Allison interviews Mark Setrakian about his robotic artwork. Mark describes a robotic hand art piece that deftly manipulates and rotates a globe on the tips of its fingers. Mark’s background is from the movie industry including work at ILM. The setting is the Engadget Live event in downtown Los Angeles. Learn more at youtube.com/user/msetrakian. Using […]
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2.4 & 5GHz Dual-Band Routers – Should You Give the Bands the Same Name?
Dave Hamilton of the Mac Geek Gab is a brilliant man and you should always listen to his technical advice. Part of his advice about life in general is to always question the experts, which means you should question him! A while back he gave some advice on naming of the two bands in routers […]
Continue readingAppearance: Daily Tech News Show with Patrick Beja
Tom Merritt is off on special assignment so Patrick Beja of Le Rendevous Tech was running the show today and asked me to come on as his guest. We had a really interesting conversation about the impact Facebook’s impending release of Notes as a blogging platform could change the landscape. Using a Screen Reader? click […]
Continue readingWhy I Will Always Buy from OWC
When is the last time you had a perfect customer experience? It’s been a long time, am I right? It’s so common today to be faced with people who don’t know how to do their job, or do the wrong job, or don’t clean up after the job, that if we’re simply not mistreated we […]
Continue readingType2Phone Lets You Type From Your Mac to Any iOS Device
After I posted my review of the Logitech k480 keyboard I got a comment from Richard that he uses the Mac app Type2Phone to let him type on all of his devices right from his Mac. I had completely forgotten about this delightful little app! I actually bought it back when I reviewed it ages […]
Continue readingUse 3 Bluetooth Devices at Once with the Logitech k480 Keyboard
Typing on a Mac or PC with a real keyboard is second nature to most of us, but typing on the glass screens of our phones and tablets is still annoying. We get by, but no one actually likes the experience. We feel inefficient when typing on them, shortening our thoughts and being less clear […]
Continue readingUbuntu Linux Inside Windows 10 Inside OS X Yosemite
Chris Ashley and his minions from the SMR Podcast are a bad influence on me. Their excitement about Windows 10 got me wanting to try it too. I’m a member of their Facebook group and they encouraged me to give it a try and explained that you actually can run it for free even if […]
Continue reading12″ MacBook Now That The Honeymoon is Over
This week Don McAllister posted an interesting article on his blog about his thoughts a couple months into using the new 12″ MacBook. Like me, he loves how thin and light it is but he had a few problems with it that he just couldn’t get past. The main thing was that he kept hoping […]
Continue readingCan TripMode Demystify My Massive Network Data Usage?
When I write up a blog post or talk about something on the podcast, I like to wait until I have a problem to be solved, a potential solution, and an assessment of how well that solution worked out to solve the real problem. This is not going to be one of those nice little […]
Continue readingWhen Apple Watch IS a Necessity
The Apple Watch (and all smart watches) are all the rage right now with smart people questioning whether we actually need them at all. A top question is whether you’d drive back home to get your smart watch if you forgot to put it on, like you probably would your smart phone. Of course I […]
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