This might be the tiniest tip ever posted on Podfeet.com. If you have external monitors hooked up to your Mac, it’s really awesome. Most of the time. Sometimes it gets confused. You probably know that in System Preferences, you can identify which display is the main monitor, meaning that’s where apps first open and such. […]
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NC #680 Keep It, Backblaze B2, Airtable, Security Bits
There won’t be a live show next week, and the NosillaCast will be out on Tuesday instead of Sunday (sorry guys). Check out the tutorial I did on Keep It for ScreenCasts Online at screencastsonline.com. We’ve got another of Steve’s videos from NAB, this time from Backblaze about their B2 cloud storage. Then I’ll tell […]
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Security Bits – Efail, 4th Amendment, Glitch & ThrowHammer, Black Dot & Text-Bomb
Security Medium — The Efail Email Encryption Vulnerability The latest bug with a cool name and a cute logo is Efail, a mashup of the words email and fail. The bug affects encrypted email sent with both of the common email encryption protocols S/MIME & PGP/GPG. Under certain circumstances, the bug allows an attacker to […]
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I Finally Understand Databases Because of the Free Airtable App
You know I’m a huge fan of Excel and all things spreadsheets. Pivot tables, complex equations, they all make my heart go pitter-pat. But I’ve never really understood databases. I can explain what they are and why they’re not like spreadsheets, but only at a very surface level. I haven’t ever grokked them because I […]
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NAB 2018: Audio-Technica Microphones and Headphones
Allison interviews Gary Boss from Audio-Technica about their wide range of microphones and headphones. Gary describes the Audio-Technica System 10 digital wireless system made up of a compact receiver you can mount on a cold shoe combined with a handheld mic/transmitter or a lavalier mic hooked to a body pack transmitter. System 10 is easy […]
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NAB 2018: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Allison interviews Terry LoBianco from Backblaze about their B2 cloud storage services. B2 Cloud Storage is similar to Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure storage, and Google Cloud Storage. This service is Backblaze’s latest product offering, with the lowest price enterprise cloud storage service on the market. B2 Cloud Storage, referred to as Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) or object […]
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Create Real Videos from Your Live Photos with Snapthread
One of the more interesting advancements in iPhone photography in the last few years has been Live Photos. If you haven’t played around with them before, the sensor actually captures a few seconds of video on either side of the photo. Up until recently, the fun party trick was to hold your finger down on […]
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NAB 2018: Boinx mimoLive Digital Video Studio
Allison interviews Oliver Breidenbach from Boinx about their mimoLive video software for the Mac. mimoLive allows the user to produce, edit, and stream video content with remarkable ease. Typical use cases for mimoLive are live streaming, news-style shows, panel discussions, presentations, and events. The tool is very affordable while giving the video producer tools that […]
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How to Find the Cell Reference for a Searched Value in an Array in Excel
John Ormsby (aka NASANUT) sent in what he playfully called a Dumb Question: I have a spreadsheet that contains a 10 by 10 matrix of values. Each value is different. There are column headings at the top, ranging from 0 to 9 and there are row headings on the left, also ranging from 0 to […]
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Solving Airplane Noise Problems with Audio Hijack
It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of Audio Hijack from Rogue Amoeba. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s a fully-accessible Mac app that allows you to do crazy cool stuff with audio sources. Here’s just a couple of examples of how I use it:
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