Every year when the new shiny comes out, I find a worse way to buy my Apple products. Who can forget when the iPhone 4 came out and I stood in line how long to get it? I think it was 7 or 9 hours, can’t remember exactly. Then the next time I thought I’d […]
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Series 4 Apple Watch: How Much Different Is It in Size to Series 3?
Apple has accomplished something really extraordinary in the physical design of the Series 4 Apple Watch. They have managed to give us a far bigger display area in a watch that is barely larger than it was in the previous generations. I wanted to figure out a way to convey this without just splatting out […]
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10 Reasons to Get an Apple Watch
I was chatting with my good friend Dorothy (aka MacLurker in the chatroom and in our podfeet.com/googleplus) about the big Apple announcements and we got talking about the Apple Watch. She tends to be of the more frugal amongst us and instead of going for the new shiny, she casts a more critical eye on […]
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iThoughts Foundation – ScreenCasts Online Video
I took on the challenge of creating a tutorial for my favorite mind mapping app, iThoughts from toketaWare for Mac, Windows and iOS. Creating a screencast tutorial is the best way to learn a tool, and this one was no exception. I’ve been using it for over five years and had no idea of the […]
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NC #697 Affinity Publisher Beta, Rowenta Fan, Scanner Pro, 10 Reasons to Get an Apple Watch
My iThoughts tutorial for ScreenCasts Online is up and I’m really proud of it. I give Affinity Publisher beta a first look. I’ve found the perfect fan – the Rowenta VU2660 (and I throw in a heat transfer lesson for free). I’ll tell you how Scanner Pro from Readdle might make me not hate scanning. […]
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CCATP #563 – Bart Busschots on PBS 62 of X — A Basic Bootstrap Form
This week’s Programming By Stealth was great fun. Bart Busschots teaches us how to create a web form using the Bootstrap classes to do the job. He explains how Bootstrap literally insists that we make our code accessible, and how sensible it is to just that. We learn the importance of Form Groups, and how […]
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Scanner Pro Takes the Pain Out of Scanning Documents
I hate scanning almost as much as I hate printing, and I really hate printing. I hate dragging out my Fuji ScanSnap scanner. I hate making room on my desk for all the unscanned papers and for the ones that shoot out of the scanner. I hate fighting with getting the pages into the scanner […]
Continue readingMore TagRowenta VU2660 is the Best Fan I’ve Ever Owned
People think of California as a really hot place and are always surprised when they come here and realize that the coastal areas really aren’t that hot. The weather people here have a standard line they replay most days: “Early morning low clouds, followed by hazy afternoon sunshine.” We can stay at a pretty much […]
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Why you should subscribe to the Podfeet Press (it’s for when I mess up the show). I was on Let’s Talk Apple hosted by Bart Busschots, and Chit Chat Across the Pond was amazing with Dr. Kramer. Be sure to join the friendly and enthusiastic NosillaCastaways in the live chatroom during the Apple announcement at […]
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Affinity Publisher Beta – First Look
As you’re well aware, I’m a fan of the Affinity products from a company called Serif. They first came out with Affinity Photo as a challenger to Adobe’s Photoshop. Later they developed Affinity Designer as a challenger to Adobe Illustrator to compete in the vector-design arena. They’re at it again, this time with a beta […]
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