arrays, and that’s the spread operator. Then we’ll learn how to get rid of the “const self = this” kludge for callbacks using the arrow functions. After that, we learn the basics of classes, a concept introduced […]
Continue reading2017 Year in Review Part 1 – What Am I Still Using?
I’ve always thought it might be interesting to look back on all of the products I’ve reviewed over the years and see what I’m still using. That would be a gargantuan effort, given that I’ve been doing this for over 12 years! But then I thought, maybe I could look at the past year and […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits – HP Keylogger, Mailsploit
Security Medium 1 — HP’s Accidental Keylogger Some HP laptops shipped with a keyboard driver from Synaptics in which a developer debugging feature was accidentally left enabled. The effect of this mistake is that the driver has built-in support for logging all keystrokes via WPP (a debugging tool that’s built into Windows). This sounds bad, […]
Continue readingSolving Network Problems – by Helma from the Netherlands
Hi Allison, here are some tips on solving network problems. I hope they might benefit others. As many of us geeks, I have built quite an extended internal network over the years. All devices that need a static IP address have been entered into the router in the reserved IP address section. I decided to […]
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