I thought it might be fun to pull back the curtain on how the magic happens after we stop recording the live show every Sunday night. Since this is a podcast for geeks it seems like it might be interesting. I have never written the process down before but I’ve done it so many times […]
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CCATP #649 – Dr. Helma van der Linden on Creating a Book with Open Source Software
This week our guest is Dr. Helma van der Linden from the Netherlands here to talk about how she created the Taming the Terminal book using all Open Source software. On the NosillaCast I talked a lot about the book but I should probably give an explanation for the Chit Chat audience. Bart Busschots and […]
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Why Telegram is Better Than Apple Messages
As a card-carrying Apple fan, you would think that I would be a big promoter of Apple Messages. But I’m not. I seriously dislike the app. Instead of Messages, my preferred communication tool is an app called Telegram https://telegram.org. It’s been one of my missions over the last five years to convert everyone with whom […]
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SoundSource 5 to Take Control of Your Audio
I’m sure you think I’m on the payroll of Rogue Amoeba by now (I’m not). But this week I want to tell you about yet another great app they make called SoundSource. This week Rogue Amoeba released SoundSource 5 and it’s even better than before. SoundSource is a menubar app that allows you to control […]
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NC #795 Taming the Terminal is a Published Book, 100 Years Ago Podmom, House Committee on Tech Giants
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 2nd, 2020, and this is show number 795. This was a huge week around here and I’m super excited to tell you all about it! mp3 download
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iOS/iPadOS Markup Tutorial on ScreenCastsOnline
A few months ago I made some fun discoveries about the built-in Markup tools in iOS and iPadOS and wrote an article telling you about my discoveries. I decided to do a video tutorial on the tools for ScreenCastsOnline and as usually happens, I learned even more about the tool as I created the tutorial. […]
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Taming the Terminal is Now a Published Book!
Taming the Terminal in the Apple Books Store Several years ago I got it into my head that it would be really cool if the tutorials Bart Busschots has written for the Taming the Terminal series could be an ebook. If you’re unfamiliar with this series, it’s a podcast with me and tutorials written by […]
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Jeanne as a Baby 100 years ago today, my mother Jeanne Madonna Jacques was born. If you’ll indulge me I’d like to tell you a little bit about this extraordinary woman. Jeanne was the oldest of 7 children. My aunt Carolyn (who was 19 years younger than her) described her as this elegant stranger who […]
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Observations on House Judiciary Committee Hearing with Tech Giants
As you have undoubtedly heard, a U.S. House of Representatives committee called the CEOs of Apple, Alphabet (Google), Facebook, and Amazon to testify before them this week. Steven Goetz texted me in Telegram that it was really good TV. I was head down working on something during the day so I didn’t get a chance […]
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Motorola g7 Android Phone Finally Got Updates
Android 10 Comes to Moto g7Like My Fancy Drawing With Android’s Markup Tools? Back in March, I wrote a blog post entitled I Really Don’t Understand Why People Choose Android. I wrote it because I was so frustrated that my seven-month-old Moto g7 Android phone wasn’t getting recent security updates. At the time, the phone […]
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