Remember back in 2010 when Apple first came out with the Magic Trackpad and it was made of glass? Well, I can prove that the Magic Trackpads are made of glass. Last Friday night I opened my M2 MacBook Air and saw what looked like a hair across my trackpad. With a dog, two cats, […]
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NC #960 iPhone Speaker Problems, MacBook Pro Battery Problems, Questioning the Need for a MacBook Pro, 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, October 1, 2023, and this is show number 960. mp3 download We met Steven Goetz! If you’ve been listening to the NosillaCast for a long time, or even […]
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Do You REALLY Need a MacBook Pro?
When the first Apple Silicon-based MacBook Pros came out, we had a lot of options to choose from, and very little information on the repercussions of the decisions. The possible configurations were so vast that I wrote an article to accommodate a diagram I’d created called M1 Pro and M1 Max Decision Tree – a Diagram […]
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My Never-Ending Battery Problems with my M1 MacBook Pro
In October of 2021, I threw my money as fast as I could at Apple to get my hands on a 14” M1 MacBook Pro. When it arrived, it was as glorious as I’d hoped. It made me happy that my 16” MacBook Pro which was only 2 years old went into the hands of […]
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Dumb Question Corner – Which Macs are for Light vs. Heavy Duty?
Jill from the North Woods (who is a recovering Windows user) asks our Dumb Question this week: Are Macs like Windows in that desktops are for heavy-duty work, and laptops are portable but typically less capable? And are all-in-one computers for lightweight users? It seems as I look at it, the Macs are all the […]
Continue readingNC #802 Telegram Tutorial, 2020 MacBook Air, Facebook vs Slack, Pause 5GHz on eero, iPhone to View Negatives, Designing Time Shifter Clock
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, September 20, 2020, and this is show number 802. mp3 download
Continue readingThoughts on All the New Shiny from Apple
I don’t usually do a rundown on the Apple announcements unless I’m on someone else’s show, but I’m going to make an exception this time. I did get to be a guest on Daily Tech News Show but the format of the show doesn’t really lend itself to a lengthy discussion of the details. It’s […]
Continue readingFrankenstein MacBook Air
Last July I told you the story of my neighbor’s 2012 MacBook Air that suffered an early death when her baby daughter knocked a glass of water over into the keyboard. The power key was shorted out such that shortly after the Mac successfully booted up, it would shut itself down. I tore that thing […]
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