Category: Blog Posts

This article is time sensitive so jump to the bottom line if you don’t have time to read the whole thing right this minute. Otherwise, indulge me as I get to the point in my normal thorough manner. A couple weeks ago Bob Correa did a great Clarify tutorial showing how to enable the new […]

There’s been a lot of talk lately about these new phone plans in the United States where you can pay a monthly fee and get the new hotness every year when Apple (or I suppose Samsung or Microsoft) comes out with their new devices. There are some huge advantages to these plans and I’d like […]

Apple and I are NOT on good speaking terms right now. I was looking at my iPhone the other day and it spontaneously rebooted. I’m not talking about one of those pesky little Springboard reboots where it comes right back, I mean a fun scale reboot. This explained something I’d seen on the phone recently. […]

This week I asked my Twitter, G+ and Facebook followers to answer this question: “What are the first five apps you load on a new Mac?” This wasn’t necessarily their favorite apps but the first five they would need. I was overwhelmed with the number of responses, and sadly Steve Harris’ response was after the […]

Dave Gerlits sent me this email: Allison, Hi there. I’m taking you at your word about giving you feedback. On a recent show you talked about one of your listers (Darren) speaking up about the text on the email and how hard it is to read. You responded and said that you had fixed the […]

Back in the very very early days of podcasting, there was The Conversations Network, a non-profit headed up by Doug Kay. Doug’s idea was to create a series of podcasts by a global team of volunteers. Imagine the excitement of that age. This is around 2004/2005 when we were just realizing that we were in […]

If you’ve been following the show for a bit, you’ll know that I got a 12″ MacBook shortly after they were released. You’ll also know that I had to have it replaced because their fancy new key technology started locking up on me. Apple was great about replacing it on the spot, taking it back […]

I’m going to tell a story and I promise it ends with an actual review of the Manfrotto Compact Action Tripod. But first, my story of why I needed to buy a new tripod. When I got my first SLR camera, the Minolta X700 in 1980, I also bought a tripod. I used that tripod […]