Home Automation is kind of like a sickness. First, you get a couple of light bulbs and you do party tricks like changing them from blue to green and then you realize that doesn’t solve a problem. But in the back of your brain, that little virus starts to fester and you realize that maybe […]
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CCATP #580 – Bart Busschots on PBS 70 – Bootstrap Modals & Toasts
In this week’s Chit Chat Across the Pond, Bart Busschots is back with another installment of Programming By Stealth. We’ll shift gears a bit away from web pages to web apps as we explore the usage and code behind Bootstrap Modals and Toasts. It’s a combination of HTML, Bootstrap for styling and JavaScript for actions […]
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12.9″ iPad Pro First Impressions – by Kevin Allder
Kevin with his Official Steve Wingman Plaque Hello Allison, Wingman Steve, Sandy and all my fellow Nosillacastaways. Kevin here with my initial impressions and review of my new 12.9” iPad Pro which my amazing wife was kind enough to give me for Christmas. I got the 512 GB space grey WiFi only model. Local storage […]
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NC #716 Here Comes the Bus, Cannonball Speaker, DoubleTake, reMarkable, DFree, Hive Link, Security Bits
In this mega-show, we’ve got six awesome interviews from CES. We’ll hear about a school bus tracking system called Here Comes the bus, we’ve got a Bluetooth speaker shaped like a ball from Cylo that you can play with in the pool, a set of binoculars that could change the whole concept, a tablet just […]
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CCATP #579 – Shai Yammanee on Pulling Back from Social Media
This week we have recurring guest Shai Yammanee back, but this time not to talk about photography, videography or performing as he has in the past. Shai recently decided to remove Facebook from his phone (he still accesses it from his computer) and I wanted to have him on to find out why and also […]
Continue readingNC #715 Sandman, OWC, Mycroft AI, Picroft AI, Owl Car Camera, Ampere Unravel
In this action packed show we’ve got interviews from CES with with Ampere about a really cool charger, a dash cam from Owl Camera, a long interview with the CEO of one of our favorite companies, OWC, and a nifty alarm clock company you’ve heard about before called Sandman. We’ve also got an interview about […]
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Installing Open Source Mycroft AI on a Raspberry Pi
You know the old question, “why did you climb that mountain?” And the answer was, “Because it was there”? That’s the way I feel about some of the technology experiments I do sometimes. I love to play with tech and sometimes I will go to enormous work to get something to work when there’s a […]
Continue readingCCATP #578 – Bart Busschots on PBS 69 of X — Bootstrap Navbars
In Chit Chat Across the Pond we are finally back to a Programming By Stealth episode. In this installment, Bart teaches us how to create navigation bars in Bootstrap. We learn how to make them collapse and expand to different device screen sizes and how to style them to look nice. We learned how to […]
Continue readingNC #714 CES MaxDrive, American Printing House for the Blind, Royole Flexible Displays, Danby Parcel Guard
We’re back from CES with tons of amazing interviews. I’ll tell you a couple of fun stories about the show and then we’ll hear four interviews. We’ve got the MaxDrive which is storage for you Wyze Cam videos. Then the American Printing House for the Blind shows off a reference device that has full pages […]
Continue readingNC #713 Mimeo Photos, Security Bits
In this action-packed episode we really only have two topics. I’ll tell you how I’m in love with the Mimeo Photos extension for Apple Photos to make calendars. Then Bart is here for an out-of-band Security Bits so we don’t have to wait three weeks for an installment. mp3 download
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