I recently purchased a new desk for my study, which I reviewed in a separate submission. If you heard or read that, you may recall I said my old desk was 1.2 m long and the new one is 1.8 m long. Sitting in the centre of the desk, each end is now 300 mm […]
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NC #643 Episode 500 of Chit Chat, Galileo Offline Maps, TechMatte MagGrip Phone Mount, Security Bits
We celebrate the 500th episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond with Bart Busschots so I do a little retrospective on the origin of the show. Steve and I will be in the live chat room during the Apple announcement on September 12th at podfeet.com/live, so we hope you’ll join us. I’ve got a review […]
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Ever since smart phones started giving us navigation, we’ve been on the hunt for the best way to mount our phones so we can see them while driving. There were the window suction cups which totally obscured your view out the windshield and which were against Department of Motor Vehicle regulations. There were the things […]
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A Noob Installs the ecobee3 Thermostat
When I was in college, my roommate Sandy and I wanted to put up a hanging plant. Remember the 70s when macramé plant hangers were all the rage? If not, go ask your mom. Anyway, she said we should go get a boy to help us. I told her that if we couldn’t do it […]
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