HyperDrive 8-in-1 Hub Steve and I have been doing quite a bit of traveling lately, which has often caused us to be away from home on a Sunday night when I need to (actually want to) record the live NosillaCast. It really complicates things to do the live show on the road. but Steve and […]
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Security Bits – 3 May 2019
Followups Marcus Hutchins, the young security researcher who shot to fame by killing the WannaCry malware and then to infamy when he was arrested and charged with cyber crimes while traveling to the US to present at a security conference, has pleaded guilty to writing and selling banking malware. The offences pre-date his work as […]
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Omni 20 USB-C Power Bank to Charge Full Size Laptops (and More)
Last year, I wrote a post entitled, Can A Portable Battery Charge a Large Laptop? My goal was to see if there were any chargers that could actually charge a 15″ MacBook Pro. At the time, I tested two batteries that had AC outlets on them, the Jackery PowerBar and the RAVPower RP-PB055. The post […]
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GOSPACE Supercharger — A Battery and Charger in One
GOSPACE Supercharger Wall Charger/Battery I’m going to do something I don’t think I’ve done before, and that’s review a piece of hardware that I don’t own. On Friday night my buddy Ron brought over something I got to play with and I was really intrigued. He bought the GOSPACE Supercharger from getgospace.com. The GOSPACE […]
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DTNS 3519 – Facebook Too Big for its Breaches
I had the great pleasure of co-hosting Daily Tech News Show with Sarah Lane and Roger Chang on Friday the 26th of April. The main discussion was centered around the question I posed to you in our Facebook group and our Slack about how do we learn technical things. Do we use books, manuals, help […]
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8 bits to a Byte
I entitled this article “8 bits to a Byte” because people used to say that to me all the time and I would always wonder what the heck they meant. The context would always be around sizes of hard drives or speed of Internet. They would be sincere saying it, expecting that they were imparting […]
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One Crayon is Better Than Two Pencils
Logitech Crayon, $70 on Amazon When the original iPads Pro came out, I bought the original Apple Pencil. I didn’t have any great excuses to get one. I’m not an artist and I don’t even doodle for enjoyment. I bought one anyway because it seemed cool and I thought maybe I’d find a use for […]
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Time to Sign Up for Macstock Expo — With a Discount Code!
NosillaCastaways at Macstock Expo 2018 There’s only 3 months left till Macstock Conference and Expo in Woodstock, Illinois (right outside of Chicago) so it’s time to make plans! Macstock is one of the big highlights of my year. It’s a gathering of Apple fans from literally around the world who get together for 48 hours […]
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I’m in Love With My Vacuum
Dyson V7 Motorhead Vacuum Every once in a while I like to go completely off the rails and review something that barely (if at all) overlaps into the technology world. This is one of those times. For Christmas I asked Steve for the Dyson V7 Motorhead cordless vacuum cleaner … in the color fuchsia. I […]
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Security Bits – 19 April 2019
Followup — Scanning for Cameras The story we covered last time about a hidden camera being found in an Irish AirBnB got a conversation going on the NosillaCast Slack. The story revolved around a New Zealand family who stayed in an AirBnB in Cork, Ireland. The father was an IT guy, and he scanned the […]
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