Meeter from TryMeeter.com I work as a faculty member at Kent State University, and with the pandemic, my job, like many, moved to my home. Something you have to know about university faculty besides our teaching, much of our time is spent in meetings; program meetings, department meetings, committee meetings, meetings with students, dissertation meetings, […]
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Eyoyo 12.5″ 2K USB-C Portable Monitor is Just Right for Me
12.5″ Eyoyo with 16″ MacBook Pro and LG 5K Display Last month I reviewed the Portable USB-C Monitor by Lepow, which is a 15.6″ 16×9 aspect ratio display with a resolution of 1920×1080. Pat Dengler had loaned it to me to see if it would give me the extra screen real estate I need during […]
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Apple Watch Series 6 – in Red!
When the first Apple Watch came out, I bought it and thought it was pretty cool. When the Series 3 came out, I bought that one too. The jump in speed was fantastic and well worth the money. When the Series 4 came out, the increase in screen size was a game-changer. We got the […]
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Designing My Time Shifter Clock
My Time Shifter Clock In Programming By Stealth with Bart Busschots we just passed a big milestone, not only reaching 100 episodes, but we also completed the section on learning JavaScript. Our final project for this phase was to create a web app with a very specific kind of clock on it. I had so […]
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Tiny Tip – How to Use Your iPhone or iPad as a Viewer for Negatives
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 […]
Continue readingTelegram Tutorial on ScreenCastsOnline
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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