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Month: August 2016
Geekiest Show Ever 225 – Week of Whinging
– GoFundMe for Mark Sheppard survival fund
– Ear and eye worm: a song Kevin can’t find now, driving Mike and Elisa crazy
– Online advertising and some of the crappy ways it is implemented
– Confusing Android phone models
– Elisa’s AT&T issues
– Elisa gets the Time Warner runaround
– Elisa’s pick: the 9.7” iPad Pro loaded with the Apple Pencil
– Mike’s pick: something that made Kevin drool—a new 24” two-stage snowblower
– Kevin’s pick: the 12.9” iPad Pro 128GB Wi-Fi only
Club Nintendo – Level 139
Tim Chaten and John Armour discuss the GoldenEye multiplayer remake, an amiibo restock, Super Mario 3D Land and more. Download and listen here RSS
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VAVA Voom 20 portable Bluetooth or wired waterproof speaker – User Report Review
VAVA Voom 20 is the best name ever for a speaker, and it lives up to its name. It’s an excellent go everywhere play everything portable speaker. Music sounds really good, television audio sounds great, and audiobooks sound outstanding. Design and construction are stylish and minimalist, in addition to being rugged and practical.
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Three Geeky Ladies – Victor Cajiao Talks Sound -Episode 88
Elisa and Suze have a fascinating conversation about audio with Victor Cajiao.
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Olala 64GB iDisk Mobile Memory – Review
Smartphones make it easy to take pictures. As a result, many people end up with huge amounts of precious storage space filled with images they’ve captured over a long period of time. If your phone has 16 GB of storage, you will find yourself running out of space and looking at warning messages unless you clean house or use a device like this 64GB Olala iDisk to move images and documents off the phone for instant remote viewing.
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Take Control of Preview – Book Review
Once again, TidBITS hits it out of the park with their latest book, Take Control of Preview. Preview is an application that has been on the Mac since OS10 was released in 2001, but has been overlooked over the years and considered a not very useful app other than opening a PDF or viewing a photo. Josh Centers and Adam Engst wrote Take Control of Preview to change that perception.
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MyMac Podcast 620: Why all the delay?
Gaz is off doing stuff, so Guy bribed…coerced…threatened…invited (yeah, that’s the word) Karl Madden and Mark Chappell from the *Essential Mac* and *Mac and Forth* podcasts to come on. Just so he wouldn’t feel UK-deprived, you know. The main topic is why Apple has held off on updated Macs for so long and various conspiracies behind it. Most of which is probably not true…probably.
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TechFan #268 – Revolution Needed
Special guest Peter Cohen joins Tim this week to discuss the topic “The tech that is in most need of a revolution”. Also discussed: video games, Rare Replay, BackBlaze, and much more. Check it out!
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Darkiron Direct H5 Wireless Stereo Earbuds – Review
The H5 feels substantial. Its short, thick cable rests on the back of the user’s neck, and the earbuds hook over the ears. They come with two different-sized ear cups, making it easy to find a fit for most ear configurations.
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Parallels Desktop 12 for Mac Pro Edition – Review
A new feature included in the Parallels Desktop 12 for Mac upgrade is the new Parallel toolbox app. This stand-alone app provides 20 tools to perform common tasks for both the Mac and Windows virtual machines (VMs). The Parallel Pro and Business Edition, as well as the Parallel Toolbox subscribers, will receive free quarterly updates of additional tools
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Polaroid BrightSaber Professional LED Lighting Wand – Review
Do you wield your camera with the precision of a Jedi? Are you able to balance light, shadow, color, and contrast with perfect composition and focus? If so, the Polaroid BrightSaber may be the next addition to your tool belt.
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MyMac.com Spotlight: Oskar Groth
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Geekiest Show Ever 224 – The Mental Moped
– Chromebooks in education: new complaints
– Back to school suggestions for students
– Back to school suggestions for the budding techie
– Melissa’s pick: SanDisk iXpand Flash Drive
– Mike’s pick of a moped to commute cheaper drives Kevin over the edge
– Kevin’s pick: a Jarvis Bamboo standing desk—better late than never
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MyMac Podcast 619: Google Lost Stuff
Gaz and Guy talk a bit about Google’s lost projects and apps, Samoan/Fiji Rugby, back to school stuff, and storage sheds. Yes it’s been one of THOSE weeks.
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TechFan #267 – Hacking Around
Tim and the returning David discuss hacking the FireTV Stick, HDMI inputs on a Mac, 17-inch MBP upgrades, Xbox One, connected devices, crappy controls on monitors, podcast editing, John Martellaro’s Background Mode, and much more.
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