Last week Bart told you about how he fell in love with AirPlay 2 because of the Sonos speakers that he bought for his house. He spoke of the wonders of whole-home audio. I loved this review because I love listening to anything Bart chooses to describe but also because I too have fallen in […]
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How I Fell in Love With AirPlay 2 with Sonos – by Bart Busschots
Since moving into my new house in January I’ve gone all-in on AirPlay 2 devices. This screenshot probably makes my point — and bear in mind it’s missing our second AppleTV which is off-line today in preparation for some furniture re-arrangement! How did I get here? What was I doing in the old house? But […]
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Generating Random, Secure, Memorable Passwords in Your Head – by Allister Jenks
In late 2020 AgileBits, the folks behind 1Password, published a blog post entitled Randomness (or things humans do poorly). It’s a fascinating article on randomness in computers, but near the beginning is this paragraph. As I’ve alluded to with the title of this post, humans are notoriously terrible at creating randomness. You’ll doubtless have heard […]
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Home Assistant – by Ed Tobias
Hello fellow NosillaCastaways this is Ed Tobias, also known as Mr. Ed in the chats. I’m here to bring you another review of an app called Home Assistant, but in typical NosillaCast fashion, first the problem to be solved. I love IoT devices. The only thing I don’t love about them is they’re very fiddly […]
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Princess Medallion – by Charles Gousha
The Medallion Hi folks! This is Charles Gousha, from the Silicon Valley Mac User Group. With the covid lockdowns finally relenting, I’m very happy to see one my favorite travel options re-open — Ocean Cruising! My wife and I are sailing out on the first Princess Cruise ship to Alaska, next week. And we’re excited […]
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Testing Three Tablet Stands – by Professor Terry Austin
Kabcon (Winner) with Magic Trackpad Hello fellow Castaways! Professor Terry Austin here with a problem to be solved and a review for the solution! As an online professor, and an education consultant, I spend a lot of time at my workstation. At that workstation, I’ve got a 2020 16” MacBook Pro that sits on a […]
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Security Bits — 24 July 2021
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. The PrintNightmare story continues to evolve with yet another privilege escalation bug being found in the print spooler — it’s now more important than ever to follow Microsoft’s advice and stop and disable the […]
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Get Great Weather & Radar Data Safely – by Jill from the Northwoods
Hello, everyone! This is Jill from the Northwoods. Today, we’re talking about weather apps. And I love weather, I’ve always loved weather. Ask my people at work. They know that I’m a weather geek too. I provide my own ad hoc forecast for people in my office, whether they want it or not. So when […]
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Yoink for iPadOS as Clipboard Manager
Exactly four years ago today, Bart Busschots came on Chit Chat Across the Pond to talk about three of his favorite apps. The first one he talked about was Yoink from Eternal Storms Software. As Bart explained it, Yoink lives as a little shelf on your Mac’s screen and allows you to drag things into […]
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Solar (With Sense) is For Data Nerds
If you’re a data nerd, you really need to get solar. When last we left our heroes, our solar installation had just been completed. To review, we had 22 370-Watt solar panels installed, giving us a maximum theoretical instantaneous power generation of 8.14 kW (kilowatts). The little inverters on the back of each panel do […]
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