Pencil is Way Less Stupid Than Before I was pretty excited to order the new iPad Pro when it was announced. I’ve mentioned a few times that I have the 12.9″ and the 9.7″ and I was curious what they would do with the form factors and what model I would choose. When they made […]
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Troy Shimkus Seeks the Perfect Road Warrior Setup
Guest article by Troy Shimkus For the last several months, I’ve been trying to rework my workflows in regards to equipment choices. As a result of a long story I won’t recount here, I lost my 2013 MacBook Air – so I needed to find a replacement. My home setup is a trash can MacPro […]
Continue readingMind Mapping Thanksgiving by Lindsay
I’ve always had Thanksgiving dinner at my house, since 1983 when my mother handed over responsibility to me. But this year, since our house was still under construction after 5 months, Lindsay and Nolan agreed to take over. We still did the turkey and ham and stuffing and cranberry chutney but we carted it all […]
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NC #706 Parallels Toolbox Revisited, Trackpad for iOS, Security Bits
In this week’s show I’ll tell you about all the new tools that have been added to Parallels Toolbox since I last told you about it, then I’ll give you an awesome Tiny Tip about how to turn your iOS keyboard into a trackpad for text insertion. Then we have a really long and fun […]
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Security Bits – 15 November 2018
Followups 1 — The Windows 10 Fall 2018 has been Re-released After having to withdraw the update due to a bug that led to accidental file deletions in a very small number of edge cases, Microsoft have now released a fixed version — arstechnica.com/…
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CCATP #572 – Dave Ginsburg Top 20 iOS 12 Tips
Dave Ginsburg, host of the In Touch with iOS podcast at intouchwithios.com joins us to teach us his top favorite iOS 12 tips. He shows us how to implement each tip and what problem it solves. Dave is a master at iOS (and a great guy) and I learned a lot, so I think you […]
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Tiny Tip – Trackpad for iOS
One of my favorite sports is trying to point out where geek friends of mine made a mistake or perhaps didn’t know something I knew about. I know, it’s childish but I really truly enjoy it. Ask Dave Hamilton. Anyway, one of the people I enjoy torturing most is Don McAllister. I think it’s because […]
Continue readingNC #705 snobOS, Luna Display, Apple Park
In this week’s show I highlight a new Apple Podcast called snobOS. I have a new gadget – the Luna Display that’s a hardware solution to let you use your iPad as a secondary display (spoiler, it’s amazing.) Then Troy Shimkus joins us for a short interview segment talking about his adventure going to Apple […]
Continue readingCCATP #571 – Joe Dugandzic Walks Through His Tiny Smart Home
This is a rather unusual Chit Chat Across the Pond where I interview Joe Dugandzic as he walks us around his tiny, smart home. Joe’s home is 395 square feet and he produces his Smarter Home Life Youtube series all in that space. The interview is a combination of learning about how to create lighting […]
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Parallels Toolbox – The Gift that Keeps On Giving
In July of 2017 I told you about a really cool suite of utilities called Parallels Toolbox from the same people that bring us the virtual machine software, Parallels Desktop. I walked through all of the apps it includes and then explained that it’s a subscription service, but that it’s only $20/year. They promised that […]
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