We have a lot of CES interviews interspersed with reviews and stories from me, Kevin and Bart. We start with Ohmnilabs affordable robots and their hope to help those with disabilities. Kevin Allder gives us his first impressions of the 12.9″ iPad Pro weighing its strengths and weaknesses. I interview Solo New York about their […]
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Jump Desktop Video Tutorial on ScreenCasts Online
My video tutorial was just published on ScreenCasts Online for the awesome remote desktop app, Jump Desktop. Jump Desktop is available in the Mac App Store and the iOS App Store AND in SetApp. It runs on the Mac, iOS, Windows, and Android and lets you control devices across the Internet without having to do […]
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When I retired, I decided that one of my goals was to learn to program. I took Basic in college in 1976, and later Fortran IV with WAT5. when I was in grad school. In 1982, in my Master’s Project in Mechanical Engineering I actually used Fortran. (“The Development of Clearances in a Spacial Revolute […]
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Do You Need a “Ring of Security”?
Home Automation is kind of like a sickness. First, you get a couple of light bulbs and you do party tricks like changing them from blue to green and then you realize that doesn’t solve a problem. But in the back of your brain, that little virus starts to fester and you realize that maybe […]
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CCATP #580 – Bart Busschots on PBS 70 – Bootstrap Modals & Toasts
In this week’s Chit Chat Across the Pond, Bart Busschots is back with another installment of Programming By Stealth. We’ll shift gears a bit away from web pages to web apps as we explore the usage and code behind Bootstrap Modals and Toasts. It’s a combination of HTML, Bootstrap for styling and JavaScript for actions […]
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12.9″ iPad Pro First Impressions – by Kevin Allder
Kevin with his Official Steve Wingman Plaque Hello Allison, Wingman Steve, Sandy and all my fellow Nosillacastaways. Kevin here with my initial impressions and review of my new 12.9” iPad Pro which my amazing wife was kind enough to give me for Christmas. I got the 512 GB space grey WiFi only model. Local storage […]
Continue readingNC #716 Here Comes the Bus, Cannonball Speaker, DoubleTake, reMarkable, DFree, Hive Link, Security Bits
In this mega-show, we’ve got six awesome interviews from CES. We’ll hear about a school bus tracking system called Here Comes the bus, we’ve got a Bluetooth speaker shaped like a ball from Cylo that you can play with in the pool, a set of binoculars that could change the whole concept, a tablet just […]
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CCATP #579 – Shai Yammanee on Pulling Back from Social Media
This week we have recurring guest Shai Yammanee back, but this time not to talk about photography, videography or performing as he has in the past. Shai recently decided to remove Facebook from his phone (he still accesses it from his computer) and I wanted to have him on to find out why and also […]
Continue readingNC #715 Sandman, OWC, Mycroft AI, Picroft AI, Owl Car Camera, Ampere Unravel
In this action packed show we’ve got interviews from CES with with Ampere about a really cool charger, a dash cam from Owl Camera, a long interview with the CEO of one of our favorite companies, OWC, and a nifty alarm clock company you’ve heard about before called Sandman. We’ve also got an interview about […]
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Installing Open Source Mycroft AI on a Raspberry Pi
You know the old question, “why did you climb that mountain?” And the answer was, “Because it was there”? That’s the way I feel about some of the technology experiments I do sometimes. I love to play with tech and sometimes I will go to enormous work to get something to work when there’s a […]
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