Allison interviews Becca Mortimer from Hydrow about their Live Outdoor Reality Rower. The Hydrow is a state-of-the-art rowing machine that includes a 22” sweat- and dust-resistant touchscreen with front-facing speakers. The display provides guided rowing workouts and an immersive experience in your home. You can even join a crew as one on the water and […]
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Apple Health: How to Add a Forgotten Workout – by Sandy Foster
This is Sandy Foster again with a little tip. I’m sure I’m not the only person who has forgotten to start a workout on the Apple Watch or the iPhone; it’s important to be able to add it afterwards, of course, and some time ago, I shared a tip for doing just that. In iOS […]
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NC #743 Wet iPhone Resurrection, iAccess Life & WheelMate, MyNetDiary, Anker Bluetooth Speaker, Macstock 2019 Retrospective, FIDO 2
Thanks to contributions by Ralston Barnard, Frank Petrie, Tom Merritt, Shane Jackson, and Bart, we have a huge show for you, even though Steve and I are lounging on a lake in Canada with our kids. I make a small contribution but it’s really everyone else who pulled the weight this week. mp3 download
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I had the great pleasure of being on the actual radio with Rich Stroffolino. We’re off to a Chilean total eclipse of the sun so we need you to help out Allister Jenks and Bart Busschots with audio recordings. I review Soulver as a very inventive way to take notes with math in them. Tom […]
Continue readingMore TagAnswers to Rush’s Dumb Question on Activity Goals
Last week on the podcast, I played Rush Sherman’s Dumb Question asking us what makes a good Apple Watch Activity goal. We got some terrific answers that I think add a lot to this conversation.
Continue readingMore TagNC #702 In Touch with iOS, Mac Quadcast, How to Win Apple Watch Activity Competition, Slack, Dumb Question on Activity Goal, Security Bits
This week I’ll tell you about how much fun I had on In Touch with iOS and The Mac Quadcast and Programming By Stealth. Then I’ll tell you the secrets of the math behind the Apple Activity Competitions (and how to win). I’ve decided that Slack is our new home with the demise of Google […]
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You know I’m a fan of the Apple Watch activity app because it motivates me to burn calories so I can eat and drink more. We’ve heard from many others who got much healthier because they had real metrics to work with unlike ever before. With watchOS 5, Apple stepped up the game on getting […]
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10 Reasons to Get an Apple Watch
I was chatting with my good friend Dorothy (aka MacLurker in the chatroom and in our podfeet.com/googleplus) about the big Apple announcements and we got talking about the Apple Watch. She tends to be of the more frugal amongst us and instead of going for the new shiny, she casts a more critical eye on […]
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In this week’s show I announce the new “Special Pages” button on podfeet.com (I know, exciting to have a new button, isn’t it?) We used mimoLive from Boinx Software for the first time making the live show, but I only tease you at the beginning that I’ll explain what that is. I promise, I’ll tell […]
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Tech on Travel in France
After a big trip, I generally like to chat a bit about how tech worked out while traveling. I’ve got a few new observations this year. Project Fi Back in 2016, Mike Elgan came on the show to talk about tech he uses as a digital nomad. In that episode he told us about a […]
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