RØDE NT Mini Mic Hello there Castaways! Professor Terry Austin here with another problem to be solved that ends in a product review. I was at a meeting over Spring Break – HEY, I still get to have those at my age BECAUSE I’m a professor! Anyway, at this meeting, everyone there sat in front […]
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A $16 Macro/Wide Angle Lens Kit Can’t Be Any Good, Can It?
Recently Dorothy, aka @maclurker, posted some really amazing macro shots she took of some flowers in her backyard. She used her big-girl camera and a new macro lens she got for Christmas. She inspired me to drag out my big-girl camera, slap on the macro lens and take it for my walk. I love taking […]
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Can $8 Enable a Great Webcam Experience?
When we all went underground, I did a blog post where I talked about the essential equipment for participating in video calls from home. I also talked warned about price gouging. At the time, the Logitech C920 webcam that I recommended was going for close to $300 when it’s normally closer to $50, but it […]
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I accidentally deleted my photos while trying to “back them up”. But to explain why this wasn’t as big of a disaster as it could have been here is some background. I enjoy photography, I use Lightroom to organize and edit the RAW files that I have accumulated over many years. I have a 2014 […]
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5 Hiking Apps by Jill From the North Woods
Hello everyone. I hope you enjoy getting outdoors and seeing nature. I wanted to share some of my favorite ways to find hikes and enjoy parks. AllTrails AllTrails Showing Wyoming State Forest To start with, AllTrails.com is a fantastic app and a great website. It is a huge database of over 100,000 trails throughout the […]
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NC #782 xkpasswd.net Tutorial, Dumb Question – Mystery Keystroke Adventure, 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 3, 2020, and this is show number 782. mp3 download
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Trevor Drover and the International Mystery Keystroke Adventure
This might be my favorite Dumb Question of all time. It starts in Australia, passes through the US, saunters into The Netherlands, then hits two spots in Japan and ends up in our collective distant past. We’ll start with the original question from Trevor Drover in Australia: Trevor Trying to Size a Graphic in Pages […]
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CCATP #637 — Bart Busschots on PBS 95 of X — Better JavaScript Class Attributes
This week Bart explains how to give our JavaScript classes better data attributes via a very powerful JavaScript feature: getters and setters. On my first read through the notes for the episode, my head was spinning a bit, but Bart explains this so well using concrete examples (like a circle with a radius) that I […]
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CCATP #636 – Adam Engst on 30 Years of TidBITS and other random topics
Adam Engst has been publishing TidBITS for 30 years so I asked him to come on the show to talk about that journey. While we technically had an agenda, this conversation wandered into all kinds of fun topics like why Adam still goes to the same dentist office even though the dentist left and why […]
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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, April 26, 2020, and this is show number 781. mp3 download
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