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CCATP #791 – Bart Busschots on Submarines, Lasers, and Vacuum Cleaners??? (4/14/2024) - In this episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, Bart Busschots joins us to talk Dyson vacuums. I know that doesn’t sound too technical but you’d be surprised how advanced the tech is in the new devices. I share a few of my Dyson stories too and we both talk about our love for […]
CCATP #785 — Helma van der Linden on Porting XKPASSWD from Perl to JavaScript (2/3/2024) - Helma Visiting Steve & Me from The Netherlands This week’s Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite is a stretch to the word “Lite”. I’d call it a crossover episode of Lite and Programming By Stealth. Helma van der Linden joins me to tell the story of how she has successfully started the new version of […]
CCATP #780 — Jason Howell on Using Android with a Mac (12/4/2023) - In this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, Jason Howell, podcaster and producer for the TWiT network, and musician joins me to talk about what it’s like to use an Android phone with a Mac. I live in an Apple-centric bubble, so I am very curious about how he works with these […]
CCATP #776 Adam Engst on iPhone Recommendations for Senior Citizens (11/2/2023) - After a long hiatus for which I have no excuse, Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite is back with a fabulous interview with Adam Engst, publisher of the long-running Internet-based email newsletter, TidBITS. Adam’s been on the show a few times and he’s always a delight. This episode focussed on an article he published in […]
CCATP #772 — Dr. Jason Briner on Studying the Greenland Polar Ice Sheet (6/30/2023) - Studying Greenland Ice Sheet I’m on a roll with scientists on Chit Chat Across the Pond. This week my guest is Professor Jason Briner from the University of Buffalo. Dr. Briner joins us to tell us tales of adventure as he and his team go to Greenland to study the polar ice sheet. I never […]
CCATP #770 — Nobel Laureate Dr. Andrea Ghez on our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole (6/23/2023) - Steve, Andrea & Allison on Iceland Trip Have you always figured that astrophysics was a subject beyond your grasp? In this week’s Chit Chat Across the Pond, Nobel Prize-winning Dr. Andrea Ghez from UCLA joins me to explain how she and her team proved there is a supermassive black hole at the center of our […]
CCATP #769 — Bart Busschots on visionOS (6/10/2023) - This week our guest is Bart Busschots but this is not a Programming By Stealth episode, it’s a Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite. At least within my personal definition of Lite! Bart joined the show this week to talk about visionOS, the new operating system that will power the Vision Pro headset Apple announced […]
CCATP #766 — Dr. Maryanne Garry on Influencing Delusions About Highly Complex Skills (4/23/2023) - This week our guest is your favorite psychological scientist, Dr. Maryanne Garry of the University of Waikato in New Zealand and www.garrylab.com/… Dr. Garry and four of her colleagues published a paper recently in the Royal Society Open Science called “Trivially informative semantic context inflates people’s confidence they can perform a highly complex skill”. The […]
CCATP #764 — Adam Engst on Mac Cloud Storage Changes (4/13/2023) - Adam Engst of TidBITS joins me on Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite to talk about the changes Apple made recently to the File Provider Extension. These changes had a fairly significant effect on how cloud storage providers like Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and Box work with macOS. Whether you realize it or not, you’ve […]
CCATP #760 — Rod Simmons on Migrating from LastPass to 1Password (3/1/2023) - In this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, Rod Simmons of the SMR Podcast and BBQ and Tech joins me to talk about password managers. After the recent breaches and more importantly breaches of trust from LastPass, Rod migrated over to 1Password and changed all 400 of his passwords. We talk through […]
CCATP #756 — Bart Busschots on the Meaning of Verification and Twitter/Mastodon Implementations (12/17/2022) - In this final Chit Chat Across the Pond of the year, Bart Busschots joins us to talk about what verification really means, how you know a website is what it says it is, and how verification is accomplished, and then explains how Twitter and Mastodon do their respective verification. mp3 download Read an unedited, auto-generated […]
CCATP #754 — Casey Liss on Automations From the Absurd to the Delightful (12/9/2022) - Casey’s Crazy Garage Door Monitor On this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, we’re joined by developer Casey Liss of the Accidental Tech Podcast and creator of the iOS apps MaskerAid and Peek-a-View. I asked Casey to come on the show to talk about automation. In particular, we talked about Unnecessary or […]
CCATP #753 — Nic of Nic’s HomePod Repair (12/4/2022) - This week our guest on Chit Chat Across the Pond is Nic of Nic’s HomePod Repair. You might remember the article about Steve’s amazing experience with Nic repairing our big-girl HomePod a month or so ago. It wasn’t just that some guy repaired our HomePod, it was how he did it and how he broadcast […]
CCATP #750 Dave Hamilton on WiFi 6E Backhaul and Why You Might Care (11/7/2022) - WiFi Generations In this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, I asked Dave Hamilton of the Mac Geek Gab to come on to talk to us about mesh routers and why we might care about WiFi 6E. In order to get to that though, I asked him to lay out some groundwork. […]
CCATP #749 Bart Busschots on Understanding the Cybersecurity Threat Landscape (10/30/2022) - This week our guest on Chit Chat Across the Pond is Bart Busschots with a talk that’s part Security Bits, part Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite. Bart has been asked to speak at a Mac User’s Group on the subject of security and he worked up a presentation on the subject. His goal in […]
CCATP #748 – Darcy Hegarty on His Unusual Screencasting Process (10/26/2022) - This week I’m pleased to introduce you to Darcy Hegarty on Chit Chat Across the Pond. Darcy is a fellow screencaster for Don McAllister’s ScreenCastsOnline and I’m really impressed with the videos he creates. They’re tight, they tell a coherent story, and he even starts with the problem to be solved! I started chatting with […]
CCATP #747 – Dan Moren on Baby Tech (10/21/2022) - This week our guest is Dan Moren (https://dmoren.com/). Dan is the author of the Galactic Cold War series of sci-fi espionage capers, a former senior editor at Macworld, a writer for Six Colors and TidBITS amongst other publications, and a prolific podcaster as co-host of Clockwise and The Rebound. But I did not have him […]
CCATP #746 – Antonio Rosario on iPhone 14 Pro Max From a Different Angle (10/11/2022) - Antonio Rosario bills himself as a full-time unemployed photographer, part-time semi-employed videographer and photography instructor, and a volunteer bimonthly podcaster. He sent out a tweet in which he said, “Dear podcasters: Will someone PLEASE interview me about the #iPhone 14 ProMax?!” I expected that Antonio wanted to come on and have a discussion about the […]
CCATP #745 – Bart Busschots on Zero Trust (10/3/2022) - In this “Lite” episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Bart Busschots teaches us about a relatively new concept in IT security called Zero Trust. He explains how the old ways of simply securing the perimeter of your organization are no longer enough. You simply can’t trust that inside your network you’re safe from bad […]
CCATP #744 – Paul Kafasis on 20 Years of Audio Software Development (9/28/2022) - Rogue Amoeba is celebrating 20 years in Mac software development this month and in honor of that accomplishment, I asked CEO Paul Kafasis to come on Chit Chat Across the Pond to take us on a walk down memory lane. We start by talking about Audio Hijack 1.0, and talk about the 266MHz PowerPC they […]
CCATP #741 – Tom Merritt on Touchscreens vs. Buttons in Cars (9/1/2022) - Tom Merritt of the Daily Tech News Show joins me on Chit Chat Across the Pond to talk about a recent study published by Sweden’s biggest car magazine, ViBilägare. The study timed drivers in how long it took them to perform a set of prescribed functions in a variety of cars with touchscreens and one […]
CCATP #740 – Allison on Bart’s Let’s Talk Photography – Mirrorless Camera Conversion (8/21/2022) - Nikon D5100 DSLR next to Olympus E-M10 Mirrorless Camera CCATP #740 for August 21, 2022, and I’m your host, Allison Sheridan. Last week I said that the interview that Bodie Grimm of the Kilowatt podcast with Orange Charger was the “Crossover Event of the Summer” but we’ve got another crossover event of the summer this […]
CCATP #739 – Bodie Grimm Interviews Orange Charger (8/15/2022) - A few years ago, when the SMR podcast hosts took over the NosillaCast while I was on vacation, Tom Merritt of the Daily Tech News Show called it “The Crossover Event of the Summer.” Since then, the SMR hosts Rod, Chris, and Robb have all been on DTNS. Then Tom had Bodie Grimm of the […]
CCATP #737 Mark Pouley on Starlink Satellite Service (7/11/2022) - Mark Pouley, the photographer behind Twin Lakes Images lives in a home that is in an urban area, but on a long, private road that hasn’t been fed by fiber or cable. He and his wife also bought a vacation home in the far Northeast corner of the state of Washington where there’s very little […]
CCATP #735 Molly DeFrank on her Book “Digital Detox: The Two-Week Tech Reset for Kids” (7/6/2022) - In this week’s Chit Chat Across the Pond, I interview author Molly DeFrank on her book “Digital Detox: The Two-Week Tech Reset for Kids” along with Lindsay Tondee who put Molly’s advice to the test with her son Forbes. If you listen to my shows, you might find the idea of detoxing your children from […]
CCATP #734 – Seamus Lavery on Raising a Service Dog for Guiding Eyes (6/24/2022) - e Quaid in the Drivers Seat of a Tesla In this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, I’m joined by long-time NosillaCastaway Seamus Lavery. Seamus started posting photos of his black lab Quaid to the live chatroom, and then explained that he’s a “puppy raiser” for Guiding Eyes for the Blind. He agreed […]
CCATP #733 – Brian Hoffman takes Solar to a New Level – Co-Interview with Steve Sheridan (6/13/2022) - Recently Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane of DTNS fame hosted what they called a Solar Round Table. The guests were NosillaCast Live Producer Steve Sheridan, an engineer working at AES Solar named Joe Briney, and Boeing 777 captain Brian Hoffman. I tell you that whole story because when Steve got off the phone, he started […]
CCATP #732 – Ask Me Anything (About Security) with Bart Busschots (6/11/2022) - CCATP #732 for June 11, 2022, and I’m your host, Allison Sheridan. This week our guest is Bart Busschots. This week we’re going to do something a little different; we’re doing an “Ask Me Anything (About Security)”. I sent out the request for questions to our Slack community (https://podfeet.com/slack), to Twitter, to a few user […]
CCATP #731 – Bodie Grimm with Chris Ashley – Ford F150 Lightning EV (6/2/2022) - Chris and the new Hotness In yet another crossover episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Bodie Grimm of the Kilowatt Podcast joins me to talk about EVs. But this isn’t just any EV, we get to talk to Chris Ashley of the SMR Podcast and BBQ and Tech about his brand new Ford F150 […]
CCATP #730 – Bart Busschots on Thinking About Security (5/28/2022) - In this Lite version of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Bart Busschots talks to us about he thinks about security. Rather than try to tell us with exacting precision what to do about a current threat, instead, he talks about how to be proactive, how to convince others to accept changes in the name of […]
CCATP #729 – John Siracusa on Many Things Including Display Technologies (5/19/2022) - Our guest this week on Chit Chat Across the Pond is John Siracusa of the Accidental Tech Podcast, Reconcilable Differences, and Robot or Not. He’s also the developer of two interesting Mac apps: Front and Center and SwitchGlass. You can find his blog at Hypercritical.co. You can find him on Twitter @siracusa I’ve been a […]
CCATP #728 — Bart Busschots on Why FIDO Passkeys Rock (5/14/2022) - Back in August of 2019, Bart Busschots told us about how someday in the future, we would be able to be living a passwordless future because of something called FIDO, AKA Fast ID Online. Back then it was really only helping corporations but this week the FIDO Alliance made an announcement that shows real promise […]
CCATP #727 – Dr. Maryanne Garry on How Everything You Remember is Wrong (5/12/2022) - One of my pet peeves is podcasters who air reruns. Today I am that podcaster but I think I can justify what I’m doing so bear with me here. On June 1st, 2014, Dr. Maryanne Garry made her debut appearance on Chit Chat Across the Pond. In this terrific interview, she explains her research and […]
CCATP #726 – Bart Busschots on Email on Your Own Domain (4/30/2022) - In this ~lite episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Bart Busschots explains why it’s a good idea to have an email address on your own domain. Then he digs deep into all of the different technologies involved in owning a domain, forwarding email, explains MX and NS records, and how to make sure you’re […]
CCATP #725 – Erin Carson on Ear Worms and TikTok (4/20/2022) - This week our guest is Erin Carson, Senior Writer at CNET. She came on the show to talk to me about ear worms and the effect that TikTok is having on their prevalence. We go over the research she studied on earworms, finding out how long we’ve known about them, what goes on in our […]
CCATP #723 – Bodie Grimm Kilowatt Crossover on Self Driving, Solar Batteries, and More (4/16/2022) - While Steve and I were in Phoenix visiting Steve’s sister, we made a trip out to meet the awesome Bodie Grimm, host of the Kilowatt podcast at 918digital.com. Bodie’s show is all about electric vehicles, self driving, solar energy, and batteries. You can imagine that it would be impossible for a podcast to not break […]
CCATP #722 – Tom Merritt on the Past, Present, and Future of Messaging (4/5/2022) - This week’s guest on Chit Chat Across the Pond is Tom Merritt, host of the Daily Tech News Show, Cord Killers, Know a Little More, Sword and Laser and more podcasts than I can count. He’s also a science fiction author with his book series Pilot X tommerrittbooks.com. I asked Tom to come on Chit […]
CCATP #720 – Jill from the North Woods on Switching from Windows to Mac (3/24/2022) - Jill from the North Woods, host of the delightful and inspiring Start with Small Steps Podcast at smallstepspod.com decided a few years ago that she wanted to switch from Windows to the Mac. I was a bit of an enabler on this, so I’ve been watching her adventure with great interest. She recently made the […]
CCATP #718 – Adam Engst of TidBITS on Apple’s March Peek Event (3/10/2022) - If you’re looking for a methodical walk through the Apple March Peek Event that discusses point-by-point every detail and spec that Apple presented, you will be sorely disappointed with this week’s Chit Chat Across the Pond. Instead of being methodical, Adam Engst of TidBITS and I dive right into the middle and enjoy ourselves talking […]
CCATP #716 – Cheyenne Swenson on the Kia EV6 “Spaceship” (2/24/2022) - Cheyenne’s EV6 Spaceship In this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, Cheyenne Swenson joins us to tell us about her new electric vehicle – the Kia EV6. Cheyenne explains how she calls it a spaceship because it’s got two 12-inch wide aspect ratio displays and because of how different it is to […]
CCATP #714 – Bart Busschots – PBS Tibit2 – It’s Ok to Play a Different Game! (2/7/2022) - This episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond perfectly straddles the line between Programming By Stealth and Lite. While it’s definitely a nerdy discussion topic, Bart Busschots is really just telling a story. He starts by explaining how he ended up a computer scientist essentially by accident, and tells us about a fantastic CS professor […]
CCATP #712 – Alec Johnson on One Take Video Production (1/21/2022) - Alec on Take One Tech This week’s guest on Chit Chat Across the Pond is the Wizard Alec Johnson. Alec is the host of the YouTube channel Take One Tech. He creates amazing how-to guides on tools such as Stream Deck, Hazel, Keyboard Maestro, Ecamm Live, and many basic features of the Mac operating systems. […]
CCATP #709 – Adam Engst on the Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking (12/14/2021) - Adam Engst, publisher of the long-running Internet-based email newsletter, TidBITS joins us on Chit Chat Across the Pond to talk about an article he wrote for TidBITS about the Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking. Adam starts our conversation by taking us into the WABAC machine to learn about Project Xanadu which was the vision of Ted […]
CCATP #707 – Tom Merritt on Meta and the Metaverse (12/2/2021) - In late October, Facebook announced that The Facebook Company was name to Meta. A little bit later, Mark Zuckerberg published a video where he described his vision of the future metaverse. I haven’t been following this too closely but it seems to be turning into something I might want to understand. I asked Tom Merritt, […]
CCATP #704 – Chris Ashley & Rod Simmons on BBQ and Tech Podcast with Steve Sheridan (11/5/2021) - Chris, Rod and Steve (showing how much fun we had) This week I’m pleased to have Chris Ashley and Rod Simmons on the Chit Chat Across the Pond. You may know them from the SMR Podcast they do with Robb Dunewood, or you may remember them from their frequent appearances on Chit Chat Across the […]
CCATP #702 – Doc Rock Explains ProRes Video & We Talk new M1 Max Macs (10/18/2021) - Doc Rock Rocks Doc Rock joins me for a fantastic discussion on Chit Chat Across the Pond. I asked Doc on the show originally to come on and explain ProRes video to me, but Apple delighted us by dropping the new M1 Max Macs and M1 Pro Macs the same day we were scheduled to […]
CCATP #697 – Bodie Grimm Explains EV Fires and Teslas Hitting Emergency Vehicles (8/23/2021) - CCATP #697 for August 23, 2021, and I’m your host, Allison Sheridan. This week our guest is Bodie Grimm. Along with being a podcaster who specializes in the news about electric vehicles on his show the Kilowatt Podcast, Bodie is a firefighter and engineer on a ladder truck. He is in a unique position to […]
CCATP #694 Dr. Niki Ackermans on Anatomy and Neuroscience with Oxen and Sheep (8/7/2021) - This week our guest is Dr. Niki Ackermans. Dr. Ackermans is a Postdoctoral fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in New York City. Her current work focuses on the anatomy and neuroscience of traumatic brain injury in head butting animals. She is also the science […]
CCATP #691 – Melissa Davis on Setting up iPhone for Vintage Users in a Dignified Way (6/30/2021) - In this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Melissa Davis, aka TheMacMommy joins me to give us her tips for setting up an iPhone for a “Vintage User”, in a dignified way. If you’ve ever heard Melissa on the Geekiest Show Ever podcast she does with Elisa Pacelli, you know she’s a fantastic […]
CCATP #689 – Bodie Grimm with Allison and Steve on Tesla Fiddly Bits (6/20/2021) - This week we have a very different episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite. On the awesome Kilowatt podcast (a show all about electric vehicles), host Bodie Grimm asked me and my husband Steve to be his guests on the show. You really shouldn’t be listening to it here, you should go subscribe to […]
CCATP #687 – Mikah Sargent on What Thread Means for the Internet of Things (5/31/2021) - In this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Mikah Sargent joins us to explain why he’s so excited about what the new technology called Thread is going to bring to the Internet of Things, or IoT. You may know Mikah from the awesome show Clockwise with Dan Moren, or perhaps iOS Today with […]
CCATP #683 – Christophe Zajac-Denek is Kind of a Big Deal (4/28/2021) - This week’s guest is Christophe Zajac-Denek. Christophe worked as a TV producer while touring in a rock band, he’s a drummer, an actor and stuntman, a surfer, a journalist, a podcaster, and public speaker. He’s also 4’4” tall and has a rare form of dwarfism. Christophe hosts an amazing podcast entitled “I’m Kind of a […]
CCATP #682 – Doc Rock on Apple Spring Loaded Event (4/21/2021) - This week’s guest is Doc Rock to talk about the Apple Spring Loaded Event. Doc’s background in all things Apple as well as high-end live video makes him the perfect person to talk about this event. He explains to me how this color calibration of our TVs using our iPhones and an Apple TV will […]
CCATP #680 – Gregg Vanderheiden on 50 Years in Accessibility (4/6/2021) - This week our guest is Gregg Vanderheiden, Professor and Director Trace R&D Center at the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because I recently interviewed him at 19:40 on the NosillaCast about a product called Morphic. When we were preparing for that interview, Gregg started to […]
CCATP #678 – Matt Campbell on Accessibility Overlays & Cloudflare Remote Browser Isolation (3/29/2021) - Matt Campbell is a blind software developer who has specialized in making computers more accessible to blind people for over 20 years. He was the lead developer for Serotek for 15 years, where he developed several affordable and easy-to-use products, including a Windows screen reader and an online community for blind people. More recently, he […]
CCATP #676 – Jill McKinley on Windows to Mac Conversion (3/20/2021) - This week our guest is Jill McKinley, also know as Jill from the North Woods. I’ve been using a Mac since 1984, and other than a 3-year stint using Windows Vista at work, I’ve been heads down in the Mac operating system all that time. Jill has recently bought her first Mac, which as is […]
CCATP #675 – Working from Home Part 2 – Allister Jenks & Lindsay Tondee (3/13/2021) - In the last Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, Lindsay Tondee made her debut appearance where we talked about working from home. After the show published, Allister Jenks wrote to me and told me that halfway through listening he had to stop and start writing down notes for a recording he would have to make […]
CCATP #674 — Bart Busschots on Cooking Like a Programmer (3/6/2021) - Bart Busschots joins us for Chit Chat Across the Pond in an episode of what he calls “Programming Adjacent”. It’s not about programming, it’s actually about cooking and not wasting food. But Bart, being a programmer, approaches the problem like a programmer. I guarantee you that no one else on earth approaches cooking and food […]
CCATP #673 – Lindsay Tondee on Working from Home (2/27/2021) - Lindsay Tondee, Senior Manager in Quality Assurance at a global pharmaceutical company, joins us to talk about whether it’s a good or a bad thing that companies are thinking about having their workforce continue to work from home indefinitely. I originally thought this would be a great thing because we’ll have fewer cars on the […]
CCATP #671 – Allison Sheridan on American Council of the Blind Radio (2/14/2021) - This week the tables are turned and you’ll actually hear me being interviewed. I was asked to be on the Magic Mac Show, which is on the American Council of the Blind’s streaming radio channel. Hosts Tyson Ernst, Katie Frederick and Jason Castonguay asked me on so they could learn about how I got interested […]
CCATP #670 – Ken Ray on Apple’s Record-Breaking Earnings Call (2/2/2021) - This week our guest on Chit Chat Across the Pond is Ken Ray, host of the macOS Ken Podcast, hosted at macosken.com. You may have been wondering why Ken had never been on Chit Chat Across the Pond before, but I just wanted to make sure he was going to stick with it. Since he […]
CCATP #667 – Mike Price on Keyboard Maestro (1/6/2021) - This week our guest for Chit Chat Across the Pond is Mike Price, also known as @Grumpy in the podfeet slack and our live show chat room. During the live NosillaCast, I have to perform a super repetitive set of tasks to add chapter marks as I’m recording the show. If you enjoy there being […]
CCATP #664 – Tom Merritt on Time Management (12/8/2020) - This week’s guest is Tom Merritt, prolific podcaster, author, and lover of dogs. I asked Tom to come on the show to explain how on earth he does as much as he does. We walk through all of his podcasts, what he has to do to prepare for them, and how he makes the time […]
CCATP #662 – Rod Simmons on Screencasting Tips and Tricks (11/24/2020) - This week Rod Simmons of the SMR Podcast https://smrpodcast.com joins me to talk about our tips and tricks for doing effective screen casting. We started by going through some more strategic ideas on how to get your message across with a screencast, and then we dug into some of the techniques and tools we use […]
CCATP #660 – Lory Gil on M1 Macs (11/13/2020) - It wouldn’t be an Apple announcement week without Lory Gil joining us, managing editor of iMore. We start the conversation by talking about what all of the new M1 Macs have in common, which is much more than we’re used to seeing. Then we talk about what System on a Chip (SoC) actually means and […]
CCATP #657 – Lory Gil on the iPhone 12 Announcement (10/16/2020) - Lory Gil, managing editor from iMore is back to talk about the new toys announced by Apple this week. In a show where we do NOT talk about 5G we instead talk about how cool it is that Apple brought so many features to the entire product line of iPhones, and then we go deep […]
CCATP #655 – Jill (from the North Woods) McKinley on Starting a Podcast (10/1/2020) - Start with Small Steps Podcast This week our guest is Jill McKinley of the Start with Small Steps Podcast at smallstepspod.com. Those of you who listen to the NosillaCast may already know her from her many fantastic tech reviews for the show as Jill from the North Woods. I’m a fan of the Start With […]
CCATP #653 – Lory Gil on New Apple Watches, iPads and Services (9/16/2020) - With the new announcements of Apple Watches, iPads and services like Fitness+ and Apple One, the best person to talk to is Lory Gil, managing editor of iMore. In this episode we talk about whether the new Apple Watch Series 6 processor matters, or is it the new colors that excite us. Is Apple doing […]
CCATP #649 – Dr. Helma van der Linden on Creating a Book with Open Source Software (8/7/2020) - This week our guest is Dr. Helma van der Linden from the Netherlands here to talk about how she created the Taming the Terminal book using all Open Source software. On the NosillaCast I talked a lot about the book but I should probably give an explanation for the Chit Chat audience. Bart Busschots and […]
CCATP #648 – Shaun Peterson (Qwalsius) on Art with Technology as a Native American (7/28/2020) - Shaun Peterson, who’s inherited name is Qwalsius, is a member of the Puyalup Tribe in Washington. He is a professional artist working in public sculptures, printmaking and mixed media. He utilizes technology to plan installations for major works and private commissions. He works in the Seattle area and draws inspiration from his Native American heritage […]
CCATP #646 – Doug Kaye on The Levelator (7/14/2020) - Doug was one of the founding forces behind podcasting (his podcast was the second one created!) He founded The Conversations Network in 2002 with the intent of coordinating a global team of volunteer podcasters to capture and publish lectures, seminars, and other significant events that would otherwise go unrecorded. Out of The Conversations Network came […]
CCATP #644 – Lory Gil on WWDC (6/29/2020) - What could be more fun thank talking to iMore’s awesome managing editor, Lory Gil about the fun things that were announced at WWDC? Last time she was on, we made a date to get back together after the WWDC announcements. She had said she loves WWDC because “Everything old is new again!” because we don’t […]
CCATP #641 – Robb Dunewood on Being a Black Man in America (6/2/2020) - This week I decided to take a pause from tech and talk to Robb Dunewood of the SMR Podcast about what it’s like being a black man in America. This was of course inspired by the death of George Floyd at the hands of the police in Minneapolis. I wanted to have Robb on to […]
CCATP #639 — Lory Gil on All Things Apple (5/18/2020) - Lory Gil of iMore On this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, I was joined by the most awesome Lory Gil, managing editor of iMore and co-host of MacBreak Weekly on the TWiT network. Lory and I had an absolute blast talking about all things Apple. We talked about the supposedly seamless interface […]
CCATP #636 – Adam Engst on 30 Years of TidBITS and other random topics (4/30/2020) - Adam Engst has been publishing TidBITS for 30 years so I asked him to come on the show to talk about that journey. While we technically had an agenda, this conversation wandered into all kinds of fun topics like why Adam still goes to the same dentist office even though the dentist left and why […]
CCATP #634 — Mikah Sargent on Favorite TextExpander Snippets (4/13/2020) - This week our guest is Mikah Sargent of the Clockwise Podcast and the TWiT network. Mikah was talking on some show about how much he loves TextExpander, and I thought it might be fun to have a session where we talked about our favorite TextExpander snippets. We found we use the same TextExpander trigger character […]
CCATP #633 — Anthony Lemos Explains Mixers (4/9/2020) - I used to have a mixer back in my earliest days of podcasting (circa 2007) but I got rid of it because I didn’t really understand it. When I gave up my mixer I started using Audio Hijack from Rogue Amoeba to do everything I needed. I asked Anthony Lemos of Audio Aperture Media to […]
CCATP #631 — Rosemary Orchard on Shortcuts (3/26/2020) - This week we have the brilliant Rosemary Orchard on the show. Rosemary is the author of the Take Control of Shortcuts book and co-host of the Automators Podcast with David Sparks at www.relay.fm/automators. I asked Rosemary to come on the show because I absolutely love automation (maybe not as much as her) but I have […]
CCATP #629 – Dr. Garry on Study of Language Skills vs Numeracy In Learning to Program (3/14/2020) - CCATP #629 for March 13, 2020, and I’m your host, Allison Sheridan. This week our guest is returning guest Dr. Maryanne Garry of the University of Waikato. I asked Maryanne to come on the show this week to help me break down a research paper I read that’s not actually in her area of expertise. […]
CCATP #628 — Bart Busschots on Creating Automator Quick Actions (3/7/2020) - This week our guest is Bart Busschots with an installment of something he’s calling Programming By Stealth-adjacent. It’s not part of the regular series of Programming By Stealth, and yet it’s not technically very “light” in terms of the chit chatting. Since neither podcast is the right place for it, I’ve decided to put it […]
CCATP #627 Robin Christopherson on Advancements in Tech for Accessibility (2/25/2020) - This week we’re joined by Robin Christopherson. Robin is the host of the Alexa skills podcast Dot to Dot and he’s co-host of the weekly Tech Talk show from the Royal National Institute of Blind People. Robin is also Head of Digital Inclusion and part of the globally-acclaimed accessibility and tech team of AbilityNet and […]
CCATP #625 — Tom on the Internet on Teaching Himself to Program (2/10/2020) - Tom Steven, aka Tom on the Internet from tomontheinternet.com joins me to tell the tale of how he went from knowing zero about programming to landing a full-time job as a web developer in two years of self-training. Then he talks about the things that surprised him that he learned as a developer in that […]
CCATP #623 — Lila Brissette on Accessibility from a Young Person’s Perspective (1/30/2020) - While we were in Las Vegas for CES, we carved out some time to have dinner with our good friend, JF Brissette, who is also the editor of all of my videos for ScreenCastsOnline. He brought his daughter Lila to dinner and she started talking to me about her journey of discovery into accessibility on […]
CCATP #621 — Bart Busschots’s Health Tech Update (1/10/2020) - Bart Busschots takes us through the new health tech he’s added since he was last here on the subject. From more bike equipment to blood pressure monitoring, to sleep monitoring to thermometers and more. mp3 download
CCATP #620 — Eleanor Mazzarella on Moving from Musician to Programmer (12/31/2019) - This week we’re joined by Eleanor Mazzarella, a musician turned programmer. She gives us her background in music from finding a clarinet on a bookshelf as a child to a career as a classical performer. She then walks us through how and why she decided that programming sounded like more fun. She’s a funny, delightful […]
CCATP #618 – Adam Engst on Success of Macs at IBM (12/6/2019) - Adam Engst, veteran author of TidBITS for the last 29 years, inventor of Internet advertising and someone who dresses appropriately for the weather joins us for this episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond. Adam explains the fascinating results that IBM has reported since they first decided to give their employees the choice of whether […]
CCATP #616 — Don McAllister on Automating ScreenCastsOnline (11/18/2019) - This week I asked Don McAllister, owner of ScreenCastsOnline to come on the show to talk about how he automates the production of his video tutorial podcast business. We start at his humble beginnings as a new convert from Windows with a Mac mini and a monitor, up to and including a global workforce with […]
CCATP #614 – Ken Case of Omni Group on His Computing Life Story (11/6/2019) - Ken with the original box for OMNIWEB This week’s Chit Chat Across the Pond is really special. It’s an interview with Ken Case, the CEO of Omnigroup. We don’t actually talk much about his current work, but rather start back with how he went to college when he was only 13 years old at the […]
CCATP #612 – Ray Robertson on Impact of Apple’s Development Process on Developers (10/24/2019) - Ray & Allison at ⌘-D Conference This week we’re joined by returning guest Ray Robertson, well-known AppleScript guru and general all-around automator. Ray joins me to talk about the increased challenges developers faced working with Apple. It’s no secret that iOS 13 and iPad OS 13 have been problematic on their own, but the betas […]
CCATP #608 – Doug Ingram on Nightscape Photography (9/15/2019) - Doug Ingram joins us to talk about what he calls Nightscape Photography, which is a combination of astral photography (photographing the stars) and photographing of the surrounding landscape. His photographs of the Milky Way with the landscape are absolutely breathtaking. Doug explains his gear, the settings on his camera and the surprisingly little he does […]
CCATP #607 – Bart Busschots’s Podcast Recommendations (9/8/2019) - In this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart Busschots joins us to talk about how he arranges his podcast listening, how he categorizes them and then what kinds of shows he likes. Bart listens to around 6 hours of podcasts per day so this is quite a long list. He purposely didn’t […]
CCATP #606 — Bart Busschots on DoH and DoT (8/31/2019) - CCATP #606 for August 31, 2019, and I’m your host, Allison Sheridan. This week our guest is Bart Busschots with a non-Programming By Stealth episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond. In this “Lite” version of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Bart answered Scott Fairclough’s request to explain DoH and DoT. It’s super nerdy and […]
CCATP #605 — Sandy Foster on CarPlay and Prius Prime Tech (8/17/2019) - In this week’s episode, Sandy Foster, aka @MacQuilter joins me to talk about why CarPlay is so awesome and how it influenced her decision to buy the top-of-the-line Prius, called Prius Prime. We also talk about the new tech in the Prius Prime including the fact that it’s not just a gas/electric hybrid, it’s also […]
CCATP #604 – Bart Busschots on Tech of Buying a Mountain/City Bike (8/10/2019) - Bart Busschots joins us to talk about the technology decisions that go into buying a bike these days. I thought I knew about bikes, but I learned a lot about what’s changed just in the last five years. At the very end of the post, we have a video where Bart walks around his bike […]
CCATP #603 – Laura Kane on Effect of Women on Business Success (7/24/2019) - This week our guest is Laura Kane, CFA, CPA, Head of Investment Themes Americas for UBS. Laura specializes in something called Sustainable Investing for UBS. As part of her research she has written several articles about investing through a gender lens. I’ve asked Laura to come on, not to talk about investing per se, but […]
CCATP #601 – Dr. Maryanne Garry on Why Science is Broken (7/8/2019) - Dr. Garry, self-proclaimed Crusher of Dreams, joins us again on Chit Chat Across the Pond, this time to talk about how she thinks science is broken and why. Dr. Garry is a professor of Psychology at the University of Waikato, and also professor of the NZ institute of Security & Crime Science. In this episode, […]
CCATP #599 — Dr. Devon Polaschek on Psychopaths (6/21/2019) - This week we’re joined by Dr. Devon Polaschek. Dr. Polaschek is the Joint Director of the New Zealand Institute for Security and Crime Science at the University of Waikato. I will further embarrass her by mentioning that she was recently awarded with a Queen’s Birthday honour (as in Queen Elizabeth). Dr. Polaschek has has been […]
CCATP #598 — Oleksandr Kosovan of MacPaw on Setapp (6/18/2019) - Oleksandr Kosovan CEO of Macpaw While we were at the Alt Conf in San Jose (WWDC-adjacent) I had the opportunity to interview Oleksandr Kosovan, CEO of MacPaw, creators of Setapp and Clean My Mac. Setapp is a subscription service that gets you unlimited access to around 150 different high-quality apps for $10/month. While I was […]
CCATP #596 — Anže Tomić on Tech in Slovenia (6/8/2019) - This week on Chit Chat Across the Pond I had the great pleasure of talking to Slovenian tech podcaster, Anže Tomić. Anže also works for RTV Slovenia’s Val 202 public radio, and as he says on his website, he sounds like an Eastern European Bond villain. He’s also a writer for the most read Slovene […]
CCATP #594 — David Woodbridge on Samsung Galaxy S10, Watch and Buds (5/24/2019) - David Woodbridge of the Vision Store in Australia tells about how he’s been testing and using the Samsung Galaxy S10, the Galaxy Watch and the Galaxy Buds side by side with his iPhones, Apple Watch and AirPods. It’s a delightful discussion of the relative goodness of both platforms from an accessibility perspective. David is hilarious […]