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Portrait of Allison made with SnapDot not StippleGen 2 - wait for the end of the story to find out why!

Create Your Own Stipple Drawings – Sorta Like the Wall Street Journal

Grumpy Cat Hedcut from WSJ.png This week Dr. Alexander Salter, the son of our dear friends Diane and Bill, had an article published in the Wall Street Journal. As you can imagine, we’re all pretty chuffed about it around here. We were doing virtual high fives about it and I was trying to think of […]

Design Gorgeous Logos and More with Logoist 4

Logoist 4 Interface Back in 2015, Terry Austin designed the fabulous logo you still see today for Chit Chat Across the Pond podfeet.com/blog/2015/10/chitchat-logo/. He created it using a little app called Logoist, and the beauty and simplicity of his design inspired me to buy it myself. I’ve done some work with it over the years, […]

CCATP #648 – Shaun Peterson (Qwalsius) on Art with Technology as a Native American

Shaun Peterson, who’s inherited name is Qwalsius, is a member of the Puyalup Tribe in Washington. He is a professional artist working in public sculptures, printmaking and mixed media. He utilizes technology to plan installations for major works and private commissions. He works in the Seattle area and draws inspiration from his Native American heritage […]

NC #695a Melodics, QR Codes for WiFi Passwords, Ethics in Reviews, iPad Apps to Entertain a Toddler

The audio of this episode was originally posted with several minutes missing. If you hear a jump from talking about Amazon reviews to the end of BANDIMAL, you have the old version. My apologies! The NosillaCastaways will be hanging out in the live chat room during the Apple announcement on September 12th at 10am Pacific […]

Three iPad Apps to Entertain a Toddler

I remember when we had little kids, we just didn’t have nice stuff. What was the point, right? Everything was going to be covered in jelly and thrown around without discrimination. But now, our youngest child, Kyle, is 27 and he hardly ever throws his toys in the house anymore. These days, we sorta don’t […]

NC #573 BitTorrent Sync, Enigmo, Making Fire, Remote File Access with myDrobo and DroboAccess, Beurer GS485 Digital Glass Scale

Allister here standing in for Allison this week. I’ll tell you how I solved my OS X network drive problems. Then Dorothy, aka MacLurker, reviews the iOS game Enigmo. Next, inspired by Allison, I encourage you to play with fire. We hear from Drobo about their new myDrobo and DroboAccess services from the NAB conference. And finally, I review […]

Make Your Own Fire

Allister here, still standing in for Allison. About a month ago, Allison wrote a blog post entitled “I have made fire!” which briefly chronicled how she had imagined a change she wanted to make to a scripted, automated backup of the podfeet.com server and how she made that change all by herself, using knowledge gained in […]

Will the Apple Pencil Make You an Artist?

I was born with a really well developed left brain, the side associated with logic. Science and math came easily to me and it was natural that I went into engineering as a result. My three brothers were also reasonably bright boys, but they were gifted with artsy fartsy skills associated with a well developed […]