Over the past few months, podfeet.com went through a period of really poor performance. My site hadn’t been snappy in the last few years with page loads of up to 6 seconds, but it hit a tipping point where it was taking in excess of 40 seconds for pages to load. William Reveal and Bart […]
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CSUN ATC 2022: American Thermoform
Allison interviews Robert Jaquiss from American Thermoform about a few of their products designed for the blind or visually impaired. The Swell Form Graphics Machine allows the user to create tactile maps, diagrams, text, and graphics for a relatively low cost. It works by first printing the graphic and text onto special Swell Touch paper […]
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CSUN ATC 2022: Cognixion ONE Assisted Reality Headset
Allison interviews Lucas Steuber from Cognixion about their Cognixion ONE headset that serves as a non-invasive brain-computer interface. With an appearance similar to an Oculus Quest, the Cognixion ONE headset provides “Assisted Reality” – the blending of Assistive Technology and Augmented Reality. It is a universally accessible, wearable device that enables users with a wide […]
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Do You Really Need a Dock With the Mac Studio?
This week Steve is getting a Mac Studio with the M1 Max and next week he’s supposed to get his Studio Display. As you can imagine, he’s pretty excited. He’s currently sporting a 27″ iMac quad-core i7 from 2017 along with a 27″ LG 5K display. He added an OWC Thunderbolt 3 dock so he […]
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NC #881 Folge for Tutorial Guides, QD Laser Assistive Eyewear, Signia Hearing Aids by Ron Heiby, RealSAM Pocket Smartphone
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, March 27, 2022, and this is show number 881. We’ve got a packed show this week with lots of good fun so let’s dig right in. mp3 download […]
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Dumb Question Becomes a Tiny Tip – Finding Full Pathname to Files
John’s Long Path Name in Spotlight In our awesome Slack community at podfeet.com/slack, John Endahl asked what he dubbed a Dumb Question. I thought I had a clever answer to his question, but Calum B came up with an answer that is a fabulous Tiny Tip. First, the problem to be solved. John asked: This […]
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CCATP #720 – Jill from the North Woods on Switching from Windows to Mac
Jill from the North Woods, host of the delightful and inspiring Start with Small Steps Podcast at smallstepspod.com decided a few years ago that she wanted to switch from Windows to the Mac. I was a bit of an enabler on this, so I’ve been watching her adventure with great interest. She recently made the […]
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Create Tutorial Guides with Folge – It’s Ready for Prime Time
In late 2020 I told you about a tool called Folge from folge.me that is designed to simplify the process of creating tutorial guides with annotated screenshots and text explanations, and then exporting them into nicely formatted documents. This was the replacement we’d been looking for when my beloved Clarify was discontinued. When I reviewed […]
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Making the NosillaCastAway Shanty
A week ago, I released the NosillaCastAway Shanty, the new “official” shanty of the NosillaCast. Since then, a few people have asked questions about how I made it so I’ll attempt to describe the process. Problems to be Solved: Nathan Evans’ Wellerman (Sea Shanty) inspired me to create a NosillaCastAway shanty with the same tune […]
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CSUN ATC 2022: RealSAM Pocket Voice-Operated Smartphone
Allison interviews Anat Nulman from RealThing AI about their voice-operated smartphone designed for people who are blind or visually impaired. The RealSAM Pocket enables the user to easily communicate by phone or text and stream content even when they can’t see what’s on the screen. RealSAM Pocket software runs on top of Android on a […]
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