I’ve been thinking a lot about how much using a password manager has made my online life easier and less frustrating, and of course more secure. I have a lot of friends who don’t use password managers and I hear them complaining, watch them pull out ragged paper lists, and I know they’re not using […]
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Appearances on MacCast and Clockwise
It’s been a busy week for me in podcast land. I had the great pleasure of joining Adam Christianson on The Maccast. He invited five of us to come on individually to talk to him about the Apple Watch and then compiled it into one long show including a segment on his own impressions. His […]
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#520 Apple Watch, 58K Photos in Photos, GoPro Studio Audio-Technica Wireless Mic System, GoPro Studio, TTT Part 33 SSH Bookmarks
All Mac friends – register for the MidwestMacBBQ.com and macstockconferenceandexpo.com on June 20th in Chicago! Donald Burr needs more beta testers for the new version of the NosillaCast Live app so send him your Apple ID email addresses. I feel all Dick Tracy using the Apple Watch to dictate messages and make phone calls. Two […]
Continue readingPhotos App – More Discovery and Some Bugs
I haven’t talked much about the day to day experience of using Photos. I have to say it is positively awesome to have all of my photos on all of my devices. I bought a 1TB SSD in my MacBook Pro because I did not want to compromise on having all my photos, now I […]
Continue readingI AM Dick Tracy
Apple Watch 48 hour Impressions They say that behind every great woman is a great man, and that’s definitely the case with me and Steve. On Friday, also known as first Apple Watch delivery day, he stayed home for seven hours babysitting the doorbell not for delivery of his OWN watch, but for mine. Sadly […]
Continue readingTayzu’s Robotics Drone Can Land in Water!
Allison interviews Tayzu Robotics CEO Donald Scott about their new waterproof drone. This is the first quadcopter with waterproof motors and airframe. This drone is designed to takeoff and land in the water and comes equipped with a waterproof 3-axis gimbal to house a GoPro or other action camera. Although the airframe is not designed […]
Continue readingVSN Mobil V.360° Waterproof Action Camera
Allison interviews Matt Gordon from VSN Mobil about their new action camera. The waterproof and dustproof V.360° camera captures full 360 degree HD video using a single image sensor. Using a single sensor eliminates the need to stitch frames together to form the seamless 360 deg image. The setting is the ShowStoppers NAB 2015 show […]
Continue readingCan iCloud Photo Library Handle 58,820 Photos?
I’m into week two with the new Photos app and I’m still really liking it. My entire library did finally sync up from my Mac to iCloud Photo Library so I could see all 58,820 of my photos at icloud.com. They also all came back down in optimized versions on my iPhone. Oddly though, while […]
Continue readingPond5 for Royalty-Free Stock Media – Movies, Music, Sound Effects
Allison interviews John O’Connell from Pond5 about their online marketplace for stock media. Pond5 has over 3.5 million movie clips, 300,000 music clips and 500,000 sound effects available from their international base of artists. The setting is the NAB 2015 SuperMeet show floor. Learn more at https://podfeet.com. Using a Screen Reader? click here
Continue reading#519 NAB and NMX, Is it Time to Jump to Photos, Taming the Terminal SSH Tunneling
Steve and I went to NAB and NMX this week so I give you a few thoughts on how fun that was (audio interviews to start next week, but video interviews are already starting to go up on podfeet.com). I try to answer the question of whether it’s time to jump to the new Photos […]
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