Steve is an avid Reddit contributor and reader, and when the proverbial stuff hit the fan a few months ago that PayPal was going to start robocalling its customers, Reddit was on fire about the topic. Since then PayPal dropped the idea. Anyway, Steve was reading the rants on Reddit and someone mentioned a service […]
Continue readingMore TagAuthor: podfeet
#532 Apple Secures Your Sensitive Data, Teaching a Young Boy About Science, Hackers Getting Hacked, Serenity Caldwell from iMore on Home Automation
Live show will be on Saturday at 3pm Pacific Time on 25 July as I’ll be on vacation on Sunday. There will be no live show on Sunday 2 July. I was on the SMR Podcast on Episode #262 entitled Little Community and the Daily Tech News Show Episode 2538 entitled Amazon is Past Its […]
Continue readingMore TagI Wonder What Would Happen If…
My housekeeper Rocio has been working for us for years. This summer her soon-to-be 13 year old son has nothing to do so she’s dragging him along to work so that he doesn’t sit home playing video games all day or get into some kind of mischief. I think Rocio is brilliant to do this […]
Continue readingMore TagApple Really Does Protect Your Health Data
Dave Hamilton of the Mac Geek Gab was talking about how his iPhone misbehaved badly when he first installed iOS 8.4. He said that the battery was draining even while on the charger. While interesting I didn’t worry about it too much because I’d been running it for a while now and my battery was […]
Continue readingMore TagDTNS 2538 – AMAZON IS PAST ITS PRIME DAY
Thought you might want to see my latest appearance on Daily Tech News Show! Using a Screen Reader? click here To read the show notes and subscribe to the show, go over to dailytechnewsshow.com
Continue readingMore Tag#531 PopClip, Bookmarklets, Caching Improvements with Firefox, Bienna Bluetooth Headphones, Dr. Garry On Focus and Attention
Claus Wolf from mactopics.de teaches us some cool tricks to use PopClip by Pilotmoon Software and a Bookmarklet he made for us to help you to use Amazon Affiliate links. NosillaCast PopClip Extension, Popmaker to make your own extensions, Claus’ NosillaCast Bookmarklet at otzberg.net/nca/nca.html. I walk you through how I improved the speed of podfeet.com […]
Continue readingMore TagWill Bienna’s $24 Bluetooth 4.1 Headphones Work for Me?
I had the opportunity to test out a review unit of the Bienna Bluetooth 4.1 Wireless Sport Headphones Sweatproof Exercise Stereo Earphones. That’s an awfully long name so for brevity I’ll call them the Bienna Headphones. You may recall that I’ve tested out several Bluetooth options, none of which worked very well when I was […]
Continue readingMore TagPopClip & Bookmarklets for Amazon Affiliate Links by Claus
My new favorite NosillaCastaways is My new favorite NosillaCastaway is Claus Wolf from Germany. He came up with two great ideas to make it super easy and even kind of fun to use Amazon Affiliate links. They’re nice and geeky too. Like any good NosillaCastaway he started with a problem to be solved: “People don’t […]
Continue readingMore TagUsing Firefox Web Development Tools to Speed Up Podfeet.com
On last week’s show, Bart mentioned one of the tools he’d shown us in Taming the Terminal Part 34 of n, the way you can use Firefox’s developer tools to time how long different things take to load on your website. I had forgotten about that and thought it would be fun to take a […]
Continue readingMore Tag
#530 Choose Different Friends, littleBits, Putting Music on Apple Watch, TTT Part 35 HTTP Commands
Dr. Garry’s homework for you for next week – watch these two videos: Video 1 and Video 2. Don’t ignore your tech, consider choosing different friends. More reasons why you might enjoy checking out the NosillaCast community over at podfeet.com/googleplus. Inspire your young ones this summer with littleBits from littlebits.cc. I walk you through the […]
Continue readingMore Tag