Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. More Details Emerge on the Solar Winds Attack As expected, the private sector was targeted too: Big tech companies including Intel, Nvidia, and Cisco were all infected during the SolarWinds hack — www.theverge.com/… Microsoft Says […]
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A Week in the Life of Jill’s Apple Watch
Hi, everyone! This is Jill from the Northwoods. I thought I would do my own day in the life of my Apple Watch. I do a lot of the things that Allison mentioned in her podcast from October 15 about what she does with her Apple Watch. Of course, I use it to unlock my […]
Continue readingCanaKit Extreme Raspberry Pi – by Jeff Butts
CanaKit Extreme Raspberry Pi Hey everyone, happy new year! I’m Jeff Butts from The Mac Observer. I love all things Apple, but I also love to tinker with electronic gadgets like Arduino boards and Raspberry Pi. Today, I’m gonna tell you about the newest CanaKit Raspberry Pi starter kit. If you’re not familiar with Raspberry […]
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Did I NEED a 6K Monitor?
Steve is a Lunatic I would like to make a statement. My husband Steve is a lunatic. Let me set the stage to explain. One of our marital battles is who gets to give the last Christmas present. I was sure I should get to go last because I bought him a new quadcopter. He’s […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 27 December 2020 – Oblivious DNS over HTTPS or ODoH
Deep Dive — Cloudflare & Apple add Privacy to Secure DNS with ODoH Cloudflare, Apple, & hosting company Fastly have collaborated to create a new secure and private DNS specification that extends DNS over HTTPS (DoH). They’ve both released the spec, and released sample implementations of the various components in Ruby and Go. The Problem […]
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Using the Serif Affinity Suite for Fun and Profit
Hello NosillaCastaways, it’s Allister Jenks here from New Zealand once again. I recently mentioned in the NosillaCast Slack that I use TextExpander to expand DMC embroidery cotton numbers to the official colour names. Allison asked why I did this and when I explained, she put me on the hook for this contribution. In a nutshell, […]
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iCatcher! – A Podcatcher with More Control by Jill from the Northwoods
iCatcher Player Hi, this is Jill from the Northwoods. I wanted to do a review for the podcast app that I use to listen to all the podcasts. If you haven’t heard, I’m quite the addict when it comes to podcasts. I subscribed to about 144 podcasts. I keep my eye on another 177 podcasts […]
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Charjen Airfoams Pro Active – by Frank Petrie (aka @Wheels)
Charjen Airfoams Pro Active When I went to film school, it was drilled into your head that the most important component of any film/video project is the audio. I also played in bands for years plus did some composing and recording in local studios. I recorded both songs and soundtracks for industrial videos. Ergo, sound […]
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Geofency – by Lewis aka @lButlr
Geofency is an application that does one thing, but it does it well, reliably, and simply. It is useful for me and probably for others. In short, what it does is lets you create a geofence around any location and name it, then it tracks when you enter or leave that location and how much […]
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Tiny Tip – Get Rid of Glare on Glasses with Dark Reader
Dark Reader Extension in the Mac App Store Before I go on other people’s shows that have video, I take extra care to make sure everything looks good. I launch Photo Booth on my Mac and set the camera to the one I’ll be using. I use a Logitech c920 webcam, but to be honest […]
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