When Steve and I retired, people asked us if we planned to travel. We immediately said, “No…” But we were wrong! We’ve really enjoyed traveling all over the world, and our recent trip to Africa was our 7th continent. We went to South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Botswana. Every time we take one of these […]
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Tech on Travel – the Antarctica Edition
Whenever Steve and I go on our wild adventures, I find myself learning something new about how to use our technology when away from home. The problems and solutions evolve over time. I wanted to give you a few things we learned on our Antarctica/Argentina/Brazil trip – some of which are successes and some of […]
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The Day the Drobo Died … Again
A Walk Down Memory Lane Over the years I’ve regaled you with tales of our various network-attached storage (NAS) devices. Steve and I use our NAS for storing sensitive financial data that we don’t want to be stored in the cloud, along with hosting our PLEX video library Steve has ripped from our DVD/Blu-Ray collection […]
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Dumb Question Corner – Migrating a Giant Photos Library to a New iPhone
Jill from the Northwoods sent in our Dumb Question for this week. She asked: My friend has 90k photos on her current iPhone and is worried about when her new phone comes soon. How can she migrate her phone over without the hours of backup and restore time and still get her photos back? She […]
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How I Messed Up And Played the Binoculars Conversation Twice
Duplicated Recording in NC #900 & å#901 Courtesy Allister If you’re an alert listener to the NosillaCast, you may have noticed that I played Steve and my conversation about the Fujinon image-stabilized binoculars twice in a row on shows 900 and 901. Luckily there was a lot of content for the show on Monday, August […]
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Tech on Travel on a Ship in Iceland
Before we leave on a vacation, we pack way more tech than normal people, but probably about average for NosillaCastaways. Of course, we both brought our iPhones, and I brought my iPad Pro. But we both need laptops on our vacations. Yes, need not want. Laptops Steve and I both bought M1 14” MacBooks Pro […]
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Encrypted Off-Site Backups with Synology Hyper Backup
Synology 5-Bay DS1520+ $700 Without Disks on Amazon Synology – Not Just a Bunch of Disks When people look at the pricing of a Synology, the sticker shock is really shocking. I think there’s a couple of reasons why. The enclosures themselves are expensive. Filling the enclosures with drives is very expensive because you have […]
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NC #840 Photos Backup Update, High Contrast Focus on Apple TV, TextSniper for macOS, Security Bits
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, June 13, 2021, and this is show number 840. mp3 download Follow up from Last Week about Photos Backup Last week I told you about how I was […]
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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, June 6, 2021, and this is show number 839. Hey, should we spend the next 40 minutes or so talking about what we hope will come out tomorrow […]
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How to Back Up iCloud Photos When Your Only Mac Can’t Store Originals
ICloud Photo Library Optimize Storage My friend Diane was visiting her granddaughter, and, as one does, she was giving tech support to her daughter-in-law. She wanted to bounce ideas off of someone so she brought me in with the “phone a friend” option. The problem to be solved was one I hadn’t given much thought […]
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