Allistair Jenks on Pentax and other cameras. iWork.com reviewed (good), Office Live at live.office.com reviewed (bad). Jonathan Witherspoon reviews the Motorola T505 with the Sprint Overdrive for using your car as a speaker for your smartphone or iPad. Show Package Contents helps the blind find accessible installers for Flash. iSaidWhat review from Matt Rhinesmith from tapparatus.com/isaidwhat. Chit Chat Across the Pond is a hodge podge this week from a Dumb Question about the xmp files that Adobe creates with RAW files to how to pick a starter DSLR, and a discussion of the Big Browser Shakeup.
Car waxing with my new orbital polisher – the time lapse video: on youtube.com and look at the outcome: Kyle’s 10 year old car. How I typed 11 pages of notes on an iPad, my new Nikole Day Bag (purse) from REI.com. Paperdesk from mypaperdesk.com for note taking (but I chose Pages from Apple). James Fisher sends in a testimonial on ScreenSteps and how it helped him communicate with Apple, here’s his PDF guide. Gary Rosenzweig of MacMost Now from macmost.com teaches me how to make forms in Numbers. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart tells us about a bad security flaw in Flash that you NEED to patch at get.adobe.com/flashplayer – but guess what? The installer is not accessible! Bart answers Robert Brown’s question on where to start as a new SLR user, he takes a more detailed pass through use of the light meter, and closes out our series on moving away from the automatic mode to manual by explaining the auto-focus mechanism.
All Things D posted the full length video of Steve Jobs interview by Walter Mossberg and Kara Swisher. If you watch till an hour and 23 minutes in, you’ll see my good friend David Roth asking Steve asking a question, and if you can hang in until an hour and 26 minutes in you can see me asking Steve about High Definition Copy Protection (it’s worth the wait).
All Things Digital conference hosted by the Wall Street Journal and technology columnists Walter Mossberg and Kara Swisher. My first hand observations of interviews with Steve Jobs (Apple), Julius Genachowski (FCC), Paul Jacobs (Qualcomm), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), James Cameron (Avatar), Steve Ballmer & Ray Ozzie (Microsoft), and Alan Mullaly (Ford). Demos of the Kno from kno.com and the Dell Streak youtube.com. All my photos available at flickr.com. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart tells us how to protect ourselves from tab nabbing attacks and continues his lessons on how to move from automatic to manual on your SLR – this week on light metering.
Rodd Roddenberry’s upcoming movie at treknationmovie.com. How and why I carried a PC, a Mac and an iPad on my latest business trip. iPad setup via fresh eyes including learning how to set up Gmail using Exchange of all things Google syncing to Apple iPad via Microsoft Exhange. In Chit Chat Across the Pond on Security Lite we learn about how Chrome released for Mac (finally), Adobe releases cross-platform security update for Photoshop CS4, and data on your iPhone might not be as secure as you think. Then Bart gives us his first impressions of the iPad from first hand experience.
Knightwise on peacocks and geese, iCal syncing to iPhone and iPad finally solved. In Dumb Question Corner Sydney from Australia asks for an explanation of some of the finer points of of Twitter. I explain my efforts to see if I can read library books on the iPad and Donald Burr reviews Donald Burr of Otaku no Podcast from otakunopodcast.com reviews the MusicPower Encore from OriginalPower.com and the Tekkeon TekCharge MP-1800 from Tekkeon.com. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart comes back from the Man-Flu and tells us how to photograph butterflies.
A five year retrospective of everyone who made the show possible, Steve writes a poem commemorating the show, Ron David tells a story, and Bart remembers the last five years. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Knightwise tells us how to be 100% sure you’re protected from Adobe vulnerabilities.
My advice to Santa Monica College’s Computer Science Department, and a new podcast called The Tech Doctor from dr-carter.com. In Dumb Question Corner we talk about how to use Twitter without creating an account and I attempt to answer the question of What Problem does the iPad Solve? Matt Rhinsesmith brings us another Twitter client review for Linux, this time it’s Qwit from code.google.com/p/qwit, and David Allen from Mac 20 Questions reviews Goodreader from goodiware.com and ToDo from Appigo at appigo.com/todo. In Chit Chat Across the Pond we do a bit of follow up on the urgent Adobe PDF security problem and then Bart explains how to go from Auto to Manual on your Digital SLR: bartbusschots.ie/blog.
French Maid Update and in Dumb Question Corner I ask the question – how to sync Calendars to iPhone and iPad. Jim Sewell @Deverill tells us about the great support he received recently from Smile On My Mac about Text Expander. Review of the Firefox Plugin Multi-Row Bookmarks . In Down a Blind Alley, Shane Jackson gives us a review of the iPad from a blind accessibility perspective. Katie Floyd of Mac Power Users is the surprise host of Chit Chat Across the Pond where she and Bart discuss the Twitter client Nambu from nambu.com.
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