What’s the difference between Marvel and DC movies? Tim Robertson and David Cohen explore that, as well as discuss the Asus X205TA, iPad sales, Apple Music, cheap Apple Watch bands, writing, Gameloft, and an old PowerPC game, Gridz.
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From Macstock: Guy Serle: What kind of Mac should you get?
MyMac Podcast 564: Where are the Pros from Dover
Gaz is out this episode watching cars go really fast so Guy brings in Gary “Dr. Dream” Apter, a long time listener to the MyMac Podcast and many others. They talk a bit more about the events in Chicago, what they did in tech recently, and then a bit about whether Apple seems to be ignoring Pro users and why. Also why does iTunes and iOS devices not agree on how much storage is available. Gary thinks it’s a potentially serious problem and Guy seems confused. Well no change there.
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Macspiration Basics: Group multiple items into one folder
Have you ever had the need to put a group of documents into one folder? One way to do this is to make a folder and drag and drop each document into that folder. However, there is a faster and easier way to accomplish this task.
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IOGEAR TuneTap Wireless Audio Receiver – Review
This happy little Bluetooth device is, as far as I can tell, magic. It does not have secure pairing, so there is no need for entering numbers as with a lot of headsets. Right out of the box there is a stereo audio cable with standard red/white RCA ends on one side and a 3.5mm plug on the other.
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TechFan #215 – Entertainment Tax
Tim returns for a great conversation with David in which they guys discuss Chicago’s Entertainment Tax, Better Touch Tool for Mac OS X, Touch Arcade, Macstock, cool LED lights, Blu Life 8 XL, Braven BRV-Pro speaker, Apple Music, and much more.
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Are We There Yet? – It’s Still a Very Long Way to the Top
The recent kerfuffle between Taylor Swift and Apple regarding payments for streaming tracks during the company’s new Music service trial left me thinking about modern day recording artists. Can anyone make it big today or do they still have to rely on the old methods to do it?
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Parallels Desktop 10 – Review
Parallels Desktop 10 for Macis hardware virtualization software for Macintosh computers with Intel processors. It utilizes hypervisor technology. This software technology maps the host computers hardware resources directly to the virtual machines resources allowing the virtual machine to operate like a standalone computer.
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STREET PHOTOGRAPHY – The Art of Capturing the Candid Moment – Book Review
There are so many photography how-to books that the budding photographer hardly has time to catch his or her breath before embarking on another set of rules for this or that kind of image making. Whether it be fine art photography, fashion, or wedding photography there are tomes a-plenty to help with the chores of learning the ropes, and that’s a good thing.
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OLALA G3 Power Bank – Review
You can never have too many spare battery packs for travel, power outages, or just every day use. I have several in my house. Most give one full charge to my iPhone and a partial charge to my iPad and then they are done. The OLALA G3 Power Bank is one of these types of batteries. How does it stack up? Read on.
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Rebelle painting/drawing app – Review
Rebelle is a painting/drawing application for the Mac and Windows. Its interface will be familiar to many users as there are repositionable, rectangular palettes for Tools, Color, and Layers. The app includes impressive media possibilities: Watercolor, Acrylic, Pastels, Pens, and Pencils.
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Fotomagico 4.6 – Review
Photographers like to show their work to people around them, and on the Internet. There are multiple ways of doing it, such as a web sites, image sharing, or social sites (Flickr, Google+, Facebook), but nothing comes close to a good slideshow. Read on to see how Fotomagico 4.6 can help you create good looking presentations.
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Macspiration Basics: EJECT!
Whenever you have a disk in your drive, a USB thumbdrive, or any other external drive or media connected to your Mac, you can’t just pull it out. If you do you will get an error telling you could cause damage to your device. Here’s fourmethodsto avoid that annoying error message.
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ThinkTank Photo Trifecta 10 DSLR Backpack – Review
Every ThinkTank Photo pack I’ve looked at in the past has been remarkable for attention to design, function and workmanship. The Trifecta 10 is no exception. This backpack is designed with serious amateur photographers and professionals in mind. It’s sleek and it’s sturdy. I make no apologies for my loyalty to the ThinkTank brand. They make good stuff.
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Backing Up Your Mac – Book Review
You’ve heard it time and time again: backup, backup, backup. Updating software? Backup first. Installing a new hard drive? Backup first. Sounds simply enough, but how many of us are really doing it, or if we are backing up, how many of us are doing it correctly? Never fear, Joe Kissell is here to help us with his latest book, Backing Up Your Mac.
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MyMac Podcast 563: LIVE! From Barry’s House
Faucets! BBQ! Kittehs! The after party from Barry Fulks house from Macstock 2015 was amazing! So many people there and even severe thunderstorms and heavy rain couldn’t dampen (see what I did there?) peoples spirits. The GMen have a talk with lots of people and a particularly long conversation with Pilot Pete from the awesome Mac Geek Gab and then they not only lose control of the show, they weren’t even there! Big thanks to Barry and his wife Bobbi for allowing the whole gang in. Im sure Barry will pay and pay dearly for all this.
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TechFan 214 – Edited on the iPad
This week, Tim is traveling for work again, so David takes the opportunity to break our normal podcast workflow by attempting to do the show completely on his iPad. Topics under discussion include the poor management decisions made by some Tech companies, and a retro look at the Alphasmart Neo.
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Capture One Pro 8 – Review, Part II
Last time, Phase Ones Capture One Pro 8 (version 8.3) was introduced as an alternative to Apples outgoing Digital Asset Management (DAM) and photo editing software, Aperture. Capture One Pro 8s functionality was described and some equivalents with Apples effectively discontinued and potentially defunct software touched upon.
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Macstock Conference and Midwest Mac BBQ 2015 Summary
A huge round of applause to Mike Potter, Barry Fulk, and the entire Macstock/BBQ crews for all their hard work and hospitality. From start to finish, the conference proceeded with the efficiency of a well-oiled machine especially lunch. As someone allergic to everything except air and water, the team went out of their way to make me a special lunch accommodating all my dietary restrictions. Not only was it dairy and gluten free, it was absolutely delicious near-impossible feat with all those limitations.
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olloclip Active Lens set for iPhone 6/6Plus – Review
olloclip makes a wide variety of lenses for use with the cameras on mobile devices. Their latest product is the Active Lens. It is a two-lens set for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus that has been developed for people on the move, who travel, or who want extra flexibility when taking photos.
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