Allison interviews Pascal Brunner, CEO and Co-Founder of Lifehive, about their innovative technology that helps to keep beehives healthy. Their product kills the varroa mite, the most deadly parasite to honey bees, without using chemicals. Lifehive has designed a Langstroth deep brood chamber and accompanying frames that replace most beekeepers’ standard chambers and frames. Each […]
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CCATP #808 — Jason Snell on The Magic Behind the Six Colors Charts
If you’ve been on the Internet before, and you’ve heard of a little fruit company called Apple, then you’ve probably seen Jason Snell’s famous Six Colors charts on Apple earnings. In this episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, we don’t talk about earnings, we talk about the magic behind how he creates his famous […]
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This story was originally published on 2/5/25, but a significant addition was added on 2/8/25 when I learned more of what MacWhisper can do. I know I’m a weirdo with a podcast and blog posts for everything that’s in the show. I’ve told the story many times of how someone told me I shouldn’t do […]
Continue readingCES 2025: Roam SodaTop for Making Sparkling Water on The Go
Allison interviews Tucker Jones from Roam, the maker of the popular countertop Sodastream that converts plain water into sparkling water. In this interview, Tucker shows their new SodaTop that also converts plain water into sparkling water, but you can do this while you’re out and about. Roam has developed a compact top that you screw […]
Continue readingCES 2025: StethoMe Electronic Stethoscope for Home Use
Allison interviews Paweł Elbanowski, COO of StethoMe, about their electronic stethoscope for use in the home. StethoMe is a medical device that can be used by a non-professional to detect abnormal sounds in a person’s respiratory system. It allows you to listen to a person’s lungs at home and get an immediate and reliable examination […]
Continue readingNC #1030 Hengbot Robotic Dog, Light Matrix 3D Displays, XCOOL Qi2 Battery, Shart Power Products, Wonder’s Nature Camera Petal, 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 2, 2025, and this is show number 1030. mp3 download PBS 175 — GitHub Pages: Static Site Generators In Programming By Stealth this week, Bart has started […]
Continue readingXCOOL Qi2 Magnetic Phone Charger – a Very Thin 5000mAh Battery
You would think that reviewing a battery pack would be a simple exercise. In fact, on a normal tech podcast, it would go something like this: “I got this nifty Qi2 battery pack – it’s thin and light and it has a capacity of 5000mAh. It’s only $20!” But you just know that’s not how […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 2 February 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Updated Advice from Bart: back in 2019 I recommended the anti-malware not-for-profit DNS provider QuadNine (9.9.9.9) on the NosillaCast, I had been using it on my router since then, but not anymore, their service […]
Continue readingCES 2025: Wonder’s Nature-Inspired Camera, Petal
Allison interviews Franci Zidar, CEO of Wonder, about Petal, their new nature-inspired camera. Petal captures images of butterflies, bees, beetles, other insects, and small birds in your garden. It is constructed to look somewhat like a flower with a camera mounted in a colored dome-shaped casing at the end of a flexible stem. Also mounted […]
Continue readingCES 2025: Sharge Power Supply & Storage Products
Allison interviews Ryan Wu from Sharge about their array of power supply and storage devices along with their new AI glasses. What initially catches Allison’s attention are two small GaN chargers, both shaped like the original Macintosh computer. The smaller one has a single USB-C port and the larger one has three USB-C ports to […]
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