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Nov 13, 2026 · 1:07:37
This week brings back a voice we haven't heard from in far too many years: Chris Ashley of the SMR Podcast. Chris is a long-time Windows user and even a Windows admin in his work…
Oct 28, 2026 · 41:29
This week our guest is my friend and yours, Adam Engst of TidBITS. Adam recently wrote an article about the kerfuffle caused by Apple's message to developers about how it's going…
Oct 27, 2026 · 56:22
On our trip to Spain to see a total solar eclipse, we met the amazing Dr. Bonnie (Yvonne) Maldonado. I have to say I have a bit of a crush on her because she has one of the…
Oct 2, 2026 · 1:03:14
Adam Engst is the owner and writer of the longest-running Apple newsletter, TidBITS. Writing is literally his business. Imagine what would happen if he couldn't write. That's…
Sep 15, 2026 · 49:53
This week, our guest is the lovely Steve Sheridan, here to talk about the technology behind how he captured and produced an amazing video of the total solar eclipse we witnessed…
Aug 28, 2026 · 1:02:34
In yet another delightful conversation with Adam Engst, he fires up the WABAC machine and walks us through his journey to never successfully become a programmer. Two periods in…
Jul 23, 2026 · 40:38
CCATP #839 for July 23, 2026, and I'm your host, Allison Sheridan. This week our guest is Adam Engst of TidBITS. Back in April, we talked about his first long road trip with his…
Jul 8, 2026 · 25:25
On the Mac Geek Gab, they have a listener segment they call Cool Stuff Found. But once in a while, someone writes in with Cool Stuff Made. On episode 1143, Darrin Altman wrote in…
Jun 25, 2026 · 51:23
In this week's episode of "Stay off my lawn!", we have Adam Engst here to talk through his recent article on TidBITS: [Why AI Agents Fill Me with…
Jun 11, 2026 · 33:26
When you post online, and you know I'm following you, beware that if you say something interesting, you might be in danger of being asked onto one of my shows. That's what…
May 29, 2026 · 41:28
In this week's episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, we go into the dark abyss that is Adam Engst's brain and learn how that brain influences his choice of dictation engines. He…
May 1, 2026 · 1:00:17
Adam Engst of TidBITS is here to talk about one of my favorite subjects: electric vehicles and their high-tech features. In particular, he's enamored with Digital Key 2 with the…
Apr 16, 2026 · 45:04
This week, our guest is a lovely gentleman named Joseph Nilo. If you’ve been listening to Apple podcasts since the dawn of podcasting, you may recognize that name. He was one of…
Apr 1, 2026 · 30:04
Most people today get great joy out of buying a new car if they can afford it. Our buddy Ron has a ten-year-old Tesla Model S, and rather than buying a new car, he decided to…
Mar 18, 2026 · 39:37
In this fascinating discussion with Adam Engst, we discuss how he used to think that reading added information to essentially a database in his brain. Recently, though, he has…
Mar 6, 2026 · 1:00:59
The charming Adam Engst joins us to talk about his vision of How Siri Could Become the Mac’s New Help System . His vision is that since Apple knows everything about macOS, it…
Feb 4, 2026 · 47:29
You may know Jason Howell from his work hosting Daily Tech News Show with Tom Merritt, or his work on the All About Android and Android Faithful Podcasts, or hosting Tech News on…
Jan 23, 2026 · 54:46
Adam Engst of TidBITS joins me this month to talk about the wonderful world of macOS Tahoe's menu icons. You may not have noticed, or you may not have upgraded to macOS 26 yet,…
Dec 31, 2025 · 1:06:34
In this rather propeller beanie episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Bart Busschots explains how to configure your DNS records on your server to ensure you can send email from…
Dec 22, 2025 · 47:57
In this week's episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Adam Engst joins us to valiantly attempt to explain to us how the new Phone app is supposed to work in iOS 26. He'll…
Dec 14, 2025 · 53:39
There are some people who are part of the fabric of the NosillaCast, piping up from time to time over many years to provide valuable insight to the show when a topic tickles…
Nov 21, 2025 · 58:47
This week, our guest is the ever-delightful Adam Engst of TidBITS. In this episode, he explains what agentic web browsers are and what they are designed to do for you. Adam put…
Oct 19, 2025 · 1:06:52
This week Adam took on a subject I'm guessing pretty close to 100% of the audience will care about; how to tame Liquid Glass on OSes 26. We go through macOS, iOS, watchOS, and…
Oct 1, 2025 · 54:24
In this week's Chit Chat Across the Pond, Adam Engst of TidBITS joins me to talk about his decision process on choosing an iPhone 17 over the 17 Pro. One of the things I like…
Sep 17, 2025 · 43:46
CCATP #821 for September 17, 2025, and I'm your host, Allison Sheridan. This week, our guest is a real throwback for the show. If you've been listening for a very long time, you…
Aug 29, 2025 · 48:01
In this week's Chit Chat Across the Pond, Adam Engst of TidBITS fame and fortune joins me to talk about recent changes to AppleCare. While the big story of the day is AppleCare…
Aug 27, 2025 · 1:00:25
Tage Bushman joins me this week to talk about his career path to become a Professor at Western Technical College . It's a fascinating subject for obvious reasons. The ground has…
Jul 25, 2025 · 1:05:04
Adam Engst recently wrote a post on TidBITS describing his journey migrating from a 27" Intel iMac to an M4 Pro MacBook Pro. He entitled the article Switching from a 27-inch iMac…
Jul 1, 2025 · 54:44
This week, our guest is Adam Engst, writer, editor, and publisher of the fabulous TidBITS Newsletter . In late May, The Browser Company announced that they are discontinuing…
Jun 15, 2025 · 37:45
Bart Busschots joins me to talk about his trials and tribulations finding a good bookmark manager to replace Pocket, which he never really liked in the first place. He tells us…
Jun 8, 2025 · 55:12
On Chit Chat Across the Pond #814 , Adam Engst and I discussed the results of a VPN survey he conducted with the TidBITS subscribers. From there, we got into a discussion where…
May 28, 2025 · 1:05:16
In this week's episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Adam Engst joins me to talk about two recent articles he wrote for TidBITS. The first topic is life-changing for me. Have you…
Apr 29, 2025 · 35:11
This episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond is going to be a bit different. On the NosillaCast #1042 for April 27th , Bart Busschots and I recorded his usual segment on Security…
Apr 29, 2025 · 1:04:49
In this week's episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Adam Engst from TidBITS talks about how traditional search engines like Google and Bing no longer provide valuable…
Mar 23, 2025 · 49:26
This week, Adam Engst joins us to talk about some work he did to try to measure the accuracy of several different AI models in creating audio transcriptions. He let me help him…
Mar 4, 2025 · 51:47
You know I’m not a music person, but I’ve invited Steve Mallard onto the show to talk about a topic he’s quite passionate about - the evolution of music tech. He is not an expert…
Feb 11, 2025 · 58:25
This week, the delightful Adam Engst of TidBITS joins us to talk about how he learned to write so well, what it's like having an editor, and then moves into how he uses the AI…
Feb 6, 2025 · 54:38
If you’ve been on the Internet before, and you’ve heard of a little fruit company called Apple, then you’ve probably seen Jason Snell's famous Six Colors charts on Apple…
Jan 14, 2025 · 55:54
Adam Engst of TidBITS joins us to talk about a bug in macOS Sequoia 15.2 that affected a low-level system tool called Apple System Restore or ASR. This tool is the path for…
Jan 11, 2025 · 52:58
Andrea Jones-Rooy is a data scientist, a standup comedian, _and_ a circus performer. Andrea delves into the realms of data science, its significance, and how it is often…
Dec 29, 2024 · 37:03
In this episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Bart talks about his job as a cybersecurity specialist. We get a bit silly in our early part of the chat, the reasons for which will…
Dec 22, 2024 · 24:40
Certified Apple Consultant Pat Dengler joins me to tell the harrowing story of how her neighbor was seconds away from being scammed out of $30,000. In an elaborate web of lies…
Dec 10, 2024 · 50:26
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…
Nov 14, 2024 · 51:37
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…
Nov 3, 2024 · 42:14
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…
Oct 2, 2024 · 35:51
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…
Sep 8, 2024 · 45:49
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.…
Aug 7, 2024 · 56:26
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…
Jul 9, 2024 · 42:43
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…
Jul 7, 2024 · 1:45
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…
Jul 5, 2024 · 1:37
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…
Apr 27, 2024 · 50:00
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…
Apr 14, 2024 · 34:49
In this episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, Bart Busschots joins us to talk Dyson vacuums. I know that doesn't sound too technical but you'd be surprised how advanced the…
Feb 4, 2024 · 1:01:16
This week's Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite is a stretch to the word "Lite". I'd call it a crossover episode of Lite and Programming By Stealth. Helma van der Linden joins me to…
Dec 5, 2023 · 1:02:14
In this week's episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, Jason Howell, podcaster and producer for the TWiT network , and musician joins me to talk about what it's like to use an…
Nov 6, 2023 · 45:03
One of the great joys of Mastodon is that I’m meeting new people with a cross-section of interests that overlap with my own. By following hashtags like #programming and…
Nov 3, 2023 · 1:01:30
After a long hiatus for which I have no excuse, Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite is back with a fabulous interview with Adam Engst, publisher of the long-running Internet-based…
Jun 30, 2023 · 48:50
I'm on a roll with scientists on Chit Chat Across the Pond. This week my guest is Professor Jason Briner from the University of Buffalo. Dr. Briner joins us to tell us tales of…
Jun 23, 2023 · 41:43
Have you always figured that astrophysics was a subject beyond your grasp? In this week's Chit Chat Across the Pond, Nobel Prize-winning Dr. Andrea Ghez from UCLA joins me to…
Jun 11, 2023 · 1:04:47
This week our guest is Bart Busschots but this is not a Programming By Stealth episode, it's a Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite. At least within my personal definition of Lite!…
Apr 23, 2023 · 54:32
This week our guest is your favorite psychological scientist, Dr. Maryanne Garry of the University of Waikato in New Zealand and garrylab.com Dr. Garry and four of her colleagues…
Apr 13, 2023 · 49:34
Adam Engst of TidBITS joins me on Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite to talk about the changes Apple made recently to the File Provider Extension. These changes had a fairly…
Mar 1, 2023 · 1:21:01
In this week's episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, Rod Simmons of the SMR Podcast and BBQ and Tech joins me to talk about password managers. After the recent breaches and…
Dec 18, 2022 · 50:52
In this final Chit Chat Across the Pond of the year, Bart Busschots joins us to talk about what verification really means, how you know a website is what it says it is, and how…
Dec 9, 2022 · 55:19
On this week's episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, we're joined by developer Casey Liss of the Accidental Tech Podcast and creator of the iOS apps MaskerAid and…
Dec 4, 2022 · 41:51
This week our guest on Chit Chat Across the Pond is Nic of Nic’s HomePod Repair . You might remember the article about Steve’s amazing experience with Nic repairing our big-girl…
Nov 8, 2022 · 45:30
WiFi Generations In this week's episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, I asked Dave Hamilton of the Mac Geek Gab to come on to talk to us about mesh routers and why we might…
Oct 30, 2022 · 1:06:40
This week our guest on Chit Chat Across the Pond is Bart Busschots with a talk that's part Security Bits, part Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite. Bart has been asked to speak at a…
Oct 26, 2022 · 58:06
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…
Oct 21, 2022 · 58:00
This week our guest is Dan Moren (https://dmoren.com/). Dan is the author of the Galactic Cold War series of sci-fi espionage capers, a former senior editor at Macworld, a writer…
Oct 11, 2022 · 1:01:31
Antonio Rosario bills himself as a full-time unemployed photographer, part-time semi-employed videographer and photography instructor, and a volunteer bimonthly podcaster. He…
Oct 4, 2022 · 1:14:06
In this "Lite" episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Bart Busschots teaches us about a relatively new concept in IT security called Zero Trust. He explains how the old ways of…
Sep 28, 2022 · 52:59
Rogue Amoeba is celebrating 20 years in Mac software development this month and in honor of that accomplishment, I asked CEO Paul Kafasis to come on Chit Chat Across the Pond to…
Sep 1, 2022 · 46:08
Tom Merritt of the Daily Tech News Show joins me on Chit Chat Across the Pond to talk about a recent study published by Sweden’s biggest car magazine, ViBilägare. The study timed…
Aug 21, 2022 · 44:49
This is another crossover episode - it's an interview Bart Busschots did with me for his Let's Talk Photography podcast at [lets-talk.ie/...](https://lets-talk.ie/) about the…
Aug 16, 2022 · 45:54
A few years ago, when the SMR podcast hosts took over the NosillaCast while I was on vacation, Tom Merritt of the Daily Tech News Show called it "The Crossover Event of the…
Jul 12, 2022 · 40:22
Mark Pouley, the photographer behind Twin Lakes Image s lives in a home that is in an urban area, but on a long, private road that hasn’t been fed by fiber or cable. He and his…
Jul 7, 2022 · 49:19
In this week's Chit Chat Across the Pond, I interview author Molly DeFrank on her book "Digital Detox: The Two-Week Tech Reset for Kids" along with Lindsay Tondee who put Molly's…
Jun 24, 2022 · 53:23
In this week's episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, I'm joined by long-time NosillaCastaway Seamus Lavery. Seamus started posting photos of his black lab Quaid to the live…
Jun 13, 2022 · 1:00:58
Recently Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane of DTNS fame hosted what they called a Solar Round Table . The guests were NosillaCast Live Producer Steve Sheridan, an engineer working at…
Jun 12, 2022 · 55:16
This week our guest is Bart Busschots. This week we're going to do something a little different; we're doing an "Ask Me Anything (About Security)". I sent out the request for…
Jun 2, 2022 · 1:07:56
In yet another crossover episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Bodie Grimm of the Kilowatt Podcast joins me to talk about EVs. But this isn't just any EV, we get to talk to Chris…
May 29, 2022 · 1:01:33
In this Lite version of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Bart Busschots talks to us about he thinks about security. Rather than try to tell us with exacting precision what to do about…
May 19, 2022 · 59:11
Our guest this week on Chit Chat Across the Pond is John Siracusa of the Accidental Tech Podcast , Reconcilable Differences , and Robot or Not . He’s also the developer of two…
May 15, 2022 · 49:35
Back in August of 2019 , Bart Busschots told us about how someday in the future, we would be able be living a passwordless future because of something called FIDO, AKA Fast ID…
May 12, 2022 · 45:22
One of my pet peeves is podcasters who air reruns. Today I am that podcaster but I think I can justify what I'm doing so bear with me here. On June 1st, 2014, Dr. Maryanne Garry…
May 1, 2022 · 1:14:26
In this ~lite episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Bart Busschots explains why it's a good idea to have your an email address on your own domain. Then he digs deep into all of…
Apr 20, 2022 · 30:59
This week our guest is Erin Carson, Senior Writer at CNET. She came on the show to talk to me about ear worms and the effect that TikTok is having on their prevalence. We go over…
Apr 16, 2022 · 46:13
While Steve and I were in Phoenix visiting Steve's sister, we made a trip out to meet the awesome Bodie Grimm, host of the Kilowatt podcast at 918digital.com . Bodie's show is…
Apr 6, 2022 · 40:02
This week's guest on Chit Chat Across the Pond is Tom Merritt, host of the Daily Tech News Show, Cord Killers, Know a Little More, Sword and Laser and more podcasts than I can…
Mar 25, 2022 · 59:40
Jill from the North Woods, host of the delightful and inspiring Start with Small Steps Podcast at smallstepspod.com decided a few years ago that she wanted to switch from Windows…
Mar 10, 2022 · 1:11:14
If you're looking for a methodical walk through the Apple March Peek Event that discusses point-by-point every detail and spec that Apple presented, you will be sorely…
Feb 25, 2022 · 48:23
Cheyenne's EV6 Spaceship In this week's episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, Cheyenne Swenson joins us to tell us about her new electric vehicle – the Kia EV6 . Cheyenne…
Jan 21, 2022 · 48:51
This week's guest on Chit Chat Across the Pond is the Wizard Alec Johnson. Alec is the host of the YouTube channel Take One Tech . He creates amazing how-to guides on tools such…
Dec 15, 2021 · 1:01:41
Adam Engst, publisher of the long-running Internet-based email newsletter, TidBITS joins us on Chit Chat Across the Pond to talk about an article he wrote for TidBITS about the…
Dec 3, 2021 · 41:02
In late October, Facebook announced that The Facebook Company was name to Meta. A little bit later, Mark Zuckerberg published a video where he described his vision of the future…
Nov 5, 2021 · 1:03:27
This week I'm pleased to have Chris Ashley and Rod Simmons on the Chit Chat Across the Pond. You may know them from the SMR Podcast they do with Robb Dunewood, or you may…
Oct 19, 2021 · 1:00:49
Doc Rock joins me for a fantastic discussion on Chit Chat Across the Pond. I asked Doc on the show originally to come on and explain ProRes video to me, but Apple delighted us by…
Aug 23, 2021 · 1:06:09
CCATP #697 for August 23, 2021, and I'm your host, Allison Sheridan. This week our guest is Bodie Grimm. Along with being a podcaster who specializes in the news about electric…
Aug 8, 2021 · 50:28
This week our guest is Dr. Niki Ackermans. Dr. Ackermans is a Postdoctoral fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in New…
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