{"id":34983,"date":"2025-12-14T18:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/?p=34983"},"modified":"2025-12-14T18:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:04:09","slug":"nc-1075","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/nc-1075\/","title":{"rendered":"NC #1075 Record Your Own Review, Sandy&#8217;s Smart Outlets, Everything Tech is Broken, Andy Dolph on Zoom Webinars for Remote Events"},"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, December 14, 2025, and this is show number 1075.<\/p>\n<p>Before we get started, I wanted to let everyone know that there will be NO LIVE SHOW for the next three weeks! Christmas, then New Year&#8217;s, and then CES all back to back make it impossible.  Our next live show will be on January 11th.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-34983-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/NC_2025_12_14.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/NC_2025_12_14.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/NC_2025_12_14.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a title=\"mp3 download\" href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/NC_2025_12_14.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mp3 download<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><a href =\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/record-your-own-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Record Your Own Review<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Now, don&#8217;t worry, that doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;ll miss your weekly fix of the NosillaCast.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got enough content lined up for the next two shows, but I could use some help for the episode I&#8217;ll be publishing early on January 2nd. If you&#8217;ve got something you think might be worthy of a review, now is the time to write it up and get recording.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Mattan is starting to work on a review, and he asked me a great question: &#8220;Do you have any guidelines you&#8217;ve written up that would help to understand your expectations?&#8221;  While I do have that on Podfeet.com (it&#8217;s been on the home page for more than a decade), I entirely forgot I had it when Steve asked. The original version was written so long ago that I talk about iTunes! I checked, and my first reference to the page was on episode #318 of the NosillaCast.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote a whole new shiny set of instructions (which to be honest aren&#8217;t all that much different from what they&#8217;ve always been. I cover:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How Long Should it Be?<\/li>\n<li>How to write a Script<\/li>\n<li>Things not to Do<\/li>\n<li>How to Record\n<ul>\n<li>Microphone\n<ul>\n<li>Software to record (options)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>File Formats for audio, the script, and images<\/li>\n<li>How to Send the Recordings and Script to Me<\/li>\n<li>And I encourage you to ask Questions!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s a link in the shownotes to the new and improved <a href =\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/record-your-own-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Record a Review page<\/a>, but you can always find it on podfeet.com by going to Support the show, and after all of the panhangling links you&#8217;ll see a little kid screaming into a microphone &#8211; that&#8217;s the link to Record a Review.<\/p>\n<h3>Articles<\/h3>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/smart-outlets-sandy\/\">Smart Outlets \u2014 by Sandy Foster<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>I asked Sandy after she&#8217;d recorded which smart outlets she&#8217;s favoring these days. I was surprised to learn that she&#8217;s using Meross switches. Those happen to be my favorite (since Steven Goetz turned us onto them), but I knew she&#8217;d had trouble with them in the past. She explained that she&#8217;d just gotten a bad batch but the new ones are working great for her.<\/p>\n<p>Meross now has Matter and Thread support in their smart outlets, and they&#8217;ve got some new form factors to check out. You can find them at <a href =\"https:\/\/shop.meross.com\/collections\/smart-plug-and-switch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">meross.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Sandy &#8211; love both the Christmas tree from your geolocation AND keeping your home safe with that double-coverage of your iron being turned off.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/broken-tech\/\">Everything Tech is Broken<\/a><\/h4>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/podfeet.com\/patreon\">Support the Show<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>We have not one, but two heroes of the week. Our first hero is Philip Ricotta who went to <a href=\"https:\/\/podfeet.com\/donate\">podfeet.com\/donate<\/a> and bought me a coffee! It&#8217;s so easy to do, no signups, and use any credit card you like or Apple Pay. Thank you so much, Philip!<\/p>\n<p>Our second hero of the week is Owen Harris, who took his hard-earned dollars to <a href=\"http:\/\/patreon.com\/podfeet\">podfeet.com\/patreon<\/a> and became our newest Patron. He also joined our Slack community at <a href=\"https:\/\/podfeet.com\/slack\">podfeet.com\/slack<\/a> so he could join in the fun. We chatted in a DM in Slack, and he explained that he&#8217;s been listening to Programming By Stealth for over a year, and is only just starting to explore the other shows. How cool is that?<\/p>\n<p>Thank you both for your support of the Podfeet Podcasts!<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/ccatp-825\/\">CCATP #825 \u2014 Andy Dolph on Remote Production of Events Using Zoom Webinar<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/podfeet.com\/transcripts\/NC_2025_12_14.html\">Transcript of NC_2025_12_14<\/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> like Owen did 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 Philip, 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, you&#8217;re going to have to wait until January 11t to head 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. 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