Fire 7 Case Holster Wired Headset Hi, George from Tulsa here with ten reasons to use the Amazon Gift Card Santa’s going to drop in your stocking to buy an Amazon Fire tablet. But however you spend that card, do remember to first log into Amazon through Allison’s affiliate link and support all that great […]
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Moving from Netgear to eero
4 years ago, I told you about my wicked cool new router, the Netgear Nighthawk X8 AC5300 tri-band router. I bought it about 3 minutes before the whole mesh router craze hit the market. A while later, I tested it against Netgear’s Orbi mesh router and the “normal” router actually outperformed the 2-unit Orbi for […]
Continue readingMacLurker Returns — Secure Email Decision and Migration
Dorothy, aka MacLurker in the live chat room and in our Slack returns to give us an update on her quest for a new secure email service. She told us about the quest back in August 9, 2019 and now she explains how she made her decision and what she’s doing to migrate to the […]
Continue readingIt Just Works!
Have you noticed lately that lots of tech things have little glitches, annoyances, and things just don’t work right sometimes? The other day I noticed that it was relentless how many things didn’t quite work. It wasn’t just my Mac or just my iPhone, it was every bit of tech I touched and every app […]
Continue readingMenu Bar Favorites by Frank Petrie
The reason I was drawn to the Mac in the first place was as plain and simple as myself – it was the GUI. I didn’t have to know anything about computers, I could completely focus on creating musical compositions, videos, or my writing. I even taught myself some HTML5 and CSS then carved my […]
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Security Bits – 22 December 2019
Note: This is the second of two episodes both recorded on the 15th of December 2019, but released over two weeks. Security Medium 1 — An Over-hyped VPN Weakness The internet positively hyper-ventilated when security researchers claimed to have found a bug in the TCP/IP implementation on just about every OS that could compromise just […]
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QLab for Timing Audio/Video Productions — by Andy Dolph
Hi, this is Andy and I’m here with a little bit different kind of a story for the NosillaCast. My background is in sound, lighting, and projection design for the theater. I’ve been thinking for a while about telling you all about an application I use a lot. It’s called QLab, the letter “Q” “L […]
Continue readingFirst Mac by a Long-Time PC User — Jill McKinley
Jill with her Apple IIc This is Jill with reflections on the new-to-me MacBook Pro. I have been a Microsoft gal when I built my first 8088 in the early 80s and it had MSDOS v1. When I bought my Apple IIc in college, it was an extraordinary amount of money given to me by […]
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The Night Before Christmas
Since it’s only a week until Christmas, I thought now would be a good time to resurrect the poem that has become a holiday tradition on the NosillaCast. This year we lost our beloved Honda Bob, a long-time NosillaCastaway and contributor to the show and a very dear friend. But his memory and the silliness […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits – 15 December 2019
Note: This is the first of two episodes both recorded on the 15th of December 2019, but released over two weeks. 🧯Security Medium Preview 1 — VPNs Not All Hacked We’ll dig into the details in the second part of this two-parter, but for now, I just want to set everyone’s mind at ease — […]
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