Category: Podcasts

This week on Mac Power Users:

Christina Warren, tech commentator, podcaster and Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft drops by to talk about using a Mac at work, the state of PowerPoint and how to get the most out of tech when traveling the world.

Christina is the best, and it was great to hear about what she’s up to these days.

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This week on Connected, a couple of topics that are real bummers, and my very shiny blue iPhone:

Apple and Facebook try to outdo each other in who can have the more terrible week, and Stephen test drives the iPhone XR.

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This time on Liftoff:

Jason and Stephen mark NASA’s Day of Remembrance, discuss layoffs at two private space companies and wish for a mission to Uranus.

Space is busy.

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This week on Mac Power Users, David and I talk through way to use our Apple tech to monitor our health and improve our fitness:

The iPhone and Apple Watch can be helpful in managing health and fitness, and coupled with the breadth of options in the App Store, they can become powerful tools in improving our well-being.

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This week’s Connected is up:

After Stephen ruins the intro, Federico finally gets around to talking about his second iPad Pro and Myke shares a secret.

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This week’s episode of Mac Power Users is a real fun one:

John Gruber of Daring Fireball and The Talk Show join David and Stephen for a discussion about writing and podcasting, as well as WWDC and what the future may hold for the iPad and Mac.

I’d like to thank John for being the first guest after the changing of the guard at MPU. It was a great conversation that I really enjoyed. If you haven’t heard MPU in a while, this is a good place to start.

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This week on Connected, we are joined by a very special guest:

The boys discuss a bunch of Apple products that may be receiving refreshes after years of neglect, including the iPad mini and iPod touch, then are taught how to edit photos like pros by Tyler Stalman.

Tyler walked us through several great tips for shooting and editing with an iPhone, and shared some about his favorite apps.

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Catching up on some news on Liftoff this week:

China has big plans for the moon and SpaceX has a new test vehicle. Oh, and things got weird with Russia.

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This week on Ungeniused:

From magazines to television, conservation and preservation, the The National Geographic Society has been working to make the world a better place since 1888.

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This week on Mac Power Users, David Sparks and I talk about the history and present of the Mac mini, before diving into a myriad of ways to use it as a home or office server, as well as its merits as a standalone workstation:

Introduced as a low-cost way to switch to the Mac, the Mac mini can now be found working quietly as home and office servers, hosting files, media, backups and more.

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This week on Download, I joined Florence Ion and Mikah Sargent in drafting stories coming from CES:

The Consumer Electronics Show is, as always, a flood of new technology, corporate announcements, products that will never ship, and embarrassing garbage. How better to sum it all up then with a draft? In this episode, we choose the top stories of the week, then move on to pick some vaporware and the worst story of the show. But don’t worry, in the end we’ve got some fuzzy CES puppies to cheer you up. Is that fresh bread I smell?

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We’re back!

Stephen, Myke and Federico kick off 2019 with annual predictions, a look at Apple’s recent TV moves and the most amazing Shortcut of all time.

I may have gotten a little bold with my predictions this time around.

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