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, July 28, 2024, and this is show number 1003.
Before we get started, it’s time for my annual call for content because we’re going on vacation. This time we’ll be gone for THREE SHOWS! We’re going to Africa this year. In addition to Allister and Bart each taking a show, Jill from the Northwoods will make her debut taking on one show. I secretly think this is all part of her master plan to build her podcast empire.
You don’t have a lot of time to get these done. The first guest episode will be August 18 by Allister Jenks. Then Bart will do the show for August 25, with Jill playing cleanup on September 1st.
I think the latest I can get the audio and text files for blog posts is August 6th. I don’t think I’ll be able to do much technical work while in a tent on a safari in Zimbabwe so that’s really a drop dead date!
You can share the files with me via Dropbox or whatever file-sharing tool you like, to [email protected]. Please keep them crisp and to the point and if you want them to sound as good as possible, save them as an AIFF or WAV file, or even an M4A file.
I really appreciate these folks standing in for me so we keep our streak alive, so please think up something to review and ship it on over.
Appearance on Home On
Richard Gunther, host of the Home On podcast about Home Automation and I have known each other for years and years, and when we first met we said, “We should really record something fun together.” Well, it took a long time coming but we finally did. Richard invited me to join him for episode 158 of the Home On podcast at the Digital Media Zone.
Everyone seems to enjoy talking about the joys of home automation, and how wonderful it is when you walk into a room at a certain time of the day and the music comes on, the lights come on low and the alarm system locks your house down for the evening. But that’s not what we talked about.
Richard had me on to discuss the more problematic side of Home Automation. We talked about our least-favorite IoT devices, and automations that continuously give us fits. It was very cathartic to talk about the hard parts and not pretend that it’s all happy happy joy joy.
You can find this episode of Home On with Richard Gunther at www.thedigitalmediazone.com/… or in your podcatcher of choice.
Articles
Physics Nerd Graeme is back with the final installment of his series explaining how he creates his Physics Shorts videos for social media. I’ve really enjoyed every one of them from How he uses Typora to Audio Hijack settings to the advanced tool Izotope RX11. But of all of them, this one is my favorite.
Physics Shorts 5 — Keynote for Video Creation by Physics Nerd Graeme
I told you this one was fantastic! I learned so much from this very practical example that I never knew Keynote could do. Doing animations in Keynote has always been a bit mysterious to me, but with some of your tips, I did a tiny bit of it for my Macstock presentation. The single tip that helps the most is noticing that Build Order button on the bottom of the pane. I knew it was there but I always forget about it.
The biggest thing that blew my mind was that you can create your own colors with the color picker/color wheel thingy. How long has that been possible??? I’m going to make a Mac Tiny Tip out of just that one little bit. I showed it off at Macstock I was so excited.
Not only did Graeme do a great job organizing this and explaining it in audio, but his shownotes are best in class. Nobody has ever sent me notes that took so little work on my part to publish and no one, including me, has ever created better alt text for screen readers to speak the images. I’m thinking you should be a professional teacher, Graeme!
Support the Show
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Cleanup After the Great Podcast Migration of 2024
We have our final interview from CSUN up next, and it’s one of our favorites. The product you’ll hear about isn’t something you’d buy for your home, but Mikael Vikman Sunna was delightful and funny and we plan to visit him if we ever get to Sweden!
CSUN 2024: Index Braille High-Speed Embossers
Transcript of NC_2024_07_28
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