This week we’re joined by Robin Christopherson. Robin is the host of the Alexa skills podcast Dot to Dot and he’s co-host of the weekly Tech Talk show from the Royal National Institute of Blind People. Robin is also Head of Digital Inclusion and part of the globally-acclaimed accessibility and tech team of AbilityNet and […]
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CES 2020: GuRu Millimeter-Wave Wireless Power Delivery
Allison interviews Ali Hajimiri from GuRu about their millimeter-wave wireless power delivery technology. GuRu’s system beams radio waves through the air to transmit power from a Generating Unit to a Receiving Unit. The millimeter-wave beams intelligently find and power the devices. The Generating unit plugs directly in a wall outlet and uses thousands of tiny […]
Continue readingHow to Watch Over the Air HD Content on Apple TV — by Craig Passman
Over the Air Antenna Let me start with the problem to be solved – I was looking for a solution that would let me to use my Apple TV to watch live HD content using an OTA (over the air) antenna. It was not my intention to use this as a full cord-cutting solution, rather […]
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CES 2020: Bartesian Cocktail Maker for the Home Bar
Allison interviews Neil McVicar from Bartesian about their appliance that allows you to quickly and easily make premium cocktails from your home. You stock the Bartesian with water and four of your preferred base spirts which are stored in separate canisters. To make a cocktail, you insert one of the many available cocktail capsule types […]
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NC #772 Capto on ScreenCastsOnline, Belkin, Passive Bolt, Turbo Boost Switcher, AHC CoPilot, Neato, 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, February 23, 2020, and this is show number 772. mp3 download
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Capto Tutorial — ScreenCastsOnline
Back in December, I told you about a really cool utility called Capto. My blog post title was “Capto – More than a Screen Shot Utility”. I was so delighted by the unique and powerful features of what I thought was a little $20 tool, that I decided to do a screencast for it for […]
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Security Bits — 23 February 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Developments in the Avast Browser History Data Sales story: Avast kills off Jumpshot, the subsidiary that sold all your Web data — arstechnica.com/… 🇨🇿 Czech Authorities to Investigate Avast Over Sale of Users’ Browser […]
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CCATP #626 — Bart Busschots on PBS 91 of X — JavaScript RE Objects
Bart takes us through the penultimate hat JavaScript wears and that’s Regular Expressions. Luckily since we haven’t talked about REs in ages, he reminds us of the syntax for Regular Expressions literals in JavaScript first and then he takes us through three common uses for Regular Expressions. We joked around during this episode at how […]
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The Sounds of Silence with Turbo Boost Switcher
This article is a story of how my fans are going bananas on my new 16″ MacBook Pro. But we can’t start with the amazing solution I found in the app Turbo Boost Switcher until we back up and learn a little bit about computer processors. Not too deep, because we get in over my […]
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CES 2020: Neato D-Shaped Robotic Vacuum
Allison interviews Kriselle Laran from Neato Robotics about their line of robotic vacuums. Neato makes the industry’s first D-shaped robotic vacuum allowing room for a larger brush/dustbin and for the unit to better get into corners for an improved clean. Neato has a range of Botvacs, from the D3 up to the D7 models, that […]
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