Category: Podcasts

This week on Mac Power Users, David and I got into all the dings and badgers going off on our devices all the time:

From messages and emails to sports scores and social media, our devices generate all sorts of notifications. This week, we discuss how to weed the garden and tame the madness.

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This week on the show:

This week, the gang reflects on the iPad 10th’s birthday, complains about Google AMP and then reviews Fantastical 3.

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This week on Liftoff:

On January 28, 1986, seven astronauts lost their lives aboard the space shuttle Challenger, including teacher Christa McAuliffe. This week, Jason and Stephen talk about the disaster, its causes and how it changed NASA, after discussing the current House NASA Authorization Bill and more.

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This week on Mac Power Users:

Gone are the days of waiting for the evening news to find out the weather for the next day. Now, weather data is accessible anywhere. This week, David and Stephen compare a bunch of different weather apps and services before picking their favorite.

I had a lot of fun prepping for this episode; I hope it will blow you away.

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This week on Somehow I Manage, Tiff and I watch “Frame Toby:”

Stephen shames Tiff into cleaning out the office microwave, and after she’s finished, the two enjoy a caprese salad and discuss “Frame Toby”. This episode of “The Office” aired on November 20th, 2008.

This episode is the source of the all-time greatest Office GIF:

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This week on Connected:

Phillr gets an update, iCloud encryption is in the news and Federico shows off his home screens. Also: rumors of a new Smart Keyboard, the possibility of Apple making its own podcasts and a bunch of creepy — yet soothing — whispering.

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I joined Jason and Myke on this week’s Upgrade:

We close the book on the 2010s with a special draft of Apple keynotes and media events from the past decade, joined by special guest Stephen Hackett. And in Upstream news, it’s a busy season of announcements for both Apple TV+ and Peacock.

This was a lot of fun; I think you’re going to enjoy it.

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This week, I joined a lovely panel of nerds on The Incomparable to talk about Apple’s For All Mankind:

Hi Bob! We continue our early 2020 survey of late 2019 TV favorites with “For All Mankind”, an Apple TV+ series from Ron Moore about a NASA space program that has taken some dramatic turns since Soviet Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to set foot on the moon. We discuss the show’s balancing modern themes with its alt-historical context, how purely fictional and fictionalized historical characters fare, the merits of a weekly episode drop, lunar FaceTime and fax machines, and where it all might be headed in as the show’s second season (perhaps) reaches the 1980s.

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This week on the show:

After working out what the award should be for the two Chairman spots, the boys ponder the future of the iPad Pro’s accessories and the holes on the back of the rack-mounted Mac Pro. Then, Myke provides a tour of CES.

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This time on Liftoff:

2020 is here, as are updates on the James Webb telescope and SLS. NASA has inducted some new astronauts and the star Betelgeuse is getting weird.

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This week on Ungeniused, a surprisingly unsettling topic:

What’s the deal with “Best By” and “Sell By” dates? Will taking old medicine hurt you? All of that and more, as Stephen and Myke explore the rather non-specific world of expiration dates.

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This week on MPU, we were joined by my brother to talk about his work:

Mark Hackett runs a small non-profit working in Sudan, named Operation Broken Silence. This week, he joins David and some other Hackett guy to talk about data management so far from home, the power of Apple’s apps like Pages and his move to the iPad Pro.

Mark may get more out of Pages that anyone I’ve ever talked to.

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