A few years ago the kids got Steve an iGrill for Christmas. This is a gadget-lovers dream. It’s a set of cooking thermometers that communicate over Bluetooth to your phone so you don’t have to hover around the barbecue or oven looking at the thermometers. Steve is a big barbecuer, and he especially likes the […]
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I Love You, Man
This weekend, long time NosillaCastaway Claus Wolfe from Germany flew from his home in Frankfurt to the United States for a short vacation. He wrote to us a while back to tell us he’d be passing briefly through Los Angeles and wondered if we could get together. We talked about everything WE thought he might […]
Continue readingWill the Apple Pencil Make You an Artist?
I was born with a really well developed left brain, the side associated with logic. Science and math came easily to me and it was natural that I went into engineering as a result. My three brothers were also reasonably bright boys, but they were gifted with artsy fartsy skills associated with a well developed […]
Continue readingStar Trails with the Olympus E-M10
Have you ever seen those cool photos of the night sky where you can see the trails of the stars in arcs around the North Star? I love those shots and have always wanted to get one, and this week I succeeded. I’d like to back up and set the stage for you. Steve and […]
Continue readingWhy Apple Can’t Keep iPad Pro Smart Covers On the Shelves
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 […]
Continue readingChange 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 […]
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