My Time Shifter Clock Web App In Programming By Stealth with Bart Busschots, our latest assignment has been to create a world clock. Throughout the last few months Bart has been adding challenges to make it more and more useful. For once I got ahead of the class by adding new functionality to mine before […]
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Dumb Question Corner – How does a Database Solve a Problem a Spreadsheet Can’t?
Ron Heiby wrote a “dumb question” in our slack (at podfeet.com/slack): Just listening to the “In a Few Minutes” episode from Feb 14 and heard you mention about using Airtable for tracking the streaming stuff you have in-process. I know almost nothing about Airtable, having just looked at their web site’s main page a bit. […]
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Juice Watch for Apple Watch Charging Notifications – by Jonathan Scott
Note: This review was written and recorded before WWDC 2020 and the release of the iOS 14 and WatchOS 7 Developer Betas. One of the fancy new features of iOS 14 and WatchOS 7 is a new notification on your iPhone when your AppleWatch is fully charged. People are assuming this is because Apple added […]
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Security Bits — 26 June 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Zoom says it’ll provide end-to-end encryption even for free users now — thenextweb.com/… COVID Exposure Notification/Contact Tracing Apps continue to be developed around the world with continued varying levels of success: Amnesty International warn […]
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CPLAY2air Adapter brings Wireless CarPlay to your Car – by Father John
Hello, Steve Allison and the NosillaCastaways. This is Father john, calling from beautiful Northern Wisconsin. And being a priest, I’ve always had to do a lot of car work for my three parishes. So my problem to be solved. I am in and out of my car throughout the week. My car has CarPlay but […]
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Tiny Tip – How to Save Images from your Contacts – by Shai Yammanee
Shai here in very sunny Las Vegas, and I have a little tip that I discovered and promised Allison that I would share with everyone. First, what was the problem to be solved? A little while back I was having dinner with Allison and Steve and mentioned that I came across an issue that I […]
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Wyze Band – a $25 Watch, Exercise Tracker, Heart Rate Monitor, Sleep Tracker, Smart Home Controller & More – by Marty Jencius
It’s been twelve weeks since I have ventured away from my desktop computer, and through that whole time, my Apple Watch has sat neatly in its charger. Time, notifications, and text messages appear on my desktop, so why do I need to wear a watch? So when Wyze sent me notification of their Wyze Band, […]
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Nature Identification Apps – by Jill from the North Woods
Hi! This is Jill from the north woods. As I mentioned before, I love hiking and my best friend loves bird watching. We realized these are the same hobbies as long as you bring binoculars and the right apps. Plus if I ever got tired from my fast-walking friend, I can say “Wait I saw […]
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The Day the Drobo Died … and Synology Joined the Family
Dead Drobo from Dashboard Have you noticed in the last few years, new gadgets and even software don’t seem all that different? I went from an iPhone X to an XS and couldn’t tell the difference after about a day. I went from the Apple Watch Series 4 to Series 5 and only noticed my […]
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The Levelator – It’s Baaaack!
Before and After The Levelator In the earliest days of podcasting, a company called The Conversations Network had a show that used volunteers to record segments for the show. An unfortunate side effect of having all these different contributors was that the volume of the recordings was very uneven. At the Podcast Expo in 2005, […]
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