A five year retrospective of everyone who made the show possible, Steve writes a poem commemorating the show, Ron David tells a story, and Bart remembers the last five years. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Knightwise tells us how to be 100% sure you’re protected from Adobe vulnerabilities. Listen to the Podcast Once (1hr […]
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#259 Mom Digital Book Reader, Video Podcasts, Sheepshaver Running OS 8.5, OverDrive Media, Audiobook Builder, Don McAllister
My Mother’s Day present: Porter Cable 7424XP Dual Action Orbital Polisher, Mom tells us about her Digital Book Reader, courtesy of the Library of Congress, and I walk through each of the video podcasts I like in answer to a listener request: The Apple Byte, Diggnation, The Digg Reel, Circuits with David Pogue, Onion News […]
Continue reading#258 Santa Monica College, Tech Doctor, Qwit, Goodreader, SLR from Auto to Manual
My advice to Santa Monica College’s Computer Science Department, and a new podcast called The Tech Doctor from dr-carter.com. In Dumb Question Corner we talk about how to use Twitter without creating an account and I attempt to answer the question of What Problem does the iPad Solve? Matt Rhinsesmith brings us another Twitter client […]
Continue reading#257 French Maids, Calendar Sync, Multi-Row Bookmarks, iPad Accessibility, Nambu
French Maid Update and in Dumb Question Corner I ask the question – how to sync Calendars to iPhone and iPad. Jim Sewell @Deverill tells us about the great support he received recently from Smile On My Mac about Text Expander. Review of the Firefox Plugin Multi-Row Bookmarks . In Down a Blind Alley, Shane […]
Continue reading#256 Breevy, Boomshine, Air Video, Hipstamatic, Colour Profiles
Review of Breevy for text expansion on Windows from , addictive Boomshine from k2xl.com. Donald Burr reviews Air Video for Mac, PC and iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad from inmethod.com. Robert Lachman of photographyandthemac.com tells us how he gets great iPhone pictures using Hipstamatic from hipstamaticapp.com. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart explains colour spaces and why […]
Continue readingSkype vs iChat at the Southern California Mac Owners/Users Group (SMOG)
On April 10th I had the great pleasure of addressing the Southern California Mac Owners/Users Group (affectionately referred to as SMOG). The subject was Skype vs. iChat on the Mac. You can view and download the slides from slideshare.net/nosillacast.
Continue reading#255 Lemi-Shine, Shopper, Red Laser, iPhone SDK
Bar Keeper’s Friend and Lemi-Shine for your dishwasher’s hard water deposits, iPad update and how I had to get a new one, Keynote Fail, iPod Nano recall. In Dumb Question Corner Gaz asks and answers his own question about opening a bunch of folders at once. In “It’s so easy your mom can use it” […]
Continue reading#254 iPad vs Sony eReader Smackdown with Knightwise
As a special treat I bring you Knightwise from The Knightcast hosted over at knightwise.com as I challenge his assertions that the Sony eReader is a much better device than that dreaded Apple iPad. Listen to the Podcast Once (44 min)
Continue reading#253 iPad, Unboxing iPad, Quicken Essentials, Shure SM-58, Itsy
Early review of the buying experience of the iPad, early impressions, accessories and apps. Unboxing video made by Steve at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDtdX9EKFNc. Katie Floyd of Mac Power Users reviews Quicken Essentials from quicken.intuit.com and Elliott Bowles of video.elliottmediagroup.com reviews the Shure SM-58 Microphone from shure.com. In Chit Chat Across the Pond we go through all the […]
Continue reading#252 Month iPhone user, No Pre-amp on Macs, RemotePad, Allister’s ScreenSteps Ad
17 month old baby with an iPhone at youtube.com, in Dumb Question Corner we talk about why the mic jack doesn’t work on Macs, and Allister does the best ScreenSteps ad ever. Dean asks some really good questions about the iPad that I can actually answer. I talk about how much I hate the phrase […]
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