Allison interviews Scott Hancock from PLEX about their new Live TV and DVR service. PLEX provides the software and services that allow you to create your own home media server. Using PLEX’s media server, you can access your movies, music and other media through your home network or remotely over the internet. PLEX’s new Live […]
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Manage All of Your Cloud Storage with CloudMounter
I’ve recently come across an interesting service called CloudMounter. CloudMounter is designed to help manage the plethora of cloud storage services we’re all using today. I’ll dig into more of the specifics of the problems it solves as I go through the review. If you’ve taken a look at CloudMounter in the past and didn’t […]
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Tiny Tip – Screen Record Apple TV
I posted a Tiny Tip recently about how to put your Apple TV and all connected components to sleep with one button press on the Apple TV remote. In the post, I included a screenshot of the Apple TV screen. You might be wondering how I captured it. The other day I launched QuickTime with […]
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Tiny Tip – Keyboard Shortcut to Delete in Save Dialog Boxes
If you’re a keyboard junkie, it bet it drives you nuts that when you try to close a window in which you don’t want to save the file, you have to drag your cursor all the way up to the save window to hit the delete button. You can save with the Enter key, but […]
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A few weeks ago I was listening to the Clockwise Podcast and Mikah Sargent briefly mentioned something about the sleep button on the Apple TV remote. I couldn’t get it out of my head wondering what he was talking about. I figured out that what he’d mentioned was actually something pretty amazing. If you hold […]
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CES 2018: New OtterBox Phone Cases
Allison interviews Beau Paschall from OtterBox about their new mobile phone cases. The OtterBox Symmetry line includes phone cases that are both rugged and stylish. OtterBox has also partnered with Disney to produce a line of Star Wars, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, and Disney Park themed phone cases. The setting is the CES show floor […]
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Security Bits – Google’s Ad Filter, iBoot Leak, iOS Teluga Text Bug
Security Medium 1 — Google’s Ad Filter On February 15 Google’s Chrome browser gained a nice new feature for controlling ads. It’s been reported on as an ad blocker, but that coverage misses a very important subtlety. Google itself calls the feature ad filtering, and an ad filter describes this feature very well indeed. Google […]
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Focos Tutorial on ScreenCasts Online
This week Don McAllister published my video tutorial of the iOS app Focos on ScreenCasts Online. This is an amazing app that works with dual-lens iPhones: iPhone 7+, 8+, and X. I’m really proud of this particular tutorial and the feedback has been amazing on it. Remember the Lytro camera that took the world by […]
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Monosnap – So Much More Than a Screen Snapshot Tool
Monosnap Main Window You know I’m a fiend for taking screenshots and annotating them. I’ve most recently told you about TeamPaper Snap which is a somewhat limited, but still useful menubar app for screenshots. Its big advantage is that it allows you to instantly upload to the web and copy the URL to your clipboard […]
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CES 2018: GE Connected Lighting
Allison interviews Alicia Gauer from GE about their new connected lighting products. Alicia describes their voice-controlled ceiling fixture that integrates Alexa and Google Home into an overhead light. She also describes the innovative GE Sol: the first table lamp to integrate Amazon Alexa voice services. The Sol includes a warm-colored light selection designed to help […]
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