I ordered the iPad Pro Smart Keyboard from Apple when I ordered my iPad but the delivery date isn’t until some time in December. In the mean time I’m walking around with a 13″, $1000 piece of glass in my hand and it’s terrifying. I was chatting with Bart and he said he’s a big […]
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Change Everything At Once
I don’t like change. When I finally decided to spin off Chit Chat Across the Pond into its own podcast I told you about all the things I haven’t changed in my life in decades. But once you start changing things, it gets easier and more tempting to keep changing things up. It’s almost like change […]
Continue readingMacphun & Trey Ratcliff Announce Aurora Pro HDR
When I was at the photowalk with Trey Ratcliff earlier this year in LA, he did a talk afterwards. He explained how he does his amazing HDR photography using Photomatix. He also said he hated the Photomatix interface so much that they should make prisoners use it! He told us that he was working with […]
Continue readingAlternote Brings a Nicer Interface to Evernote
I know we’re all supposed to love Evernote, but I just don’t. So many people tell me how they record everything in Evernote. I get the appeal of having a single place to record everything you want to remember, but there was something holding me back. I’ll get to that in a moment I did start […]
Continue readingFlash Memory in an iPod Classic – Don’t Try This at Home
I’ve been becoming more and more bold with hardware repair, becoming fearless at tearing open hardware to see what I can do. So when my friend David Roth asked me to do him a favor in which I could use my iFixit toolkit, I jumped at the chance. David found out that there’s a way […]
Continue readingNow, With Fewer Typos!
When spell check first came out, it was a wonderful thing. Those nice squiggly lines showing us our typos was glorious. I’m a really good speller but I do make typos so having that visual indicator was great. For some reason I can spot typos a mile away in anyone else’s writing, but my own […]
Continue readingApple TV + Siri = Joy
Steve and I bought the first generation Apple TV and we disliked it so much we sold it to Jonathan Cost for $50 just to get it out of our house. We bought gen 2 and 3 and liked them quite a bit better. Our use is split between Airplay (video podcasts thrown to the […]
Continue readingAre They Magic?
I was very excited when the new Apple gear got announced this year. While I wasn’t going to get an iPhone 6s because it was Steve’s turn, I was still really looking forward to getting a new AppleTV and a new iPad Pro and it’s new keyboard and especially the Pencil. But the months have […]
Continue readingChit Chat – After the Logo
New (to Me) Digital Audio Workstation – Amadeus Pro Now that the logo is done I had no excuse for not getting the show going. I mentioned earlier that I also thought this week would just be that much more challenging if I also changed recording software. Apple has been on a tear lately either […]
Continue readingLogo for Chit Chat Across the Pond
I figured that one of the long poles in the tent on getting Chit Chat Across the Pond started would be getting a logo for the show. I know there are great services out there that will design artwork for you, but I also know that there are a lot of talented folks in the […]
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