Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, April 21, 2024, and this is show number 989. mp3 download Articles Subscribe to Podcasts … Through Activity Pub … Using Podcast Index … on Mastodon CES 2024: […]
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Dumb Question Corner – Is it Better to Charge Your EV at Night or During the Day if You have Solar?
This week’s Dumb Question comes from my long-time friend Mark. I’ve known Mark since I was in high school so we go way back. He got solar for his house right around the same time as us and got an electric vehicle. He asked me this question. Hope y’all are doing well. Had a solar/EV […]
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Dumb Question Corner – How do the Show Notes Work?
NosillaCast Shownotes in Overcast John Ormsby, also known as @NASANut in the live chat room and in our Slack podfeet.com/slack sends in our dumb question this week. I thought the answer to his question would be easy, but we went back and forth a half dozen times until we had a meeting of the minds. […]
Continue readingTrevor Drover and the International Mystery Keystroke Adventure
This might be my favorite Dumb Question of all time. It starts in Australia, passes through the US, saunters into The Netherlands, then hits two spots in Japan and ends up in our collective distant past. We’ll start with the original question from Trevor Drover in Australia: Trevor Trying to Size a Graphic in Pages […]
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Dumb Question – QR Code for WiFi Password from Lynda
I’m sure all of you out there listen all the way to the bitter end of the NosillaCast, just in case there’s something completely different at the end, right? Well, then I’m sure you remember when I did the shoutout asking for Dumb Questions, I mentioned that Lynda Gousha had sent in a bunch of […]
Continue readingHow to Find the Cell Reference for a Searched Value in an Array in Excel
John Ormsby (aka NASANUT) sent in what he playfully called a Dumb Question: I have a spreadsheet that contains a 10 by 10 matrix of values. Each value is different. There are column headings at the top, ranging from 0 to 9 and there are row headings on the left, also ranging from 0 to […]
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Dumb Question Corner – HEIF/HEVC in Photos
Listener (and good friend) Rally brings us our Dumb Question this week: When MacOS High Sierra is installed, the photo and video formats are changed to HEIF and HEVF, respectively. I presume that means that the Photos library on the Mac is updated to this new format for all the pictures in the local library. […]
Continue readingDumb Question Corner – What’s the Difference Between an Amp and a Receiver?
Listener Jill sent in a great dumb question this week, and Allison decided that I was more qualified to answer. Here’s Jill’s question: What is a “receiver”? The reason for my question is, Apple told us at WWDC that the 4th gen Apple TV could be used as a destination for Airplay 2 (multi-room audio). […]
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Dumb Question Corner – How to Automatically Back Up Podcasts from iTunes
Our dumb question this week comes from Kurt. He nearly violated one of my cardinal rules in his question, but I’ve decided to allow it. He wrote: Hi Allison, this dumb question gets dangerously close to the red line of No iTunes Questions, but I thought I would ask it anyway… I’d like to be […]
Continue readingDumb Question Corner: VPNs vs End-to-End Encrypted Messaging Services
In Dumb Question Corner, Steve’s Uncle Bob asked a really good question. It’s been a while since we did a dumb question so let’s review the rules. A Dumb Question qualifies for such a title if it’s something you feel like you should know the answer to, and figure everyone else must understand something you […]
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