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A Rusty Podcaster Makes Mistakes

At the beginning of last week’s show, you probably heard me say that the live audience heard the intro three times because I kept making mistakes. While Jill, Bart, and Allister flawlessly executed their three shows, I couldn’t stop messing up. And that was only the beginning. I Blame Automation I’m going to blame automation […]

A bundle of blue and green LEDs edge on glowing against a dark table

Smart Light Strings from Hue and Twinkly — by Jill from the Northwoods

Hello everyone. This is Jill from the Northwoods. I didn’t have a Christmas tree for the last 16 years, primarily because of the cats. But this year, someone gifted me a new Christmas tree because they replaced it with something else. But here it was. I had no Christmas lights, at least none of them […]

Learn Retrobatch Through my ScreenCastsOnline Tutorial

You’ve heard me describe the awesome batch image manipulation app Retrobatch recently. If you’d really like to learn the tool in detail, ScreenCastsOnline has just published my latest tutorial about Retrobatch. I start from the very beginning and go step-by-step building up a few different scenarios and I explain the interface along the way. I’m […]

NC #937 Tesla Full Self Driving 11, Glean Study Tool, Retrobatch

April 23, 2023
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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 23, 2023, and this is show number 937. mp3 download CCATP #766 — Dr. Maryanne Garry on Influencing Delusions About Highly Complex Skills Articles Tesla Full “Self-Driving” […]

Retrobatch for Automating Image Manipulation

Remember a few months ago when I spent a stupid amount of time automating the incredibly complex procedure of unchecking a box in Preview’s Export window to remove the alpha channel from PNG files? The problem to be solved is that images with an alpha channel have transparency, and if they’re dark images, they’re impossible […]

Stream Deck — Down the Rabbit Hole, Part 3

At the end of Part 2, I had a really useful set of buttons, many with nice button faces, and I was looking into how to get live information to display on a button. I knew there were plugins that did this for their specific functions, but I could not figure out how I could […]

Photo of Stream Deck showing buttons used for controlling Microsoft Teams

Stream Deck — Down the Rabbit Hole, Part 2

When we left our hero at the end of Part 1, he… I… had a working set of controls for my NanoLeaf lights. Once I had my buttons working, I decided I wanted to have some nice images to place on them to make the actions clear, and which were nice to look at. The […]

Elgato Stream Deck with buttons for controlling NanoLeaf bulbs and light panels.

Stream Deck — Down the Rabbit Hole, Part 1

As is so often the case, I wish to blame Allison for what I’m about to tell you. I’ve had a project on the boil for a while now which had me seriously considering buying an Elgato Stream Deck. It is entirely Allison’s fault, however, that I actually bought one. I bought the Stream Deck […]

Home Automation by Jill from the Northwoods — HomeKit and Schlage Without Third-Party Services

Home Automation Jill Treats Her Bird Right! I’ve been interested in home automation for a long time. When I was a kid, my dad and I used to talk about it all the time. He was very interested in setting up this X-10, old-school home automation, but he knew that would cost a lot of […]

CCATP #754 — Casey Liss on Automations From the Absurd to the Delightful

Casey’s Crazy Garage Door Monitor On this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, we’re joined by developer Casey Liss of the Accidental Tech Podcast and creator of the iOS apps MaskerAid and Peek-a-View. I asked Casey to come on the show to talk about automation. In particular, we talked about Unnecessary or […]

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