In this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Mikah Sargent joins us to explain why he’s so excited about what the new technology called Thread is going to bring to the Internet of Things, or IoT. You may know Mikah from the awesome show Clockwise with Dan Moren, or perhaps iOS Today with […]
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NC #838 Knit Like a Programmer, Camera+ 2, Dumb Question Corner on Heavy-Duty Macs, Feeder Wins Again, 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, May 30, 2021, and this is show number 838. mp3 download CCATP #686 – Bart Busschots on PBS #117 of X – Introducing GitHub Blog Posts Knit Like a […]
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Security Bits — 30 May 2021
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 Hot on the heels of the Colonial Pipeline hack, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has published cybersecurity rules for pipeline operators — www.macobserver.com/… Vizio’s questionable privacy stance has come up a […]
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CCATP #686 – Bart Busschots on PBS #117 of X – Introducing GitHub
In this week’s installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart teaches us how to use GitHub as a public repository for our code, or for anything we write for that matter. He reviews why he chose Github, and then we dig right in. He does explain the benefits of using SSH to access Github instead of […]
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Another Reason I Use Feeder for My Podcast Feed
Feeder Adds Podcasts URLs The reason you get my podcasts delivered into your podcatcher each week is because of a magical little text file, often referred to by terms such as RSS file or feed file or podcast feed. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. This file contains the information about the name of the […]
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Dumb Question Corner – Which Macs are for Light vs. Heavy Duty?
Jill from the North Woods (who is a recovering Windows user) asks our Dumb Question this week: Are Macs like Windows in that desktops are for heavy-duty work, and laptops are portable but typically less capable? And are all-in-one computers for lightweight users? It seems as I look at it, the Macs are all the […]
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Camera+ 2 Monument Mode Removes Moving Objects – by Wally Cherwinski
Camera+ 2 Monument Mode A while back I got together with our good friend Bart Busschots on his Let’s Talk Photography podcast. And one of the things we talked about was how hard it is to get good shots of places or tourist attractions when there are always crowds of people around. You can listen […]
Continue readingNC #837 Weird Apple TV Remote, OWC Combo Disk Enclosure & USB HUB, Everything is Fiddly x 2
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, May 23, 2021, and this is show number 837. Last week I told you that we had some listener contributions that would allow me to fully enjoy our […]
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How I Justified a New iPad Pro
Everything is Fiddly – Helma on Apple IDs
Somewhere between 2001 and 2005, I got an iPod, my first Apple device, which I used as an external hard disk to transfer my PhD research between work and home. I got an iTunes account (then just a name, no email address). I switched from Windows to Mac in 2005 when Tiger was released by […]
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