Steve and I are back from CES with tales of adventure. We’ve got interviews with Akoustic Arts who are developing a highly directional audio antenna, Belkin with a Thunderbolt dock and more, Kwikset with their HomeKit-enabled locks called Premis, and Luma with their mesh routers. After that we have an installment of Security Bits with […]
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CES 2017: Kwikset Premis HomeKit Smart Lock
Allison interviews Ashton Good from Kwikset about their new Premis line of smart locks for home use. Premis smart locks have a capacitive touchscreen and allow you to control and monitor lock status from anywhere using the Premis iOS app and an Apple TV. Premis locks are HomeKit compatible and use Apple’s approved end-to-end encryption […]
Continue readingNC #607 Primitive, Lost Voicemails, AirPods, Security Bits
It’s Christmas Day but there’s a fresh NosillaCast anyway – no best of show for us. Allister Jenks joins us to talk about the photo manipulation app Primitive for Mac from primitive.lol/…. I’ll tell you the tragic story of how Melissa lost her father’s voicemails and our joint discovery of how to get them back. […]
Continue readingNC #605 Exercise, IRCcloud, Affinity Photo 1.5, Security Bits
I got to be on the Ritual Misery Podcast at ritualmisery.com/…. In a completely non-tech story I tell you about my path to exercise and give you some really practical tips on how to get in shape yourself. Joe LaGreca and I collaborated on a review of IRCcloud at irccloud.com, which helps you stay logged […]
Continue readingNC #600 WWII Letter, HomeKit, The Printer is a Lie, 3D Touch, Security Bits
On this 600th episode of the NosillaCast, I included the same audio from Chit Chat Across the Pond, which was the dramatic reading of a letter from my father to his family during World War II. Then we’ll discuss why I think the printer is a lie, and I’ll try to convince you that 3D […]
Continue readingNC #601 Mini Metro, Turning off UPnP, Trekz Titanium AfterShokz, New MacBooks Pro Diagram, CarPlay
This week we’ve got the Mini Metro iOS and Mac game review by Allister Jenks, tutorials on how to turn off NAT-PMP and UPnP on your router so you don’t become part of the botnet, Trekz Titanium Headphone review from AfterShokz by Bart Busschots, a handy diagram to explain the crazy new lineup of MacBooks […]
Continue readingHow to Turn Off NAT-PMP and UPnP on Your Router
A few weeks back after the disastrous distributed denial of service attack on the DNS servers was found to have been caused by insecure Internet of Things devices, Bart suggested that we turn off automatic port forwarding. This is a technology that is built into routers that allows devices (and software) inside your network to […]
Continue readingNC #599 iPhone 7+ Portrait Mode, 2016 MacBook Pros, Security Bits
Next week the show will be out early because we’ll be out of town on the weekend, so don’t try to go to the live show because there won’t be one! In Chit Chat Across the Pond, Bart taught us how to create a JavaScript API in Programming By Stealth 24. I did some experiments […]
Continue readingNC #597 Credit Card Mixup at Apple, Easy Pill, Clean Install of macOS, Security Bits
Something appears to be fishy with Apple’s databases, based on my story of how someone else’s credit card got into my account. Mark Pouley of Twin Lakes Images gives a great review of the Easy Pill medication tracker and reminder for iOS. I’ll tell you why I think doing a clean install of your OS […]
Continue readingNC #595 Two-Factor Authentication with Apple Watch and Apple TV, Android Apps on Chrome OS, Security Bits
This week starts with a rant about how “interesting” it was to try to set up the Apple Watch to unlock a Mac, otherwise known as an adventure in changing two-step verification into two-factor authentication. Then we take a break and listen to George from Tulsa tell us about how ChromeOS now supports Android apps […]
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