When I write up a blog post or talk about something on the podcast, I like to wait until I have a problem to be solved, a potential solution, and an assessment of how well that solution worked out to solve the real problem. This is not going to be one of those nice little […]
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When Apple Watch IS a Necessity
The Apple Watch (and all smart watches) are all the rage right now with smart people questioning whether we actually need them at all. A top question is whether you’d drive back home to get your smart watch if you forgot to put it on, like you probably would your smart phone. Of course I […]
Continue readingApple Photos Now That the Honeymoon is Over
When Photos first came out, people broke into two camps. There were the people who were super bummed because Apple stopped developing Aperture and made it pretty obvious that they valued the low end photo user well above the prosumer or professional photographers. The other group looked at Photos and thought it looked like a […]
Continue reading#533 Automator to Sequence Images, Tear Down a MacBook Air, Nomorobo, Bart & Steve Talk Pluto
Remember no live show next week, and send in your audio contributions so Allister Jenks doesn’t have to work so hard! (Send them to me at [email protected].) There’s a new Mac Roundtable at macroundtable.com episode #228. I created an Automator Service to generate sequenced images from Apple Photos – download from Dropbox if you want […]
Continue readingCan I Fix a Shorted Power Button On a MacBook Air?
My neighbor Naila across the street has an adorable baby girl. As many of us know, small children and laptops can be a terrible combination if there’s any liquid nearby. The good news is the little girl only knocked a water glass over into Naila’s MacBook Air. Naila took it over to Apple, and they […]
Continue readingAutomator Script Creates Sequenced Images from Photos
I’m slightly more organized about my photos than the average bear as we’ve discussed in the past. I like to name my photos so that at any time if someone mentions say halloween costumes, I can grab my phone and instantly show them the photo of the amazing bat costume my father made for my […]
Continue readingSlow Down RoboCalls with Nomorobo
Steve is an avid Reddit contributor and reader, and when the proverbial stuff hit the fan a few months ago that PayPal was going to start robocalling its customers, Reddit was on fire about the topic. Since then PayPal dropped the idea. Anyway, Steve was reading the rants on Reddit and someone mentioned a service […]
Continue reading#532 Apple Secures Your Sensitive Data, Teaching a Young Boy About Science, Hackers Getting Hacked, Serenity Caldwell from iMore on Home Automation
Live show will be on Saturday at 3pm Pacific Time on 25 July as I’ll be on vacation on Sunday. There will be no live show on Sunday 2 July. I was on the SMR Podcast on Episode #262 entitled Little Community and the Daily Tech News Show Episode 2538 entitled Amazon is Past Its […]
Continue readingI Wonder What Would Happen If…
My housekeeper Rocio has been working for us for years. This summer her soon-to-be 13 year old son has nothing to do so she’s dragging him along to work so that he doesn’t sit home playing video games all day or get into some kind of mischief. I think Rocio is brilliant to do this […]
Continue readingApple Really Does Protect Your Health Data
Dave Hamilton of the Mac Geek Gab was talking about how his iPhone misbehaved badly when he first installed iOS 8.4. He said that the battery was draining even while on the charger. While interesting I didn’t worry about it too much because I’d been running it for a while now and my battery was […]
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