Let’s be honest with each other. We don’t buy cell phones that happen to have cameras. We buy cameras that happen to come on cell phones. In my personal observation, the biggest driver on why people buy a new phone is whether the cameras are better than the model they currently own. The iPhone 14 […]
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A Few iOS 16 Tiny Delights
In the words of the most awesome Lory Gil, “the best thing about OS updates is everything old is new again.” With iOS updates, you probably don’t have to buy anything new to get the new hotness. They make your phone feel new again. iOS 16 is filled with many small delights, and I’ve been […]
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Noun Project – An Unmemorable Name But a FANTASTIC Service for Icons
The Problem to be Solved You know I love making diagrams. When I first started using the amazing and free Diagrams.net to create my masterpieces, I used the built-in shapes to represent the elements of my diagrams. I was a big fan of rounded rectangles, and I’d use a nice gradient shade to make the […]
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What’s Better Than Solar? Solar + Batteries!
Tesla App Showing Energy Flow Over the past decade, it has been getting hotter and hotter each summer where Steve and I live. We kept thinking that it was an aberration, but the weather caused by climate change is affecting us along with everyone else. We talked about getting air conditioning, but it seemed like […]
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macOS Photos Visual Lookup – by Bruce E. Wilson
Info Pane Icon Changes to Show Star This is Bruce from East Tennessee with a tip about the visual lookup that exists in the macOS Photos app. While I didn’t know about it at the time, Allison spoke about this same capability back in October of 2021 in her iOS 15 – These are a […]
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Security Bits — 11 September 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Twitter begins testing long-awaited edit button — www.cultofmac.com/… Formal Confirmation of unconfirmed reports from The Intercept a few months ago: Facebook engineers have no idea what happens with user data — appleinsider.com/… Deep Dive(s) […]
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Nuke and Pave – the 2022 Edition
Last week I announced that I was going to do yet another nuke and pave because I was exhausted from all the weird problems I inherited from Migration Assistant. I am happy to tell you that I started the process on Monday, and by Tuesday evening I was about 90% complete. Even though it went […]
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Bodie Grimm on Affordable Electric Vehicles
This post is a companion to an in-depth discussion Bodie and Allison had for NosillaCast episode #904 airing on 4 September 2022. Allison and I sat down to discuss affordable electric vehicles (EVs). Now, depending on who you are and what your financial situation is “affordable” is a very subjective term. For our example today […]
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Photo Triage with PhotoReviewer – by Graeme Sheppard
Setup Page for Photo Review I’ve been interested in photography for many years, and recently I moved away from my focus on nimble photography and decided to return to RAW. It’s a long story that I may come back to another time, but today’s focus is on getting the photos off my SD card and […]
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Migration Assistant is a Disaster – Time for a Nuke & Pave
Why I Used Migration Assistant for the First Time If you have been following along with our home game for a long time, you know I’m a huge proponent of doing a Nuke and Pave to your Mac when getting a new computer. A nuke and pave means a full reinstall of macOS followed by […]
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