My neighbor Rick just taught me an awesome trick. His wife is scanning in photos and also has a lot of negatives to sort through. As Billy Bob Thornton said in Bad Santa, “They can’t all be winners”, so she wants to find just the really good negatives to be scanned. The problem is that […]
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Tiny Tip – How to Pause 5GHz on eero Mesh to Connect IoT Devices
Internet of Things devices (IoT), are proliferating into our lives, saving us from the incredibly arduous tasks of turning off light bulbs and closing our blinds. If you’ve been playing with IoT for any length of time, you know what I’m talking about. Setting up IoT devices usually follows this generic set of steps: Launch […]
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Last month I wrote up all the reasons I think Telegram is a better messaging app than Apple Messages. After I finished that article I decided to make a tutorial on Telegram for ScreenCastsOnline. This turned out to be quite a bit of a challenge to do in a way that didn’t reveal the private […]
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Facebook vs. Slack for NosillaCast Community Discussions
The main reason I do the podcasts is that I like to help people. I love to teach what I know, and podcasting and blogging give me that outlet. You’ve heard me say before that the best part of this has been the community of NosillaCastaways that I’ve gotten to know over the years. I […]
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Security Bits — 13 September 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Recently we were alerted by Allister Jenks and Joe Preiser in our slack at podfeet.com/slack to a problematic idea I had on the last Security Bits. We were talking about how choosing an alphanumeric […]
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Scanned Photo Organization for the Fastidious
My Actual Physical Photo Albums Back in the old days, I took a fair number of photos. Nothing like the number of photos we take today, of course, but more than most people,. I know you’ll be shocked to hear this but I very carefully organized my photos into photo albums labeled by date. I […]
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Oculus Quest – by Jill from the Northwoods
Hi. This is Jill from the Northwoods. So, there I was, in the midst of a pandemic hoping that I would not resort to sitting on a couch for the next six months. I exercise but some days it can be like pulling teeth. It’s even worse in the winters where there are cold days […]
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Homebridge on Raspberry Pi with Wyze Cams on HomeKit – by Ed Tobias
Homebridge UI In episode 799 Allison told us how to install HOOBS (Homebridge Out-Of-the Box) onto a Synology. HOOBS was the Homebridge interface that allows non-HomeKit compatible IOT devices to show up in your Home app via this interface. She also mentioned that it could be done on a Raspberry pi and worked with Pat […]
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Meross MSG100 Smart Garage Door Opener Remote – by Jill from the North Woods
Meross Smart Garage Door Opener Remote Hi! This is Jill from the Northwoods. About two years ago I went to work with my garage door wide open. I came home and was panicked. Crime isn’t too bad near my house but there are a ton of crimes of opportunities here. I have a decent bike […]
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Amazon Echo Buds – by Marty Jencius
The Problem to be Solved I enjoy being one of those early adopters. It has provided me with boxes full of tech that I have tried and then never use again. It’s a bad habit, but one of a few that I still indulge in so cut me some slack. I did a lot of […]
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