Jump to Tips Quick Actions Menu More Resolution Options on Your Displays Why do Double Dashes Turn into One Long Em Dash? Option-Click Red Finder Window Button to Close All Windows Keyboard Shortcuts by Daniel Alm from the Timing App I’m back with Part 8 of Tiny Mac Tips. This is an ongoing series I […]
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Security Bits — 26 November 2023
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. The recent wave of malicious Google ads targeting software downloads continues, this time it’s malicious versions of the popular Secure FTP client WinSCP — thehackernews.com/… ❗ Action Alerts Calls to action, if any stories […]
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Smart Light Strings from Hue and Twinkly — by Jill from the Northwoods
Hello everyone. This is Jill from the Northwoods. I didn’t have a Christmas tree for the last 16 years, primarily because of the cats. But this year, someone gifted me a new Christmas tree because they replaced it with something else. But here it was. I had no Christmas lights, at least none of them […]
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De-teching – by Tom from Ontario
Hi, Allison and fellow Nosillacastaways. This is Tom from Ontario. One issue that we all grapple with, often only in the back of our minds, is how to ensure our digital information is secure, but can be accessed by those who need it when we are having a medical crisis and can’t act for ourselves. […]
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OCR PDFs with Open Source Tools on Linux by George from Tulsa
George from Tulsa here responding to Allison’s request for a show contribution to reduce her load this Thanksgiving week. Years ago we paid a bank service company to microfilm file cabinets full of irreplaceable paper – some now 120 years old. The company then scanned the microfilm to image-only PDFs it delivered to us on […]
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Bart joins me this week on the show to discuss the tradeoffs he made in buying an iPhone 15 Pro Max. Here are some of the thoughts he’ll share. After decades of resisting big phones, and being ‘that guy’ who was cranky when the iPhone X made the smallest modern phone notably bigger, it’s finally […]
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Taking and Transferring Live Portrait Photos
Introduction Every once in a while, I start working on a topic for the show and as I dig in, I realize it’s more complex than I first realized. More rational people would back away and move on to another subject, but if I don’t hit a roadblock, I keep digging in. And sometimes I […]
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AirTable to Replace Pedias and Other Inventory Needs
Last week I told you how DVDpedia, the DVD cataloguing database, was being sunset by the developer at bruji.com. I explained how I exported all of my data in a CSV file plus the images, and then imported them into Under My Roof from Binary Formations, the app I use to catalog everything in my […]
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Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Attackers continue to succeed in getting Google to host their malicious ads: Google ads push malicious CPU-Z app from fake Windows news site — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… A final twist in the SolarWinds mega-hack saga: SEC […]
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Migrating from DVDpedia to Under My Roof
In 2009 on episode #195 of the NosillaCast, listener Scott Patz suggested I take a look at an app called DVDpedia from Bruji to catalog and organize my DVD library. I tested it out and reviewed it for the show and loved it. I’ve been using it for the past 14 years. You may wonder […]
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