I entitled this article “8 bits to a Byte” because people used to say that to me all the time and I would always wonder what the heck they meant. The context would always be around sizes of hard drives or speed of Internet. They would be sincere saying it, expecting that they were imparting […]
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One Crayon is Better Than Two Pencils
Logitech Crayon, $70 on Amazon When the original iPads Pro came out, I bought the original Apple Pencil. I didn’t have any great excuses to get one. I’m not an artist and I don’t even doodle for enjoyment. I bought one anyway because it seemed cool and I thought maybe I’d find a use for […]
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Time to Sign Up for Macstock Expo — With a Discount Code!
NosillaCastaways at Macstock Expo 2018 There’s only 3 months left till Macstock Conference and Expo in Woodstock, Illinois (right outside of Chicago) so it’s time to make plans! Macstock is one of the big highlights of my year. It’s a gathering of Apple fans from literally around the world who get together for 48 hours […]
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I’m in Love With My Vacuum
Dyson V7 Motorhead Vacuum Every once in a while I like to go completely off the rails and review something that barely (if at all) overlaps into the technology world. This is one of those times. For Christmas I asked Steve for the Dyson V7 Motorhead cordless vacuum cleaner … in the color fuchsia. I […]
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Security Bits – 19 April 2019
Followup — Scanning for Cameras The story we covered last time about a hidden camera being found in an Irish AirBnB got a conversation going on the NosillaCast Slack. The story revolved around a New Zealand family who stayed in an AirBnB in Cork, Ireland. The father was an IT guy, and he scanned the […]
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Tiny Tip – How to Text to Android Phones from Your Mac
Two responses from Mac to Android — One succeeds, one fails We all know the struggle of the blue-bubble people vs. the green-bubble people in Messages. You love your Android friends, and they may even be family. There’s all the stress of how threads get splintered and people get left out because of the blue/green […]
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How 1Password’s Family Plan Saved the Day
A few years back, AgileBits decided to change the business model for 1Password from a standalone, one-time purchase to a subscription service at 1Password.com. With 1Password.com, AgileBits took over syncing of our vaults, gave us a web interface, and with the subscription service they’ve been able to build in more enhancements than ever before. I […]
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Does the New iPad mini Have a Place in Your Digital Life?
In 2010 when Steve Jobs announced the iPad, he posed a really interesting question. He asked: …is there room for a third category of device in the middle, something that’s between a laptop and a smart phone? I think most of us would agree that there was room for the iPad. I thought about this […]
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Sony WH-1000XM3 Wireless Noise Cancelling Headphones — by Allister Jenks
It’s not often I buy something “high end” on impulse, but circumstances conspired against me. A colleague at work was raving about the headphones he had been given for Christmas. Worse, he brought them over and told me to put them on. Now, I have no trouble mentally tuning out the industrial noises of our […]
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Followups 🇦🇺 Australia’s controversial anti-encryption law has been referred for independent review to check whether it adequately safeguards citizens rights — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… 🇪🇺 The EU Copyright Directive passed the EU parliament with the two controversial articles intact (the so-called link tax and upload filter) — tidbits.com/… Security Medium 1 — Android Security at Age 10 […]
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