My opinions and emotions about the news that Aperture won’t be updated ever again by Apple. Steve Sheridan gives us a hot tip on how to maybe make your Contacts more manageable by using Custom Categories. Diane, Steve and I do some experiments with zoom lenses that question my knowledge about how crop factors in […]
Continue readingMonth: June 2014
Aperture Dead or Alive
Even if you’re not a photography nut, I think you’ll be interested in a topic that has many of us in a tizzy this week, and that’s the announcement by Apple that they are not doing any further development on their high end photo application, Aperture. Aperture is currently at version 3 with a bunch […]
Continue readingWhen a 200mm Lens Isn’t Really 200mm
I’m still having a ball with my new mirrorless camera (the Olympus OM-D EM-10). When I first started looking into this I mentioned that I was going to make the switch to my friend Diane. For some odd reason she trusts my judgment and said, “great, when you decide, let me know what to buy”. […]
Continue readingUse Custom Fields to Tell Your Contacts Apart
The Apple Contacts application isn’t really designed to handle how many different ways we have of contacting people these days. In particular it’s awful at handling couples in a single card entry. Let’s say you’re friends with Bob and Sally Schwinkendorf. You send them a holiday card every year so you want both of their […]
Continue reading#476 Podfeet Speed Improvement, Leaf Antenna for Cord Killing, ProJive XLR, Intro to Programming Languages
How Steve and I are cord killing $10 at a time using a Leaf antenna. Turns out you can use an external mic to record to Recolive’s Multicam using the ProJive XLR from CableJive. Learn how I used Automator to launch all of my apps to create the live show. In Chit Chat Across the […]
Continue readingPodfeet Might be a Wee Bit Faster
I am an amazing proof reader. I can spot a typo on a piece of paper that’s across a table from me and turned around, but I can never see typos in my own work. I can only think it’s an arrogance thing in my brain, that there’s no chance I would ever make a […]
Continue readingKilling the Cord $10 at a Time
Steve and I are big fans of television and we really like the content we get from cable. We have 5 TVs, 3 of which have TiVos on them with cable cards so we can watch and record a ton of TV. We also like Internet TV content. We use Amazon Instant Video to rent […]
Continue readingProJive XLR for Big Girl Mic Input to RecoLive MultiCam
Last week I talked about the awesome $5 app for the iPad (and iPhone) MultiCam from RecoLive that lets you record a multi-camera session using cameras on your iOS devices and Mac and even your desktop. I had one complaint that I wasn’t able to use an external mic, because Multi-Cam simply didn’t have an […]
Continue readingUsing Automator to Launch Applications
Every Sunday night between 4:30 and 4:45pm, I get ready to do the live show. It’s a pretty complex operation (I even have a diagram). Most of the hardware pieces are plugged in all the time, my microphone, my camera, and my Mac, but I run seven applications on my main Mac to get the […]
Continue reading#475 WHILL, Olympus OM-D E-M10, RecoLive Multi-Cam, Smile Software and iOS 8
I was on the Pocket Show. Check out the Kick Starter campaign for the WHILL Personal Mobility Device. My journey from a DSLR to the Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mirrorless Camera. Produce a Multi-Camera Shoot on an iPad for $5 with RecoLive’s Multi-Cam from recolive.com. In Chit Chat Across the Pond, Greg Scown, founder (along with […]
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