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Macstock 2024: Make the Mac Work for You

Allison Sheridan presents several methods to use your Mac faster and more efficiently to get the most out of it at the Macstock VIII Conference held in Crystal Lake, IL. Using a Screen Reader? click here

NC #945 Anker 733 Two-in-One Charger, Light Diffusers and Large Print Keyboard, EV Efficiency and Range

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, June 18, 2023, and this is show number 945. Steve and I are in Houston right now to visit our son Kyle and his family, so the entire […]

Figure graphically shows how roughly 68% of the electric energy stored in an EV is used to power the wheels while the remaining 32% is lost due to charging, drivetrain, cooling, and auxiliary electricity use. However, energy added back to the drivetrain due to regenerative braking increases the EV’s efficiency to roughly 90% with only 10% of effective loss in energy.

Impact of Adverse Conditions on EV vs. ICE Vehicle Efficiency

Allison and I have had a question for a long time about electric vehicles. The mileage you get driving an electric vehicle (EV) is highly affected by things like whether you’re driving into the wind, you’re driving up a hill, or you’re towing something. But mileage for gas-powered (internal combustion engine or ICE) vehicles doesn’t […]

CCATP #748 – Darcy Hegarty on His Unusual Screencasting Process

October 26, 2022
by podfeet

This week I’m pleased to introduce you to Darcy Hegarty on Chit Chat Across the Pond. Darcy is a fellow screencaster for Don McAllister’s ScreenCastsOnline and I’m really impressed with the videos he creates. They’re tight, they tell a coherent story, and he even starts with the problem to be solved! I started chatting with […]

Tiny Tip(s) – Use the Path Bar by Helma

View → Show Path Bar in Finder This week’s tiny tips come from Helma from the Netherlands. She sent me an email recently and agreed it would be ok if I elaborated on it for all of you. Her opening line was: Did you know that the Path Bar in the Finder is more than […]

Clipboard Managers and Keyboard Maestro

On the Mac Geek Gab, Dave Hamilton has been singing the virtues of clipboard managers. These are tools that give you a clipboard history beyond the single most recent thing you’ve copied. I’ve been intrigued, as I love anything that increases productivity. I recently discovered that there’s a clipboard manager built into Keyboard Maestro, which […]

Macstock Expo 2018 – Stuff I Learned

As much as I learned from talking to people at the parties at Macstock Expo, there was also a conference during the day. The schedule was interesting. Mike Potter, the amazing creator of Macstock Expo, decided to reduce the total number of speakers and instead have each speaker do a 20-minute pitch on the big […]