Steven’s Apple Watch Screenshot I recently told you about how I made pretty screenshots of my Apple Watch including nice watch frames and pretty watchbands. I explained how in order to accomplish this feat, I downloaded the free app Watchshot. It’s an easy-to-use app, and produces beautiful Apple Watch screenshots, but you do have to […]
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Google Forms Tutorial on ScreenCastsONLINE
If you’ve ever needed to get feedback from a group of people, using the free Google Forms is a great way to do it. You can create surveys, get feedback on a class you’ve taught, help organize a family reunion, or even create quizzes. I’ve used it to organize the party we used to throw […]
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NC #962 Is Fantastical Fantastic, Sonoma Desktop Widgets with VoiceOver, Freewire Technologies
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 Tuesday, October 10, 2023, and this is show number 962. I know, it’s only been two days since the last show came out but Steve and I are off […]
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Adding Widgets to Your Desktop in Sonoma with VoiceOver
Michael Babcock, cohost of the awesome podcast Unmute Presents with Marty Sobo, sent in an audio tip on how to add widgets to your desktop in Sonoma. It will be played in this week’s NosillaCast coming out on October 10th. Below is the transcript of his tip. Any words you see as quotes are what […]
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Is Fantastical Fantastic? — by Jill from the Northwoods
Hi, this is Jill from the Northwoods. I got a new job, as I probably told you already. And I realized that 15 years of my calendar schedule went into my work calendar that was now gone. I decided I wasn’t going to do that anymore and that I needed a calendar of my very […]
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Nuke and Pave – 2023 Edition – Battery Tests
One of the greatest sources of content for the NosillaCast is the adventures I go through each time I do a nuke and pave on a Mac. By nuke and pave, I mean a clean install of the operating system and not migrating any apps or settings from my previous installation. The process I follow […]
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Two Years Ago Today I Left Facebook and Instagram
Two years ago on October 5th, I stopped using any services from the company Meta, e.g. Facebook and Instagram. I didn’t quit these services, I just quit going into them and removed them from my devices. I made this change after Frances Haugen, former data scientist at Facebook, testified before Congress. While working at Facebook […]
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Tiny Tip – How to See All of the Preinstalled macOS Apps
One of the great joys of macOS is how many apps come preinstalled on your Mac. These aren’t bloatware — they’re actually quite useful apps. When you first get your Mac, or after you nuke a Mac (erasing everything and reinstalling the OS), you can see which apps the Mac comes with. But what if […]
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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, October 1, 2023, and this is show number 960. mp3 download We met Steven Goetz! If you’ve been listening to the NosillaCast for a long time, or even […]
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Security Bits — 1 October 2023
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. LastPass are finally forcing users to strengthen their master passwords — krebsonsecurity.com/… (Note that this provides zero protection to what ever was in user’s vaults when the big breach happened last year!) Passkeys continue […]
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