Yesterday I got an urgent, last minute request from Jason Howell to join MacBreak Weekly in progress as Leo had called in sick. I come on about 22 minutes into the show. I had a great time with Mike Elgan hosting along with regular Andy Ihnatko and iMore’s Serenity Caldwell. Using a Screen Reader? click […]
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#499 xkpasswd v2, If Every Day Were Christmas, Should I Sleep, Wrist Notfications, iOS Dev Tools for Screen Sizes
Send in your recordings for the 500th episode next week, if you’re doing holiday shopping at Amazon, please use the search box on podfeet.com to get us a little love. Slau’s “If Every Day Were Christmas” is coming out on iTunes any minute now, watch my Twitter/G+/FaceBook accounts for the announcement when it goes live. […]
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Olympus Wi-Fi Camera I droned on and on about my choice of a new mirrorless camera a few months back, and in the end I chose a camera from Olympus called the E-M10. One of my favorite features of this camera is that it has built in Wi-Fi. I can tap Wi-Fi on the screen, […]
Continue reading#498 New York City, Hopstop, Slau’s Recording Studio, Tile, TTT Part 24
Steve and my trip to New York City and how we connected with several NosillaCastaways. On our trip we used the free Hopstop app to navigate the subways. I explain how Slau created music in front of our very eyes in his recording studio, and refer back to how he created Podsafe for Peace so […]
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I’ve talked quite a few times about how much I love the Internet and how many new friends Steve and I have made and new experiences we’ve had as a result of the Internet. Because of the Internet and podcasting, we met Don McAllister and became good friends. Eventually he gave my name to Captain […]
Continue readingWhy You DO Want Notifications On Your Wrist
Just about everyone on earth is writing about wearables right now from the Fitbits of old to the Pebbles of ten minutes ago to the Android Wears of today and the Apple Watch of tomorrow. I have an observation to make about the need for notifications on our wrists. I hear a lot of people […]
Continue reading#496 Usage Widget, Terror on Mac mini, All You Have to Do is Ask, Tie Something to it First, TTT 23 Networking Part 2
Jonny Quinlan reviews Usage Widget for iOS. I tell the sad tale of how we gave Steve’s mom a new Mac mini and almost lost both of her email accounts forever. Don’t like your bills? Call the service provider and ask them to lower the bill. How my father taught me to tie something to […]
Continue readingMac mini: Happiness, Disaster, Relief
This weekend Steve and I traveled to see his parents to upgrade his mom from a white MacBook to a brand shiny new Mac mini. I love working with Merlee because she’s so clever and quick. She has her own way of doing things like any of us but she really listens to me before […]
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Do you have a recurring bill going on that just seems like it’s more than it should be? I would encourage you to call the company and simply ask them to lower the price. You would think that this wouldn’t work but I can swear that it does. Sometimes you do have to play a […]
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As many of you know, my dad was my hero. He was a mechanical engineer, and I tagged after him in the garage, the shop and outside, pretty much anywhere he would let me follow. One my earliest memories is sitting on a very tall stool in his shop and toppling right over to the […]
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