I’m slightly more organized about my photos than the average bear as we’ve discussed in the past. I like to name my photos so that at any time if someone mentions say halloween costumes, I can grab my phone and instantly show them the photo of the amazing bat costume my father made for my […]
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Slow Down RoboCalls with Nomorobo
Steve is an avid Reddit contributor and reader, and when the proverbial stuff hit the fan a few months ago that PayPal was going to start robocalling its customers, Reddit was on fire about the topic. Since then PayPal dropped the idea. Anyway, Steve was reading the rants on Reddit and someone mentioned a service […]
Continue readingI Wonder What Would Happen If…
My housekeeper Rocio has been working for us for years. This summer her soon-to-be 13 year old son has nothing to do so she’s dragging him along to work so that he doesn’t sit home playing video games all day or get into some kind of mischief. I think Rocio is brilliant to do this […]
Continue readingApple Really Does Protect Your Health Data
Dave Hamilton of the Mac Geek Gab was talking about how his iPhone misbehaved badly when he first installed iOS 8.4. He said that the battery was draining even while on the charger. While interesting I didn’t worry about it too much because I’d been running it for a while now and my battery was […]
Continue readingDTNS 2538 – AMAZON IS PAST ITS PRIME DAY
Thought you might want to see my latest appearance on Daily Tech News Show! Using a Screen Reader? click here To read the show notes and subscribe to the show, go over to dailytechnewsshow.com
Continue readingWill Bienna’s $24 Bluetooth 4.1 Headphones Work for Me?
I had the opportunity to test out a review unit of the Bienna Bluetooth 4.1 Wireless Sport Headphones Sweatproof Exercise Stereo Earphones. That’s an awfully long name so for brevity I’ll call them the Bienna Headphones. You may recall that I’ve tested out several Bluetooth options, none of which worked very well when I was […]
Continue readingPopClip & Bookmarklets for Amazon Affiliate Links by Claus
My new favorite NosillaCastaways is My new favorite NosillaCastaway is Claus Wolf from Germany. He came up with two great ideas to make it super easy and even kind of fun to use Amazon Affiliate links. They’re nice and geeky too. Like any good NosillaCastaway he started with a problem to be solved: “People don’t […]
Continue readingUsing Firefox Web Development Tools to Speed Up Podfeet.com
On last week’s show, Bart mentioned one of the tools he’d shown us in Taming the Terminal Part 34 of n, the way you can use Firefox’s developer tools to time how long different things take to load on your website. I had forgotten about that and thought it would be fun to take a […]
Continue readingPutting Music & Podcasts on the Apple Watch is as Easy as Using a Blackberry
< With the advent of Apple Music it’s pretty much all anyone in tech podcasting is talking about. You can just imagine how entertaining that is for me. I thought I should jump on the bandwagon and talk about music too! Steve went into my iTunes account and set it up for me, teaching it […]
Continue readingInspire the Youngins this Summer with littleBits
It’s summer time in the northern hemisphere and all of the little munchkins have detailed plans on how to spend their vacation. These plans include sleeping in, eating cocoa puffs in front of the TV watching The Price is Right and maybe fill out the afternoon playing video games. If you’re lucky they will work […]
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