I’ve written a lot of posts about Parallels Toolbox, the menu bar app that gives you access to lots of tiny tools that each do one specific thing. The reason I’ve talked about Parallels Toolbox so many times is that they keep adding more and more tools to the toolbox, so every year or so, […]
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NC #835 Fiddly Sidecar, Logitech 4K Pro Webcam, Backpedaling Wheels, AirTag Games with Bodie, Command Line Screenshots
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 9, 2021, and this is show number 835. mp3 download The Dialogue is Flawless – DTNS 4023 – Daily Tech News Show This week I got to […]
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Let Me Try to Convince You to Take Screenshots from the Command Line in macOS
Terminal `man screencapture` I think I need to find a support group for people who are addicted to screen capture utilities. I went through all of the articles on podfeet, and I’ve talked about macOS’s built-in screen capture, Loom, Capto, Monosnap, Teampaper Snap, Parallels Toolbox, Folge, and the now deprecated Clarify and Stepshot Guides. And […]
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Let The Backpedaling Commence – by Frank Petrie
After the conclusion of Apple’s April event, many You Tubers and bloggers (myself included) began our assault on the new M1 iMac. Personally, I likened the design to a 5th grader who used the iPad software feature where you can make a square, circle, rectangle, what-have-you perfect by merely drawing the shape then holding the […]
Continue readingNC #834 Outsmarting AirTag, Logitech Zone Headset, Is There Anything NOT Fiddly?, 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 2, 2021, and this is show number 834. mp3 download This week we have not one but TWO Chit Chat Across the Pond episodes. CCATP #683 – […]
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Accidentally Outsmarting an AirTag
Weak AirTag Signal Everyone and their sister has been reviewing AirTags this week with various opinions on whether they’re awesome or not. I’m not going to do a full review of AirTags but I do have a funny story to tell. The review I was originally going to write was going to be entitled something […]
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Logitech Zone Wireless Plus headset – by Bruce aka @UseTheData
This is Bruce from Tennessee, with a review of the Logitech Zone Wireless Plus headset. First, what’s the problem to be solved? Logitech Zone Wireless Plus headset I’ve been on distributed teams and doing phone conferences and web meetings for decades, and I’ve historically used a wired USB headset with a boom mike. I preferred […]
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CCATP #684 – Bart Busschots on PBS #115 of X – The Push & Pull of Git
When Bart started this mini-series within a series on using Git for version control, he explained that our journey would be in three Phases. Phase 1 was the section where we learned about local repositories, and Phase two was dedicated to learning how to have multiple repositories just for ourselves. In this lesson, we finish […]
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Is There Anything That’s NOT Fiddly?
I think I’ve been going about this Everything is Fiddly thing all wrong. I should have created a segment about what’s not fiddly. That would have created unique and unusual stories. With Everything is Fiddly, there’s just too darn much material to work with. TextExpander Let’s start with the name Everything is Fiddly. I knew […]
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Logitech 4K Pro Magnetic Webcam
My Trusty Logitech C920 is Still Great After Seven Years In January of 2014, I reviewed my fancy new webcam, the Logitech C920 that Steve got for me for Christmas to replace the built-in iSight camera on my Mac. Back then the C920 ran $64 and it was a fantastic upgrade. Not only was that […]
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