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 […]
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Go 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 […]
Continue readingAperture Dead or Alive
Even if you’re not a photography nut, I think you’ll be interested in a topic that has many of us in a tizzy this week, and that’s the announcement by Apple that they are not doing any further development on their high end photo application, Aperture. Aperture is currently at version 3 with a bunch […]
Continue readingWhen a 200mm Lens Isn’t Really 200mm
I’m still having a ball with my new mirrorless camera (the Olympus OM-D EM-10). When I first started looking into this I mentioned that I was going to make the switch to my friend Diane. For some odd reason she trusts my judgment and said, “great, when you decide, let me know what to buy”. […]
Continue readingUse Custom Fields to Tell Your Contacts Apart
The Apple Contacts application isn’t really designed to handle how many different ways we have of contacting people these days. In particular it’s awful at handling couples in a single card entry. Let’s say you’re friends with Bob and Sally Schwinkendorf. You send them a holiday card every year so you want both of their […]
Continue reading#476 Podfeet Speed Improvement, Leaf Antenna for Cord Killing, ProJive XLR, Intro to Programming Languages
How Steve and I are cord killing $10 at a time using a Leaf antenna. Turns out you can use an external mic to record to Recolive’s Multicam using the ProJive XLR from CableJive. Learn how I used Automator to launch all of my apps to create the live show. In Chit Chat Across the […]
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