Geekiest Show Ever 227- The M&M Show

– Password management
– Apple Event Afterglow or After Burn
– Dongles and more dongles everywhere
– Fidget toys and habits
– Raising Kids with special needs and Kickstarter Project
– Mike’s pick is the Suncast Cascade Blow Molded Resin Storage Shed
– Melissa pick is a the FlashForge 3D Printer

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TechFan #270 – Things Get Heated

Owen Rubin joins David and Tim to discuss a home security system, Owen’s talk on Atari from a few days ago, and of course, the Apple Event. The headphone jack is gone, how will Tim react? What about the Apple Watch? And EarPods? Things get heated!

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Geekiest Show Ever 226 – Ear Worm Resolved

 Ear and eye worm a song problem solved link to the video
 Melissa finds the term for what ear worm is Ohrwurm
 Elisa wants to know what we want from Wednesday’s Apple event
 Elisa’s pick the Princeton Audio Site:1 Premium Tonewood Bluetooth Speaker
 Mike’s pick is the manliest of mannly items a UtiliKilt
 Kevin’s pick the Android based Huawei Honor 8 unlocked phone
 Melissa slacked so we helped a year of Amazon Prime and an Amazon Echo

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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

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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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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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Let’s Talk Photography 35: Jeff Curto Interview

This month Bart is joined by photographer Jeff Curto talk about the history of photography, and why it matters. Jeff taught a course on photo history in the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn Illinois for 30 years, and has made his class sessions available as a podcast. Jeff also produces the Camera Position podcast, a show about the creative side of photography.

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Geekiest Show Ever 223 – High on Wi-Fi

– GoFundMe for Mark Sheppard survival fund
– iPods and big thank you to Dorothy Yamamoto
– Mike’s router adventures
– Melissa’s ISP and Wi-Fi troubles
– Elisa’s pick: eero wireless mesh network
– Melissa’s pick: Sleepphones to listen in peace
– Mike’s pick: to satisfy his inner gamer, the new Xbox S
– Kevin’s pick: a unique keyboard, the Qwerkywriter

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