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13 May 2012, 6:51 pm by: Allison Sheridan
7 year anniversary of the NosillaCast (listen to the first show here). Leon Walsh (aka @leonwalsh) reviews the Seagate Momentus XT hybrid drive. I review the free and Open Source Seashore Photo Editor from seashore.sourceforge.net. Bluemango Learning hosts a...
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6 May 2012, 6:59 pm by: Allison Sheridan
Wifi problems on the new 27" iMac - using iStumbler from istumbler.net helped us analyze the problem (and buy a new simultaneous Airport Extreme). Disk Inventory X from derlien.com helped find a crazy disk space problem on my neighbors computer. Caleb Fong,...
Wifi problems on the new 27" iMac - using iStumbler from
istumbler.net helped us analyze the problem (and buy a new simultaneous Airport Extreme). Disk Inventory X from
derlien.com helped find a crazy disk space problem on my neighbors computer. Caleb Fong, aka
Geekosupremo gives us a rundown on a wild process he follows to edit video.
Summer72H tells us about a free iOS app called Alarmed from
yoctoville.com. Ken Wolfe of the Manhattan Repertory Theatre in New York City gives a review of an iOS productivity app
Clear by RealMac Software. Rod Simmons from the
Simple Mobile Review Podcast reviews the
Shure SE535 noise isolation headset. George from Tulsa tells us the end of his saga to save money on his T-Mobile bill. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart explains the schizophrenia that is Apple's approach to security.
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29 April 2012, 6:36 pm by: Allison Sheridan
Recording from a hotel with the Samsung Meteor Mic, and a lot of help from the NosillaCastaways! Rod Simmons of the Simple Mobile Review Podcast gives us some iOS tips. Ken Wolfe of the Manhattan Repertory Theatre in New York City reviews the free NoMenuBar...
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22 April 2012, 7:51 pm by: Allison Sheridan
This week's live show was described by the NosillaCastaways as "The Epic Fail Whale Sausage Show". Everything that could have gone wrong did go wrong, but we managed to persevere and get the show out against those odds. Review of iExplorer from macroplant.com...
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15 April 2012, 6:57 pm by: Allison Sheridan
Dexter set tour with Producer Robert Lloyd Lewis and a video interview with him about his iOS Game Vowel Movement. in Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart gives us an overview of the update Apple pushed out support.apple.com/kb/HT5244 that not only patches Java to...
Dexter set tour with Producer Robert Lloyd Lewis and a video interview with him about his iOS Game
Vowel Movement. in Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart gives us an overview of the update Apple pushed out
support.apple.com/kb/HT5244 that not only patches Java to protect us from Flashback but that will also remove the malware if you've got it. He also highlights a critical Windows update that affects all versions of Windows. In Dumb Question Corner Bart explains to Dorothy how she could have the Java Preference file and yet not have Java installed, and explains how to check to see if you have Java installed. In the fun part of Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart teaches us about Depth of Field in photography. We reference :
Mark Sheppard's HyperFocal Distance shot on Flickr and
DOFMaster in iTunes.
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8 April 2012, 7:18 pm by: Allison Sheridan
Insightful update on color calibration from the blind. Verizon Wireless comes out with an update to fix the Novatel Mifi that kept it from being able to charge and function at the same time. MyScript Memo brings really good handwriting recognition to iOS....
Insightful update on color calibration from the blind.
Verizon Wireless comes out with an update to fix the Novatel Mifi that kept it from being able to charge and function at the same time.
MyScript Memo brings really good handwriting recognition to iOS. Alinof Timer from
alinofsoftware.ch brings a timer to OSX that we have in iOS.
5-0 Radio from Soft 32 allows you to listen to police scanner radios so you can't sleep. On a happier note, check out National Geographic Today, a free iPad app from
National Geographic. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart explains exactly what happened with the Flashback Trojan and explains that it was Apple's fault they didn't patch Java like Microsoft and Linux. He gives us a script to figure out if you're infected at
bartb.ie/flashback.
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1 April 2012, 6:47 pm by: Allison Sheridan
We learn about TravelEyes, a unique travel agency that pairs up sighted and blind travelers in group tours, giving the blind access to travel and the sighted a discount on amazing vacations from traveleyes-international.com. Trunk Notes from Apps on the Move...
We learn about TravelEyes, a unique travel agency that pairs up sighted and blind travelers in group tours, giving the blind access to travel and the sighted a discount on amazing vacations from
traveleyes-international.com. Trunk Notes from
Apps on the Move to take type written notes on the iPad using wiki technology and using the Markdown language. The best note taking app on the iPad for handwriting I've used to date is Notability from
Ginger Labs. Jeff Gamet of The Mac Observer joins us in Chit Chat Across the Pond to try and teach me the value of color calibration.
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25 March 2012, 7:52 pm by: Allison Sheridan
Verizon LTE rocks but I can't use it. Thoughts on how school districts could evaluate the idea of iPads for books in our schools. Professor Albert reviews Lumin from iTunes. Lens cap holders and more from >photojojo.com. Art Text 2 review from Belight...
Verizon LTE rocks but I can't use it. Thoughts on how school districts could evaluate the idea of iPads for books in our schools. Professor Albert reviews Lumin from
iTunes. Lens cap holders and more from
>photojojo.com. Art Text 2 review from Belight Software and in the
Mac App Store. Todd McCann asks in Dumb Question Corner whether iLife '11 actually comes with Lion or not. Another interview from CSUN Persons With Disabilities Expo - LookTell Recognizer
in the iTunes store for $9.99. in Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart reviews the
Twitter client Osfoora in the Mac App Store.
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18 March 2012, 7:28 pm by: Allison Sheridan
Rant about how hard it was for me to receive the new iPad (and a few comments about how awesome it is). @SwitcherMark gives us a Draw Something from OMGPop. Beautiful Skim PDF annotation tool - free and open source from skim-app.sourceforge.net. Hugo...
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11 March 2012, 7:15 pm by: Allison Sheridan
We had a kernel panic during the live show last week, and four tech mavens helped me figure out what caused it, George from Tulsa tells us about the new Quicken for Lion: Lion Compatible Quicken FAQ, Import Quicken Essentials Data into Quicken, Buy Lion...
We had a kernel panic during the live show last week, and four tech mavens helped me figure out what caused it, George from Tulsa tells us about the new Quicken for Lion:
Lion Compatible Quicken FAQ,
Import Quicken Essentials Data into Quicken,
Buy Lion Compatible Quicken from Intuit for $14.99. Two more reviews from the CSUN Persons With Disabilities Expo, My Talk Tools from
mytalktools.com and Charm Tech Capti for a more accessible and enjoyable access to Firefox. Professor asks if there isn't some way to protect his PowerPC Macs. FlyGrip iPhone and Android accessory from
flygrip.com. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart goes on a rant about 3rd party cookies, and then gives us the higher division course on home networking, and the advantages of building your own network router.
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4 March 2012, 7:27 pm by: Allison Sheridan
CSUN Persons With Disabilities Expo, Hype 1.5 update to last week's review from tumultco.com. HP Folio 13 Review from hp.com compared to the current Macbook Air from Apple. More Windows fun with a first look at Windows 8 Consumer Preview from...
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26 February 2012, 7:36 pm by: Allison Sheridan
SSD swap out adventure - with the 120GB Mercury 6G from OWC using the bare drive Lion installation. Hype review from the Mac App Store and tumultco.com for creating HTML5 animations for your iBooks Author books. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart gives us a...
SSD swap out adventure - with the
120GB Mercury 6G from OWC using the bare drive Lion installation. Hype review from
the Mac App Store and
tumultco.com for creating HTML5 animations for your iBooks Author books. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart gives us a home networking primer.
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19 February 2012, 7:09 pm by: Allison Sheridan
New Logo from Ryan Sakamoto at ryansakamoto.com, Keynote Theme explanations for the blind, Vlingo review from Timothy Gregoire. Learn how to create documentation your software users can actually use over at bluemangolearning.com. Donald Burr of Otaku No...
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12 February 2012, 9:03 pm by: Allison Sheridan
Podcast feed went on a diet with fewer episodes and shorter names. K-Array Ecodock Review available at B&H Photo. Clarify Beta lets you export to Evernote available at clarify-it.com/download/beta. Opena iPhone Case review from openacase.com. iKliK Stand...
Podcast feed went on a diet with fewer episodes and shorter names. K-Array Ecodock Review available at
B&H Photo. Clarify Beta lets you export to Evernote available at
clarify-it.com/download/beta. Opena iPhone Case review from
openacase.com. iKliK Stand review with video from
Kickstarter, available at
Amazon. Three video interviews from Macworld | iWorld: Readdle Remarks from
readdle.com, Qmadix Quick Shot & Eclipse from
qmadix.com and TourWrist from
tourwrist.com. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart answers listener questions about permissions, Google privacy changes, and how DNS works and what this DNSCrypt from OpenDNS is all about.
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11 February 2012, 5:15 pm by: Allison Sheridan
Audio version of my Macworld | iWorld 2012 Tech Talk Blindfolded!
Audio version of my Macworld | iWorld 2012 Tech Talk Blindfolded!
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5 February 2012, 7:20 pm by: Allison Sheridan
Sony DRM keeps me from getting the digital copy of District 9 that I paid for, but it's ok, they offered me The Smurfs instead. Bias DRM keeps me from using the copy of Sound Soap I bought, but WavePad from http://nch.com.au saves the day. Clarify gets the...
Sony DRM keeps me from getting the digital copy of District 9 that I paid for, but it's ok, they offered me The Smurfs instead. Bias DRM keeps me from using the copy of Sound Soap I bought, but WavePad from
http://nch.com.au saves the day. Clarify gets the coveted title "Mac Gem" from
macworld.com. In Dumb Question Corner, Professor Albert asks how hot a Mac Mini should get. Mark Pouley, aka
@switchermark gives us a review of Azul from
Gplex to allow you to put movies on your iPad without syncing through iTunes. Macworld 2012 interviews: Blue Microphone's Blue Mikey and Tiki Microphones from
bluemic.com, Heatmaps from
heatma.ps, Rogue Amoeba from
rogueamoeba.com about Piezo and Airfoil. In Chit Chat Across the Pond I'm delighted to interview Sarah Lane of
TWiT.tv about where geek girls come from.
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29 January 2012, 7:08 pm by: Allison Sheridan
Macworld 2012 has come and gone, hear our experiences, how well Blindfolded! went, and hear interviews of vendors on the show floor. Avatron with Air Display on iOS in iTunes, Air Display in the Mac App Store, Air Sharing for iPhone in iTunes, Air Sharing...
Macworld 2012 has come and gone, hear our experiences, how well Blindfolded! went, and hear interviews of vendors on the show floor. Avatron with Air Display on iOS
in iTunes, Air Display
in the Mac App Store, Air Sharing for iPhone
in iTunes, Air Sharing universal for iPhone & iPad
in iTunes, and Print Sharing
in iTunes. Nite Ize brings us Gear Ties
at REI, iPhone Connect Case
Niteize.com Connect Case and Connect Case accessories:
NiteIze.com Connect Case Accessories. Parat Solutions demonstrates the ParaSync to charge and sync 10 iPads (also models for 20 iPhones/iPods) at
Paratsolutions.com. Powis iCase with 9 different positions at
powiscase.com. The NosillaCastaways party was lots of fun at Macworld | iWorld, check out the photos on
flickr.com/photos/nosillacast/sets/72157629089333159/ and Mark Pouley's shots of just the Google Hangout we did with people who couldn't come at
flickr.com/photos/switchermark/sets/72157629087853459/. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart tells us about a dreadful flaw in WPS on most wifi routers (not in Apple Airports luckily). To look up your router to find out if it's got the flaw and if turning off WPS will actually help, go to
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0Ags-JmeLMFP2dFp2dkhJZGIxTTFkdFpEUDNSSHZEN3c. If yours has the flaw and you want to be daring, install a non-standard router OS like the ones listed here:
wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wireless_router_firmware_projects. After that Bart lightens things up with his tutorial on how to take photographs of stars without fancy kit:
bartb.ie/blog/?p=2226.
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22 January 2012, 7:17 pm by: Allison Sheridan
Why you might want to subscribe to the NosillaCast News. Blindfolded! at Macworld | iWorld. iBooks 2, iBooks Author change the textbook industry over night. Teleporting Manhattan Repertory or Super-Speed Project Management using Mac Apps, Ios Apps and Apple...
Why you might want to subscribe to the NosillaCast News.
Blindfolded! at Macworld | iWorld. iBooks 2, iBooks Author change the textbook industry over night. Teleporting Manhattan Repertory or Super-Speed Project Management using Mac Apps, Ios Apps and Apple Gear - Part 2 using
OmniFocus,
an IOS application called LIST! and
iHandy Level Free from iHandysoft Inc. George from Tulsa recommends silicone iPhone cases from
Amzer and
TPU Silicone Skin. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart explains SOPA and PIPA, why we care and why even though these particular bills have been stopped, we need to keep paying attention.
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15 January 2012, 7:10 pm by: Allison Sheridan
Blindfolded is coming along, Jawbone Jambox will be a critical element to the audio. Using OmniDiskSweeper from The Omni Group I recover 20GB of lost disk space due to an arrange application. Reggie Ashworth offers up 5 free copies of AppDelete Lite....
Blindfolded is coming along,
Jawbone Jambox will be a critical element to the audio. Using OmniDiskSweeper from
The Omni Group I recover 20GB of lost disk space due to an arrange application. Reggie Ashworth offers up 5 free copies of AppDelete Lite. Knightwise explains how he uses
GoodReader to move Keynote into his iPad instead of iCloud. Ken Wolfe gives us part one of his "Super Speed Project Management using IOS and Mac Apps and Apple products" - using
SimpleNote from Codality INC,
Notational Velocity, and Noteshelf from Rama Krishna at
FluidTouch.biz. MacHash from
machash.com brings Mac-specific news and podcasts to the iPod, iPhone, iPad and Mac. Listener Lynn asks a Dumb Question - how to keep applications in the dock where they can't be accidentally removed and we talk about the free Dashboard app Dock Unlocker from
joselopez650.tk. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Knightwise from
knightwise.com explains why he walked into the Apple walled garden of his own free will.
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8 January 2012, 7:19 pm by: Allison Sheridan
Free Macworld | iWorld Exhibit Hall passes by sending email to me with "hall pass" in the title. VueScan from hamrick.com by Allister Jenks. Air Playit Review from Air Playit.com by Nick Brennan. Samson Meteor Mic Review from samsontech.com. Rod Simmons...
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1 January 2012, 7:06 pm by: Allison Sheridan
Bad Cracker joke contest complete, EyeTV Review from Mike McPeek (@dscchipman), Manfrotto MKC3-H01 tripod review (Amazon link). Robert Harper with an i-Microphone Review (Amazon link). Kirschen from FreeRangeCoder.com gives us a Downcast Review from...
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23 December 2011, 8:06 pm by: Allison Sheridan
Revisiting Piezo from Rogue Amoeba since their update now allows recording of Skype calls. Update on my trials and tribulations learning VoiceOver for Blindfolded! at Macworld | iWorld. Rose challenges us to find the WORST jokes in our Christmas Crackers....
Revisiting Piezo from
Rogue Amoeba since their update now allows recording of Skype calls. Update on my trials and tribulations learning VoiceOver for
Blindfolded! at Macworld | iWorld. Rose challenges us to find the WORST jokes in our Christmas Crackers. Robert Harper gives a Clarify testimonial, and George from Tulsa walks us through his security measures to be safe online. John Shaffer sends in a tip on how to use
brdrck.me/settings/ to put settings on your iOS home screen. Steve uses DiscLabel from
smilesoftware.com for the first time. Back by popular demand, Steve's Night Before Christmas with an ever so slight Macintosh bias. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Steve and Bart attempt to explain to me what the Higgs Boson is, and why we care.
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18 December 2011, 7:36 pm by: Allison Sheridan
Christmas show will be on Friday night the 23rd of December at 5pm Pacific time at podfeet.com/live. I figured out the fiasco with GarageBand from last week. Two great applications from Eternal Storms Software, Screenfloat and Yoink. Blue Mango Learning's...
Christmas show will be on Friday night the 23rd of December at 5pm Pacific time at
podfeet.com/live. I figured out the fiasco with GarageBand from last week. Two great applications from Eternal Storms Software,
Screenfloat and
Yoink. Blue Mango Learning's Clarify makes the top 10 best apps of 2011 at
mashable.com. Donald Burr of Donald Burr of Otaku no Podcast from
otakunopodcast.com reviews the
AYL Stylus.
Piezo review from Rogue Amoeba, and Browser wars using omnibar as the discriminator. In Dumb Question Corner Todd McCann asks for an explanation of RSS feeds. In Chit Chat Across the Pond, I get to ask Rod Simmons of the
Simple Mobile Review Podcast to explain Android to me and how it differs for good or bad from iOS.
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11 December 2011, 7:53 pm by: Allison Sheridan
Stylus Wars brings us the AmazonBasics Stylus. Shai Yammanee brings us an AppsGoneFree review. Dorothy (aka @MacLurker) writes some wicked backup scripts for me and we use CronniX from code.google.com/p/cronnix/ to schedule them. In Dumb Question Corner...
Stylus Wars brings us the
AmazonBasics Stylus. Shai Yammanee brings us an
AppsGoneFree review. Dorothy (aka
@MacLurker) writes some wicked backup scripts for me and we use CronniX from
code.google.com/p/cronnix/ to schedule them. In Dumb Question Corner Horse asks whether iCloud encrypts your data (yes, see the Apple Support Article
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4865). Rod Simmons of the Simple Mobile Review gives us a review of the
Griffin Powerjolt Dual Universal USB Adapter. Steve Davidson talks about how inexpensive and useful Uninterruptible Power Supplies can be, including the
APC BE550G Back-UPS ES 8 Outlet 550VA 120V that he uses. Jane from Perth (aka
@jane73 returns after a long absence to tell us a great trick on how to sync address books between family members with iCloud. Bart walks us through his adventure to do a presentation using only an iPad and then gives us a peek into the presentation itself explaining the astronomical phenomenon that could have accounted for the Christmas star (view the slides at
public.iwork.com).
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4 December 2011, 7:12 pm by: Allison Sheridan
NosillaCastaways run the show this week while I help my mom in the hospital. George from Tulsa tells us how to tame Lion with Lion Tweaks at ifredrik.com and Mike Potter over at For Mac Eyes Only Podcast. Fooducate Review by Rod Simmons: Free version, $3.99...
NosillaCastaways run the show this week while I help my mom in the hospital. George from Tulsa tells us how to tame Lion with Lion Tweaks at
ifredrik.com and Mike Potter over at
For Mac Eyes Only Podcast. Fooducate Review by Rod Simmons:
Free version,
$3.99 Fooducate Plus. Mike McPeek (aka
@dscchipman) gives us a Springpad Review - cross platform iOS and Android app from
Springpaddit.com. Katie Floyd reviews the
iRobot 530 Roomba Vacuuming Robot. Crashplan Review by Timothy Gregoire from
crashplan.com. Bart brings us a short Security Lite where he gives us his thoughts on the Carrier IQ débâcle, followed by John F Braun of the
Mac Geek Gab joining us to talk about how he got so smart, and his diagnostic process, an even shows us some hidden gems inside the Xcode developer tools to do even more fun diagnostics.
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27 November 2011, 7:10 pm by: Allison Sheridan
NosillaCastaways Party at Macworld | iWorld - register using the menu bar link at podfeet.com (or click this link). The password is the name of my longest running sponsor, all lower case. Jot Pro Stylus Review from Adonit. Swollen battery woes on a 2007...
NosillaCastaways Party at Macworld | iWorld - register using the menu bar link at podfeet.com (or click
this link). The password is the name of my longest running sponsor, all lower case. Jot Pro Stylus Review from
Adonit. Swollen battery woes on a 2007 Macbook, and Rod Simmons of the Simple Mobile Review Podcast gives us his top 6 iOS tips. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart brings us his 1Password review from
Agile Bits.
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20 November 2011, 6:56 pm by: Allison Sheridan
NosillaCastaways are smarter than the Apple geniuses, Plantronics Voyager Pro HD Review from Rod Simmons (Plantronics Voyager Pro HD), Olloclip review from Rod (Olloclip). Kindle Fire review (amazon.com. Tom Stewart sends in his first review - explaining how...
NosillaCastaways are smarter than the Apple geniuses, Plantronics Voyager Pro HD Review from Rod Simmons (
Plantronics Voyager Pro HD), Olloclip review from Rod (
Olloclip). Kindle Fire review (
amazon.com. Tom Stewart sends in his first review - explaining how to use an Aperture Script from
ApertureExpert.com to swap out RAW images for JPEGs.Ray Solar Charger review by Rod Simmons from
quirky.com. BlackBerry Bold 9930 Review, and Robb Dunewood of Simple Mobile Review Podcast joins us to talk about the past, present and future of Research in Motion.
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19 November 2011, 4:36 pm by: Allison Sheridan
Interviews from Blogworld Expo with representatives from Automattic about Akismet and Wordpress.com, Telestream about Screenflow and Wirecast Studio, Spreecast for shared video broadcasting, Blekko for curated search and Thinglink to give you interesting...
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13 November 2011, 6:56 pm by: Allison Sheridan
Time Machine review, Blindfolded accessibility update, Photography and the Mac Podcast Promo find it in iTunes. In Dumb Question Corner Professor Albert joins us again asking how to quit all running applications and gets a surprising answer. 3 in 1 Camera...
Time Machine review, Blindfolded accessibility update, Photography and the Mac Podcast Promo find it in
iTunes. In Dumb Question Corner Professor Albert joins us again asking how to quit all running applications and gets a surprising answer.
3 in 1 Camera Lens review from Rod Simmons. George from Tulsa says some nice things about Podfeet.com and explains that you have to turn off Ad Block to see my Amazon Affiliate link, and then throws down the gauntlet about a lively discussion he and Bart had about Apple's move towards Sandboxing. Bart comes back with a full Chit Chat Across the Pond explaining Sandboxing and why it's a good, not scary thing.
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6 November 2011, 7:34 pm by: Allison Sheridan
Blogworld Expo redux, DocScanner Review from Rod Simmons, ZAGG Keys Solo bluetooth keyboard review. Img2icns review from George from Tulsa from img2icnsapp.com. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Shane Jackson joins us to talk about blind accessibility...
Blogworld Expo redux,
DocScanner Review from Rod Simmons,
ZAGG Keys Solo bluetooth keyboard review. Img2icns review from George from Tulsa from
img2icnsapp.com. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Shane Jackson joins us to talk about blind accessibility improvements in iOS5 and the iPhone 4S.