Ryan Winkler wrote in: I’ve heard you mention Homebrew on the show and I’m not sure if I need it. What is it and do I need it? This is a great question. The answer, in short, is, maybe, maybe not. Let’s walk through what Homebrew is, and what kinds of fun things you can […]
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NC #755 Apple OS Releases, iDevices, Home Inventory, Floating Keyboard on iPad mini, Parallels Interview
This week we’ll talk a bit about how hard the new OS releases from Apple have been on developers, including a Chit Chat Across the Pond all about it. Ryan Winkler makes his debut on the NosillaCast with a review of the iDevices Switch. I’ll tell you about one of my favorite applications, Home Inventory […]
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iDevices Switch by Ryan Winkler
Ryan Winkler, aka @DopeyOne in the live chat room brings us his review of the iDevices switch in a unique way using audio and video. You’ll see what I mean by “unique”. Using a Screen Reader? click here
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Finally, a Fun Way to Type on iPad mini
If you’ve been playing along for a while, you’ll remember that I was super sad when the MyScript folks decided to stop supporting their MyScript Stylus 3rd party keyboard for the iPad. This magical keyboard allowed you to use Apple Pencil to write by hand, and executed real-time optical character recognition so everything you scribbled […]
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CCATP #612 – Ray Robertson on Impact of Apple’s Development Process on Developers
Ray & Allison at ⌘-D Conference This week we’re joined by returning guest Ray Robertson, well-known AppleScript guru and general all-around automator. Ray joins me to talk about the increased challenges developers faced working with Apple. It’s no secret that iOS 13 and iPad OS 13 have been problematic on their own, but the betas […]
Continue readingNC #754 Hackintosh, macOS Clean Install Tutorial, MacTech, Security Bits
We’ve got a great story of building a Hackintosh by Trevor Drover from Australia, I’ll tell you how hard and scary it was to do a ScreenCastsOnline video tutorial about why you might want to do a clean install on your Mac and how to actually do such a thing. Then I’ll regale you with […]
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Security Bits – 20 October 2019
Security Medium 1 — Apple Card is not Magic A story made a lot of news this week because it involved a physical Apple Card being skimmed. It underlines the fact that people do not understand that when they fall back to using the physical card or entering the virtual number into a website manually, […]
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MacTech Conference 2019 – Python, Catalina Volumes, Script Debugging and Sal’s Secret Trick
What is MacTech This week I attended the MacTech Conference for the first time. I’d heard about it for ages from Dave Hamilton of the Mac Geek Gab, but for two reasons, I hesitated for a long time about attending. Even though it’s conveniently in Los Angeles, it’s super expensive. I used a pre-registration discount […]
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CCATP #611 – Bart Busschots on PBS 84 of X – Objects as Dictionaries in JavaScript (Redux & Update)
Bart has been noticing that there are a few key features in JavaScript that haven’t ever really congealed for me and is circling back in hopes of firming them up. The other reason he’s going over these topics is that new options have been created since we first covered them. The first of these subjects […]
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Making of: macOS Clean Install Tutorial – ScreenCastsOnline
I am really excited to tell you about my latest video tutorial for ScreenCastsOnline, how to do a clean install of macOS. I’m excited because it was one of the most terrifying and challenging tutorials I’ve ever created. This was a very difficult video to create for several reasons.
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