Hello fellow NosillaCastaways this is Ed Tobias, also known as Mr. Ed in the chats. I’m here to bring you another review of an app called Home Assistant, but in typical NosillaCast fashion, first the problem to be solved. I love IoT devices. The only thing I don’t love about them is they’re very fiddly […]
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NC #693 AppDelete, Diagnosing Remote Networks, Raspberry Pi as a Web Server, MacAlly Lampcharge, Bash Script for ID3 Tagging
I was on the MacCast this week with Adam Christianson, Reggie Ashworth’s AppDelete will live on without him, a great story about Steve’s mom and how we remotely diagnosed a network problem she was having, Ed Tobias tells us how he created a web server out of a $35 Raspberry Pi, I got a MacAlly […]
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CCATP #559 – Sal Soghoian & Ray Robertson on Automation
In this episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond I talk to Sal Soghoian and Ray Robertson. Sal was the Product Manager of Automation Technologies at Apple from 1997 to 2016. During his tenure, he was pretty much responsible for all of the automation in the Mac operating system and even the Terminal. Ray Robertson […]
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Chapter Marks – the Final Chapter
If you’ve been playing along with the home game, you know I’ve been on a quest to figure out how to give you guys chapter marks in the NosillaCast in a way that wasn’t a giant pain for me. While it’s easy to put them in as I record using Hindenburg Journalist, it’s been a […]
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CMD-D | Masters of Automation with Sal Soghoian
Sal Soghoian This week Steve and I attended, and I spoke at the CMD-D Conference, created by Sal Soghoian. Sal was responsible for all Automation at Apple for many years. His team managed AppleScript, Automaton, and Terminal. Pretty much all the coolest stuff at Apple. I have to tell you I was pretty intimidated about […]
Continue readingDropShadow App Made With Automator and ImageMagick
Have you ever had a favorite piece of software be abandoned by the developer? I’m not even talking about Apple or Google here, but maybe some nifty little utility that does exactly what you want. For years I have been adding a pretty little drop shadow to all images I post on the blog with […]
Continue readingCCATP #419 Bart Busschots Pretty Markdown & HTML Links with TextExpander & Perl
Bart likes to give credit to the sites he references in his shownotes but the links get fairly clutterly. He wrote a very short (17 line) perl script and put it inside TextExpander to make pretty links instead. He wrote this for Markdown but since I like html better he created a version for html […]
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