George from Tulsa is back with another guest post: In her July 31 review of the Netgear Nighthawk X8 Router, Denise mentioned a couple of problems to be solved, and I’m here to offer some suggestions and experience that might help. Denise has a problem with “power bricks that block other outlets,” and I say […]
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Go Ahead and Ask – aka Language Support on podfeet.com
I’ve mentioned a few times over the years that if there’s something new you wish I’d do on the show or something you wish I’d do differently, you should go ahead and ask. I may not change things, and I may not do what you ask but if it’s easy or I think it’s cool […]
Continue readingMore TagCCATP #450 Chris Ashley
Chris Ashley of the SMR Podcast joins us to talk about the Windows 10 Anniversary edition release, integration of Android with Windows, as well as the Ring Video Doorbell and the Bose Quiet Comfort QC35 wireless noise cancelling headphones. Chris turns the tables and asks my advice on whether his baby girl should get an iPod […]
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Steve and I travel around a bit and we always bring our AppleTV with us, in the hope that maybe THIS time we’ll actually be able to use it in the hotel. It’s a strange thing, but the nicer the hotel, the more annoying they are about doing the things you want to do. For […]
Continue readingMore TagNC #587 Extracting Images from Live Photos, Free Diagramming with draw.io, Security Bits
In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and I actually did a video episode where he showed his screen while he solved some of the JavaScript challenges he gave us in Programming By Stealth. Check that out at podfeet.com/…. We’ve got a “Dumb Question” from Dorothy asking how to extract images from Live Photos, and […]
Continue readingMore TagCCATP #449 Programming By Stealth – 19a of x Solving JavaScript Challenges
In this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Bart Busschots starts walking us through the JavaScript challenges he gave us on Programming By Stealth 19. Bart got this crazy idea that we should do this episode as a video so that he could walk through each challenge from scratch on a blank canvas. […]
Continue readingMore TagFree draw.io Instead of OmniGraffle for Diagramming
A few weeks ago I told you about the simple outlining tool Tree that I use instead of the very expensive industry darling, OmniGroup’s OmniOutliner. This week I’d like to tell you about a free diagram/flowchart tool you might want to use instead of the very expensive OmniGraffle. OmniGraffle for Mac is $100…for their standard version. […]
Continue readingMore TagDumb Question – How to Extract a Different Image From a Live Photo
This week’s Dumb Question comes from Dorothy, AKA maclurker in the live chat room. You haven’t heard from her in forever because she’s been traveling in Alaska and Canada on her boat for the last few months. With total disregard for how lonely I am at the gym this summer, she seems to be having […]
Continue readingMore TagNC #586 Health Devices, Netgear X8 Router, Netgear EX6200 Range Extender, Tucano Macbook Case, Bespecular
The NosillaCastaways take over the show this week since Steve and I were off meeting our new grandchild, Forbes. We’ve got Pat Dengler telling us about health gadgets: Ease Wireless Blood Pressure Monitor made by iHealth, AliveCor Cardia Mobile ECG for Apple and Android devices, and the iHealth Align Glucometer for Apple and Android. George […]
Continue readingMore TagNetgear Nighthawk X8 AC5300 Smart WiFi Router by Denise Crown
Guest post by Denise (@Deverelle) Crown Well Castaways, it was time to replace our router. Our ISP caps our bandwidth to 450 GB per month and several times a year they assert we use double this or more. We don’t stream a lot of movies, our cloud data is pretty static, and we have a […]
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