Shower Power Impeller and Droplet I’m not a big fan of crowd-funded projects, but once in a while I still fall for the idea. At CES in January 2019, we met with a company called Ampere who were working on a 3-way wireless charger for iPhone, Apple Watch and AirPods. It was crowd-funded, but by […]
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$20 heyday Moulded Tip Bluetooth Earbuds – by Caleb Fong
Heyday Wireless Molded Tip Braided Earbuds (Misty Green) Greetings Captain Allison, and fellow NosillaCastaways, this is quick review of the heyday Wireless Molded Tip Braided Earbuds (In Black Tort or Misty Green at Target. In the grand NosillaCast tradition: What’s the problem to be solved? You want/need wireless headphones, but you’re not ready to plunk […]
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Logitech Zone Wireless Plus headset – by Bruce aka @UseTheData
This is Bruce from Tennessee, with a review of the Logitech Zone Wireless Plus headset. First, what’s the problem to be solved? Logitech Zone Wireless Plus headset I’ve been on distributed teams and doing phone conferences and web meetings for decades, and I’ve historically used a wired USB headset with a boom mike. I preferred […]
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Apple Beats Flex Wireless Bluetooth Earphones, by Kurt Liebezit
Review of the Apple Beats Flex Wireless Bluetooth Earphones, by Kurt Liebezit, also known as PDX_Kurt in the live chat room. Apple Beats Flex in Flame Blue This is a review of the Apple Beats Flex wireless Bluetooth earphones. As you might guess, I’m a fan of podcasts. For quite some time I’ve used an […]
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Add Glanceable Information to Your Mac Menu Bar with SwiftBar
Hello Allison and NosillaCastaways, Allister from New Zealand here, once again, with a review of a geeky tool that will let you flex your Taming the Terminal muscles. On an episode of the Upgrade podcast Jason Snell talked about an open source utility called BitBar. This utility puts customisable information in the macOS menu bar […]
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matias Wireless Keyboard – by Kyle Borah
Matias Wireless Aluminum Keyboard I received the Matias Wireless Aluminum keyboard as a Christmas present in 2020. I am running a 2015 13” MacBook Pro. For many years, I used the built-in keyboard of the laptop. But recently, since the 2020 CoVid lockdowns, I have been using an Apple wireless Magic Keyboard (the old one […]
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CES 2021: Shure Home Office Mic and Bluetooth Headphones
Every year at CES we love to stop by the Shure booth to see the latest in cool new consumer microphones and headphones. Laura Davidson, Lead Retail Market Development Specialist at Shure, joins us again to tell us about their new products. She explains and demonstrates the new MV5C home office microphone (https://www.shure.com/en-US/products/microphones/mv5c) designed to […]
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Amazon Echo Buds – by Marty Jencius
The Problem to be Solved I enjoy being one of those early adopters. It has provided me with boxes full of tech that I have tried and then never use again. It’s a bad habit, but one of a few that I still indulge in so cut me some slack. I did a lot of […]
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CPLAY2air Adapter brings Wireless CarPlay to your Car – by Father John
Hello, Steve Allison and the NosillaCastaways. This is Father john, calling from beautiful Northern Wisconsin. And being a priest, I’ve always had to do a lot of car work for my three parishes. So my problem to be solved. I am in and out of my car throughout the week. My car has CarPlay but […]
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Security Bits — 23 February 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Developments in the Avast Browser History Data Sales story: Avast kills off Jumpshot, the subsidiary that sold all your Web data — arstechnica.com/… 🇨🇿 Czech Authorities to Investigate Avast Over Sale of Users’ Browser […]
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