It’s time to take a break from all the photography talk and get back to my Top 5 lists as requested by Tammy. When last we left our hero, I had given you my top 5 iPad and top 5 iPhone apps. Now it’s time for my Top 5 Mac Apps. Again my criteria will […]
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NEET Sleeve to Protect Your Lightning Cables by Mark Pouley
Greetings from the beautiful and remote shores of Twin Lakes Washington. This is Mark Pouley with a quick review of a product I picked up at Macworld. Actually, I bought the product for my wife and this is her review. When I go to Macworld I’m always looking for some sort of gadget to bring home to […]
Continue readingBumpy Road Converting from LastPass to 1Password
I know you all are looking for an update, but I still haven’t quite convinced my in-laws to use a password manager. I thought I had them close when my father-in-law read a Consumer Reports article about security that talked about how great LastPass is, but he wrote a message this week that they just […]
Continue readingAperture Dead or Alive
Even if you’re not a photography nut, I think you’ll be interested in a topic that has many of us in a tizzy this week, and that’s the announcement by Apple that they are not doing any further development on their high end photo application, Aperture. Aperture is currently at version 3 with a bunch […]
Continue readingWhen a 200mm Lens Isn’t Really 200mm
I’m still having a ball with my new mirrorless camera (the Olympus OM-D EM-10). When I first started looking into this I mentioned that I was going to make the switch to my friend Diane. For some odd reason she trusts my judgment and said, “great, when you decide, let me know what to buy”. […]
Continue readingUse Custom Fields to Tell Your Contacts Apart
The Apple Contacts application isn’t really designed to handle how many different ways we have of contacting people these days. In particular it’s awful at handling couples in a single card entry. Let’s say you’re friends with Bob and Sally Schwinkendorf. You send them a holiday card every year so you want both of their […]
Continue readingPodfeet Might be a Wee Bit Faster
I am an amazing proof reader. I can spot a typo on a piece of paper that’s across a table from me and turned around, but I can never see typos in my own work. I can only think it’s an arrogance thing in my brain, that there’s no chance I would ever make a […]
Continue readingKilling the Cord $10 at a Time
Steve and I are big fans of television and we really like the content we get from cable. We have 5 TVs, 3 of which have TiVos on them with cable cards so we can watch and record a ton of TV. We also like Internet TV content. We use Amazon Instant Video to rent […]
Continue readingProJive XLR for Big Girl Mic Input to RecoLive MultiCam
Last week I talked about the awesome $5 app for the iPad (and iPhone) MultiCam from RecoLive that lets you record a multi-camera session using cameras on your iOS devices and Mac and even your desktop. I had one complaint that I wasn’t able to use an external mic, because Multi-Cam simply didn’t have an […]
Continue readingUsing Automator to Launch Applications
Every Sunday night between 4:30 and 4:45pm, I get ready to do the live show. It’s a pretty complex operation (I even have a diagram). Most of the hardware pieces are plugged in all the time, my microphone, my camera, and my Mac, but I run seven applications on my main Mac to get the […]
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