{"id":33155,"date":"2025-02-20T14:26:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T22:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/?p=33155"},"modified":"2025-02-20T14:26:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T22:26:35","slug":"nc-1033","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/nc-1033\/","title":{"rendered":"NC #1033 Vivoo Home Tests, Fiddly Apple Gestures, xTool Laser Cutters, Insta360 Link, Adam Engst on Grammarly"},"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 Thursday, February 20, 2025, and this is show number 1033. Since today is Thursday, that&#8217;s your hint that there will be no live show this coming Sunday. Zoe, that means you can get to bed at a reasonable hour this weekend.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-33155-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/NC_2025_02_20.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/NC_2025_02_20.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/NC_2025_02_20.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a title=\"mp3 download\" href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/NC_2025_02_20.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mp3 download<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Articles<\/h3>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/ces-2025-vivoo\/\">CES 2025: Vivoo At-Home Urinalysis for Health and Wellness<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/gestures-fiddly\/\">Are Apple&#8217;s Gestures Getting More Fiddly, Or Is It Just Me?<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>After I posted my article on the fiddliness of Apple gestures, <a href =\"https:\/\/mastodon.world\/@sumocat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sumocat on Mastodon<\/a> let me know that you can remove items from Control Center on iPhone. I think I knew that but didn&#8217;t think about trying to remove the Music option.<\/p>\n<p>When I went to the Music section, I realized it&#8217;s actually a &#8220;now playing&#8221; widget that includes podcasts. I still didn&#8217;t need it. To my delight, after removing the widget, the entire screen with the little music notes also disappeared. Yay! Thanks, Sumocat!<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/ces-2025-xtool\/\">CES 2025: xTool Desktop Laser Cutters\/Engravers<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href =\"https:\/\/www.insta360.com\/product\/insta360-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bodie Grimm on Insta360 Link Al-powered 4K Webcam (no blog post)<\/a><\/h4>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/podfeet.com\/donate\">Support the Show<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>You know who&#8217;s cool? Daniel Sieber and a lovely black lab named Gracie. Do you know why they&#8217;re cool? Because they both used the donate button to &#8220;buy me coffee.&#8221;  Yes, they took their hard-earned dollars and went to <a href=\"https:\/\/podfeet.com\/donate\">podfeet.com\/donate<\/a> and chose a number of coffees that represented the fun they have listening to the content we produce here at the Podfeet Podcasts. I highly recommend you also donate because you&#8217;ll feel good, and  I&#8217;ll feel good. It&#8217;s happiness all around.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/ccatp-809\/\">CCATP #809 \u2014 Adam Engst on Writing with an Editor and Grammarly<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/podfeet.com\/transcripts\/NC_2025_02_20.html\">Transcript of NC_2025_02_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.  Remember, everything good starts with podfeet.com. You can follow me on Mastodon at <a href=\"https:\/\/chaos.social\/@podfeet\">podfeet.com\/mastodon<\/a>.  If you want to listen to the podcasts on YouTube, you can go to <a href=\"https:\/\/podfeet.com\/youtube\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">podfeet.com\/youtube<\/a>. If you want to join the conversation, you can join our Slack community at  <a href=\"http:\/\/podfeet.com\/slack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">podfeet.com\/slack<\/a> where you can talk to me and all of the other lovely NosillaCastaways. You can support the show at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/podfeet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">podfeet.com\/patreon<\/a> or with a one-time donation at <a href=\"https:\/\/podfeet.com\/donate\">podfeet.com\/donate<\/a> with Apple Pay or any credit card like Gracie and Daniel, or through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.me\/podfeet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">podfeet.com\/paypal<\/a>.\u00a0 And if you want to join in the fun of the live show, wait till March 2nd to head on over to <a href=\"http:\/\/podfeet.com\/live\">podfeet.com\/live<\/a> on Sunday nights at 5 PM Pacific Time and join the friendly and enthusiastic NosillaCastaways.\u00a0\u00a0Thanks for listening, and stay subscribed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"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 Thursday, February 20, 2025, and this is show number 1033. 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