Lupita Salazar talks to us about how she learned to read at 6 years old (just like everyone else) through Braille. She was highly influenced by my awesome friend Lore Schindler, who taught Tech and Braille to her and the other students in the Los Angeles Unified School District. He explains why Braille is so […]
Continue readingMore TagCategory: CCATP Lite
Those Chit Chat Across the Pond episodes that are not Programming By Stealth or Taming the Terminal
CCATP #536 – David Sparks on Video Field Guide Books
This week’s guest is David Sparks from macsparky.com. David is the co-host of Mac Power Users with Katie Floyd and The Free Agents with Jason Snell. According to David, he’s also a bad musician (he traded his saxophones for children) and a non-full-time lawyer. But he’s also an author of the MacSparky Field Guides, which […]
Continue readingMore TagCCATP #534 – Bart Busschots on GDPR
In another Lite version of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Bart agreed to come on and explain the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. This is a regulation that will take effect across the European Union starting on 25 May 2018. Bart first gives us an overview, outlining the main objectives, the 7 core principles, […]
Continue readingMore TagCCATP #533- Bart Busschots on Choosing a DNS Resolver
In this “Lite” version of Chit Chat Across the Pond (within a NosillaCastaway’s definition of Lite), Bart teaches us about DNS Resolvers and helps give us the information to choose the right one for us. To get us there he starts by explaining the background technologies. He explains DNS and how there’s two kinds of […]
Continue readingMore TagCCATP #532 – Joe Dugandzic Answers NosillaCastaways’ Home Automation Questions
Joe Dugandzic of smarterhomelife.com joins us again, this time in a crossover episode. We start by him asking me to describe my progression in Home Automation from my first smart lightbulb to the more advanced capabilities Steve and I enjoy today. But then we turn the table around and I ask Joe a series of […]
Continue readingMore TagCCATP #529 – Mike Potter on Macstock Conference and Expo
I asked Mike Potter to join us on Chit Chat Across the Pond this week with the express purpose of trying to convince you to come to Macstock Conference and Expo on July 20th and 21st. Do not listen to this episode if you don’t want to be talked into it because I guarantee you’ll […]
Continue readingMore TagCCATP #520 – Tom Merritt on How Social Media Makes Us Feel
Tom Merritt, host of the Daily Tech News Show along with many other fine podcasts, joins me to talk about how social media makes us feel. We talk about how we feel about pictures of food, how we curate Twitter, who in our family takes the photos, whether Instagram is a happy place, how we […]
Continue readingMore TagCCATP #518 – Joe Dugandzic on How He Went from Youtuber to Full-Time Project/Marketing Manager at Lynky
Joe Dugandzic of Smarter Home Life has been on the show several times in the past year talking about Home Automation. This time he’s on to talk about how being a Youtuber working on Home Automation landed him a full-time job at a home automation startup company called Lynky. It’s a story of his technical […]
Continue readingMore TagCCATP #515 – Allison Hartley on Trials & Tribulations of a New iPhone
This week our guest is Allison Hartley. Allison is the Manager of the Napa Branch of the California department of Rehabilitation, and a podcaster. She co-hosts both the Tech Doctor Podcast with Dr. Robert Carter (dr-carter.com/…) and That Blind Tech Show (blindabilities.com/…). Allison joins us to talk about the less than smooth experience she had […]
Continue readingMore TagCCATP #513 – Tom Merritt on Net Neutrality
Tom Merritt, host of Daily Tech News Show, joins us to explain the implications of the different rulings of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regarding Internet traffic in the United States. He’ll attempt to clarify the difference between the 2002 ruling where broadband was declared an information service provider and the 2015 ruling where it […]
Continue readingMore Tag