Category: Podcasts

This week on an action-packed Connected:

Apple’s Spring Event has come and gone, and now the picks must be graded. Will Stephen remain in power as the Keynote Chairman? Can Myke gain access to both Twitter accounts, or is Federico poised for a comeback?

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A phone. An email terminal. A web-browsing portable companion. A phone. An email terminal. A web-browsing portable companion. A phone. An email terminal. A web-browsing portable companion. A phone. An email terminal. A web-browsing portable companion.

Are you getting it? These are not three devices.

It’s two devices, and we’re calling them your Palm phone and Foleo.

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On this episode of Liftoff:

With its Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s first flight compete, NASA has made history, opening the door to missions beyond landers and rovers. Also: what SpaceX’s Human Landing System contract means for the SLS and the future of NASA leadership.

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It’s feedback time on MPU, so David and I answer listener email, talk about iOS apps running on Apple silicon Macs and preparing your tech for the afterlife.

We also have new MPU merch! Dubbed the Classy Tumbler and Classy Tee, I’m really happy with how these two products turned out.

We have a set number of tumblers, and once they are sold out, they’ll be gone forever. Shirts, on the other hand, can be pre-ordered until May 4.¹

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Apple is holding an event next week, so we have gathered our picks and are entering the Battlefield of the Ricky.

The Keynote Chairman title is on the line. Gulp.

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With the recent explosion in personal knowledge management tools, it is hard to know which one fits your needs the best. This week on MPU, David and I talk through Obsidian, which builds on top of plain, old-fashioned Markdown documents.

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This time on Flashback, Quinn and I look at another Motorola phone. This one was introduced by Steve Jobs:

A year and a half before the iPhone was introduced, Apple took the stage to announce a very, very different product: the iTunes phone, built in partnership with Motorola.

…it wasn’t good.

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I’m back on Connected after a few days off last week:

Stephen cleans out the Connected inbox, Federico questions the meaning of an idea and Myke checks out a new task manager. Then, a discussion about the ramifications of technology reminding us of painful past events or encounters.

On Connected Pro, The Passionate Ones were born. That’s … a long story.

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This week on Mac Power Users, our friend and colleague Shelly Brisbin returns to the show to explain how she applies power user workflows to working across multiple mediums throughout a normal work week.

For More Power Users, David issued me a challenge concerning the Apple Watch.

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This week on Mac Power Users, David Sparks and I discussed our work beyond MPU and what workflows and tools we use to keep things running smoothly in our small businesses.

For More Power Users, we talked through Apple’s recent product cancellations, including the HomePod, iMac Pro and 21.5-inch iMac CTO options.

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On this episode of Flashback, Quinn Nelson, My Very Tall YouTuber Friend and I talk about the first cool phone: the Motorola RAZR … and how its parent company was bent on destroying its good name.

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I spent some of the money on buying a RAZR on eBay.

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This week on the show:

After follow-up about feelings, Ticci explains what’s going on with links to previously-made Shortcuts and Stephen marks 20 years of OS X. Then, Myke leads a focus group about the future of Apple in the home and the guys all inspect a task manager that has recently popped up on one of their home screens.

For Connected Pro, the guys take a tour of bad System Preferences icons and what settings they use for Dark Mode and the Dock.

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