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Taking and Transferring Live Portrait Photos

Introduction Every once in a while, I start working on a topic for the show and as I dig in, I realize it’s more complex than I first realized. More rational people would back away and move on to another subject, but if I don’t hit a roadblock, I keep digging in. And sometimes I […]

CCATP #764 — Adam Engst on Mac Cloud Storage Changes

Adam Engst of TidBITS joins me on Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite to talk about the changes Apple made recently to the File Provider Extension. These changes had a fairly significant effect on how cloud storage providers like Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and Box work with macOS. Whether you realize it or not, you’ve […]

NC #930 Filter Contact Fields by Donna, Syncthing by Bill Reveal, Security Bits with Bart Busschots

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, March 5, 2023, and this is show number 762. mp3 download Next weekend is our FORTIETH wedding anniversary, so we’re sneaking off for a weekend of wine tasting […]

Private, Secure, and Free Dropbox-like Experience with Syncthing by Bill Reveal

Greetings Allison, Steve, and my fellow Nosillacastaways. Bill here with too many problems to solve but for one; I am a grouchy obstinate old geek that is headstrong when it comes to computers. As the old saying goes, I hate all computers, I just hate my Macintosh the least. Despite being a long-time user of […]

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Migration Assistant is a Disaster – Time for a Nuke & Pave

Why I Used Migration Assistant for the First Time If you have been following along with our home game for a long time, you know I’m a huge proponent of doing a Nuke and Pave to your Mac when getting a new computer. A nuke and pave means a full reinstall of macOS followed by […]

NC #759 Dumb Question on RAM, Backblaze as a Dropbox Replacement, Unique View on the 2019 16″ MacBook Pro

We’ve got a fabulous Dumb Question from Chelsea that I really enjoyed answering. Did you know you could use Backblaze to share files with people? Then I’ll give you what I promise is a unique perspective on the new 2019 16″ MacBook Pro. mp3 download

Backblaze as a Dropbox Replacement

While we were off on vacation this summer, evidently Dropbox changed their client and it caused all kinds of problems for people. Earlier in the year, they changed their policies on the free accounts which caused people to lose their ever-loving minds. I know it’s disappointing when something free starts to cost money, but the […]

Scanner Pro Takes the Pain Out of Scanning Documents

I hate scanning almost as much as I hate printing, and I really hate printing. I hate dragging out my Fuji ScanSnap scanner. I hate making room on my desk for all the unscanned papers and for the ones that shoot out of the scanner. I hate fighting with getting the pages into the scanner […]

NC #669 CloudMounter, Mesh vs Regular Router Flyoff, PLEX, Security Bits

Steve and I are off to Paris for a couple of weeks, so be sure to send your audio reviews to Bart to help him out doing the show (Allister has his already in the can). We won’t have a live show for the next two weeks – will miss you! In this episode, I […]

Manage All of Your Cloud Storage with CloudMounter

I’ve recently come across an interesting service called CloudMounter. CloudMounter is designed to help manage the plethora of cloud storage services we’re all using today. I’ll dig into more of the specifics of the problems it solves as I go through the review. If you’ve taken a look at CloudMounter in the past and didn’t […]