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, August 1, 2021, and this is show number 847. This week Steve and I had a lovely week-long vacation with our daughter Lindsay, her husband Nolan, and our […]
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Home Assistant – by Ed Tobias
Hello fellow NosillaCastaways this is Ed Tobias, also known as Mr. Ed in the chats. I’m here to bring you another review of an app called Home Assistant, but in typical NosillaCast fashion, first the problem to be solved. I love IoT devices. The only thing I don’t love about them is they’re very fiddly […]
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Princess Medallion – by Charles Gousha
The Medallion Hi folks! This is Charles Gousha, from the Silicon Valley Mac User Group. With the covid lockdowns finally relenting, I’m very happy to see one my favorite travel options re-open — Ocean Cruising! My wife and I are sailing out on the first Princess Cruise ship to Alaska, next week. And we’re excited […]
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Testing Three Tablet Stands – by Professor Terry Austin
Kabcon (Winner) with Magic Trackpad Hello fellow Castaways! Professor Terry Austin here with a problem to be solved and a review for the solution! As an online professor, and an education consultant, I spend a lot of time at my workstation. At that workstation, I’ve got a 2020 16” MacBook Pro that sits on a […]
Continue readingNC #846 Yoink, Weather & Radar Apps by Jill, 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 Saturday, July 24, 2021, and this is show number 846. You would have thought by now my voice would be back to 100%, but it seems to be running […]
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CCATP #693 – Bart Busschots on PBS 121 of X — Managing Dot Files and an Introduction to Chezmoi
As we’ve become nerdier while learning from Bart, we have started to add hidden configuration files to our Macs and PCs. On the Mac, these configuration files hidden by default by putting a dot in front of them, and hence they are called dot files. Maybe you’ve stored your ssh keys, or in our Git […]
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Get Great Weather & Radar Data Safely – by Jill from the Northwoods
Hello, everyone! This is Jill from the Northwoods. Today, we’re talking about weather apps. And I love weather, I’ve always loved weather. Ask my people at work. They know that I’m a weather geek too. I provide my own ad hoc forecast for people in my office, whether they want it or not. So when […]
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Yoink for iPadOS as Clipboard Manager
Exactly four years ago today, Bart Busschots came on Chit Chat Across the Pond to talk about three of his favorite apps. The first one he talked about was Yoink from Eternal Storms Software. As Bart explained it, Yoink lives as a little shelf on your Mac’s screen and allows you to drag things into […]
Continue readingNC #845 Solar with Sense for Data Nerds, Cocopar USB-C Display, Screencasting Tips Part 3
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 18, 2021, and this is show number 845. Last week when I was debating with the live audience on whether to maybe wait a day to see […]
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Solar (With Sense) is For Data Nerds
If you’re a data nerd, you really need to get solar. When last we left our heroes, our solar installation had just been completed. To review, we had 22 370-Watt solar panels installed, giving us a maximum theoretical instantaneous power generation of 8.14 kW (kilowatts). The little inverters on the back of each panel do […]
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