Better Sleep from Going to Bed Earlier I am Jill from the Northwoods. I have listened quietly to Allison and Bart for years. I work for a software company and used to be a systems administrator. I love learning how fully use gadgets and software to make life better and more enjoyable. I heard somewhere […]
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Why You NEED a DJI Osmo Pocket – by Joe Dugandzic
DJI Osmo Pocket Size vs iPhone 8 Plus So you’ve heard about those camera gimbal gizmos, right? Maybe you’ve even seen them out “in the wild” and thought they were pretty cool. But still, you think, “I have the iPhone 11 Pro Max with three cameras on it, and Tim promised that it would be […]
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Apple Watch Series 5 and the Phone Call of Sadness™
Lately, Steve and I have started upgrading our phones and watches every single year. I’m starting to seriously question this strategy. While we can afford to do this, and it’s great fun, in two cases I don’t think we’ve gotten our money’s worth. Last year we promised the kids that we’d flow down our iPhones […]
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I Found an Electronic Doorbell!
My Father the Scavenger My father grew up during the Great Depression and as a result, he became a bit of a scavenger. If he found something interesting like a screw or a nut on the ground, it was quite likely to come home in his pocket. Late in his working career, he was making […]
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Security Bits – 5 October 2019
Followup Bluetooth permissions on iOS A nice article explaining some of the most common legitimate reasons apps me request BlueTooth access: Here’s why so many apps are asking to use Bluetooth on iOS 13 — www.theverge.com/… CloudFlare’s Warp VPN has Finally been Released — blog.cloudflare.com/…, nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… & www.imore.com/… Note that VPNs can provide encryption and […]
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Apple Health: How to Add a Forgotten Workout – by Sandy Foster
This is Sandy Foster again with a little tip. I’m sure I’m not the only person who has forgotten to start a workout on the Apple Watch or the iPhone; it’s important to be able to add it afterwards, of course, and some time ago, I shared a tip for doing just that. In iOS […]
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Sleep Tracking is Stupid
I purposely wrote a clickbait title of “Sleep Tracking is Stupid” for two reasons. One, because it’s fun to rile people up, but more importantly that within some specific parameters, I believe that statement to be true.
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Tunity app review REVISITED – by Terry Austin
Hello Castaways! Terry Austin here with a review of a really cool app. Actually, we’re revisiting an app that Allison originally discovered and reviewed way back in the summer of 2016. Let’s start with our problem to be solved, and it’s way more common than many are willing to admit. TV volume! This may well […]
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Table of Sadness™ Japanese Style by Kaylee Dayo
Yahho! (SPELLED CORRECTLY 🤓 I thought maybe you’d change it to “Yahoo”… ) Kaylee dayo! And I’m definitely a geek. As I’m crazy (and this has been confirmed by Allison herself), once again this year, I have been running all the betas! (Well, except for watchOS, because I no longer wear an Apple Watch). I […]
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Significant Improvements in New Photos App on iOS 13
Ada & Grace in New Photos Showing Adjustments I’ve been a fairly happy user of Apple Photos on iOS and macOS ever since it came out. Sure I complain about how long it takes to download my 77K photos when something goes wrong, but the feature of having all of my photos everywhere is glorious. […]
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