Technology with an EVER so slight Apple bias
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Allison Sheridan's technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
NosillaCast makes everyday technology legible by following products, settings, code, and security problems down to their practical consequences.
Allison Sheridan treats personal technology as something to test, troubleshoot, and explain in public. NosillaCast Apple Podcast moves from macOS permissions and Siri's potential as app help to smart devices, displays, AI-assisted coding, and security failures.
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A practical episode that makes headset security risks easy to follow.
NoCillaCast this week moves from a bit of site history into a security segment that stays easy to follow. It notes a server migration, then turns to two device-security stories: an old firmware issue tied to products from Sony, JBL, Bose, and Marshall, and a newer headset…
A practical episode that explains site-specific browsers, sender checks, and technical basics with steady focus.
Alison Sheridan opens with a practical spread of topics that suits a technology show with a mild Apple tilt. The strongest stretch covers turning websites into standalone applications, with site-specific browsers, Apple's Add to Dock limits, and Unite presented as a useful…
A Thanksgiving-week mix of game-show chaos, audiobook prep, and browser realism.
This episode folds a Thanksgiving-week mix of segments into a steady, workable flow: Bodie Grimm's annual game show, Eddie Tonkoy's plans for audiobook versions of his wife's fiction books, and Adam Engst's talk about the limits of agentic web browsers.
A clear look at Apple privacy prompts, sandboxing, and why the OS gets the final say.
Allison Sheridan walks through Apple's privacy prompts with a steady, practical focus. She shows how the permission model works through conditional entitlements, sandboxed apps, and dialogs that the OS controls.
A repair diary that turns USB tools into genuinely useful listening.
NoCillaCast 1066 works best as a field report on a hardware repair, and that is exactly where it lands: a Kindle screen teardown, a pair of USB diagnostic tools, and the small frustrations that make technical listening feel grounded.
Careful Apple help, with a useful correction and a practical coverage conversation.
Allison starts with housekeeping, then returns to the disk-space post and a developer correction that makes Disk Graph feel more useful than it first seemed. The opening keeps things practical and grounded, with the focus staying on what changed and why it matters.
A calm look at Kindle portability and iPhone macro photography, with a steady focus on what helps in daily use.
Allison Sheridan centers the episode on a plain but useful question: when do convenience and capability truly match everyday habits? The Kindle discussion makes that tension easy to see, with an entire library fitting into a few ounces while the old appeal of bookstores and book…
A recovery diary that opens into grounded security talk and practical tech curiosity.
NosillaCast stays close to Alison Sheridan's recovery at home, which gives the episode a sturdy, lived-in texture. The strongest passages are the ordinary ones: Steve keeping the house moving, walker-assisted movement, and progress measured in pain, Tylenol, and the next X-ray.
Chicago critics DeRogatis and Kot pair new-album reviews with deep dives into records like Rumours.
Billboard's Keith Caulfield and Katie Atkinson break down the week's Hot 100 and 200 charts.
Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson trace viral internet stories from Reddit threads to courtrooms.
Chris Black and Jason Stewart riff on fashion, food, and celebrity culture three times weekly.
Allison Sheridan opens Nozilla Cast #1072 with two Slickwraps experiments: purple AirPods Pro 3 skins that took 45 minutes with Pat Dengler to install badly, and a wet Naked Series skin on an M2 MacBook Air that cost $20 on sale and made fingerprints much less visible.
Allison Sheridan is back home and on the big-girl microphone.
Allison Sheridan opens NosillaCast #1085 with a Finland-and-Estonia travel recap that includes northern lights, snowshoeing, dog sleds, snowmobiles, and a frozen-lake ride to reindeer.
NosillaCast Apple Podcast #1071 pairs Eddie Tonkoi’s Hugo website rebuild for jerntonkoi.com with Bart’s practical privacy talk about AI tools.
Allison Sheridan opens with a live-show audio problem that seems tied to the interaction between Rogue Amoeba tools and macOS Tahoe.
Allison Sheridan opens NosillaCast Apple Podcast #1083 with a trip update for Finland and Estonia, a note about Jill from the Northwoods covering the show, and a report that the February 15 live show will not happen.
Alison Sheridan opens NC #1088 with a post-surgery report, then turns a femur x-ray into a weight estimate for a Synthes 10-millimeter short nail, a 95-millimeter helical blade, and a 34-millimeter distal screw.
Allison Sheridan opens NosillaCast Apple Podcast #1065 with a Kindle comparison, saying the new Kindle Nothing keeps the Voyage’s six-inch screen, adds USB-C, and costs $110 ad-supported or $130 without ads.
NosillaCast Apple Podcast #1084 opens with a CES 2026 demo of Vionis Hyperia, a smart telescope co-engineered with Canon that uses an app, automatic target finding, and image stacking to show the Elephant Trunk Nebula on an iPad.
Allison Sheridan spends the first section of NosillaCast #1063 getting Bart to explain how the iPhone 17 Pro camera system turns three physical cameras into eight modes, including 4X, 8X, 28 mm, 35 mm, and macro.
Allison Sheridan spends the first half of NosillaCast Apple Podcast #1062 on adding CarPlay and a backup camera to her daughter Lindsay's 2014 Subaru, including a $70 EONON display from Amazon and a Coarse Motorsports magnetic mount.
NosillaCast Apple Podcast #1064 opens with Alison Sheridan revisiting PowerPoint and Keynote after a Nightwise discussion and an audio comment from Andy Dolph, who argues that slides should punctuate a talk rather than replace it.
Allison Sheridan opens NosillaCast Apple Podcast #1086 by describing how Apple Watch fall detection finally worked when a retractable-leash dog clotheslined her and broke her left femur on February 26, 2026.
Alison Sheridan tests four disk-scanning tools on her 13-inch MacBook Air and says the sequence uncovered 110 gigabytes of storage to recover, including duplicate wedding albums, hidden .olama data, and old troubleshooting files.
Allison Sheridan opens NosillaCast #1081 with a story about accidentally discovering that Adam Engst had written about Panel Editor back in 2019, after the two had already seen Sal Soghoian demonstrate it side by side at MacTech.
Allison Sheridan opens NosillaCast #1079 with three AppleCare stories, including a Peacock Premium Plus bundle mess that cost her an extra $20 a month before senior advisor RJ untangled it.
Allison Sheridan opens NosillaCast Apple Podcast #1067 with a detailed look at the OXO Sweep and Swipe Laptop Cleaner, a $15 tool she uses for iPad dust, keyboard crumbs, and cat hair from Grace.
Allison Sheridan opens with a recovery update after hip surgery.
Allison opens with travel news.
NosillaCast Apple Podcast #1075 opens with Allison Sheridan saying there will be no live show for three weeks, with the next live show scheduled for January 11, and that she needs listener help for an early January 2 review episode.
Allison Sheridan discusses upcoming tech conferences and provides a tutorial on the SoundSource audio app for Mac.
Allison Sheridan discusses a correction about Tesla battery replacement and promotes the MaxDoc conference for Apple enthusiasts.
Allison opens on show 1080 and the week's schedule.
NosillaCast #1078 opens with Alison Sheridan’s January 2nd, 2026 announcement that the show returns to regular live scheduling on Sunday, January 11th after CES.
Allison Sheridan opens NosillaCast Apple Podcast #1077 with Eddie Tonkoi on building Etna, a fiction-editing pipeline that splits a manuscript into chunks, checks it with Python docx, regex, Hunspell, and custom dictionaries, and keeps every edit manual.
Holiday special blending community tribute with educational content.
Allison Sheridan recounts a full-house recarpeting project that forced complete studio and home network disassembly.
Allison Sheridan kicks things off with a Thanksgiving-week update and a bundle of contributor segments.
Allison chronicles her obsessive remapping of all macOS 26.1 system settings, walking through the evolution from month-long manual process to 10-hour optimized workflow using OCR tools (TextSniper, CleanShot X, Shotter) and MindNode.
Alison Sheridan explores macOS screenshot automation solutions for Tahoe's rounded window design.
Allison Sheridan discusses her new ScreenCastsOnline tutorial on PowerPhotos, a Mac app that extends Apple Photos with library merging, splitting, duplicate management, and metadata editing capabilities.
NosillaCast Apple Podcast #1061 combines nine Tiny Mac Tips with a Chit Chat Across the Pond segment on AppleCare and AppleCare One.
Allison Sheridan reviews the Petlibro Capsule Dog Fountain, an automated water fountain for pets, discussing its features and how it solves problems with pet water bowls.
Allison Sheridan recounts the challenges of setting up an Apple Watch for her grandson within a family sharing plan.
Allison Sheridan returns from vacation and previews upcoming content including an interview, Pat's EV decision, and her own automation story inspired by a MacDoc workshop on using Keyboard Maestro and shell scripts for conference folder organization.
Allison Sheridan introduces the show and plays an interview where Thomas Maddock interviews the AI assistant Perplexity about its capabilities.
Allison Sheridan discusses her laryngitis, AI voice replacement, and a tutorial on the Overcast podcast player.
Allison Sheridan discusses using AI-generated voice for her podcast due to voice loss, comparing services like 11labs and Play.ht, and introduces a segment on iOS file management.
Allison Sheridan discusses the new iPhone 16 camera control button and how case manufacturers are adapting.
Allison Sheridan returns from a break, thanking guest hosts and discussing various tech products and tips.