Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite
166 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsChit Chat Across the Pond is a tech interview show that's part of the Podfeet Podcasts. This Lite version is the bi-monthly lighter, less propeller beanie episodes.
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CCATP #483 - David Peck from Cloak Talks VPNs
April 18, 2017 06:02 - 24.3 MBWith the recent legislation on privacy rules for ISPs in the United States, a lot of people are considering using VPNs to protect their Internet traffic from home. I thought this would be a great time to get Dave Peck on the show, co-founder of Cloak, my VPN of choice. This isn't a show about Cloak but rather about VPNs in general. We talked about whether we should consider one for our home use, we talk about what kind of information your VPN provider may be collecting on you, we talk abou...
CCATP #481 - Dermot Daly from Tapadoo
March 30, 2017 00:02 - 18.1 MBI'm your guest host Bart Busschots, and this week I'm on conversation with Dermot Daly from Tapadoo, a mobile app development company based on Dublin, Ireland. We talk about what it's like being a developer witting apps for iOS and Android, how App Store and Google Play store differ from each other, and the state of the app business in general. We also look at what some of the recent changes to the app store really mean for developers.
CCATP #479 - Steve Ewell of the CTA Foundation
March 07, 2017 02:13 - 18.5 MBThis week our guest is Steve Ewell, executive director of the Consumer Technology Association Foundation. CTA Foundation is a public, national foundation affiliated with the Consumer Technology Association, was launched in 2012 with the mission to link seniors and people with disabilities with technologies to enhance their lives. Get this - Steve is a NosillaCastaway too!
CCATP #477 Megan Morrone & Jason Howell on Switching iOS and Android
February 25, 2017 01:59 - 25.4 MBThis week's Chit Chat Across the Pond was so much fun. Megan Morrone and Jason Howell co-host Tech News Today on the TWiT network together. Megan co-hosts iOS Today while Jason co-hosts All About Android. For an entire month, Megan and Jason swapped phones. They're here to tell us what they liked, what they didn't like and answer tough questions like, "Did your children mock you?" I know I say this often, but this truly was one of the most enjoyable episodes of Chit Chat Across the Pond. The...
CCATP #476 Bart Busschots PBS 30 - Comparing JS Objects | Introducing WAI-ARIA
February 18, 2017 18:42 - 29.9 MBBart continues his current dual path of teaching. We learn how to compare JavaScript objects (spoiler, you can't use == or === to do it). After that he teaches us how using WAI-ARIA as we develop our code will make it accessible to screen readers and other assistive devices. We don't do any real coding in this section; instead he explains the foundation for what we'll be doing in the future.
CCATP #475 Bart Busschots Explains IPv6
February 11, 2017 22:38 - 37.8 MBI made a deal with Bart when he started his tow podcasts Let’s Talk Apple and Let’s Talk Photography he would never have to be on more than every other week. But this week I tricked him by asking him if he’d come on and explain IPv6 to me. His first answer was that he didn’t understand it well enough to explain it. But of course Bart being Bart, that ear worm I so carefully placed caused him to go out and study it and now he’s here to explain it to us.
CCATP #473 Joe Dugandzic on The Smarter Home
January 26, 2017 04:10 - 27.6 MBSteve and I had the great pleasure of meeting Joe Dugandzic in the Home Automation pavilion at CES and I was lucky enough to get him on as a guest for Chit Chat Across the Pond. Joe runs the website and YouTube channel Smarter Home Life at smarterhomelife.com and youtube.com/smarterhomelife, We talked about the complexities of Home Automation today, predictions about who the winners might be as the industry consolidates, and some of the coolest Home Automation ideas he saw at CES. Joe is de...
CCATP #471 Mikah Sargent on Siri and Alexa and Home Automation
January 10, 2017 21:42 - 25.3 MBMikah Sargent, senior editor at Mobile Nations and podcaster at RelayFM joins us to compare and contrast how Siri from Apple and Alexa from Amazon help with home automation and other tasks around the house. He has a vast array of Home Automation devices from Hue lights to Eve sensors to an Ecobee thermostat to an August smart lock so he's got the experience. I found Mikah's intelligent commentary combined with his light humor to be a delightful combination. If you want to connect with Mikah...
CCATP #469 Allister Jenks on Affinity Designer
December 31, 2016 02:19 - 29.7 MBThis week we're joined by Allister Jenks of the Sitting Duck Podcast. I tricked him into using Affinity Photo (and he loves it) so he turns the tables and convinces me to buy into Affinity Designer. He'll explain the difference between pixel and vector editors, and why you'd want to use one tool over the other. We'll talk Beziér curves and strokes and fills. He'll talk about a few cool projects he's worked on to learn to use the tools, including reproducing Ryan Sakamoto's awesome Podfeet Logo.
CCATP #468 Chris Ashley On Microsoft Windows on Arm and More
December 13, 2016 22:24 - 33.5 MBOne of my best friends on the Internet, Chris Ashley of the SMR Podcast (http://smrpodcast.com) joins us to talk Microsoft. We talk about what the implications are of Windows coming out for the Arm processors, why the Surface Studio has made such a splash, I confess that I bought into Office 365, and how Chris is pretty close to switching from Android back to the iPhone. Chris is delightful, intelligent and funny as always.
CCATP #466 - Terry Austin on an App and Headphones for Hearing Loss
December 02, 2016 23:44 - 22.4 MBProfessor Terry Austin tells us about a solution for some types of hearing loss using only bone-conducting headphones and a $10 iOS app.
CCATP #464 - Bart Busschots - Taming the Terminal on screen and cron
November 20, 2016 02:18 - 58.6 MBIt's been a long time since we did a Taming the Terminal episode but we're back with episode 36 of n, screen and cron. You'll hear me say this is episode 35, but with all these numbers flying around we got mixed up! In any case, in this installment Bart teaches us two unrelated but really cool things you can do with the Terminal in macOS or Linux. The first is cron, a tool that lets you schedule scripts to run at specific times and days. The second is screen, which is a utility that allows ...
CCATP #463 Ensign John Moorhead Recounts 1945 Typhoon
November 10, 2016 02:25 - 7.35 MBIn 1945 my father John Moorhead (he went by Jack) experienced a typhoon while in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. He wrote a letter to my mother and his parents right after the experience. In this very special Chit Chat Across the Pond in honor of Veterans and Remembrance Day, noted voiceover artist Ron David reads my father's letter to you.
CCATP #462 Brian Johnson on Bottle Rockets and Science
November 02, 2016 23:40 - 24 MBThis week, Steve and I share hosting Chit Chat Across the Pond with retired electrical engineer, ham radio nerd, and remote control flier, Brian Johnson. Brian explains how he has taken his love of electronics and works to spread his enthusiasm to kids through volunteering at local schools.
CCATP #460 Shelly Brisbin on Self-Publishing
October 19, 2016 00:12 - 33 MBWe're joined by Shelly Brisbin, author of the book iOS Access for All and host of The Parallel Podcast. As she's written more than a dozen tech books, I asked her to come on the show to explain how she creates her books, what tools she uses, and how she migrated from using an agent and a big publishing house to doing self publishing. It's a really fun episode because while you'd think creating a book is all about writing, Shelly gets into how she uses TextWrangler and writes her own Cascading...
CCATP #458 Allister Jenks on Programming as a Hobby and a Tool
October 08, 2016 23:28 - 28.2 MBAllister Jenks joins us to talk about how he uses programming as a hobby and as a tool for solving problems. In his always delightful way, he talks about early experiences programming and how they sparked such joy in him. We're talking a TRS-80 clone here and a programmable calculator! He tells the story of how just last week he and I were talking about the relative weights of the iMac models vs. their screen dimensions and how he solved the ratio equations using Swift.