In this week’s Chit Chat Across the Pond, Adam Engst of TidBITS fame and fortune joins me to talk about recent changes to AppleCare. While the big story of the day is AppleCare One, there have been changes over the past few years (and even this year) to what AppleCare covers and how it’s charged. […]
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CCATP #819 — Tage Bushman on Teaching at a Technical College
Tage Bushman joins me this week to talk about his career path to become a Professor at Western Technical College. It’s a fascinating subject for obvious reasons. The ground has been shifting constantly since he first got into tech, but now with AI, things have gotten even more “interesting. Tage teaches in the Cybersecurity program […]
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NC #1059 PETLIBRO Capsule Fountain, Tesla Sentry Mode FTW, Tage on Teaching at a Tech College
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, August 24, 2025, and this is show number 1059. mp3 download Articles Clean Pet Water with PETLIBRO Capsule Fountain It Could Have Been Worse — Tesla Sentry Mode […]
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Clean Pet Water with PETLIBRO Capsule Fountain
Last week, I told you about our cool new PETLIBRO One RFID automated cat feeders that are helping us keep our cats on the right diets. I left out one part when I explained that you could buy them individually or in bundles. When we received the order confirmation on the pair as a bundle, […]
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It Could Have Been Worse — Tesla Sentry Mode is My Witness
Before I tell this story, I want to say up front that I find Elon Musk’s ideas and actions abhorrent. With that out of the way, I want to talk about an awesome feature of Tesla cars and how it helped me last week. To refresh your memory (or bring you up to speed if […]
Continue readingNC #1058 Apple Watch Cellular for a Child, PETLIBRO One RFID Feeder, 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, August 17, 2025, and this is show number 1058. mp3 download Chit Chat Across the Pond Articles Apple Watch Cellular for a Child – Not as Easy as […]
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Security Bits — 17 August 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🎧 More details on the Tea leak discussed last time, with reporting of how many women are continuing to use the app, and including new sigunups 🤯: kill switch: why are women still signing […]
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What’s Better Than an Automated Cat Feeder from PETLIBRO?
Two years ago, I penned an article entitled, “Will the PETLIBRO Smart Cat Feeder Keep My Cat from Overeating?” I’m back with a report and a big update. For the past two years, our two cats, Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper, have been happily fed by our PETLIBRO dual-cat feeder. We travel a lot, and […]
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Apple Watch Cellular for a Child – Not as Easy as You Would Hope
Our grandson Forbes is a delightful child, but he’s been doing this annoying thing called “growing up”. He just had a birthday, and his parents agreed that we could buy him his first Apple Watch. They felt that he was mature enough to handle the responsibility, and they liked the idea of being able to […]
Continue readingNC #1057 Automating Project Folder Structure, Choosing an EV Part 2, Bodie Interviews Grok in his Tesla
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, August 10, 2025, and this is show number 1057. Well, Steve and I had a glorious week off playing with Lindsay’s family on Lake Charlevoix in Michigan. It […]
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