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ScreenCastsONLINE Tutorial – Overcast

October 20, 2024
by podfeet

In July, I wrote an extensive article walking you through the complete redesign of the podcatcher Overcast. If you like learning from text and screenshots, then you’re in luck. But if you prefer to learn through videos to actually see the app in action, you’re also in luck. We’ve just published my latest tutorial on […]

NC #1002 Macstock 2024, ReBokeh, Overcast New and Improved, Security Bits

July 21, 2024
by podfeet

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, July 21, 2024, and this is show number 1002. mp3 download Clockwise #563: Peripherally Curious – Relay FM Where we primarily do our text entry (smartphone, tablet, or […]

Overcast – New and Improved! – Another Walkthrough

Overcast At the end of May this year, I decided to learn every single nuance of the podcasting app Overcast and write it up as a blog post. I’ve gotten a lot of traction on the post, especially from long-time users of Overcast who also found the interface a bit opaque and difficult to master. […]

How to Use Overcast as Your Podcatcher of Choice

This post has been superseded by a new walkthrough when Marco Arment released an entirely new version of Overcast: Overcast – New and Improved! – Another Walkthrough Sometimes an app or service is in such widespread use that it doesn’t occur to me to tell you how it works. But then someone asks me about it […]

NC #816 Geofency, iCatcher!, Dark Reader, Affinity for Cross Stitch, Security Bits on ODoH

December 27, 2020
by podfeet

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, December 27, 2020, and this is show number 816. I hope you all had a safe, if quiet holiday. Thanks to the kindness of the NosillaCastaways, I was […]

NC #672 Tech on Travel, Overcast Playlists, Auto-HDR on Olympus Cameras, Security Bits Cambridge Analytica & Facebook

I’ll talk about what tech things we used and learned more about in Paris including improvements in Project Fi, VPN challenges, Apple Pay, calorie metrics with Apple Watch and high-speed trains. Bart barges in on the show to tell me about how he uses a combination of smart playlists and modifications in Overcast to create […]

NC #658 Chromebook Pixel, Japanese Translation on iPhone, High Sierra on Old Macs, Patreon Apologizes, Overcast, Night Before Christmas

With a lot of help from the NosillaCastaways we have a great show. George from Tulsa brings us a review of the Chromebook Pixel, Helma from the Netherlands tells us how she translates Japanese using her iPhone, Knightwise from Belgium explains how he hacked High Sierra onto a Mac that Apple says is too old […]

Why Not Overcast?

I knew this would happen. As soon as I started answering Rush’s Dumb Question last week about why I was using Downcast when I said I used Pocket Casts as my podcatcher of choice, I knew someone would come back with, “but what about Overcast?” What I didn’t foresee though was how many of you […]

NC #657 Making Holiday Labels, Pocket Casts vs Downcast, Patreon Changes, Security Bits

Tom Merritt was on Chit Chat Across the Pond to talk net neutrality. I confess that after all my “I have made fire” talk about writing a script for chapter marks, it didn’t actually work. Learn how to make Holiday Card Address Labels using plain old Apple Contacts. Rush Sherman asks our first ever video […]

Pocket Casts vs Downcast

Rush Sherman sent in our very first video dumb question: Using a Screen Reader? click here I love this question because of how Rush feels betrayed because I had moved on. But even better, I love this question because I have wondered myself why I use Downcast when I said to use Pocket Casts.