Hi Castaways! It’s Denise Crown with a US streaming service shoot out and a castaway challenge at the end! Get excited! Here’s the problem to be solved: I resent the amount of money I pay for TV. It’s $250 per month by the time we add HBO and NFL football. My husband loves football so […]
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Tiny Tip – Vimmy & Oh Sh-t Git! By Caleb Fong
The review below is from Caleb Fong, aka @GeekoSupremo on Twitter. Caleb is a long time NosillaCastaway who is also following along with Programming By Stealth. His review is pretty geeky (goes well with his Twitter handle) so I thought it might help to explain a couple of terms he uses. He’ll use the term […]
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Hunt for Missing Menus
This week we ran into a real puzzler of a technical problem for my father-in-law, Ken. I had to enlist the help of not just the NosillaCastaways through our Facebook and Google Plus groups, but also the Mac Geek Gab community. In the end, it was Bart who cracked the code on the solution. I […]
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2017 Year in Review Part 2 – What Am I Still Using?
Last week I went through the first half of the year, talking about all of the hardware and software I reviewed in 2017 to see what I’m still using and what has fallen by the wayside. If you haven’t read the first half, you can find it here. Let’s continue our journey and take a […]
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2017 Year in Review Part 1 – What Am I Still Using?
I’ve always thought it might be interesting to look back on all of the products I’ve reviewed over the years and see what I’m still using. That would be a gargantuan effort, given that I’ve been doing this for over 12 years! But then I thought, maybe I could look at the past year and […]
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Security Bits – HP Keylogger, Mailsploit
Security Medium 1 — HP’s Accidental Keylogger Some HP laptops shipped with a keyboard driver from Synaptics in which a developer debugging feature was accidentally left enabled. The effect of this mistake is that the driver has built-in support for logging all keystrokes via WPP (a debugging tool that’s built into Windows). This sounds bad, […]
Continue readingSolving Network Problems – by Helma from the Netherlands
Hi Allison, here are some tips on solving network problems. I hope they might benefit others. As many of us geeks, I have built quite an extended internal network over the years. All devices that need a static IP address have been entered into the router in the reserved IP address section. I decided to […]
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Google Chromebook Pixel – by George from Tulsa
Hi, this is George from Tulsa sending some virtual help to Steve and Allison as they move Steve’s parents. I’m sure they’d rather I flew to California and helped Steve carry the Steinway, but what they get is this small part of a podcast Allison doesn’t have to build herself. Find yourself the geek for […]
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The Night Before Christmas
Since it’s only a week until Christmas Eve, 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. The Night Before Christmas […]
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Why Not Overcast?
I knew this would happen. As soon as I started answering Rush’s Dumb Question last week about why I was using Downcast when I said I used Pocket Casts as my podcatcher of choice, I knew someone would come back with, “but what about Overcast?” What I didn’t foresee though was how many of you […]
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