http://www.podfeet.com/wordpress Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:15:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Nosillacast no http://www.podfeet.com/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://www.podfeet.com/wordpress/category/1/ http://www.podfeet.com/wordpress/2012/02/08/blindfolded/ http://www.podfeet.com/wordpress/2012/02/08/blindfolded/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:15:09 +0000 podfeet http://www.podfeet.com/wordpress/?p=2802 At Macworld | iWorld 2012, I presented a Tech Talk in which I blindfolded myself in order to demonstrate the accessibility features built in for the blind on the iPhone and Mac. I’d like to say there was flawless execution, but I’d be lying to you. The good news is that the [...]]]> http://www.podfeet.com/wordpress/2012/02/08/blindfolded/feed/ 0 http://www.podfeet.com/wordpress/2012/02/05/351-sony-drm-bias-drm-wavepad-azul-blue-microphone-heatmaps-piezo-airfoil-sarah-lane/ http://www.podfeet.com/wordpress/2012/02/05/351-sony-drm-bias-drm-wavepad-azul-blue-microphone-heatmaps-piezo-airfoil-sarah-lane/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:19:56 +0000 podfeet http://www.podfeet.com/wordpress/?p=2796 Sony DRM keeps me from getting the digital copy of District 9 that I paid for, but it’s ok, they offered me The Smurfs instead. Bias DRM keeps me from using the copy of Sound Soap I bought, but WavePad from http://nch.com.au saves the day. 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Avatron with Air Display on iOS in iTunes, Air Display in the Mac App Store, Air Sharing for iPhone in iTunes, Air Sharing universal for iPhone & iPad in iTunes, [...]]]> http://www.podfeet.com/wordpress/2012/01/29/350-macworld-2012-blindfolded-avatron-nite-ize-gear-ties-parasync-powis-icase-wps-flaw-in-wifi-star-photography/feed/ 1 Macworld 2012 has come and gone, hear our experiences, how well Blindfolded! went, and hear interviews of vendors on the show floor. Avatron with Air Display on iOS in iTunes, Air Display in the Mac App Store, Air Sharing for iPhone in iTunes, Macworld 2012 has come and gone, hear our experiences, how well Blindfolded! went, and hear interviews of vendors on the show floor. Avatron with Air Display on iOS in iTunes, Air Display in the Mac App Store, Air Sharing for iPhone in iTunes, Air Sharing universal for iPhone & iPad in iTunes, and Print Sharing in iTunes. Nite Ize brings us Gear Ties at REI, iPhone Connect Case Niteize.com Connect Case and Connect Case accessories: NiteIze.com Connect Case Accessories. Parat Solutions demonstrates the ParaSync to charge and sync 10 iPads (also models for 20 iPhones/iPods) at Paratsolutions.com. Powis iCase with 9 different positions at powiscase.com. The NosillaCastaways party was lots of fun at Macworld | iWorld, check out the photos on flickr.com/photos/nosillacast/sets/72157629089333159/ and Mark Pouley's shots of just the Google Hangout we did with people who couldn't come at flickr.com/photos/switchermark/sets/72157629087853459/. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart tells us about a dreadful flaw in WPS on most wifi routers (not in Apple Airports luckily). To look up your router to find out if it's got the flaw and if turning off WPS will actually help, go to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0Ags-JmeLMFP2dFp2dkhJZGIxTTFkdFpEUDNSSHZEN3c. If yours has the flaw and you want to be daring, install a non-standard router OS like the ones listed here: wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wireless_router_firmware_projects. After that Bart lightens things up with his tutorial on how to take photographs of stars without fancy kit: bartb.ie/blog/?p=2226. Hi this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Mac Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Macintosh bias. Today is Sunday January 29th, 2012 and this is show number 350. Well Macworld was a total blast. The vast majority of the Mac Roundtable crew was there, so it was a great time to meet up with old friends. Not everyone was there, which was bittersweet but we managed to bear up. There were a lot of NosillaCast listeners there too. It's such fun to walk down the halls and keep running into someone you know. The show was wonderful for more reasons than friends. This year they changed the pricing for the technical class track. It used to cost $3-400, so I never went. Now it's only $75 for the Tech Talks if you sign up early, $100 if you sign up late. All day long I was stressed out because there were so many cool subjects I wanted to learn about. I was stressed out because I couldn't find enough time to go to the show floor either! I think that's the good way to go though, you don't wanna be bored, right? Zack wrote in and said he knocked out the show floor in 3 hours so he was disappointed. I think trying to go through that fast though you miss a lot of the little gems. Steve and I got a lot of interviews of some really cool stuff, so I loved the show floor. But I can see that if I only had the show floor to go to it wouldn't have entertained me for days. Let's talk next about Blindfolded! I've really got mixed feelings about it - it was somewhere between a total success and an epic fail. I guess I should elaborate. The quick plot I'd planned was to use the iPhone and text messaging to ask Katie to dinner, then to switch to the Mac. From there I would use Spotlight to launch Safari. I'd navigate to Yelp, search for an Italian restaurant in San Francisco. Once I found one I liked, I'd copy the address (that was the trickiest part). Then I'd launch iCal, create a new event for dinner with Katie. I'd paste in the address from Yelp, set up an alarm, and then add Katie as an attendee and send her the message. I know that sounds like 30 seconds for a sighted person, but that's a good half hour with a newb like me using VoiceOver! I chose this sequence because it exercised so many different commands, especially on the Mac. It would require me to work with two different applications, Nosillacast no http://www.podfeet.com/wordpress/2012/01/22/349-ibooks-author-omnifocus-list-ihandy-level-silicone-iphone-cases-sopapipa/ http://www.podfeet.com/wordpress/2012/01/22/349-ibooks-author-omnifocus-list-ihandy-level-silicone-iphone-cases-sopapipa/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:15:55 +0000 podfeet http://www.podfeet.com/wordpress/?p=2760 Why you might want to subscribe to the NosillaCast News. Blindfolded! at Macworld | iWorld. iBooks 2, iBooks Author change the textbook industry over night. Teleporting Manhattan Repertory or Super-Speed Project Management using Mac Apps, Ios Apps and Apple Gear – Part 2 using OmniFocus, an IOS application called LIST! and iHandy [...]]]> http://www.podfeet.com/wordpress/2012/01/22/349-ibooks-author-omnifocus-list-ihandy-level-silicone-iphone-cases-sopapipa/feed/ 6 Why you might want to subscribe to the NosillaCast News. Blindfolded! at Macworld | iWorld. iBooks 2, iBooks Author change the textbook industry over night. Teleporting Manhattan Repertory or Super-Speed Project Management using Mac Apps, Why you might want to subscribe to the NosillaCast News. Blindfolded! at Macworld | iWorld. iBooks 2, iBooks Author change the textbook industry over night. Teleporting Manhattan Repertory or Super-Speed Project Management using Mac Apps, Ios Apps and Apple Gear - Part 2 using OmniFocus, an IOS application called LIST! and iHandy Level Free from iHandysoft Inc. George from Tulsa recommends silicone iPhone cases from Amzer and TPU Silicone Skin. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart explains SOPA and PIPA, why we care and why even though these particular bills have been stopped, we need to keep paying attention. Hi this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Mac Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Macintosh bias. Today is Sunday January 22nd, 2012 and this is show number 349. NosillaCast News So last week was fun, wasn't it? You woke up Monday morning all excited about the latest episode of the NosillaCast…or like Timothy Gregoire, happy to have some company on his 1.5 hour commute? But then, what the heck? No NosillaCast? Has the earth stopped spinning on its axis? Was she hit by a train? You can thank Libsyn for that little interruption in service. I uploaded the show to Libsyn at around 6pm as usual, had a lovely dinner of filet mignon with a nice Merlot, and then sat down to finish up the Web site part of the work, and then I hit publish. The first thing Steve and I do is check iTunes to make sure it downloads properly and that's the first chance I give Steve to check to make sure the audio is in good shape. Well imagine our dismay when we hit refresh, the little spinny thing started to spin and then it stopped. I re-uploaded the audio to Libsyn as soon as this happened, hoping it was just a borked upload. No joy. then I started poking in the Libsyn interface, and noticed that it was recognizing the correct file type and file size. No way it could do that if the file was borked when it got to them. If you haven't heard me complain about Libsyn before, this will be new to you, but get this - for a PAID FOR SERVICE, they provide NO weekend tech support! the only good news at this point was that the Twitter name @libsyn actually was paying attention and was very sympathetic, but the person behind the name was sad to tell me that he/she had no technical expertise and could't get it fixed for me. I'm not sure why that worked to calm me down but it actually did. I felt like at least they felt bad…I opened a ticket with Libsyn and went to bed. I sent an email first thing Monday morning to the president of Wizzard Media, Rob Walch, and I was surprised to get an immediate response that he was escalating the ticket. I'd noticed it came back as a priority #2 ticket - perhaps because it only affected a few people. Before 8am, the problem was fixed and the show was finally available. So here's the thing. If you followed me on Twitter, you knew all this. And if you subscribed to the NosillaCast News, you also had an early warning system. If you want to be notified when things go borky, please subscribe to the NosillaCast News by filling out the teeny tiny little form on the left sidebar over at podfeet.com. It's quick, it's easy and I promise not to spam you. You'll get one email a week telling you the show came out on schedule, OR a notice if something went wrong, and you get special notices of contests and that sort of thing. I hope this whole mess didn't ruin your week! Blindfolded! I'm getting REALLY excited about Macworld | iWorld. This is last call for the NosillaCastaways party on Friday night from 6-8 at Jillians in the Metreon, so if you're going to be in San Francisco, make sure you register by clicking the NosillaCastaways Party 2012 link in the header at podfeet.com and enter the double secret password. We will be having people checking this list. We have about twice as many people rsvp'd to the party as last year, Nosillacast no