In this rather mind-bendy episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots takes into the weird world of POSIX special variables and options. He refers to some of them as being like handling nuclear power, at one point he suggests mind-altering drugs must have been involved in the design, and he even compares one of our […]
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Clean Up Background Noise with Hush for macOS — by Terry Austin
Hey, I’m talking over here – HUSH… just HUSH Hi there fellow castaways this is Terry from Texas with another (long overdue) review. First, the problem to be solved. As an online professor, I record videos for my students. As previously mentioned, I live in Texas where it gets hot. To solve the HOT problem […]
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Tesla Full “Self-Driving” Beta 11 Wins the Most Improved Award
Charlie’s Trophy When I was 12 years old, my family had a collie puppy named Charlie who was in sore need of some training, so my parents signed me and Charlie up for obedience classes. When it came time for the final graduation ceremony, which involved the incredibly complex procedure of walking around a circular […]
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CCATP #764 — Adam Engst on Mac Cloud Storage Changes
Adam Engst of TidBITS joins me on Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite to talk about the changes Apple made recently to the File Provider Extension. These changes had a fairly significant effect on how cloud storage providers like Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and Box work with macOS. Whether you realize it or not, you’ve […]
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NC #935 Tiny iOS Tip, Tale of Two iPads from Jill, OKO Navigation for the Blind, Under My Roof
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, April 9, 2023, and this is show number 935. mp3 download Al on Let’s Talk Apple I always enjoy it when Bart has me on Let’s Talk Apple, […]
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A Tale of Two iPads (and Two Keyboard Cases) by Jill from the Northwoods
Hello, this is Jill from the North Woods. The story of my buying an iPad goes all the way back to 2010. I oversaw a pool of medical tablets for medical staff to carry around and enter patient information through these tablets. I kept them healthy and gave them out when there were certain types […]
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Track All of Your Stuff with Under My Roof
One of the most important applications I use is called Under My Roof from Binary Formations. Under My Roof helps you keep track of everything to do with your home through a beautiful user interface. Under the hood it’s a powerful database but that is hidden from the user so you don’t have to worry […]
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Tiny Tip – How to Add a Line Feed on iOS When There’s No Return Key
When you’re using an app that expects long-winded typing on iOS, you’ll get the standard iOS keyboard with four rows of keys. On the fourth row (of the American English keyboard), you’ll find a key labeled “return”. Hitting this key gives you a line feed, which is an expected feature for separating thoughts for readability. […]
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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, April 2, 2023, and this is show number 934. mp3 download Steve and I spent a rare weekend with our entire family – Kyle and his family flew […]
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Corkulous for Organizing Ideas – by Jill from the Northwoods
Hi, this is Jill from the North Woods. When I bought my iPad way back in 2010, either the first app I bought or one of the first apps I bought was Corkulous from www.corkulous.com/…. It is a virtual corkboard. Now, part of the reason I like computing and computers so much is I can’t […]
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