Almost a year ago I told you how excited and honored I was to be asked to speak at Sal Saghoian’s CMD-D Conference on automation. My talk was entitled “Code-Free Automation”. The talks were recorded by Alex Lindsay and the Pixel Corps and only just now have been made available to the public! I’m thrilled […]
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Fighting with Excel and Numbers and Elapsed Time
You all know that I’m a huge fan of Excel. Nothing is as fun as getting a pivot table to turn a giant pile of data into actionable information or creating a graph that tells a story about your data. Heck, just this week, Michael Woerner was stuck on a tricky Excel problem and came […]
Continue readingVectornator Pro for iOS Tutorial on ScreenCasts Online
Back in May I told you about the Free, Yet Powerful Vector-Design Program for iOS in Vectornator Pro. I was so intrigued by this application that I created a video tutorial on Vectornator Pro fo ScreenCasts Online. Here’s a link to a teaser video for the tutorial. If you like what you see, there’s a […]
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Macally MacBook Pro Charger with Magnetic USB-C Cable
Since we’re on the theme today of charging laptops, I’d like to tell you about the Macally MacBook Pro Charger. We’d best start with a problem to be solved though, don’t you think? Apple ships the new 13″ MacBooks Pro with a 61W power adapter that charges the laptop over USB-C. It comes with the […]
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CCATP #557 – Tom Merritt on Community in Podcasting
This week Tom Merritt, host of the Daily Tech News Show, (and co-host of Cordkillers, Sword & Laser and Current Geek) joins us to talk about the importance of the community to his podcast. We’ll explore how he created such a thriving and participative community, what it means to him, what it would be like […]
Continue readingJackery & RAVPower Batteries Will Charge Your Laptop
Before learning about these two batteries, I highly recommend you read my previous article Can A Portable Battery Charge a Large Laptop?. In this article, I run through the math on how to figure out if one of these chargers will work for you. This background will be important as you judge these two batteries […]
Continue readingCan A Portable Battery Charge a Large Laptop?
I debated at length what to entitle this article as I rewrote it four separate times. I considered at one point entitling it, “How Many Engineers Does it Take to Understand a Battery?” But I settled on “Can A Portable Battery Charge a Large Laptop?” The article started as a review of a portable battery […]
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Security Bits – Bad Times for Facebook, Data Transfer Project, Bluetooth Bugs, Malware in the Mail
Pre-amble (by Allison) — Bad Times for Facebook Facebook lost $120B in value after their July Earnings call, which is the biggest one-day stock fall in history — marketwatch.com/… One root cause is that European advertising growth in Europe “decelerated more quickly than other regions” because of GDPR. Facebook Chief Financial Officer David Wehner said, […]
Continue readingThe Great Drobo Migration of 2018
A few months ago I told you about my tests of the new Drobo 5N2 vs the previous 5N model. They call it the 5N2 because it’s supposed to be twice as fast as the 5N. One of the features to allow it to go so much faster was the ability to use port aggregation, […]
Continue readingMacstock Expo – the People
NosillaCastaways Family Portrait! One of the biggest takeaways from Macstock Expo is how relaxing and comfortable it is to be surrounded by people with the same interests as you. If you’re anything like us, you’re often in the company of lovely people, but it can be hard to find things to find things to talk […]
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