Allison and I have had a question for a long time about electric vehicles. The mileage you get driving an electric vehicle (EV) is highly affected by things like whether you’re driving into the wind, you’re driving up a hill, or you’re towing something. But mileage for gas-powered (internal combustion engine or ICE) vehicles doesn’t […]
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Security Bits — 28 May 2023
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. We now know that Pegasus was used in the war over the Nagorno-Karabakh region in Azerbaijan (an un-recognized independent republic with close ties to Armenia) from 2020 to 2022, with the Armenian foreign minister’s […]
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You NEED Another Charger — Anker GaNPrime 65W Charging Station
Anker 65W GaN Charging Station Just to prove to myself that I can write a review that isn’t 2000 words long, I’m going to explain why you might need yet another charger for your devices. It’s table stakes these days that any charger you buy is made with GaN (Gallium Nitride). Compared to the older […]
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Auphonic – Sweetens My Audio and More
Back in 2015, I wrote an article entitled Making Happy Audio in which I walked through the different technologies that I was using to create listenable podcasts. In that article, I sang the virtues of a free, cross-platform tool called The Levelator that would level the audio of an uncompressed recording. It was a marvelous […]
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Sonos Roam SL Bluetooth Shower + Hero Clip — by Bart Busschots
Sonos Roam with Hero Clip In a recent show Allison described her journey to a new Bluetooth shower speaker. Based on the review I don’t think you could do better than follow her advice if you want an affordable Bluetooth speaker, but, what if you want AirPlay 2 in your shower? If you’re an all-Apple […]
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Audio Hijack Saves the Day on a Corrupted Audio File
Well This Isn’t Good… On this week’s NosillaCast, Bart Busschots will be telling us about how much he likes the Tefeca watchbands. But this segment almost didn’t make it to the show. We still don’t know what happened, but by the time it arrived on my end from Bart, the file was broken. Bart has […]
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How Jill from the Northwoods Uses AI to Help Her Write
Hello, this is Jill from the Northwoods. I realized a while ago I really dislike writing. And, well, maybe dislike is a harsh term, but I’m certainly not good at it. I can get things done. Obviously, the work world needs me to be a good writer. I took a few classes through the university […]
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Tefeca Apple Watch Bands for Fit and Comfort — Bart Busschots
During some recent pre-recording chitter-chatter I mentioned to Allison that I’m absolutely in love with an extra wide Apple Watch band from a company named Tefeca, and she asked me to do a quick review, so her wish is my command 🙂 The band I’m so in love with is officially named the ‘Tefeca Fortitude […]
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I’m in Love With the Aura Digital Photo Frame
Digital Photo Frames – a Little History According to Wikipedia, digital photo frames were first introduced in the 1990s. These frames allowed you to insert a memory card containing photos you took from your big-girl camera. They were a pretty revolutionary idea. Remember there wasn’t even an iPhone to view photos until late in the […]
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RTINGS Helped Me Find the Ultimate Ears WONDERBOOM 3 Waterproof Bluetooth Speaker
A little more than a year ago I told you about Shower Power from Ampere, which is a hydropowered Bluetooth shower speaker. We bought Shower Power through Kickstarter in October 2020 and as often happens with crowd-funded efforts, it took forever to get the device, where forever is a year and a half. I guess […]
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