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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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 […]
Continue readingNC #839 Back Up iCloud Photos, Password Manager vs. iCloud Keychain, Recording iPhone
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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Pixelmator Photo for iPad Review
Pixelmator Photo for iPad was launched, rather fortuitously, just before I went on holiday. It turned out to be almost the perfect app for processing RAW photos from my DSLR camera while on the go. There are some key features of Pixelmator Photo that stand out for me over other iOS photo apps. Pixelmator Photo […]
Continue readingNC #739 Retrobatch, AirFly, GTA Car Kit, Pixelmator Photo, Glitch.com, Photo Processing On the Go
Allister Jenks is standing in this week for a vacationing Allison and Steve, with the help of a couple of NosillaCastaways.
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Nuke & Pave Install of Mojave (AKA Clean Install)
Partial list of tasks and apps organized in Wunderlist</figcaption/> One of the great things about being a tech blogger and podcaster is that just about anything I think is interesting has been fully documented. If I can’t remember how to do some complex technical task and I’ve ever accomplished it before, I’ve got a blog […]
Continue readingNC #671 Hot Whiskey, MFi Hearing Aids, CES Wonder Workshop, AppleTV & AirPods, iCloud Photo Library Syncing, Mylio & Security Bits
Bart Busschots stands in for a vacationing Allison Sheridan. Since the show is recorded on St. Patrick’s Day, Bart starts with a recipe for an Irish hot whiskey. Then we have a review of MFi Hearing Aids from listener Gretchen, an interview with Wonder Workshop recorded by Allison & Steve at CES earlier this year, […]
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Dumb Question Corner – Apple Photos vs Google Photos
Eric in Durham, NC sent in our Dumb Question this week, and it’s a really interesting one: Hey Allison, here is a dumb question for you. I finally got rid of my Android phone and got an iPhone 😀. With that in mind, should I switch to Apple Photos app instead of using the Google […]
Continue readingMoving Apple System Photo Library to an External SSD is Terrifying
So now that I’ve got my shiny new Samsung T3 USB3 external SSD, let’s see if I can figure out how to use this for my real Photos library. Since not everyone uses Photos, let me explain some details of how this works. Photos, like its predecessors iPhoto and Aperture, can handle multiple libraries. But […]
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