Category: NosillaCast

Why do they tell me to “get a life”? Open .exe files on the Mac with the free Stuffit Expander 12 from Smith Micro or The Unarchiver from wakaba.c3.cx. ICY Dock review from icydock.com plus a study of USB speeds on the Mac vs. Windows (why is USB on the Mac 80% faster?). Drew switches […]

Al’s busy week on the Mac Roundtable, the Views from the Coop Podcast, the first MacDay LA event, and finally co-hosting the Typical Mac User Podcast with Victor Cajiao over on TalkShoe! Margaret points out I do go out with friends as long as they’re not James. Pixelmator from pixelmator.com gets constrained cropping, another good […]

Sedona Panorama & using iPhone to search for Radio Shack. Antarctica will be claimed by Michael, Bruce calls in about his trip to Bangkok claiming Asia, but Africa stays at large. jalbum.net announces incorporation of web galleries from other hosts, song last week was Aperture Science from jonathancoulton.com. Connor solves my home folder missing in […]

ScreenSteps Redux, Paul claims South America – assisted by Scott from Minnesota, Paul reviews RemoteBuddy from http://www.iospirit.com and Touchpad for iPhone from touchpadiphone.blogspot.com. Jeremy suggests Base as part of the Open Office suite at openoffice.org for Honda Bob’s database needs, or Kexi from kexi-project.org. Martin suggested MySQL from mysql.com for Honda Bob. Rose gives a […]

The Pragmatic Bookshelf and Andy Hunt’s book “Refactor Your Wetware: Pragmatic Thinking and Learning”, Rose and her replica house of Macquarie Island: link to the Australian Antarctic Data Centre’s website. Add new jAlbum skins from jalbum.net/skins, especially ImageFlow. How to manage MacBook Pro heat including monitoring with iStat Menus from islayer.com and Flashblock from flashblock.mozdev.org […]

Homework assignment – find people in Africa, Asia, and Antartica to check in, more Twitter clients at twitter.pbwiki.com, KeyXL from keyxl.com for keyboard shortcuts by operating system. Texter breaks for Mike too, request for Podcast lessons from Gérard, DiscLabel from smileonmymac.com. How I still can’t get a good backup, and Bart and I discuss Martin’s […]

In this bonus episode of the NosillaCast, I’m joined by Paige Eissinger of the Views from the Coop Podcast talking about the O’Reilly book “Design Accessible Web Sites” by Jeremy Sydik. It’s a great interview and a subject near and dear to my heart. I don’t think you have to be a web designer to […]

Donald Burr of Otaku No Podcast reviews the EeePC including pictures at gallery.mac.com/donburr. Check Off from checkoffapp.com, FOSSwiki from foss.librarianchick.com. Texter for Windows from lifehacker.com. Honda Bob replaced Kyle’s radio. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and I make some Twitter corrections and additions including Twhirl from twhirl.org and Twitterfox from naan.net and the […]

Connor’s rantlet, AWSOM PixGallery for WordPress photo galleries from awsom.org. Michael Gorman’s review of the Nokia N810 Internet tablet: Nokia N810 main page, Specifications Page, OS 2008 Page (operating system for the Nokia N810), Maemo Linux Project page, Wavefinder Page for the Nokia N810. Buffalo tech support rocks from buffalotech.com when they help me diagnose […]

Honda Bob was missing last week (hdabob.com), NosillaCast makes the front page in iTunes (of software how-to), blog.opendns.com figures out how to do audio captchas, iPoddisk for moving music from your iPod to your Mac from code.google.com/p/ipoddisk. Two interviews from MacWorld Expo: Jean MacDonald of Smile On My Mac talking about their product Disclabel, and […]