As I’ve mentioned a few hundred times, I use blogging software called WordPress to create podfeet.com. I’m definitely not an expert but after 9 years of using it I can pretty much muddle my way through. The good news is that both Bart and my buddy Niraj are experts in WordPress and the underlying technologies, […]
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#479 Tech Talk Rant, Top 5 Menubar Apps: iStat Menus, Jettison, TextExpander, Cloak, Bartender and Chuck La Tournous on Camping Tech Gear
Rant about the way people talk about tech, my top 5 Menubar apps: iStat Menus from bjango.com, Jettison in the Mac App Store, TextExpander from smilesoftware.com, Cloak from getcloak.com and Bartender from macbartender.com to keep all these menubar apps cleaned up. In Chit Chat Across the Pond, we’re joined by Chuck La Tournous, contributing editor […]
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It’s time for the 4th and probably final installment of my top 5 favorite apps, this time I’m going to go through my menu bar apps. This one might not follow my previous rules, a few of my top 5 might be pretty mainstream. Before going through them though, I wanted to give you two […]
Continue readingPet Peeves About Tech Talk
I have a couple of pet peeves about the way people talk about the tech industry. When I say tech, I mean computers, cell phones, Internet stuff and pretty much anything that gets near a microprocessor. Let me give a couple of examples of my pet peeves and I’ll wrap it together at the end. […]
Continue reading#478 LastPass vs 1Password, NEET Sleeve, Top 5 Mac Apps, Olivia Solon from WIRED
Go see Particle Fever at particlefever.com. I walk you through the path to try and transfer my data from LastPass to 1Password, and how the 1Password support failed and then excelled. Mark Pouley gives us a review of the NEET Sleeve to protect your Lightning cables. We’re back on the Top 5 List, this week […]
Continue readingGo See Particle Fever – NOW!
A few months ago Steve and I heard about a documentary playing at a local small theater. We’re not big documentary people, but this one sounded special. It’s called Particle Fever, and it’s the story of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, located on the border of Switzerland and France, and the quest for the Higgs Boson. […]
Continue readingTop 5 Favorite Mac Apps
It’s time to take a break from all the photography talk and get back to my Top 5 lists as requested by Tammy. When last we left our hero, I had given you my top 5 iPad and top 5 iPhone apps. Now it’s time for my Top 5 Mac Apps. Again my criteria will […]
Continue readingNEET Sleeve to Protect Your Lightning Cables by Mark Pouley
Greetings from the beautiful and remote shores of Twin Lakes Washington. This is Mark Pouley with a quick review of a product I picked up at Macworld. Actually, I bought the product for my wife and this is her review. When I go to Macworld I’m always looking for some sort of gadget to bring home to […]
Continue readingBumpy Road Converting from LastPass to 1Password
I know you all are looking for an update, but I still haven’t quite convinced my in-laws to use a password manager. I thought I had them close when my father-in-law read a Consumer Reports article about security that talked about how great LastPass is, but he wrote a message this week that they just […]
Continue reading#477 Aperture Kerfuffle, Custom Categories in Contacts, Zoom Lenses Explained, Loosely vs Strongly Typed Languages
My opinions and emotions about the news that Aperture won’t be updated ever again by Apple. Steve Sheridan gives us a hot tip on how to maybe make your Contacts more manageable by using Custom Categories. Diane, Steve and I do some experiments with zoom lenses that question my knowledge about how crop factors in […]
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