Folge from https://folge.me For many NosillaCastaways, a dark day in our tech lives was when our beloved app Clarify was end-of-lifed by its developers. I was heartbroken because I’d not only advertised the product on the show, I was a devout user of Clarify for all of the tutorials I made for podfeet.com and for […]
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PixelSnap by Terry Austin (and Allison)
Hi there, Castaways! Terry Austin here, online professor since 2012. Way before the pandemic. Let’s talk about a problem to be solved that I deal with pretty much every day. Making videos for my online class. Many of these videos involve taking my students, or other faculty I that consult with on video-based tours of […]
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CCATP #660 – Lory Gil on M1 Macs
It wouldn’t be an Apple announcement week without Lory Gil joining us, managing editor of iMore. We start the conversation by talking about what all of the new M1 Macs have in common, which is much more than we’re used to seeing. Then we talk about what System on a Chip (SoC) actually means and […]
Continue readingI Guess I Really DO Love the Apple Pencil
You know how sometimes you buy something and deep down you realize that maybe it really wasn’t as great as you thought it was but you justify it anyway because otherwise you’d realize that you did something dumb? I read about this very thing in the book “Mistakes Were Made, But Not By Me” by […]
Continue readingPlug in More Devices with the Accell Cutie Surge Protector
Accell Power Cutie You know I love to tell a nice long story before I get to the point on my reviews, but I’ll have to dig deep on this one. Don’t worry, I’m up to the challenge. Some of you may have heard this story from me before, but it’s such a great story […]
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NC #809 Watchshot, Power PC G5, espanso, 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, November 8, 2020, and this is show number 809. mp3 download Chit Chat Across the Pond This week’s Chit Chat Across the Pond was another installment of Programming […]
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Security Bits — 8 November 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Connecting COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps Across Europe is Starting to Work — www.macobserver.com/… Deadline is December 8 for App Store Privacy Labels — www.macobserver.com/… Apple will require privacy “nutrition labels” from developers starting December […]
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espanso – Text Expansion for Nerds
espanso Home Page One of the darlings of the Mac community is TextExpander from Smile. I think it’s #2 on my priority list of apps to install, right after 1Password. If you haven’t used TextExpander, the basic idea is that it allows you to type short abbreviations that trigger longer snippets of text to be […]
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CCATP #659 – Bart Busschots on PBS 105 – Seeing the Past with Git
In this installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart takes us on a time traveling adventure with Git. By using commands like git diff we can see changes over time, but we can actually see older versions of the code in a couple of ways. Using the archive command we learned out to pull just the […]
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Ryan Gets “New” Apple Kit – PowerPC G5
Ryan here, you sometimes see me in the chat as “DopeyOne”. I keep hearing these great reviews for the new Apple hardware that you, or one of your listeners have purchased and I have to admit that I, sometimes, get a little envious. Today I want to talk about a purchase that I made for […]
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