I received my new M1 Mac mini on Friday night after waiting a bit longer because I did a build to order to get a larger 1TB SSD. In theory, I bought the Mac mini to replace its aging predecessor, a 6-year-old 2.6GHz Intel Core i5. But let’s be honest with ourselves, I just really […]
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Create Your Own Stipple Drawings – Sorta Like the Wall Street Journal
Grumpy Cat Hedcut from WSJ.png This week Dr. Alexander Salter, the son of our dear friends Diane and Bill, had an article published in the Wall Street Journal. As you can imagine, we’re all pretty chuffed about it around here. We were doing virtual high fives about it and I was trying to think of […]
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Our phones are now our cameras, and their ability to capture photos and videos is only getting better and better. But you may miss one ergonomic feature of your now-dusty big-girl camera, and that’s the hand grip. Holding onto a rectangular slab of glass to take photos can get tiring after a while, especially if […]
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Security Bits — 6 December 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Social Media companies continue to work to curb abuses on their platforms: Twitter will soon show a warning when you try to like a misleading tweet — www.imore.com/… 🇰🇷 Facebook continues to run afoul […]
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Want More Engagement on Twitter? Try Adding Image Descriptions
I entitled this article “Increase Engagement on Twitter Using Image Descriptions” partly to be click baity but also because this tip will do just that. If you’d like to reach a larger audience with your tweets, then how about making your images available for those using screen readers? Maybe you think it’s not worth the […]
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Tiny Tip – 16:9 Setting on iPhone Camera is Just a Crop
Downward Chevron in CameraReveals Aspect Ratio Options Recently Bart and I were chatting about the aspect ratio options on the iPhone’s camera. I hadn’t actually noticed that you could change the aspect ratio until he mentioned it. Starting with the iPhone XS, at the top of the camera screen, there is now a little downward-facing […]
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Isn’t Feeder 4’s Logo Pretty? The app I’d like to talk about today is not for everybody, and in fact probably 99% of the NosillaCast listeners will never need it. But it’s an app that is 100% critical to the fact that you’re able to hear this podcast right now, so at least you have […]
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HomePod mini Happy on my Desk When the first HomePod was announced, Steve and I bought one. As promised, it had beautiful sound. We’re not huge music listeners, but it has been nice to take it out to the back yard when we have a socially distanced cocktail with a couple of friends. We do […]
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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. 🇺🇸 Allison mentioned the RIAA’s attack on the youtube-dl open source YouTube downloader library in a previous show. GitHub have now reversed their decision to uphold the RIAA’s DMCA takedown requests — daringfireball.net/… related: […]
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Keep All Your Apps Up to Date with MacUpdater – Joe LaGreca
Listener and friend Joe LaGreca contacted me to suggest we have a discussion on the NosillaCast about a tool he relies on called MacUpdater. This app’s job is to show you all of the apps you need to update on your Mac, and if possible to run the updates for you with a click of […]
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