I’ve got a lot of photos. And by a lot, I mean 72,928 of them in Apple Photos. While I’m quite fond of Apple Photos, I’m annoyed by a few things. It’s pretty slow on the Mac (I can’t imagine why) and the iOS app is pretty limited in what you can do with it. […]
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NC #683 Drobo 5N2, Wyze Cam Pan, WWDC Excited or Not
It’s a nice long show but only a few topics this week. We’ll start with a walk through what I learned testing the Drobo 5N2 network attached storage. It’s not so much about the Drobo itself but more about the technologies involved. Then we’ll talk about the new Wyze Cam Pan $30 security camera. Finally […]
Continue readingMore TagTiny Tip – Accessibility Shortcuts to Dim Screen & Magnify on iOS by Rick from Baltimore
Rick from Baltimore sent in this awesome little tip that solves a real problem: Hi Allison, I wanted to share a quick IOS tip that solved two problems for me. Problem One: I want to read on my iPad in bed, but the screen is too bright in the darkened bedroom, even with auto screen […]
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Update from 2023 – Vectornator has been rebranded as Linearity Curve and is available now at https://www.linearity.io/curve/ You have probably figured out by now that I’m not an artist. That doesn’t keep me from being interested in applications to create art and to appreciate those who use them well. I used to think all digital […]
Continue readingMore TagExplore Bike Share Made it Impossible to Actually Rent an Electric Bike
I’d like to start this particular review by saying that the customer support representative who refunded all of our money was awesome. That might give you an indication of how Steve and I feel about the Explore Bike Share service. We were in Memphis for the weekend and had walked a fair bit of the […]
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Allison interviews Gary Boss from Audio-Technica about their wide range of microphones and headphones. Gary describes the Audio-Technica System 10 digital wireless system made up of a compact receiver you can mount on a cold shoe combined with a handheld mic/transmitter or a lavalier mic hooked to a body pack transmitter. System 10 is easy […]
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One of the more interesting advancements in iPhone photography in the last few years has been Live Photos. If you haven’t played around with them before, the sensor actually captures a few seconds of video on either side of the photo. Up until recently, the fun party trick was to hold your finger down on […]
Continue readingMore TagNC #670 Paintcode, Apple Watch Health Tracking, Stretch Timer, We.Stream, Bellus 3D, Cyber Essentials, Rings
Allister Jenks stands in for a vacationing Allison Sheridan. We have a review of Paintcode, a story of using the Apple Watch to track health in ways other than the Activity app, Allister’s own health app Stretch Timer, two interviews from CES with We.Stream and Bellus3D, some security tips with Cyber Essentials, and a fun […]
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UPDATE: Since I wrote this post (and recorded for the podcast) an update for Rings has appeared which claims to fix the in-app purchase bug and also streamlines some other parts of the app. I’m not a “gamer” by any stretch of the imagination, but I do like to while away some time playing logic […]
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In my story about PaintCode, I mentioned I had rewritten an app that I use for timing my muscle stretches. I’d like to tell you about that app now, in a bit of an ‘advertorial’. I first wrote the app in 2016 when I was having back trouble, and part of the treatment for this […]
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