Steve and I are back from a fun-filled week at CES in Las Vegas. I’m sure you’ve heard the huge announcements from the show like transparent television screens, but Steve and I will be bringing you the smaller and often much more practical and useful innovations we saw at CES. If you haven’t followed our […]
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CES 2024: Withings BeamO At-Home Health Checkup Device
Allison interviews Paul Buckley from Withings about their new BeamO handheld device that lets you quickly and easily check your health status. BeamO is portable, smaller than a smartphone, and you can use it on the go to take vital measurements for you and your family members. The device can be used by up to […]
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Steve and I attended the press event CES Unveiled and partway through the event Tom Merritt of Daily Tech News Show fame asked me to do a rapid fire through what I’d seen. Steve recorded it, Tom transferred it to his Mac via SD card, sent it to Dropbox, and Roger Change edited in the […]
Continue readingMore TagNC #974 PETLIBRO Automated Pet Feeder Update, I’m Not Very Smart, Security Bits with Bart Busschots & Jill from the Northwoods
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 Friday, January 5, 2024, and this is show number 974. You’re getting the show a few days early this week because Steve and I are off to CES this […]
Continue readingMore TagUpdate on PETLIBRO Automated Pet Feeder – Vastly Improved Software
Recap Last August I told you about an automated pet feeder from a company called PETLIBRO. My goal was to have my two cats, Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper, get regularly scheduled feedings when we’re away from home rather than having a near-infinite supply of food from a plain gravity feeder. Grace will regulate her […]
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Hi, my name is Allison, and I’m not very smart. Over Christmas, all of our kids and grandkids came to visit. It was positively glorious. Kyle and Nikki and their 3 little darlings flew in early to spend a full week with us. They came early to miss the flight rush, and so they had […]
Continue readingMore TagSecurity Bits — 3 January 2024 (Bart & Jill from the North Woods)
Deep Dive — Operation Triangulation TL;DR — Kaspersky labs have discovered that they, and Russian government officials, were targeted by very advanced iOS malware that completely took over iOS devices for the last 4 years. Apple have patched all the exploited vulnerabilities, regular users were not targeted, and Kaspersky say there is not enough evidence […]
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The Problem to be Solved In my work creating screencasts for ScreenCastsONLINE, if I’m demonstrating an app on iOS or iPadOS, I have to have a way to record the screen of the iPhone or iPad. We use ScreenFlow to record the Mac screen and in more recent versions it’s been possible to record the […]
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