NC #1117 Tiny Mac Tips on ScreenCastsONLINE, European Travelogue, Excuses, Siri AI Successes, Voice Control with Adam Engst
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NC #1117 Tiny Mac Tips on ScreenCastsONLINE, European Travelogue, Excuses, Siri AI Successes, Voice Control with Adam Engst

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 5, 20261 hr 24 min
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Hi, this is Alison Sheridan of the NocillaCast Podcast, hosted at Podfeed.com, a technology geek podcast with an ever so slight apple bias. Today is Sunday, October 4, 2026, and this is show number 1117. You know I love doing my tiny Mac tips for the NocillaCast.

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I've created 11 installments of them so far, in audio and of course, in blog posts. I want more people to learn from these, so I've now created my fifth Screencast Online video tutorial. In this one I teach how to use the terminal to see a calendar, how to embed in text windows in web forms in Safari and other browsers, fun with

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tabs about Safari, and then I go into Git info and show inspector and I explain the differences between those two. It's really kind of complicated but it's a lot of fun. Then I explain how to print to PDF faster than you thought you could. That's a really tiny tip. And then reduce file size with quartz filters

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