There’s been a lot of hype around the new M4 iPad Pro just announced recently, mostly by tech pundits saying how amazing the hardware is and in their second breath telling us how disappointed they are in iPadOS. Apple made it thinner, lighter, faster, and gave us an OLED display but that wasn’t enough to […]
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CCATP #794 Bart Busschots on PBS 166 of X — jq: Processing Arrays & Dictionaries sans Explosion
In this penultimate jq episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart introduces us to three new ways to process arrays and dictionaries without exploding them first. I know that sounds crazy – we’ve always exploded our arrays first. He teaches us how to use the reduce operator which lets us take an entire array or dictionary […]
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NC #993 Car Thief and Tech, Belkin Auto-tracking Stand by Tom from New Hampshire, Learn Braille with Annie, Tesla Wall Charger
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 Wednesday, May 15, 2024, and this is show number 993. You can tell by the day and date that the podcast is quite a bit early this week because […]
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A Car Thief, a Purse, a Backpack, Google Assistant, and Security Cameras
The Subject of This Story Last week I was on one of my dog walks and as I got close to home, I noticed a backpack on the median in front of the sidewalk across from my house. In our neighborhood, anything sitting on that little strip of grass on the outside of the sidewalk […]
Continue readingNC #992 19th Anniversary, 1000th Episode Request from Steve, Find Any File on ScreenCastsONLINE, An Unhappy Network Story, Yubikey, 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 12, 2024, and this is show number 992. mp3 download Before we dig into the show, I have a couple of announcements. First, I want to warn […]
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Eero, MoCA, ONT – Not a Happy Networking Story
Eero 6E You know what’s a super fun way to spend Mother’s Day? Diagnosing network problems! Let’s back up and I’ll tell you a story that might give you some insight into your own networking problems someday. A few weeks ago our network started to get dodgy. While all network speed tests showed everything was […]
Continue readingCCATP #793 — Bart Busschots on PBS 165 of X – jq: Variables
In this installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart explains why jq is uniquely designed not to need variables (most of the time) and then explains how to use them in the few instances when there’s no other way. It’s really a fairly straightforward lesson as Bart sets up some clear examples and solves them with […]
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Find Any File – ScreenCastsONLINE Tutorial
In December, Christian from Germany sent in a review of an app called Find Any File. He explained that when he deletes an app, he uses Find Any File to hunt down all of the remnants of the app so he’s sure his system stays clean. I downloaded Find Any File from findanyfile.app and gave […]
Continue readingNC #991 Migration Assistant Failures, Cato from Auli, Kensington Thunderbolt Hub, Pawport Pet Door
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 5, 2024, and this is show number 991. Tuesday at 7 AM Pacific Time, Apple has an announcement, widely believed to be for a new set of […]
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Expand Your Ports with the Kensington Thunderbolt 4 Dual 4K Nano Docking Station
Terminology I’ve just received a review unit from Kensington for their Thunderbolt 4 Dual 4K Nano Docking Station, but I’m going to call it a hub. In order to make any sense at all when I do that, let’s talk about the difference between a hub and a dock. You may remember that during our […]
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