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 […]
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Help Me Design the Layout of a Time Adder App
You’ve heard me drone on about how to add time using Excel, and that struggle over the years has inspired me to write a web app to add and subtract time. It seems like a fun project, and within grasp of my skills so far in programming. I’ve already started working on it, and at […]
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Using the Serif Affinity Suite for Fun and Profit
Hello NosillaCastaways, it’s Allister Jenks here from New Zealand once again. I recently mentioned in the NosillaCast Slack that I use TextExpander to expand DMC embroidery cotton numbers to the official colour names. Allison asked why I did this and when I explained, she put me on the hook for this contribution. In a nutshell, […]
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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, […]
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Affinity Publisher First Look
Hi. Allister Jenks here, back again with a first look at some fantastic new software. Years ago my wife started a small business designing and selling cross stitch patterns online. While she is the one with artistic flair in our family when it comes to putting together a printed product, that falls to my technical abilities. […]
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NC #694 Fortnite Security for Android, Archisketch, Security Bits
We’ve got a pretty big discussion on Fortnite for Android and the decisions Epic Games made that affect user security. I talk about it in the show, we talked about it in Chit Chat Across the Pond with Robb Dunewood and Bart and I talk about it during Security Bits. I’ve got a review of […]
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Freemium Archisketch Helped Me Rearrange the Room of Crap
As I’ve mentioned a few times, Steve and I are having our bathrooms gutted and remodeled. It’s a pretty stressful thing to live with. There are workers arriving at random intervals during the day, and of course, there are the days we’re ready for them and they don’t show up which is even more stressful. […]
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Allister Jenks stands in for a vacationing Allison Sheridan. We have a review of Paintcode, a story of using the Apple Watch to track health in ways other than the Activity app, Allister’s own health app Stretch Timer, two interviews from CES with We.Stream and Bellus3D, some security tips with Cyber Essentials, and a fun […]
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PaintCode by PixelCut
PaintCode is a macOS app with a very specific audience: macOS and iOS developers, although other developers should take a look too. If you’re not a developer then this review may not offer you an insight into purchasing, however, if you’re just interested in knowing “how stuff works,†this is a pretty cool story. For this reason, I have aimed this review at a less knowledgeable audience, which should also serve to explain to hobbyist developers, like myself, what value this tool can bring.
Continue readingMore TagNC #620 Apple Watch Swimming, Standard Mac Apps, BrainPort Visualization Through the Tongue, eSight Low Vision Glasses, Non-tech Podcasts, GhostReader, BeatsX
Allister here standing in for Allison this week. I have a miniature review of using the Apple Watch Series 2 for swim workouts, I’ll quickly review 26 Mac Apps you didn’t know you already had, Allison will pop by with two more videos from the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference, I’ll make some recommendations for podcasts […]
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