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NosillaCast Mac Podcast
Allison Sheridan's technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Macintosh bias

• NC_2008_12_14 BlackBerry Storm, Dockspaces, Box.net
  The Mega episode at an hour and sixteen minutes! Run your backups and watch Elf. Jane reviews Dockspaces from nscoding.co.uk, read the whole review at Galacticstrings.com. In Dumb Question Corner BJ asks about how to help his mom move playlists to her iPhone. I do an EXTENSIVE review of the Blackberry Storm, and I interview Sean Lindo of Box.net. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and I talk about our very different paths to the Mac and we dig into all the ways we use wikis, and in particular how much we like PBWiki at pbwiki.com.
• NC_2008_12_07 InterfaceLIFT, Stanza, Ocarina, Photomatix
  Mom on Buzz Out Loud, Mona doesn't know she's joined a cult, InterfaceLIFT.com for beautiful wallpapers, Stanza for iPhone/iPod Touch and Mac desktop from lexcycle.com (iTunes direct link to Stanza). Pan Macmillan from panmacmillan.com and O'Reilly's Safari books at safari.oreilly.com for DRM free books Stanza can read. Make your iPhone into an Ocarina from ocarina.smule.com (iTunes direct link to Ocarina) In Chit Chat Across the Pond Steve challenges Bart about HDCP plugging the analog hole, Bart reviews Photomatix from www.hdrsoft.com and Bart describes his glee at his Christmas cards from Apple.
• NC_2008_11_30 Screenium, Lachman Waxed, Phantom PCs, Christmas Card Photo Shoot
  Sheridan Christmas Card Photo Shoot, Mom is foiled by technology, Robert Lachman gets his car waxed link to Flickr photos of the waxing. In Dumb Question Corner we try to figure out how those phantom PCs keep showing up in our sharing sidebar, and we talk about flinging our Mac laptops around. More on Aperture 2 adjustments, screencasing application Screenium review from www.synium.de. Honda Bob replaces Kyle's EGR sensor with photos at my flickr account. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and I talk about HDCP, taking photos of the canteen burning down using the iPhone and yet another positive Apple Care experience for Bart.
• NC_2008_11_23 Wordpress Plugins, Move iTunes Music, iPhone 2.2
  Al & Steve's excellent adventure to see Blue Man Group, DebbieT's tutorial on adjustment bricks in Aperture at splashofstyle.com. Wordpress plugins: Akismet, IWPhone, Subscribe to Comments, Ultimate Google Analytics, Wordpress Database Backup, wp-cache and WP-PayPalDonate. Google Talk gets video, Yum 3.0 released at yum-mac.com/. In Dumb Question Corner Suzanne asks how to move playlists of iTunes paid music from one mac to another and Sebastian asks how to get his router to let him to use a usb pen drive for storage. Best Buy gives me great service with a knowledgeable salesperson. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and I talk about disabling auto-run on Windows, we have the Twitter poll results on whether you like iPhone talk on Mac podcasts, and we go through the new features in iPhone 2.2. Help Bart get attention on the missing proxies in VPN for the Mac by writing at apple.com/feedback/iphone.html. check out the MacRoundtable too at macroundtable.com.
• NC__2008_11_16 Deaf-blind "Listener", Enhanced Podcasts, Liking Aperture
  NosillaCast 30% off for the next 3 months, adventures moving MX records for my email from GoDaddy to google, message from James - a deaf-blind listener. IN Dumb Question Corner we answer how to make enhanced podcasts with Windows, and whether you SHOULD, and how to open .pps files without Microsoft Powerpoint. I'm finally liking Aperture and I tell you why, three ways Twitter helped me this week. In Chit Chat Across the Pond we do an update on how to protect yourself from the hack on Wi-fi Protected Access or WPA, and then we buckle down and cover the important issue of how to choose your flashlight app for your iPhone/iPod Touch.
• NC_2008_11_09 Perspctv, Dumb Questions, Screenflow by Nillan, WPA hacked, Separate Email from Web Hosting
  Jonathan Cost of the MacTips Daily podcast over at thinkmac.net helps me move my email, Victor was right, ICY DOCK repairs my hard drive enclosure, perspctv.com to compare web traffic on different topics. In Dumb Question Corner we answer how to reset your password on a Mac when you've lost it, when to use a portable vs. non-portable hard drive, why there are 4 radios in an iPhone and what you should do to manage them, and finally how to share iTunes and iPods across multiple computers and family members. Nillan talks to us about ScreenFlow from Flip4Mac and check out his first effort at Youtube. In CCATP in the security light section we talk about how to deal with the WPA hack, why you can separate your email from your hosting company and whether logarithmic and exponential are the same thing (http://www.sosmath.com/algebra/logs/log4/log4.html and Pogson's ratio here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_magnitude.
• NC_2008_11_02 MP3 File Too Big, Crossover Redux Redux, Windows 7, Mac Trojan Horse
  Happy 90th birthday Harry! How I have a fear of sewing, Donald explains how to get static DHCP (or more correctly "reservation DHCP") on your Linksys router using Tomato firmware from polarcloud.com/tomato. In Dumb Question Corner we learn what the activity is going on in the background in Mail.app and how to better control how much sent mail gets saved. I learn from Marc-André from HumanWare how I've been making your MP3s 8MB larger than necessary for the last 8 months, Crossover reviewed yet again from Codeweavers. Chromium (Chrome for Mac) available for free at http://www.codeweavers.com/services/ports/chromium/, my favorite text editor for Windows is NotePad++ from sourceforge.net. In CCATP we talk about the latest Trojan Horse for the Mac blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/mac-users-get-a.html, how much we LIKE what we hear about Windows 7 (arstechnica.com and winsupersite.com) and finally Bart tells us about the historic discovery of TWO asteroids this month by two Irish amateur astronomers http://www.astroshack.net and http://webtreatz.com/content/view/68/1/.
• NC_2008_10_26 California Council for the Blind, HumanWare, KeyTweak,
  OWC at macsales.com buys back RAM when you do an upgrade, in Dumb Question Corner we talk about how to split iPhoto and Aperture libraries across DVDs for offsite backup with a tip from the Apple discussion boa