Chit Chat Across the Pond

Dec 10 2024 152 ep. 73 mins 298

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Chit Chat Across the Pond is a weekly interview show talking technology. It was originally part of the NosillaCast podcast (for the first 406 shows!)

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CCATP #803 Adam Engst on Obituary Scams Triggering iPhone Security Warnings

Dec 10 2024 50 mins

Adam Engst of TidBITS back again to talk about an unusual and clever scam experienced by one of his TidBITS readers. It involved fake obituaries triggering iPhone security warnings triggering App Store downloads. You can find Adam's written article on the topic at [tidbits.com/...](https://tidbits.com/2024/12/06/beware-obituary-scam-sites-and-fake-iphone-security-warnings/). Join

CCATP #802 – Adam Engst on Invasive Location Tracking and Tips On How to Manage

Nov 14 2024 51 mins

In this episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Adam Engst and I discussed his October 24th article entitled [Exposé Reveals Ongoing Smartphone Location Tracking Threats](https://tidbits.com/2024/10/23/expose-reveals-ongoing-smartphone-location-tracking-threats/). He explained how much easier it is now for your precise location to be determined because of your online activity, in sp

CCATP #801 – Sam King of GigSky & How to Use a US Phone Number Using WiFi Calling with a Foreign eSIM

Nov 03 2024 42 mins

I had the pleasure of interviewing Sam King, chief revenue officer for eSIM provider GigSky. As an unwritten policy, I don’t generally interview people who sell products or services, but since it’s my own guideline, I can color outside the lines when I want to, and this is one of those times. We do a fair bit of international travel, and I have always chosen my eSIM by going t

CCATP #800 – Adam Engst on Limiting iPhone Charging to 80%

Oct 02 2024 35 mins

In this week's episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Adam Engst of TidBITS joins us to join in the fun conversation about limiting your iPhone's charging to 80%. He wrote up an article entitled Does Limiting an iPhone’s Battery Charging to 80% Increase Lifespan? in which he references an article by Juli Clover of MacRumors. Juli used her iPhone 15 Pro Max for a solid year with c

CCATP #799 – Adam Engst on Apple's Screen Recording Permissions in Sequoia Beta

Sep 07 2024 45 mins

Adam Engst joins me again, this time to talk about the patently wrong decision by Apple to include repetitive permissions requests for screen recording in the macOS Sequoia beta. As he explains in his article on TidBITS.com entitled Apple Reduces Excessive Sequoia Permission Requests, Shifts to Monthly, changing from weekly permissions requests to monthly is 4 times less wrong, but

CCATP #798 Adam Engst on Troubleshooting

Aug 06 2024 56 mins

This week our guest is the venerable Adam Engst of TidBITS. Adam wrote an article recently about his solar inverters that ended up being a story about troubleshooting. That inspired me last week to tell you our troubleshooting story about our home network. We thought it would be fun to go through Adam's story and pick out ideas for troubleshooting and where our own weaknesses are.

CCATP #797 – Adam Engst on His Quest for Alarming Notifications

Jul 09 2024 42 mins

CCATP #793 for July 9, 2024, and I'm your host, Allison Sheridan. In case you missed the announcement, Adam Engst of TidBITS is now a member of the Podfeet Podcasts family as a continuing contributor to Chit Chat Across the Pond. In this week's episode, we talked about why Adam believes we need persistent calendar and reminder notifications. Adam is hyper-focused and when he's wri

You May Need to Resubscribe to the NosillaCast

Jul 06 2024 1 mins

So ... I made a wee mistake this morning when I accidentally told the NosillaCast feed to move to the Chit Chat Across the Pond feed! I thought I fixed it right away, but then Louis Trapani told me that he was seeing all of the NosillaCast content slopped into Chit Chat Across the Pond! Evidently, the fix didn't "stick". Overcast subscribers are fine because the RSS feed is ok, bu

What happened to Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite?

Jul 05 2024 1 mins

Well hello there, this is Alison Sheridan and I have a very special announcement for July 5th, 2024, to the Chit Chat Across the Pond light audience and the Programming By Stealth audience. If you were subscribed to the Lite feed, you may have noticed that your Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite logo changed into the Chit Chat Across the Pond logo and that you see a whole pile of rece

CCATP #792 – Bart Busschots on Rethinking Weather Apps for Privacy and Functionality

Apr 27 2024 50 mins

In this episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, Bart Busschots joins us to talk about weather apps. He’s a serious weather nerd by necessity, living in Ireland and being an avid bike rider. As he walks through the apps he’ll explain which ones fall down on privacy, which ones have good apps for everything from the watch to iOS to the Mac. He’ll even go through how he uses