Synology RAID Calculator Demonstrates 4TB in 5 Slots Gets 16TB of Available Space About 9 months ago I bought a Synology Disk Station which is a network attached storage device, also known as a NAS. I bought the DS1019+, which is a 5-bay unit, and populated it with five 4TB Western Digital drives. 20TB […]
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Fun Automation Project – Moving Blog Post Links to the Podcast Feed
NosillaCast Links Visible in Downcast Have you ever noticed that when you’re listening to the NosillaCast in your podcatcher of choice that you also get a list of the links to each blog post article that’s in the show? You can simply tap those links to get right to the content, see the images, and […]
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Apple Beats Flex Wireless Bluetooth Earphones, by Kurt Liebezit
Review of the Apple Beats Flex Wireless Bluetooth Earphones, by Kurt Liebezit, also known as PDX_Kurt in the live chat room. Apple Beats Flex in Flame Blue This is a review of the Apple Beats Flex wireless Bluetooth earphones. As you might guess, I’m a fan of podcasts. For quite some time I’ve used an […]
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Wyss Institute Multi-Segment Displays at CSUN – Michael Karpelson Interview Transcript
For my last interview at CSUN’s Accessible Tech conference this year, I spoke with Michael Karpelson of the Wyss Institute. The audio for this conversation will be in NosillaCast #830 which will be published on 4 April 2021. You can learn more about the Wyss Institute and Michael’s work by going to wyss.harvard.edu/… You can […]
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Security Bits — 4 April 2021 Including Deep Dive on Firefox’s SmartBlock
Security Bits — 4 April 2021 Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 Following on from the excellent Motherboard reporting last time that showed how easy it was to hijack the SMS messages destined for a US cellphone number, the […]
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Transferring Ownership of a Weather Station Using Meteobridge – a Tale of Adventure
In the Beginning Meteobridge Showing Davis Vantage Vue Display Many years ago, Steve bought a Vantage Vue Weather Station from Davis Instruments. This weather station transmitted over radio frequency to a base station with a display inside our house so we could see the temperature, humidity, rain, wind direction, and speed. He was delighted with […]
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Everything is Fiddly – Ray Robertson on RV Hotspots & Life
The text below is a transcription by otter.ai of a voice-only input by Ray Robertson. I have done minor editing to correct technical terms, but I’ve preserved the conversational story-telling feeling by not editing for grammar or sentence structure. Velocity 2 Mobile Hotspot So I really wish I could talk as fast and clearly is […]
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Morphic at CSUN – Gregg Vanderheiden Interview Transcript
At the CSUN, assistive tech conference, I had the pleasure of talking to to Gregg Vanderheiden, who’s a Professor and Director Trace R&D Center at the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. He was at CSUN to talk about a project called Morphic. This is an interesting solution to a problem many […]
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Siteimprove at CSUN – Andy Waselchuk Interview Transcript
During the CSUN Assistive Tech conference I spoke with Andy Waselchuk in business development from a company called Siteimprove (siteimprove.com), and he talked about how they work with companies to analyze their web presence for accessibility and SEO, and provide training for on how to fix their problems. I was intrigued and asked Andy to […]
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Parallels Toolbox in 2021 – And Still It Keeps on Giving
Parallels Toolbox In July of 2017 I told you about a tool called Parallels Toolbox for macOS and Windows from the people who make the virtual machine software Parallels Desktop. This app really is what it says on the tin, a toolbox of little utilities. I’ve not noticed any particular app inside Parallels Toolbox as […]
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