This week we’re joined by Eleanor Mazzarella, a musician turned programmer. She gives us her background in music from finding a clarinet on a bookshelf as a child to a career as a classical performer. She then walks us through how and why she decided that programming sounded like more fun. She’s a funny, delightful […]
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NC #764 It Just Works, Menu Bar Favorites, Secure Email Decision and Migration
I’ll be talking about how tech really doesn’t work these days, Frank Petrie will entertain us with his favorite menu bar apps, and then Dorothy, aka MacLurker, will regale us with the process she followed to migrate to a new, secure, email system. mp3 download
Continue readingMacLurker Returns — Secure Email Decision and Migration
Dorothy, aka MacLurker in the live chat room and in our Slack returns to give us an update on her quest for a new secure email service. She told us about the quest back in August 9, 2019 and now she explains how she made her decision and what she’s doing to migrate to the […]
Continue readingIt Just Works!
Have you noticed lately that lots of tech things have little glitches, annoyances, and things just don’t work right sometimes? The other day I noticed that it was relentless how many things didn’t quite work. It wasn’t just my Mac or just my iPhone, it was every bit of tech I touched and every app […]
Continue readingMenu Bar Favorites by Frank Petrie
The reason I was drawn to the Mac in the first place was as plain and simple as myself – it was the GUI. I didn’t have to know anything about computers, I could completely focus on creating musical compositions, videos, or my writing. I even taught myself some HTML5 and CSS then carved my […]
Continue readingNC #763 First Mac Impressions from a Windows User, Night Before Christmas, QLab, Security Bits
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, December 22, 2019, and this is show number 763. Thanks to many awesome listeners, we’ll have full shows for every one of the holiday weekends. Because of these […]
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Security Bits – 22 December 2019
Note: This is the second of two episodes both recorded on the 15th of December 2019, but released over two weeks. Security Medium 1 — An Over-hyped VPN Weakness The internet positively hyper-ventilated when security researchers claimed to have found a bug in the TCP/IP implementation on just about every OS that could compromise just […]
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QLab for Timing Audio/Video Productions — by Andy Dolph
Hi, this is Andy and I’m here with a little bit different kind of a story for the NosillaCast. My background is in sound, lighting, and projection design for the theater. I’ve been thinking for a while about telling you all about an application I use a lot. It’s called QLab, the letter “Q” “L […]
Continue readingFirst Mac by a Long-Time PC User — Jill McKinley
Jill with her Apple IIc This is Jill with reflections on the new-to-me MacBook Pro. I have been a Microsoft gal when I built my first 8088 in the early 80s and it had MSDOS v1. When I bought my Apple IIc in college, it was an extraordinary amount of money given to me by […]
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The Night Before Christmas
Since it’s only a week until Christmas, I thought now would be a good time to resurrect the poem that has become a holiday tradition on the NosillaCast. This year we lost our beloved Honda Bob, a long-time NosillaCastaway and contributor to the show and a very dear friend. But his memory and the silliness […]
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