{"id":29143,"date":"2023-08-20T18:21:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T01:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/?p=29143"},"modified":"2023-08-20T18:21:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T01:21:52","slug":"nc-954","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/nc-954\/","title":{"rendered":"NC #954 PETLIBRO Smart Cat Feeder, Google Forms, Security Bits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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, August 20, 2023, and this is show number 954. We&#8217;ve gotten a lot of very nice messages from people asking whether we&#8217;re ok because of Hurricane Hilary. It felt good to have folks worry about us but we&#8217;ve been fine so far today. As of right now the peak wind has only been 9.2 and we&#8217;ve had 1.4 inches of rain. It&#8217;s not over yet but with our whole home batteries (the Tesla Powerwalls) we&#8217;re not too worried. Thanks to all who checked in with us.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-29143-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/NC_2023_08_20.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/NC_2023_08_20.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/NC_2023_08_20.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a title=\"mp3 download\" href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/NC_2023_08_20.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mp3 download<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, remember how I told you the show would come out on Wednesday because we were going to Houston for the weekend to finally meet our new grandson?  Early in the week I got a wee bit of a cold, so we cancelled the trip. There&#8217;s this virus called RSV that can be very dangerous to babies, and especially dangerous to premature babies like Teddy, and RSV can present itself as a cold in adults. Rather than take any risk to Teddy, we postponed the trip by a few weeks. We were disappointed, but we were able to pick a time when Kyle will be on the second half of his paternity leave so it will be even more fun.<\/p>\n<p>Since we&#8217;d told everyone there would NOT be a live show, I sent out the bat signal on every channel I could think of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mastodon<\/li>\n<li>Twitter<\/li>\n<li>Facebook (via Steve)<\/li>\n<li>Slack<\/li>\n<li>Podfeet Press (the newsletter I told you about recently)<\/li>\n<li>Patreon<\/li>\n<li>Individual messages to the people who show up often<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you missed the fact that there was a live show today, my apologies but I tried everything short of sending out owls!<\/p>\n<h3>Articles<\/h3>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/petlibro-cat-feeder\/\">Will the PETLIBRO Smart Cat Feeder Keep My Cat from Overeating?<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/google-forms\/\">Create Surveys, Feedback Forms, Organize Events, and More with the Free Google Forms<\/a><\/h4>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/referrals\/\">Support the Show<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>One of the ways you can support the shows we do here at the Podfeet Podcasts Empire is to use my affiliate links. One of my must-have apps is <a href=\"https:\/\/podfeet.com\/parallelstoolbox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parallels Toolbox<\/a> (I&#8217;ve written scads of articles about all the things it can do <a href=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/parallels-toolbox-update\/\">Parallels Toolbox &#8211; The Gift that Keeps On Giving<\/a>), but the folks at Parallels license the Toolbox on a per-machine basis. For one Mac at $25 per year, I find it a great value. But now that I&#8217;m living the two-laptop lifestyle, paying an extra $25 per year for it seems a bit steep.  However, some grand NosillaCastaway recently used my affiliate link for Parallels Toolbox and I got a license for 3 months free and they got 3 months added onto their subscription.  So if 4 times a year one of you would buy an annual license of Parallels Toolbox, I wouldn&#8217;t have to pay twice!  Check out the link in the shownotes to <a href=\"https:\/\/podfeet.com\/parallelstoolbox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my affiliate link to Parallels Toolbox<\/a> to help out both you and me.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/sb-2023-08-13\/\">Security Bits \u2014 13 August 2023<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/podfeet.com\/transcripts\/NC_2023_08_20.html\">Transcript of NC_2023_08_20<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>That&#8217;s going to wind this up for this week. Did you know you can email me at <a href=\"mailto:allison@podfeet.com\">allison@podfeet.com<\/a> any time you like? If you have a question or a suggestion just send it on over. You can follow me on Mastodon at <a href=\"https:\/\/chaos.social\/@podfeet\">@podfeet@chaos.social<\/a>.  Remember, everything good starts with podfeet.com. 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