Beats Fit Pro in Stone Purple When the first generation AirPods came out, I loved them. They fit my ears and then sounded just fine for podcast listening, which is my main use for them. But after a while my first pair started having problems with charging. I always charge the case while on my […]
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40 Tools in Parallels Toolbox : ScreenCastsOnline Tutorial
I’ve talked about Parallels Toolbox many times on the NosillaCast, but it was high time to do a full video tutorial on it for ScreenCastsOnline. If you haven’t heard of Parallels Toolbox before, it’s a suite of small utility apps that are all available from a single menu bar app. Most of the tools aren’t […]
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The Wonder of Thunderbolt Hubbing with the OWC Thunderbolt Hub
OWC Thunderbolt Hub One of the great joys of the USB-C life has been the proliferation of USB-C docks that are cross platform for Mac and PC. Over the years I’ve tested a lot of them, settling on the CalDigit TS3+ dock as my favorite. I did a full review of the CalDigit TS3+ three […]
Continue readingMore TagŌura Ring (Generation 3) Review – by Ron Burch
Ōura Ring in Gold Ōura Health Limited is a health technology consumer electronics company based in Oulu, Finland, founded in 2013. Their most popular product is the Ōura Ring, a wearable now in its third generation. The second generation product was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Best Inventions for 2020. The Ōura Ring (3rd […]
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Recently, I purchased some new Apple gear. This was initiated from a concept born over a year ago. I wanted to see if I could create a quality-looking video with entry-level hardware. I kicked off this experiment with the iPhone SE 2020. It had only one lens, but it had a sizable amount of the […]
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PhpStorm – An IDE Not Just for PHP – by William Reveal
Hi Allison and fellow Castaways, long-time listener to the Podfeet family of podcasts and even longer-time developer. As is typical of me, I have been in stealth mode, supporting you through your product links. I thought I might throw in my 2 cents regarding a handy tool for coding, an IDE called PhpStorm by Jet […]
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Everything is Fiddly with HomeKit – by Bart Busschots
This blog post was auto-generated by the descript service at descript.com/… It was heavily edited by me (Allison), not to get it anywhere near perfection, but rather to get it just correct enough to be readable and to get Bart’s point across. This was an experiment to test the usability of the transcriptions from descript […]
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Security Bits — 22 December 2021
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. NSO Group/Pegasus: Google’s Project Zero has released a very detailed report into how the ForcedEntry zero-click iMessage bug exploited by Pegasus worked — it’s deep deep reading, but this analysis highlights the key point […]
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descript to Help Study for a Test – by Bodie Grimm
This script was created by otter.ai, an automatic transcription service. The original audio recording of this article was created by Bodie Grimm, creator of the Kilowatt Podcast at 928digital.com. To hear the audio version (especially the voices he mentions), listen to the NosillaCast podcast episode #868 which will be at podfeet.com/blog/2021/12/nc-868 when published on 23 […]
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Center or Edge – Which Cooks Hotter in a Microwave?
Craftsman Infrared Thermometer Recently, our daughter Lindsay was visiting, and when she heated her coffee in the microwave, she put it in the center of the rotating plate. I pointed out to her that it would heat more if it was on the edge of the plate, as it would pass in and out of […]
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