The Problem to be Solved When I was preparing my workshop for Macstock, I knew I’d be in a big room with the audience pretty spread out and far away. I was going to be teaching from my Tiny Mac Tips series, so it was going to be a live demo. I started looking around […]
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Why I Upgraded to Setapp’s Power User Plan
I’ve been a Setapp subscriber for many years and I’ve found a fair number of apps through the service, but to be honest, I haven’t taken full advantage of it. The main problem was when I started living the two-Mac lifestyle with a MacBook Air and a MacBook Pro, and that caused a price increase […]
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Turn Your Ordinary Toilet into a Bidet with the Smart Bemis bioBidet BB-1200
At CES in January, Steve and I interviewed James Amburgey from Bemis about their smart bidets. I’m excited to tell you that they were kind enough to send me one to review. Go ahead, make all your potty jokes to yourself right now, and then read the toddler book “Everybody Poops” by Taro Gomi. Ok, […]
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Bose Wired Headphones vs. Beats Fit Pro on a Plane
When we met up with Kaylee at Macstock this year, I was reminded of how great it is that she figures out how to use technology that others may feel is too out of date to consider. In fact, I think she has a preference for older tech. She very proudly showed off her minidisc […]
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Appearance on DTNS & New Info on AT&T for International Data
This week I had the pleasure of being on the Daily Tech News Show which was hosted by Sarah Lane and Robb Dunewood. As the guest, I got to pick the topic so I decided to walk through just a couple of my Tech on Travel – the Africa Edition. You heard most of it […]
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A Rusty Podcaster Makes Mistakes
At the beginning of last week’s show, you probably heard me say that the live audience heard the intro three times because I kept making mistakes. While Jill, Bart, and Allister flawlessly executed their three shows, I couldn’t stop messing up. And that was only the beginning. I Blame Automation I’m going to blame automation […]
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Security Bits — 15 September 2024
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Apple have decided to end their case against the NSO Group (authors of the infamous Pegasus spyware) because disclosure could do more harm to users than letting the NSO group off the hook — […]
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Rock Paper Pencil by Astropad Makes iPad Feel More Like Paper
Pencil on iPad is Slippery A few years ago, my friend Cheyenne, the elementary school teacher you’ve heard on the show a few times, told me that she uses a screen protector to make her iPad feel more like paper when she’s writing on it with Apple Pencil. Ever since then, I’ve been tempted to […]
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Appearance on “Beyond the Post” Podcast with Robb and Bodie
Shortly before we left on our Africa adventure, I had the great pleasure of being a guest on a relatively new podcast called Beyond the Post. The show is hosted by Robb Dunewood, who you may know from the SMR Podcast and the Tech Jawn, along with the infamous Bodie Grimm of the Kilowatt Podcast. […]
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Philips Hue Programming, Off the Charts (Part 3 of 3)
In the second instalment of this series, I left you with a couple of useful scripts — one to fetch the device ID of a light, given a name, and one to perform the conversion from RGB to CIE colour. I developed those two scripts as necessary parts of what comes next. I have demonstrated […]
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