Steve, Andrea & Allison on Iceland Trip Have you always figured that astrophysics was a subject beyond your grasp? In this week’s Chit Chat Across the Pond, Nobel Prize-winning Dr. Andrea Ghez from UCLA joins me to explain how she and her team proved there is a supermassive black hole at the center of our […]
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NC #945 Anker 733 Two-in-One Charger, Light Diffusers and Large Print Keyboard, EV Efficiency and Range
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, June 18, 2023, and this is show number 945. Steve and I are in Houston right now to visit our son Kyle and his family, so the entire […]
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Anker 733 2-in-1 Wall Charger — by Marty Sobo
Anker 733 Charger Powerbank Hey all, Marty here. Today we’re going to be talking about the Anker 733 2-in-1 wall charger. On the front, you have one USB-A and two USB-C ports. This also has a 10 mAh battery built right into it. This is awesome because you can plug this thing in, plug your […]
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ShadeMAGIC Fluorescent Light Diffusers and KOPJIPPOM Large Print Backlit Keyboard — by George from Tulsa
Hi, I’m George from Tulsa – a long-time listener and once upon a time frequent contributor. As regular listeners know, Allison is an effective and passionate advocate for assistive technologies that enable those with visual, auditory, and physical challenges to enrich their lives through computing. She’s also geek-famous for her “What’s the problem to be […]
Continue readingMore TagNC #944 Portal Immersive Soundscapes, Emergency Mac mini Upgrades, Retrobatch for Sticker Packs, Security Bits
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, June 11, 2023, and this is show number 944. mp3 download NO LIVE SHOW NEXT WEEK! Next week we’re going to Houston to visit our son Kyle and […]
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Learn Retrobatch Through my ScreenCastsOnline Tutorial
You’ve heard me describe the awesome batch image manipulation app Retrobatch recently. If you’d really like to learn the tool in detail, ScreenCastsOnline has just published my latest tutorial about Retrobatch. I start from the very beginning and go step-by-step building up a few different scenarios and I explain the interface along the way. I’m […]
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Portal — Immersive Soundscapes for Focus or Relaxation
Recently, there has been a groundswell of ambient noise applications. These are intended to provide a background level of noise to help you focus, relax, or even sleep. The simplest may offer white noise, and a few other colours of noise. More feature rich examples may add in other, natural sounds like rain, a crackling […]
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Security Bits — 11 June 2023
Deep Dive — Security & Privacy Highlights from WWDC As with most things WWDC, this is a glimpse of the future rather than new tools we get to use today, but I think it’s still worth taking a little time to look at some of the security and privacy enhancements Apple announced. Apple’s current Communications […]
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CCATP #769 — Bart Busschots on visionOS
This week our guest is Bart Busschots but this is not a Programming By Stealth episode, it’s a Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite. At least within my personal definition of Lite! Bart joined the show this week to talk about visionOS, the new operating system that will power the Vision Pro headset Apple announced […]
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How to Control Multiple HomeKit Automations from One Switch
Steve and I use HomeKit to control our smart devices. While we can do a lot of what we want, it’s often clumsy, and we get tangled in the terminology. The solution to this problem is obvious. Add more automation. Let’s set up the problem Steve and I were trying to solve, and as I […]
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