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, April 28, 2024, and this is show number 990. mp3 download CCATP #792 – Bart Busschots on Rethinking Weather Apps for Privacy and Functionality Articles Let’s start off […]
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Security Bits — 28 April 2024
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Glen Fleishmann outlines some ways in which Google’s Find My Device network is actually a little more privacy-preserving than Apple’s Find My network (and one nasty sting in the tail that makes it a […]
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CCATP #792 – Bart Busschots on Rethinking Weather Apps for Privacy and Functionality
In this episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, Bart Busschots joins us to talk about weather apps. He’s a serious weather nerd by necessity, living in Ireland and being an avid bike rider. As he walks through the apps he’ll explain which ones fall down on privacy, and which ones have good apps […]
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Viewsonic VX1655-4K OLED Portable USB-C Display Wins My Heart
ViewSonic VX1655-4K OLED Hi. My name is Allison and I have a portable USB-C display problem. Today I’m going to tell you about the sixth one I’ve acquired in three and a half years. I’ll be talking about the $500 ViewSonic VX1655-4K OLED that Steve just gave me for my birthday. But before we start, […]
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CSUN 2024: Cato Motion-Based Wearable Alternative to Eye Gaze Control
Allison interviews Auli Co-Founder, Spero Koulouras, about their alternative to eye gaze to control applications and devices. Auli’s Cato device empowers people with motor disabilities by providing familiar customizable control of electronic devices. Cato is a motion-based wearable device that controls Windows, macOS, and Chromebook computers by emulating mouse and keyboard input. It also operates […]
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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, April 21, 2024, and this is show number 989. mp3 download Articles Subscribe to Podcasts … Through Activity Pub … Using Podcast Index … on Mastodon CES 2024: […]
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Battery Drain on the M1 Max MacBook Pro – the Final Chapter?
In November of 2021, I bought the first M1 Max MacBook Pro. Within a few months I noticed that the battery life was nothing like what Apple had promised. I worked with Apple and had them replace the battery since it had gone down into the 85% range in just those few months. After the […]
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CSUN 2024: Touch Graphics Interactive Tactile Displays
Allison interviews Lindsay Yazzolino and Steve Landau from Touch Graphics about two of their products that provide universal access using tactile designs. The first is a custom tactile overlay for maps that provides orientation and wayfinding for people with visual impairment. Lindsay demonstrates the T3 Tablet that has various tactile overlays with raised features. The […]
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Make Beautiful Online Documentation with Docsify
A few weeks ago I told you about how much fun I was having learning MkDocs to create the user guide for our XKPasswd project. Once I got past the hurdle of fighting with Python (mostly by avoiding it which limited what I could do), I was able to produce beautiful documentation. MkDocs allowed me […]
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CES 2024: Scosche Cables, Jumpers, and Modular Chargers
Allison interviews Darryl Miya from Scosche about their latest diverse line of products. Darryl begins with their novel Strikeline Cobra USB-C magnetic cable that sticks to itself when you coil it up and also sticks to metal. Even with magnetism built into the cable, the cable remains supple and flexible when uncoiled. Next, Darryl shows […]
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