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 […]
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Will 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 readingCCATP #413 Bart Busschots Programming By Stealth 4 of x (HTML In-line Elements)
In the previous installment Bart introduced us to the concept of block-level tags, and in-line tags. Block level tags define blocks of text like headers, paragraphs and lists, and starting a new block-level tag generally starts a new line in the page. Inline tags on the other hand effect a part of a block, and […]
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 readingNC #549 iPad Pro, Change Everything, Smart Cover Physics, Amadeus Pro Review
Listen to David Sawyer of TSOLife on Chit Chat Across the Pond, I talk iPad Pro on SMR Podcast, Daily Tech News Show, and Mac Roundtable. We’ll talk about how I changed EVERYTHING in my workflow on the podcast. Then I’ll explain why Apple can’t keep iPad Pro Smart Covers on the shelves, and then […]
Continue readingReplacing GarageBand with Amadeus Pro for Podcasting
Recording a podcast isn’t really similar to recording music but for years I’ve used GarageBand to do the podcast. For example, GarageBand defaults to having the metronome on, keeping track of beats per minute, and even having reverb on voice tracks. MANY years ago Will, a good friend of the show, created a little script […]
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 readingCCATP #412 David Sawyer of TSOLife
David Sawyer is the CEO and founder of TSOLife, also known as The Story of Life. TSOLife is a web application that lets users leave behind their own legacy for future generations including text, audio and video. David is currently a student at Stetson University with the vision of helping us capture our memories in […]
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 […]
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