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NC #945 Anker 733 Two-in-One Charger, Light Diffusers and Large Print Keyboard, EV Efficiency and Range

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, June 18, 2023, and this is show number 945. Steve and I are in Houston right now to visit our son Kyle and his family, so the entire […]

Figure graphically shows how roughly 68% of the electric energy stored in an EV is used to power the wheels while the remaining 32% is lost due to charging, drivetrain, cooling, and auxiliary electricity use. However, energy added back to the drivetrain due to regenerative braking increases the EV’s efficiency to roughly 90% with only 10% of effective loss in energy.

Impact of Adverse Conditions on EV vs. ICE Vehicle Efficiency

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 […]

CCATP #748 – Darcy Hegarty on His Unusual Screencasting Process

October 26, 2022
by podfeet

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 […]

Tiny Tip(s) – Use the Path Bar by Helma

View → Show Path Bar in Finder This week’s tiny tips come from Helma from the Netherlands. She sent me an email recently and agreed it would be ok if I elaborated on it for all of you. Her opening line was: Did you know that the Path Bar in the Finder is more than […]

Clipboard Managers and Keyboard Maestro

On the Mac Geek Gab, Dave Hamilton has been singing the virtues of clipboard managers. These are tools that give you a clipboard history beyond the single most recent thing you’ve copied. I’ve been intrigued, as I love anything that increases productivity. I recently discovered that there’s a clipboard manager built into Keyboard Maestro, which […]

Macstock Expo 2018 – Stuff I Learned

As much as I learned from talking to people at the parties at Macstock Expo, there was also a conference during the day. The schedule was interesting. Mike Potter, the amazing creator of Macstock Expo, decided to reduce the total number of speakers and instead have each speaker do a 20-minute pitch on the big […]