My birthday was last week so I asked Steve to get me something to mount my iPhone to the bike so I could use some of those cool apps Kirschen talked about last week. That did, of course, mean it was time to drag my bike out of the shed and dust it off from […]
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#468 Dave Hamilton Rocks, Stopping Safari Popups, Wil Wheaton on Nerds, MagCozy, Square JellyFish, Tappd, Resistorvision, Taming the Terminal Part 17
Big changes to podfeet.com – breaking the giant blog post of doom into little chunks throughout the week. I got to be a guest screencaster for Don McAllister’s Screencasts Online doing a show about iThoughtsX for the Mac and iThoughtsHD for the iPad. Should be available soon in the next episode of the SCO Magazine […]
Continue readingDumb Question Corner – How to Stop Safari from Offering Push Notifications
David Bogdan sent in our Dumb Question for this week. He wrote: Hello Bart and Allison, Hello from Japan. It’s been awhile, though I’ve been listening to you on podcasts and it sounds like the two of you are doing well. I wanted to ask another dumb question regarding security. Recently, I’ve been getting occasional […]
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I was really conflicted this week thinking back on how I slammed the Transporter Sync. I mentioned that I was influenced by the podcasters who advertise for Drobo, and I feel badly about it because all of them are friends of mine. I was trying to think about what to say on the show to […]
Continue readingCCATP – Taming the Terminal Part 17 of n with Bart Busschots
Main Topic – Regular Expressions Taming the Terminal Part 17 of n – Regular Expressions: http://www.bartbusschots.ie/blog/?p=3542 Security Light HeartBleed Followup/Update: OpenBSD fork OpenSSL to create a new stripped-down version called LibreSSL – the aim, to have a smaller and easier to maintain, and hence hopefully more secure, open source implementation of SSL (don’t jump in […]
Continue readingLet Your iPhone Tell You the Value of a Resistor with ResistorVision
Kirschen Seah interviews John Brewer from Jera Design about their new ResistorVision software for the iPhone. ResistorVision allows the user to image a discrete resistor, decode the resistor’s color bands and automatically determine the resistor’s value. The setting is the Macworld 2014 show room floor. Learn more at http://jera.com. Check out the Kirschen’s activities at […]
Continue readingDiscover New iOS Apps with TAPPD
Allison interviews David Duncan from TAPPD about their new discovery software for iOS applications. TAPPD allows the user to search for apps through social networking and feedback from friends who have similar interests. Users and developers can rate and make comments on the applications with TAPPD. The setting is the Macworld 2014 show room floor. […]
Continue readingShared Photo Streams May be Eating Up Your Disk Space
Photo Streams are an awesome feature of OSX via iPhoto or Aperture and through iOS. With “regular” Photo Stream, the last 1000 photos you’ve taken on your iOS device are pushed up to the cloud as a short term backup (take photo 1001 and the first photo vanishes). If you turn on Photo Stream in […]
Continue readingTiny Portable Tripods for Your Smartphone or Tablet from Square Jellyfish
So you’ve got your iPhone with you at dinner with Grandma and she starts telling one of her best stories and you’d like to record it. You can sit there with your phone or tablet in your hands for the length of the story while you record her, but that’s annoying. You try to prop […]
Continue readingBIG Changes to Podfeet.com
I have something really wild and crazy change to announce about Podfeet.com. I have been inching up on this idea, and I finally started executing it. Ok, problem to be solved first, right? For coming up on 9 years next month I’ve done a GIANT blog post every week, usually on the order of 5000 […]
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