I had the opportunity to test out a review unit of the Bienna Bluetooth 4.1 Wireless Sport Headphones Sweatproof Exercise Stereo Earphones. That’s an awfully long name so for brevity I’ll call them the Bienna Headphones. You may recall that I’ve tested out several Bluetooth options, none of which worked very well when I was […]
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PopClip & Bookmarklets for Amazon Affiliate Links by Claus
My new favorite NosillaCastaways is My new favorite NosillaCastaway is Claus Wolf from Germany. He came up with two great ideas to make it super easy and even kind of fun to use Amazon Affiliate links. They’re nice and geeky too. Like any good NosillaCastaway he started with a problem to be solved: “People don’t […]
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On last week’s show, Bart mentioned one of the tools he’d shown us in Taming the Terminal Part 34 of n, the way you can use Firefox’s developer tools to time how long different things take to load on your website. I had forgotten about that and thought it would be fun to take a […]
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< With the advent of Apple Music it’s pretty much all anyone in tech podcasting is talking about. You can just imagine how entertaining that is for me. I thought I should jump on the bandwagon and talk about music too! Steve went into my iTunes account and set it up for me, teaching it […]
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It’s summer time in the northern hemisphere and all of the little munchkins have detailed plans on how to spend their vacation. These plans include sleeping in, eating cocoa puffs in front of the TV watching The Price is Right and maybe fill out the afternoon playing video games. If you’re lucky they will work […]
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I was listening to TWiT this week and Georgia Dow was pleading with people to put down their tech and engage with each other. Becky Worley responded by talking about what the implications are when you look at your watch because you received a notification. Iain Thomson suggested that especially on a date you should […]
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George from Tulsa is a generous man and frequently will shoot Steve and me an email entitled “Brown Truck Arriving Soon”. By this he means that some gift is coming our way. One time it was peanuts, once it was a thing that plugged into power giving us USB ports and more 110V ports, and […]
Continue readingMore TagElegant and Inexpensive Apple Watch Stand from Spigen
The Apple Watch is an elegant piece of kit, but the charger that Apple sells you with the watch has a 6 meter, rather stiff cable going to the little magnetic puck. Since the cable is stiff, the puck kept flipping upside down so the magnet wasn’t face up. The puck is also white on […]
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It occurred to me that many of you might not know that I’m open to improvement ideas for the podcast and website. I get suggestions from time to time and quite often implement them. My favorite emails and tweets are telling me about typos. I can see a typo on someone ELSE’S writing from across […]
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One of the great things about teaching classes at conferences and user groups is how much YOU learn. Last week at Macstock, I did a demo of the new Audio Hijack and I’ve learned SO much more about the tool because of it. Before I explain what I learned, let me back up and explain […]
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