Allison interviews Samuel Au, Director at Votion, about their suite of home automation devices. Samuel first describes Active, a company that helps other companies achieve MFI licensing for their products. Samual then describes Votion and their two lines of home automation devices. The first is WiFi connected, AC powered, and supports connectivity with Apple HomeKit, […]
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NC #703 HashPhotos on SCO, TCL Monitor and Bias Lighting, Choosing Your Activity Goal, Wonky Wifi Testing
I’m super excited about my latest tutorial on ScreenCasts Online about HashPhotos. In Chit Chat Across the Pond I interviewed a former NASA engineer turned science fiction author named Darren Beyer. George from Tulsa brings us his success story with a TCL Monitor and bias lighting. Then we’ll go through the answers you gave to […]
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Testing Wonky WiFi with Wireless Diagnostics App
This week Steve and I ran into a very curious problem with our network. Before I jump into what went wrong, I should give you the layout of our current network. We have Frontier FiOS (used to be owned by Verizon) and we’re paying for symmetric 75Mbps upload and download. We’ve had fantastic service for […]
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Dumb Question – QR Code for WiFi Password from Lynda
I’m sure all of you out there listen all the way to the bitter end of the NosillaCast, just in case there’s something completely different at the end, right? Well, then I’m sure you remember when I did the shoutout asking for Dumb Questions, I mentioned that Lynda Gousha had sent in a bunch of […]
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My mother-in-law Merlee is one of my favorite people on the planet. She’s one of the kindest, most caring people I know. But this week she made me love her even more, because of how geeky she is. A few months ago Steve’s parents moved from 2 hours away to 4 hours away. It’s not […]
Continue readingMore TagThe Great Drobo Migration of 2018
A few months ago I told you about my tests of the new Drobo 5N2 vs the previous 5N model. They call it the 5N2 because it’s supposed to be twice as fast as the 5N. One of the features to allow it to go so much faster was the ability to use port aggregation, […]
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You know how I’m always starting my stories with “What problem are you trying to solve?” Before you decide whether to go for a traditional single router or one of these fancy new mesh routers, you really should think about the problem you want to solve, because this is definitely not a one size fits […]
Continue readingMore TagNC #663 Analogix SlimPort, Digital Zoom vs Optical Crop, Netgear Orbi, Klok, Acronis Backup, L’Oréal UV Sense, Security Bits
It’s another big big show, with four CES interviews with Analogix SlimPort video connectors, Netgear about their outdoor Orbi, Acronis backup solution, and L’Oréal’s UV Sense product. We’ve also got a photography tip by Rally about digital zoom vs cropping (followed by some fun experiments by me) and a review of the free iOS app […]
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Security Bits – 22 October 2017
Security Medium 1 – WPA WiFi Encryption Develops KRACKs This week started with a big security news announcement (responsibly disclosed, which is nice). Security researchers at the Belgian university KU Leuven revealed a collection of related attacks against the WPA2 protocol (WiFi Protected Access version 2). The problem at the root of these attacks was […]
Continue readingMore TagNC #588 Bandwidth Ideas, SSD in a Mac mini, Language Support on Podfeet, AppleTV on Hotel Wifi
George from Tulsa is back with some ideas on what might be causing Denise’s high bandwidth usage. It’s a great list of things to check out. Denise comes back with a great success story on the issue and then a walkthrough of her recent upgrade of her Mac mini to an SSD with some great […]
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