Hi! This is Jill from the north woods. As I mentioned before, I love hiking and my best friend loves bird watching. We realized these are the same hobbies as long as you bring binoculars and the right apps. Plus if I ever got tired from my fast-walking friend, I can say “Wait I saw […]
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The Day the Drobo Died … and Synology Joined the Family
Dead Drobo from Dashboard Have you noticed in the last few years, new gadgets and even software don’t seem all that different? I went from an iPhone X to an XS and couldn’t tell the difference after about a day. I went from the Apple Watch Series 4 to Series 5 and only noticed my […]
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The Levelator – It’s Baaaack!
Before and After The Levelator In the earliest days of podcasting, a company called The Conversations Network had a show that used volunteers to record segments for the show. An unfortunate side effect of having all these different contributors was that the volume of the recordings was very uneven. At the Podcast Expo in 2005, […]
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Twelve South Curve Laptop Stand – Is Higher Better?
Jonathan Started It John’s mStand from RainDesign Earlier this month, Jonathan, aka @NuclearJon in the Slack and live chats, did a great review of his thought process in choosing a new high-res monitor. In his review he mentioned that his plan was to use the internal display on his MacBook Pro as a secondary monitor […]
Continue readingHow I use Loopback to Solve a Variety of Problems
You know I’m a huge fan of the company Rogue Amoeba and you’ve heard me sing the virtues of Audio Hijack at least 237 times so far. I have also mentioned their application Loopback a few times in the past but I’ve never done a full review of what you can do with this amazing […]
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I’m a Real Developer
When I started to learn to program from Bart Busschots in October of 2015 with Programming By Stealth, I didn’t really have the vision to understand what that would mean. I don’t think I expected really to be able to do the things I can do today. Caleb Fong tipped us off in our PBS […]
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Security Bits — 14 June 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. As expected, Apple quickly patched the Kernel flaw powering the Unc0ver Jailbreak: Kernel Vulnerability Causes Apple to Update All Operating Systems — tidbits.com/… Apple is no longer signing iOS 13.5, stopping jailbreakers from downgrading […]
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NosillaCast Joins the Wyze Affiliate Program
I know that it’s not weird to want to be paid for my efforts on the podcast and I know it’s not weird to want to have this not cost money, but I still worry that you’ll question my motives (as you should) when I endorse products where I make a commission. With the loss […]
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Tiny Tip – The Magic Up Arrow
One of the banes of our online existence is writing something on the Internet, and only later noticing that there’s a typo in what we wrote. I can’t tell you how many Tweets I write and delete, write, and delete because I keep messing them up. I sure wish I could edit them. Another place […]
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Read to Me, Siri
Dr. Maryanne Garry from New Zealand, favorite of the Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite episodes, has a nasty habit of sending me super long-form articles she thinks I would enjoy reading. It’s not that I don’t like to read because I actually love to read. It’s not that the things she sends aren’t fascinating. […]
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