You all know that I’m a huge fan of Excel. Nothing is as fun as getting a pivot table to turn a giant pile of data into actionable information or creating a graph that tells a story about your data. Heck, just this week, Michael Woerner was stuck on a tricky Excel problem and came […]
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NC #691 Portable Battery Technology, Knightwise on Butterfly Keyboard Replacement, Jackery and RAVPower Battery Reviews
This week we dive deep into battery technology to figure out if a high-capacity battery can actually charge a laptop. Warning, you’ll learn about Watts Law and other terms so it’s a bit of a propeller beanie episode, but in the end you’ll have the skills to decide which battery is right for you. We […]
Continue readingVectornator Pro for iOS Tutorial on ScreenCasts Online
Back in May I told you about the Free, Yet Powerful Vector-Design Program for iOS in Vectornator Pro. I was so intrigued by this application that I created a video tutorial on Vectornator Pro fo ScreenCasts Online. Here’s a link to a teaser video for the tutorial. If you like what you see, there’s a […]
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Macally MacBook Pro Charger with Magnetic USB-C Cable
Since we’re on the theme today of charging laptops, I’d like to tell you about the Macally MacBook Pro Charger. We’d best start with a problem to be solved though, don’t you think? Apple ships the new 13″ MacBooks Pro with a 61W power adapter that charges the laptop over USB-C. It comes with the […]
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CCATP #557 – Tom Merritt on Community in Podcasting
This week Tom Merritt, host of the Daily Tech News Show, (and co-host of Cordkillers, Sword & Laser and Current Geek) joins us to talk about the importance of the community to his podcast. We’ll explore how he created such a thriving and participative community, what it means to him, what it would be like […]
Continue readingJackery & RAVPower Batteries Will Charge Your Laptop
Before learning about these two batteries, I highly recommend you read my previous article Can A Portable Battery Charge a Large Laptop?. In this article, I run through the math on how to figure out if one of these chargers will work for you. This background will be important as you judge these two batteries […]
Continue readingCan A Portable Battery Charge a Large Laptop?
I debated at length what to entitle this article as I rewrote it four separate times. I considered at one point entitling it, “How Many Engineers Does it Take to Understand a Battery?” But I settled on “Can A Portable Battery Charge a Large Laptop?” The article started as a review of a portable battery […]
Continue readingNC #690 Sweet Setup Love for Keep It and Useful Workflow, Drobo Migration, Mind Map Productivity, Security Bits
The Sweet Setup shows some love for Keep It and has a fantastic Workflow to add an iPhone X frame to screenshots. I’ll tell you about the (disappointing but ultimately successful) Great Drobo Migration of 2018. I promised the audio from my talk at Macstock Expo entitled “Mind Map Your Way to Productivity” and it’s […]
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Security Bits – Bad Times for Facebook, Data Transfer Project, Bluetooth Bugs, Malware in the Mail
Pre-amble (by Allison) — Bad Times for Facebook Facebook lost $120B in value after their July Earnings call, which is the biggest one-day stock fall in history — marketwatch.com/… One root cause is that European advertising growth in Europe “decelerated more quickly than other regions” because of GDPR. Facebook Chief Financial Officer David Wehner said, […]
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CCATP #556 – Bart Busschots on PBS 59 of X — More Bootstrap Breakpoints
Bart takes us back to Bootstrap content, now that we know all about breakpoints. He never told us when we were looking at things like margins and float and the display tag that they are also breakpoint-aware, because we didn’t know about breakpoints yet. It’s an easy lesson and it’s great fun to learn more […]
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