Allison interviews Paul Buckley from Withings about their new BeamO handheld device that lets you quickly and easily check your health status. BeamO is portable, smaller than a smartphone, and you can use it on the go to take vital measurements for you and your family members. The device can be used by up to […]
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CES Unveiled in 5 Minutes with Tom Merritt
Steve and I attended the press event CES Unveiled and partway through the event Tom Merritt of Daily Tech News Show fame asked me to do a rapid fire through what I’d seen. Steve recorded it, Tom transferred it to his Mac via SD card, sent it to Dropbox, and Roger Change edited in the […]
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Bodie Grimm of the Kilowatt Podcast sat down with me in a screensharing session and he taught me how to create a GPT using ChatGPT 4. Before we got started, I didn’t know what “a” GPT was, or why you’d want to make one. Bodie explained both of those things and we recorded audio for […]
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In August I gave you my review of the Insta360 X3 Action Cam. My ending line of the review was, “The camera has so many features I haven’t discovered let alone used them all yet, so I have a lot of fun ahead of me finding out what this action camera can really do.” I’ve […]
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If you’ve ever needed to get feedback from a group of people, using the free Google Forms is a great way to do it. You can create surveys, get feedback on a class you’ve taught, help organize a family reunion, or even create quizzes. I’ve used it to organize the party we used to throw […]
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Allison Presents The Power of Learning by Teaching at Macstock 7 held in Woodstock, IL on 23 July 2023. In her talk, she explains how she learns new software by poking all the buttons, then poking at the developers, and finally, blogs about it podcasts about it, or even ScreenCastsONLINEs about it so that she […]
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In May I told you about the amazingly capable and inexpensive screenshot/annotation tool called Shottr. I’m so enamored with Shottr that I decided to create a full video tutorial about it for ScreenCastsONLINE. As always, I learned so much more about the tool because I had to really know how to use all of it, […]
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Steve, Andrea & Allison on Iceland Trip Have you always figured that astrophysics was a subject beyond your grasp? In this week’s Chit Chat Across the Pond, Nobel Prize-winning Dr. Andrea Ghez from UCLA joins me to explain how she and her team proved there is a supermassive black hole at the center of our […]
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You’ve heard me describe the awesome batch image manipulation app Retrobatch recently. If you’d really like to learn the tool in detail, ScreenCastsOnline has just published my latest tutorial about Retrobatch. I start from the very beginning and go step-by-step building up a few different scenarios and I explain the interface along the way. I’m […]
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Allison interviews Adrianne Mascho from Feeldom about their handcrafted backpacks that are designed for those who are blind or with low vision and/or those who use a wheelchair. These backpacks are designed by actual wheelchair users who consider the needs and suggestions of people with all kinds of disabilities. Feeldom backpacks have a padded structure […]
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