My neighbor Rick just taught me an awesome trick. His wife is scanning in photos and also has a lot of negatives to sort through. As Billy Bob Thornton said in Bad Santa, “They can’t all be winners”, so she wants to find just the really good negatives to be scanned. The problem is that […]
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CCATP #653 – Lory Gil on New Apple Watches, iPads and Services
With the new announcements of Apple Watches, iPads and services like Fitness+ and Apple One, the best person to talk to is Lory Gil, managing editor of iMore. In this episode we talk about whether the new Apple Watch Series 6 processor matters, or is it the new colors that excite us. Is Apple doing […]
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Tiny Tip – How to Pause 5GHz on eero Mesh to Connect IoT Devices
Internet of Things devices (IoT), are proliferating into our lives, saving us from the incredibly arduous tasks of turning off light bulbs and closing our blinds. If you’ve been playing with IoT for any length of time, you know what I’m talking about. Setting up IoT devices usually follows this generic set of steps: Launch […]
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NC #801 Telegram Tutorial on ScreenCastsOnline, Oculus Quest, Scanned Photo Organization, 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, September 13, 2020, and this is show number 801. mp3 download Chit Chat Across the Pond In this week’s Chit Chat Across the Pond, Bart and I start […]
Continue readingTelegram Tutorial on ScreenCastsOnline
Last month I wrote up all the reasons I think Telegram is a better messaging app than Apple Messages. After I finished that article I decided to make a tutorial on Telegram for ScreenCastsOnline. This turned out to be quite a bit of a challenge to do in a way that didn’t reveal the private […]
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Facebook vs. Slack for NosillaCast Community Discussions
The main reason I do the podcasts is that I like to help people. I love to teach what I know, and podcasting and blogging give me that outlet. You’ve heard me say before that the best part of this has been the community of NosillaCastaways that I’ve gotten to know over the years. I […]
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CCATP #652 – Bart Busschots on PBS 101 – Introducing Version Control
In this turning of the century episode of Programming By Stealth, it’s time to take on a new subject: version control. As Bart explains in this week’s episode, version control allows you make changes in your code and roll the changes back. This gives us the freedom to experiment and if an idea doesn’t pan […]
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Scanned Photo Organization for the Fastidious
My Actual Physical Photo Albums Back in the old days, I took a fair number of photos. Nothing like the number of photos we take today, of course, but more than most people,. I know you’ll be shocked to hear this but I very carefully organized my photos into photo albums labeled by date. I […]
Continue readingNC #800 Amazon Echo Buds, Zenni Optical, Meross Smart Garage Door Opener, Homebridge on Raspberry Pi
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, September 6, 2020, and this is show number 800. This weekend Steve and I escaped the blistering Los Angeles heat (~97°F at our house) to go to San […]
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Homebridge on Raspberry Pi with Wyze Cams on HomeKit – by Ed Tobias
Homebridge UI In episode 799 Allison told us how to install HOOBS (Homebridge Out-Of-the Box) onto a Synology. HOOBS was the Homebridge interface that allows non-HomeKit compatible IOT devices to show up in your Home app via this interface. She also mentioned that it could be done on a Raspberry pi and worked with Pat […]
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