Allison interviews Ray Hedrick from ViewSonic about their line of monitors compatible with the Mac. He walks through the VX line of displays perfect for home offices, and the VP displays that are intended for serious video and photography editors. He explains how they’re perfect for Mac users because they also support full power delivery […]
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NC #819 Bartender 4 Tutorial, Boot-Loop-a-Go-Go, Cheating on Wyze, 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, January 17, 2021, and this is show number 819. mp3 download CCATP #668 – Bart Busschots on PBS 110 of X – Merge Conflicts Blog Posts Bartender 4 […]
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Bartender 4 for macOS Big Sur – Video Tutorial on ScreenCastsOnline
Bartender has been one of my mission-crictical apps on my Macs for many years. Without it, I wouldn’t have room for all of my menu bar items, even thought I use a 16″ MacBook Pro. Bartender 4 from www.macbartender.com/… is out in public beta right now, redesigned only for macOS Big Sur. My video tutorial […]
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Security Bits — 17 January 2021
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. COVID Update: Apple have released iOS 12.5.1, bug-fix for the un-expected iOS 12.5 recently released to add COVID exposure tracking to older iPhones — www.macobserver.com/… Yelp have added fields to allow reviewers to mark […]
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CCATP #668 – Bart Busschots on PBS 110 of X – Merge Conflicts
In this installment of Programming By Stealth Bart teaches us how to deal with conflicts in branches of our code. He has been purposely only changing one thing at a time before now, but it’s time to face the reality of when two branches change the same line in the same file. I’ve been terrified […]
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Boot-Loop-a-Go-Go
A few weeks ago, I told you that the M1 Mac mini was pretty awesome but that shortly after getting it, it got into a boot loop. Eventually, I ended up in System Recovery and it seemed to ask me to reinstall the operating system. I think I know now why that happened and I’m […]
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I’m Cheating on Wyze with Hue and eufy
Quite a few years back, Steve and I were at CES and hanging out with our friend Joe LaGreca. I was bemoaning how I wasn’t happy with the $100 D-Link Omna security camera I’d bought and he suggested we take a look at the Wyze Cam. Fast forward to today and we now have 4 […]
Continue readingNC #818 Jill’s Apple Watch, Straddling OSs and Architectures, Chocolatey, Hands-Free iPhone
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, January 10, 2021, and this is show number 818. mp3 download CCATP #667 – Mike Price on Keyboard Maestro Blog Posts A Week in the Life of Jill’s […]
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Dumb Question Corner – How to Answer iPhone Hands-Free
Recently, my good friend Kelly Guimont (aka @verso) asked me a question I couldn’t immediately answer. She asked whether there was a way, through accessibility on iOS, to answer a phone call on an iPhone without using your hands. This began a journey of discovery. I found several ways to accomplish this, and the methods […]
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Package Manager Chocolatey – by Caleb Fong aka @geekosupremo
Greetings fellow NosillaCastAways (still not sold on intracap). Today I want to tell you all about a wonderful (mostly) Windows tool. It’s the package manager Chocolatey. In short, a package manager is a tool, to manage applications in a reproducible way. For example at my $DAYJOB I have to manage around fifty Windows desktops. The […]
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