Category: Blog Posts

If you’re looking for the silver bullet that will make you instantly productive, then you should just move along now. But if you’ve tried a lot of different apps to manage the various projects you have in your life and none have really seemed to click with the way you think, then DayMap from whetstoneapps.com […]

Back in 2009 I told you about a really cool application that I’m still using five years later, so I figure it’s time for a refresher. The application is called DVDpedia from Bruji.com. If you paid any attention to my post about why Steve and I still buy physical media, you’ll remember that we have […]

Steve and I are rather old school. We still buy physical DVDs and Blue-ray discs. Every once in a while I try to talk Steve into buying in iTunes but he usually talks me out of it. His argument is that if we buy the physical DVD (usually a Blu-ray disc) then he can rip […]

I have to set up this next segment. I was doodling around on Think Geek (as one does) and I came across a very silly thing. It was a small portable charger that they claimed could jump start a car. The description read like it was real, but I knew it had to be fake. […]

MacLurker here with a review of the PiCATso Paint App for iPad. Normally we start with the problem to be solved. However, I’m not so sure there really is a problem here; this may be a solution in search of a problem The PiCATso app is a painting app that will bring out the artistic […]

One of the great challenges in life is arranging a group of people to show up to an event all at the same time. It might be a work meeting, a party, or dinner out with friends, but you dread being the one to say, “ok, who can come if we do it on Wednesday?” […]

As I’ve mentioned a few hundred times, I use blogging software called WordPress to create podfeet.com. I’m definitely not an expert but after 9 years of using it I can pretty much muddle my way through. The good news is that both Bart and my buddy Niraj are experts in WordPress and the underlying technologies, […]

It’s time for the 4th and probably final installment of my top 5 favorite apps, this time I’m going to go through my menu bar apps. This one might not follow my previous rules, a few of my top 5 might be pretty mainstream. Before going through them though, I wanted to give you two […]

I have a couple of pet peeves about the way people talk about the tech industry. When I say tech, I mean computers, cell phones, Internet stuff and pretty much anything that gets near a microprocessor. Let me give a couple of examples of my pet peeves and I’ll wrap it together at the end. […]

A few months ago Steve and I heard about a documentary playing at a local small theater. We’re not big documentary people, but this one sounded special. It’s called Particle Fever, and it’s the story of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, located on the border of Switzerland and France, and the quest for the Higgs Boson. […]