I told you about PFSense back in 2012 in NosillaCast #357, but six years later it’s time to revisit the topic. What is PFSense? A free and open-source router OS based on BSD Unix — pfsense.org/… Can run on just about any hardware — small embedded devices (regular home router hardware), micro-PCs based off things […]
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Tiny Tip – Remove Backgrounds with remove.bg
One of the most challenging things in photo manipulation is pulling people out of a photo. Sometimes it’s to make beautiful artwork, sometimes you just want to make something funny. In any case, it’s hard to do without a great deal of time and effort. Tools like Affinity Photo make it easier where you do […]
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Tiny Tip – Best Buy for Apple Battery Replacement
If you’re like me, and procrastinated till the very end of Apple’s $29 battery replacement program, you might still be able to get it done before the deal disappears at the end of 2018. I procrastinated because the phones weren’t in really bad shape, they were all around 89% health. I finally decided to go […]
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Dumb Question Corner – How Big is My Image on iOS?
In our Facebook group (podfeet.com/facebook), John Mola asked what we like to call around here a “Dumb Question. In other words, a really interesting question that might trip up a lot of people. Here’s what he posted. How do you see how big a picture is? I took a screenshot and also a picture of […]
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Successfully Teaching Accessibility Tricks
A while ago a friend of mine contacted me because his father-in-law, Rich, had recently had a very sudden loss of vision. He knew that I dabbled in accessibility and wondered if I could help Rich get jump-started on what he could do to improve his situation. I have to admit that I was a […]
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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. So grab a hot beverage and some cookies, sit back, relax and enjoy a slightly modified version of The Night Before Christmas.
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Security Bits – 14 December 2018
Followup Bloomberg’s controversial The Big Hack story SuperMicro released the results of an independent audit which found no evidence of hardware or software tampering on its motherboards — www.reuters.com/… & arstechnica.com/… The Marriott Breach Marriott Data Breach Is Traced to Chinese Hackers as U.S. Readies Crackdown on Beijing — www.nytimes.com/… An interesting related opinion piece […]
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On 14 December, Amazon began rolling out Apple Music on its Amazon Echo devices. This quick tutorial will walk you through how to enable it and if you want, to make Apple Music your default music library and station. Home Screen From the home screen, click the little lines in the upper left. Choose Things […]
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The Power of AirPlay 2
You guys know that I’m not a huge listener of music, and to be honest, Steve doesn’t play music really often either. There are times that we like it though, like during the holiday season. Steve loves to play the Charlie Brown Christmas music and other classics. (Dorothy, I know you think anything after the […]
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Hydra HDR App for macOS
Hydra HDR Have you ever noticed that when you look at a beautiful scene, and then take a photograph of that same scene only to find there are dark shadows with no detail, or those puffy white clouds are all one continuous blob of white? That’s because our eyes can perceive a high dynamic range […]
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