At the beginning of last week’s show, you probably heard me say that the live audience heard the intro three times because I kept making mistakes. While Jill, Bart, and Allister flawlessly executed their three shows, I couldn’t stop messing up. And that was only the beginning. I Blame Automation I’m going to blame automation […]
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Security Bits — 15 September 2024
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Apple have decided to end their case against the NSO Group (authors of the infamous Pegasus spyware) because disclosure could do more harm to users than letting the NSO group off the hook — […]
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Rock Paper Pencil by Astropad Makes iPad Feel More Like Paper
Pencil on iPad is Slippery A few years ago, my friend Cheyenne, the elementary school teacher you’ve heard on the show a few times, told me that she uses a screen protector to make her iPad feel more like paper when she’s writing on it with Apple Pencil. Ever since then, I’ve been tempted to […]
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Appearance on “Beyond the Post” Podcast with Robb and Bodie
Shortly before we left on our Africa adventure, I had the great pleasure of being a guest on a relatively new podcast called Beyond the Post. The show is hosted by Robb Dunewood, who you may know from the SMR Podcast and the Tech Jawn, along with the infamous Bodie Grimm of the Kilowatt Podcast. […]
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NC #1009 Thanks to Allister, Bart, and Jill, Tech on Travel the Africa Edition, Chit Chat with Adam Engst
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, September 3, 2024, and this is show number 2009. mp3 download Thanks to Allister, Bart, and Jill How great of a job did Allister, Bart, and Jill do […]
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Philips Hue Programming, Off the Charts (Part 3 of 3)
In the second instalment of this series, I left you with a couple of useful scripts — one to fetch the device ID of a light, given a name, and one to perform the conversion from RGB to CIE colour. I developed those two scripts as necessary parts of what comes next. I have demonstrated […]
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CCATP #799 – Adam Engst on Apple’s Screen Recording Permissions in Sequoia Beta
Adam Engst joins me again, this time to talk about the patently wrong decision by Apple to include repetitive permissions requests for screen recording in the macOS Sequoia beta. As he explains in his article on TidBITS.com entitled Apple Reduces Excessive Sequoia Permission Requests, Shifts to Monthly, changing from weekly permissions requests to monthly is […]
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Tech on Travel – the Africa Edition
When Steve and I retired, people asked us if we planned to travel. We immediately said, “No…” But we were wrong! We’ve really enjoyed traveling all over the world, and our recent trip to Africa was our 7th continent. We went to South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Botswana. Every time we take one of these […]
Continue readingMore TagNC #1008 Elgato Prompter, Old Macs, PulsePoint, MyNetDiary, Happy Scale, and Life Cycle
Hi, this is Jill from the Northwoods of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, September 1, 2024, and this is show number 1008. mp3 download Articles *Elgato Prompter – A Teleprompter That Makes Video Personable *George from Tulsa – Old […]
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