Jill is Amazing Jill from the Northwoods is a beast at learning new things and implementing the things she learns. When she met me in real life, she bought one of my older MacBook Pros because she wanted to learn the Mac and potentially move over to macOS leaving Windows behind. Shortly after that, she […]
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Replacing Ulysses with Bear
MarsEdit is My Blogging Platform I’ve mentioned quite a few times that I use the awesome blogging tool for the Mac, MarsEdit from Red Sweater Software. Every blog post you read has come from MarsEdit. MarsEdit lets me write in the plain text language Markdown, or I can write in HTML, or I can mix […]
Continue readingPodfeet Blog Posts Delivered by Email
Checkbox to Receive Emails of New Posts I was chatting with my buddy Niraj this week and he thanked me for putting him on distribution for emails whenever I write a blog post. I told him that I never did that and that I didn’t know how he was getting them! I asked him to […]
Continue readingThe Sheridans Finally Cut the Cord
I feel like Steve and I have made fire, but it’s because we’ve done something probably 85% of you have already done. We finally cut the cord and canceled our cable TV service from our ISP Frontier. I want to chat about it because there are a few interesting points I didn’t appreciate before we […]
Continue readingNC #916 Smart Albums in Photos by Focal Length, Drobo Last Gift, I’m Still Using It Part 1, 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, November 27, 2022, and this is show number 916. Before I get started, I have to make a correction. Even though I just traveled to Iceland, and the […]
Continue readingThe Drobo Gives One Last Gift
Drobo Sold on eBay for $660 If you’ve been following along, you might remember that I finally pulled the plug on our Drobo network attached storage (NAS). I replaced it with a second Synology because I worried about depending on such old technology. Drobo filed for bankruptcy earlier this year, and they haven’t had anything […]
Continue readingI’m Still Using It — Part 1 — Mac Iicx, Elago Apple Watch Charger, Airport Extreme, 2011 MacBook Pro
On the NosillaCast we talk often about the new hotness — the phone you won’t be able to live without, the charger that must be in your travel bag, or the newest note-taking app that will finally help you organize your thoughts. But we rarely talk about those tools that we’ve been using for a […]
Continue readingCCATP #752 — Bart Busschots on PBS 141 — Generating UML Class Diagrams with Mermaid (Don’t Cuddle the Mermaid)
In the last installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart taught us all about UML class diagrams for documenting the structure of our code. In this installment, Bart teaches us how to use the ASCII diagramming tool Mermaid to make our class diagrams. The advantage of Mermaid over a graphical tool to make our diagrams is […]
Continue readingNC #915 Notion Databases, Velja Browser Picker, How to Add Alt Text for Images
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, November 20, 2022, and this is show number 915. Next week is Thanksgiving and I’ve got a whole slew of wonderful entries for our “I’m still using it”. […]
Continue readingSmart Albums in Photos by Focal Length
I’ve been working on smart albums inside Apple Photos and I’ve found some interesting things. Let’s set up a problem to be solved. Let’s say the next iPhone is coming out and you’re trying to decide which model you might need. Perhaps you’ve always gone top-of-the-line because of the cameras, but this year you’re wondering […]
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