Do you remember when you first heard about Twitter? Do you remember thinking it sounded silly and you didn’t think it had any legs? Remember thinking the word “tweet” sounded idiotic? Do you remember finally joining Twitter, but then being baffled by it, wondering why everyone was so excited? And remember wondering, “Who do I […]
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TouchRetouch Tutorial on ScreenCastsOnline
My latest tutorial is up on ScreenCastsOnline, and it’s about a terrific tool called TouchRetouch for iOS/iPadOS and the Mac. TouchRetouch does a fantastic job removing unwanted objects in your images, even with your big fat fingers, and it’s only $4 USD on iOS. I’ve been using TouchRetouch for years and years but I had […]
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Cord Cutting Part 2 — Channels DVR
Last week I told you that Steve and I finally cut the cord, replacing Frontier’s TV service with YouTube TV, and how we will be saving $1217/year going forward. After I posted the article about our experience, I got two nearly identical messages explaining one more thing we needed to try. Both Dave Hamilton and […]
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Announcing Transcripts for All Podfeet Podcasts
Jill is Amazing Jill from the Northwoods is a beast at learning new things and implementing the things she learns. When she met me in real life, she bought one of my older MacBook Pros because she wanted to learn the Mac and potentially move over to macOS leaving Windows behind. Shortly after that, she […]
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Replacing Ulysses with Bear
MarsEdit is My Blogging Platform I’ve mentioned quite a few times that I use the awesome blogging tool for the Mac, MarsEdit from Red Sweater Software. Every blog post you read has come from MarsEdit. MarsEdit lets me write in the plain text language Markdown, or I can write in HTML, or I can mix […]
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Podfeet Blog Posts Delivered by Email
Checkbox to Receive Emails of New Posts I was chatting with my buddy Niraj this week and he thanked me for putting him on distribution for emails whenever I write a blog post. I told him that I never did that and that I didn’t know how he was getting them! I asked him to […]
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The Sheridans Finally Cut the Cord
I feel like Steve and I have made fire, but it’s because we’ve done something probably 85% of you have already done. We finally cut the cord and canceled our cable TV service from our ISP Frontier. I want to chat about it because there are a few interesting points I didn’t appreciate before we […]
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The Drobo Gives One Last Gift
Drobo Sold on eBay for $660 If you’ve been following along, you might remember that I finally pulled the plug on our Drobo network attached storage (NAS). I replaced it with a second Synology because I worried about depending on such old technology. Drobo filed for bankruptcy earlier this year, and they haven’t had anything […]
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Security Bits — 27 November 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 The long-running case against Google led by most state Attorneys General over its misleading location settings (turning off location tracking didn’t actually stop Google tracking your location!) has resulted in the largest-ever settlement […]
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I’m Still Using It — Part 1 — Mac Iicx, Elago Apple Watch Charger, Airport Extreme, 2011 MacBook Pro
On the NosillaCast we talk often about the new hotness — the phone you won’t be able to live without, the charger that must be in your travel bag, or the newest note-taking app that will finally help you organize your thoughts. But we rarely talk about those tools that we’ve been using for a […]
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