This week’s guest on Chit Chat Across the Pond is Tom Merritt, host of the Daily Tech News Show, Cord Killers, Know a Little More, Sword and Laser and more podcasts than I can count. He’s also a science fiction author with his book series Pilot X tommerrittbooks.com. I asked Tom to come on Chit […]
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How I Chose an E-Bike by Kurt Liebezeit
Kurt Packing to Leave for Work In Kenneth Grahame’s 1908 children’s classic, “The Wind in the Willows,” the rich and easily distracted Toad is out with a few friends in his shiny new horse-drawn caravan, when suddenly they’re overtaken by a rude driver driving what was then the new technology of the day – a […]
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Shower Power from Ampere – Hydropowered Bluetooth Shower Speaker
Shower Power Impeller and Droplet I’m not a big fan of crowd-funded projects, but once in a while I still fall for the idea. At CES in January 2019, we met with a company called Ampere who were working on a 3-way wireless charger for iPhone, Apple Watch and AirPods. It was crowd-funded, but by […]
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NC #882 Mac Geek Gab, Folge on ScreenCastsOnline, Making of NosillaCastAway Shanty, Cognixion, Security Bits
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, April 3, 2022, and this is show number 882. mp3 download Before we get started, I have an announcement to make. There will be NO LIVE SHOW next […]
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Security Bits — 3 April 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 More fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: 🇷🇺 Courts in Russia Declare Meta an “Extremist Organization,” Ban App — www.macobserver.com/… (WhatsApp) 🇷🇺 Google News appears to have been blocked in Russia — […]
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CCATP #721 – Bart Busschots on PBS Tibit 4 of Y — Rethinking a Web App – from Web Server to Cloud Stack
Over the past few months, podfeet.com went through a period of really poor performance. My site hadn’t been snappy in the last few years with page loads of up to 6 seconds, but it hit a tipping point where it was taking in excess of 40 seconds for pages to load. William Reveal and Bart […]
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CSUN ATC 2022: American Thermoform
Allison interviews Robert Jaquiss from American Thermoform about a few of their products designed for the blind or visually impaired. The Swell Form Graphics Machine allows the user to create tactile maps, diagrams, text, and graphics for a relatively low cost. It works by first printing the graphic and text onto special Swell Touch paper […]
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CSUN ATC 2022: Cognixion ONE Assisted Reality Headset
Allison interviews Lucas Steuber from Cognixion about their Cognixion ONE headset that serves as a non-invasive brain-computer interface. With an appearance similar to an Oculus Quest, the Cognixion ONE headset provides “Assisted Reality” – the blending of Assistive Technology and Augmented Reality. It is a universally accessible, wearable device that enables users with a wide […]
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Do You Really Need a Dock With the Mac Studio?
This week Steve is getting a Mac Studio with the M1 Max and next week he’s supposed to get his Studio Display. As you can imagine, he’s pretty excited. He’s currently sporting a 27″ iMac quad-core i7 from 2017 along with a 27″ LG 5K display. He added an OWC Thunderbolt 3 dock so he […]
Continue readingNC #881 Folge for Tutorial Guides, QD Laser Assistive Eyewear, Signia Hearing Aids by Ron Heiby, RealSAM Pocket Smartphone
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, March 27, 2022, and this is show number 881. We’ve got a packed show this week with lots of good fun so let’s dig right in. mp3 download […]
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