Mac Roundtable Podcast: Recent Episodes
Macroundtable Crew
Hosts Bart Busschots http://www.lets-talk.ie @ltpod @bbusschots Allison Sheridan http://podfeet.com @podfeet John F Braun http://www.macgeekgab.com @johnfbraun @macgeekgab Credit to: Rob Holloway, Jeff Papis & Christian Miller for kicking us and telling us to do the Mac Roundtable! We talk through some of the announcements and then focus on our early impressions of watchOS and the new Apple Watch Series 2, the we chat about how well we like iOS 10 and the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus.
Picks – Allison – AppleCare+ on the iPhone – cracked screen is now $29 for all sizes (was $79/$99) John – OtterBox uniVERSE iPhone case http://amzn.to/2cBnC9l and Seek Thermal – thermal camera: http://amzn.to/2cHJOnu
This week’s show is hosted by:
Bart Busschots – Let’s Talk Apple at http://lets-talk.ie @bbusschots
Allison Sheridan – NosillaCast and Chit Chat Across the Pond at http://podfeet.com @podfeet
Jeff Gamet – The Mac Observer and TMO Daily http://macobserver.com @jgamet
New watchOS, new tvOS, new macOS, and new iOS! We’ll tell you what we think about all the terrific announcements out of WWDC.
Panelists:
John F Braun – Mac Geek Gab at macgeekgab.com @johnfbraun
Bart Busschots – Let’s Talk Podcasts @bbusschots
Katie Floyd – katiefloyd.com Mac Power Users @katiefloyd
Steve Stanger – stevestanger.com @tmasteve
Chuck Joiner – MacVoices @chuckjoiner
The Mac Roundtable found it’s way back together to discuss Apple’s March 2016 event that included the new 9.7″ iPad Pro, the iPhone SE and a price drop to the Apple Watch, among other items.
- Allison Sheridan NosillaCast & Chit Chat Across the Pond podfeet.com @podfeet
& Taming the Terminal with Bart Busschots at bartb.ie/ttt - Victor Cajiao terratech.tech @victorcajiao
- Adam Christianson The MacCast maccast.com @maccast
In this episode we talk about what we like about the iPad Pro (a lot!) and what maybe isn’t ready for prime time.
Links to things we mentioned in the show:
Belikin 90 degree Lightning Cables on Amazon
OWC Lightning cable
Victor’s app list:
- Notion music notation
- Rede Rec AUFX audio plugins for iOS
- Astropad
- Duet
- Ferrite Recording Studio for multi track editing
- Auphonic
Victor’s audio recording by the iPad
Allison Sheridan – NosillaCast Mac Podcast http://podfeet.com @podfeet
Chuck Joiner – MacVoices http://macvoices.com @chuckjoiner
Bart Busschots – Let’s Talk Podcasts http://lets-talk.ie @bbusschots
Don McAllister – ScreenCasts Online http://screencastsonline.com http://twitter.com/donmcallister
Big or Small? How do we make the decisions?
- iPhone vs. iPhone Plus
- iPad Mini, iPad Air, iPad Pro
- MacBook, MacBook Air (big/small), MacBook Pro (big/small)
- Allison’s QFD to make decisions on the MacBook family
- Apple Watch 38mm vs 44mm
- 21.5″, 27″ iMac
- AppleTV – big small storage?
Picks:
Chuck: Party Snapper – Boinx Software http://boinx.com/partysnapper
Bart: Atom programmers text editor: http://atom.io
Don: Final Cut Library Manager – http://www.arcticwhiteness.com/finalcutlibrarymanager/
Allison – Taming the Terminal http://bartb.ie/ttt
Hosts this week are:
Allison Sheridan NosillaCast Mac Podcast podfeet.com @podfeet
Katie Floyd katiefloyd.com Mac Power Users macpowerusers.com @katiefloyd
John F Braun Mac Geek Gab at macgeekgab.com @johnfbraun
Dave Hamilton davehamilton.com Mac Geek Gab macgeekgab.com @davehamilton
Bart Busschots Let’s Talk Podcasts at lets-talk.ie @bbusschots
In this episode we cover Apple Announcement from today about new Apple Watches & Bands, the iPad Pro, the barely-mentioned iPad Mini 4 upgrade, the new AppleTV and of course the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus.
Hosts this week:
Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast at http://podfeet.com http://twitter.com/podfeet
Chuck Joiner of MacVoices http://www.macvoices.com http://twitter.com/chuckjoiner
Victor Cajaio of Artechulate http://www.artechulate.info/ http://twitter.com/victorcajiao
Don McAllister of ScreenCasts Online at http://screencastsonline.com http://twitter.com/donmcallister
Earnings Call: As Horace Dediu says, “Apple is like an object in orbit: the maths suggests it is constantly falling, yet it never hits the earth” (source: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/22/apple-leaves-wall-street-hungry-for-more-can-it-deliver)
New iPods – who are they for?
Office 2016 – Exciting product or too little too late?
Apple Music
http://www.imore.com/siri-commands-apple-music
http://www.imore.com/no-apple-not-adding-drm-songs-your-mac-you-already-own
Picks:
- Allison – Bienna Bluetooth 4.1 Wireless Sport Headphones: $24 on Amazon: http://amzn.to/1OhZu7D
- Victor: Fire Rode Rec for iOs http://www.rode.com/software/roderec
great IOS recording application with lots of high end features including some built in plugins by Izotope which is one of the best audio plugin companies around, easy basic edting etc. I have this it was called Fire recorder. As a bonus for $21 bucks you can get the Audio-Technica ATR3350IS Omni Lavalier Microphone for Smartphones http://goo.gl/fZQr6swhich is great for iPhone and I also use it to record video\audio. Great combo. * Chuck – Apple Watch Stand by Spigen http://amzn.to/1CQJBEO * Don – Alternote, alternate interface for Evernote – https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/alternote-beautiful-note-taking/id974971992?mt=12
Hosts:
Bart Busschots: Let’s Talk Apple lets-talk.ie @bbusschots
Allison Sheridan: NosillaCast Mac Podcast podfeet.com @podfeet
Victor Cajaio: Artechulate artechulate.info/ @victorcajiao
John F. Braun: Mac Geek Gab macgeekgab.com @johnfbraun
In this episode we discuss our impressions of the Apple World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) including:
- OS X 10.11 El Capitan
- iOS 9
- Apple Pay
- HomeKit
- Swift programming language
- watchOS 2
- Apple Music
Panel:
Chuck Joiner – MacVoices, ChuckJoiner
Victor Cajiao –artechulate.info on Twitter @victorcajiao
John F. Braun macgeekgab.com @macgeekgab @johnfbraun
Allison Sheridan – NosillaCast at podfeet.com @podfeet
Steve Stanger – stevestanger.com @tmasteve
Topics:
Apple Watch – who has one, who hasn’t and why
– expectations
– what it is
– what it will be
Everyone is invited to two cool events on June 20th in Chicago:
Midwest Mac BBQ http://midwestmacbbq.com
Macstock Conference and Expo http://macstockconferenceandexpo.com
OS X 10.3 and Photos
Features, does it work for you? Varied opinions included:
– Personally, for my workflow, I’m OK with it. I really used Aperture more for organization than heavy-duty editing, do most of my editing beforehand (barting) so what pics I do have leftover I feel don’t often need much if any editing
– Maintains integration with services I like to share with, primarily Flickr (I noticed that I had to add Flickr to my Internet Accounts, which isn’t a bad thing, but I think this data was stored in Aperture before) and the sharing now looks to be OS-level rather than part of App, which is nice.
– The whole migration this is both clever (using hard links so not to take up space) but can be a train wreck if you don’t have your existing library in the default Pictures folder. Also, per Allison and others, most backup apps will see this as new data and do full backup.
– Really digging having all my photos everywhere
– Got me to buy a 12″ Macbook
– I’m a Light Room user and love it. I see what Apple has done with Photos and overall think it’s a good move. It’s going to more than satisfy 99% of people who use Macs. For those who want laternatives the Photoshop\Lighroom subscription at Adobe for $10 a month is hard to beat. (yep)
– What about those who don’t want to store all their photos in iCloud? Other options? Me, I really like Flickr(yep)
A mega panel for this mega announcement:
Bart Busschots – http://www.lets-talk.ie @bbusschots
Katie Floyd – http://www.katiefloyd.me @katiefloyd
Steve Stanger – http://stevestanger.com @tmasteve
John F. Braun – http://www.macgeekgab.com @johnfbraun @macgeekgab
Don McAllister – http://screencastsonline.com @donmcallister
Allison Sheridan – http://podfeet.com @podfeet
Chuck Joiner – http://macvoices.com @chuckjoiner
Couple of links we referenced:
Compare the different iPhone models:
http://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/
iPhone 6 Display:
http://www.apple.com/iphone-6/display/
Want scale drawings of iPhone models:
http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/iphone-scale.pdf
Apple Watch Features:
http://www.apple.com/watch/features/
The panel for this edition includes:
Allison Sheridan – NosillaCast Mac Podcast (http://podfeet.com) @podfeet
Katie Floyd – Mac Power Users Podcast (http://macpowerusers.com) @katiefloyd
John F. Braun – Mac Geek Gab Podcast (http://macgeekgab.com) @johnfbraun
Bart Busschots – Let’s Talk Apple (http://lets-talk.ie) @bbusschots
In this episode we talk about all of the amazing announcements out of WWDC. It was hard to narrow it down because there was so much to talk about but we covered both OSX Yosemite enhancements and iOS 8 improvements, and even made time to talk about changes to the developer’s SDK and the new programming language Swift.
At Macworld/iWorld 2014, members of The Mac Roundtable took the Second Stage to talk about the iPad apps they really use, the implications of the release of Microsoft Office for iPad, and more.
Participants included:
John F. Braun of Mac Geek Tab (@johnfbraun)
Adam Christianson of The MacCast (@maccast)
Katie Floyd of Mac Power Users (@KatieFloyd)
Jeff Gamet of The Apple Context Machine (@jgamet)
Dave Hamilton of Mac Geek Tab (@DaveHamilton)
Chuck Joiner of MacVoices (@chuckjoiner)
Don McAllister of ScreenCastsOnline (@donmcallister)
David Sparks of Mac Power Users (@macsparky)
Ken Ray of Mac OS Ken (@macosken)
Allison Sheridan of The Nosillacast (@podfeet)
Show Notes:
Mr. Reader – Oliver Fürniß
Pocket: Save Articles and Videos to View Later – Read It Later, Inc
Grandpa’s Workshop – Fairlady Media
OmniFocus for iPad – The Omni Group
Paper by FiftyThree – FiftyThree, Inc.
Netflix – Netflix, Inc. Instapaper – Instapaper Holdings, Inc. Downcast – Jamawkinaw Enterprises LLC Tweetbot for Twitter (iPad edition) – Tapbots
Instagram – Instagram, Inc.
Waze Social GPS, Maps & Traffic – Waze Inc.
forScore – forScore, LLC
Flipboard: Your Social News Magazine – Flipboard Inc.
iThoughtsHD (mindmapping) – CMS
iA Writer – Information Architects Inc.
Snapseed – Nik Software, Inc.
Adobe Photoshop Express – Adobe
Flickr – Yahoo
Expression Engine
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
EYE Chart Magazine – Putting Apple and Tech News in Focus – Kenneth Ray
DeskConnect – DeskConnect
Hand Held Hollywood
Microsoft Word for iPad – Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Excel for iPad – Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft PowerPoint for iPad – Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft OneNote for iPad – Microsoft Corporation
LibreOffice
Microsoft OneNote – Microsoft Corporation
Byword – Metaclassy, Lda.
Pages – Apple
BackBlaze
The panel for this edition includes:
John F. Braun – Mac Geek Gab, Twitter
Bart Busschots – Let’s Talk Podcasts, Twitter
Chuck Joiner – MacVoices, Twitter, App.net
Topics:
Thoughts on Mavericks
– MemoryKeeper
– Mail.app
– Latest information on how to work around Mail problems
– Airmail
– MailPlane
– Eudora
– Ditch Mavericks Mail: Other Email Apps You Can Try
– About Wake on Demand and Boujour Sleep Proxy– Any other things you like or don’t like?
Microsoft’s New CEO
– Bill Gates as “Technology Advisor”
iOS 7
– Reported system crash/reboot issue
Picks
John – Flame (came up during aforementioned Boujour Sleep Proxy oddness)
Bart – MeteoEarth – see live weather data and forcasted weather for up to 5 days animlated on a rotateable and zoomable globe. When you see the moving animated wind patters you get an understanding of what’s going on in the atmosphere that no regular weather map can give you – €4.99 for basic version, €5.49 for a year’s pro membership – needed to see the 5 day forecast and to be able to stack animatinos – i.e. see wind, cloud, and rainfall all at once
Chuck – MOS – Magnetic cable organization system
This week’s show was hosted by:
Chuck Joiner – MacVoices and @ChuckJoiner on Twitter
Katie Floyd – KatieFloyd.me and @KatieFloyd on Twitter
Bart Busschots – bartb.ie and Let’s Talk Apple at lets-talk.ie and @bbusschots on Twitter
Allison Sheridan – NosillaCast Mac Podcast at podfeet.com and @podfeet on Twitter
In this week’s show we talked about the new iPads (who’s buying?) and what advice we’d give to people on size and storage and even cellular data plans. We discussed whether the iPad lineup is getting too fragmented with all these different options and why the iPad 2 even exists any more.
We shifted gears to talk about the new MacBook Pros and whether processor speed even matters any more. We talked about the new versions of iWork and iLife and Mavericks and whether we’d recommend rapid upgrades for muggles.
Picks:
Allison – WaveJamr from radtech.us/products/wavejamr-bluetooth-music-receiver – turn your 30 pin speaker dock into a bluetooth device for $40
Katie – MILOFest milofest.com and MILO Google Group
Bart – Air Video HD – inmethod.com/airvideohd
Chuck – Burst mode on iPhone 5 and what you can do with it
Hosts this week:
Chuck Joiner: MacVoices Chuck Joiner on Twitter
Steve Stanger: stevestanger.com, Steve on Twitter
John F. Braun – Mac Geek Gab John on Twitter
Allison M. Sheridan – NosillaCast Mac Podcast Allison on Twitter
Topics include:
- What will we buy on October 22nd?
- Our thoughts (not all good) on iOS 7 after a few weeks of usage
- How some applications (like Evernote and iTunes) get “improvements” and the work we do to put them functional again
Picks:
Chuck – ReadQuick from http://readquickapp.com/
Allison – Saidoka iPhone dock from RadTech http://www.radtech.us
Steve – Reeder (rss) for iOS from http://reederapp.com/ios/
John – FruitJuice http://fruitjuiceapp.com/
Hosts this week include:
Allison Sheridan – NosillaCast Mac Podcast http://podfeet.com @podfeet
Chuck Joiner – MacVoices http://macvoices.com @chuckjoiner
Bart Busschots – http://bartb.ie @bbusschots
Don McAllister – ScreenCasts Online http://screencastsonline.com @donmcallister
Steve Stanger – http://stevestanger.com @tmasteve
In this episode we talk about today’s announcement of the iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s.
Random
- iOS 7 due out 18 September
- iWork + iMovie + iPhoto – Free on new devices
- No new versions – very disappointing – iWork in particular does iCloud REALLY badly, and integration with the Mac versions is frustratingly bad – these needed an overhaul, not a firesale! Maybe new Mac versions are on the way (wishful thinking?)
- Don’t forget all iWork apps have been re-tooled for 64-bit. Maybe some improvements?
- It now makes sense why this was not streamed and not held in a real venue – they had very little to say
- First September event without a single iPod – not even an iPod Touch!
- No “Phablet” size option – thankfully
- iTunes Festival promotion seemed odd
- Emphasising that they can broadcast HD quality video just like a TV network perhaps – Ahhhh ha…
- New Apple store looks awesome
- Lots of Lady GaGa between festival promo and iOS 7 promo
- Continuing with the laid back dress — Jeans, most had untucked shirts.
Interesting Stats:
- 700 millionth iOS device to ship next month – that’s a big ecosystem
iPhone 5c
- 5 colors in polycarbonate – “Unapologetically plastic” – very Apple to embrace plastic instead of trying to disguise it.
- I think that’s what my prescription glasses are made out of
- Polycarbonate is a stupidly generic word – it basically means “plastic made from Carbon and stuff” – your glasses are probably quite different to these iPhones never mind then!
- iOS 7 recognizes the color of the phone and the background matches
- Silicon covers – ugly? – New covers not meant for us… For the kiddies!
- Absolutely not to my taste, but they might appeal a younger audience – they are definitely playful and bright!
- Nope, not ugly…very slick and art-deco looking. Play well with the look of iOS 7
- Cases will be made fun of, but the video shows off the contrast and possible combinations that will appeal to many – I still think it’s barfy looking…maybe for kids like you, chuckYeah, Daddy-O…kids like me. Now, I’ll go get some bongo-playing time in.
- Saw this tweet “Hey, wrap that new colorful iPhone in a laundry basket!”
- 4″ Screen, A6 Processor, larger battery than the iPhone 5, 8MP camera
- “More LTE bands than any phone in the world”
- 16GB $99, 32GB $199
- Preorder 13 September, available 20 September in 5 countries including China
iPhone 5s
- Silver, Gold, Space Grey
- The change to the “black” phone from black with a black edge to black with a slate edge and back is a massive improvement – I bought a white iPhone for the first time ever with the 5 because that black band looked terrible to me.
- A7 64bit
- 2X faster at CPU & Graphics Tasks
- CPU performance from original iPhone to the 5s = 40X improvement. 50% of that improvement is the 5s alone
- GPU performance from original iPhone to 5s = 56X
- Added M7 Motion sensor – accelerometer, gyroscope and compass without waking the A7 (a shot at the FitBit class of devices? Precursor to iWatch?
- Battery life
- 8 hrs 3G data, 10 hrs LTE data, 10 hrs wifi, 250 hrs standby
- Camera
- faster lens f/2.2 <– was f/2.4
- 15% larger active area on the sensor
- 1.5 micron pixels are bigger than before – Lumia 1020 has 1.12 micron sensor pixels
- “True Tone Flash” combines two flashes – one white, one warmer – first on any camera (not just cell phone camera)
- Companies have tried dual flash before and failed: http://www.tested.com/tech/smartphones/2517-how-much-difference-does-a-dual-led-flash-make/
- Takes multiple photos to find the sharpest
- Auto-image stabilization
- Burst mode 10 fps and it picks what it thinks is best one (or best few to represent an action sequence)
- Slo mo – 720p at 120fps
- 10MP
- Panorama adjusts exposure as you pan (a big shortcoming of the old pano feature)
- “Touch ID”
- Unlock the phone and enter Apple ID
- 500 ppi resolution, 360° readability
- laser-cut saphire crystal + stainless detection ring + touch ID sensor + tactile switch
- Fingerprint detail stored on chip only, not directly accessible through software, never sent to a server, not backed up to iCloud and not backed up to your computer – bascially, like a TPM chip on a PC motherboard.
- Phil did a good job explining just how much valuable info we all have on our phones in the intro. Passcodes are a friction point that puts off about half of iPhone users from protecting their data. By making it easier to be secure, heck, even making it sexy, more people will protect themselves.
- Since it can do more than one fingerprint does that mean multiple people could authenticate to the same phone? Yes, but still only one iTunes account.
- Buy stuff via App store (iTunes?) with your finger print.
- No API for 3rd party devs to auth off – at least not yet. Hopefully that rolls out next year. I really want to be able to get into my 1P without needing to enter my strong password each time.
- Fascinating article about finger print scanning for the iPhone by Geppy Parziale who has 15+ years of professional experience in pattern recognition and machine vision http://weblog.invasivecode.com/post/57447455012/will-a-fingerprint-sensor-be-apples-next-hit
- Pricing
- 16GB $200, 32GB $300, 64GB $400
- Leather cases @ $39 (green, white, light blue, orange, black, red)
- No pre-orders so far, so there will be the lines Apple loves
- Why pre-orders for the 5C and not the 5S?
iPhone 4S – 8GB free
Jony Ive Video reminds us of Spoofs: http://www.apple.com/iphone-5c/videos/#video-product
– do we really need to pick on Ive? YES! I want to know how Jony gets his beard / 5 o’clock shadow that perfect. We need to introduce a drinking game — Everytime Ives says “Defines”, drink!
Cool seeing Elvis Costello but not sure why he was part of the show? Not really a music event.
Allison Sheridan – NosillaCast Mac Podcast podfeet.com twitter.com/podfeet
Bart Busschots – bartb.ie twitter.com/bbusschots – coming in September – Let’s Talk Photography & Let’s Talk Apple podcasts at lets-talk.ie
Steve Stanger – Stevestanger.com twitter.com/tmasteve
John F Braun – macgeekgab.com twitter.com/johnfbraun
Chuck Joiner – Chuck Joiner – MacVoices.com, twitter.com/chuckjoiner
Topics:
Cinematic new ad for the new Mac Pro – http://loopu.in/19DNP05
Balmer calls it a day
– LOLed when the stock shot up on the news < --Wonder if he had the last laugh tho - how much money did he MAKE by quitting because of stock valuation? - Paul Thurrott and Mary Jo Foley on TWiT Breaking news: said everything bad that happened but said we have to look at the good too...but didn't list anything good
Secure computing
– SSL
– Network Traffic – Wireshark
– Log Me In/Back to My Mac
– VPN
– Encryption – Macs, Time Machine, Backups, External drives, Wifi
– Mail – see NosillaCast #412 (http://www.podfeet.com/blog/2013/03/412-rslsteeper-autismate-audio-hijack-pro-mail-security/) where Bart explained how to enable S/MIME secure Mail and #432 (http://www.podfeet.com/blog/2013/08/412-digitizing-family-memories-can-i-stream-it-logitech-k760-email-encryption/) where Bart explained PGP/GPG vs S/MIME
Picks:
Bart – TotalTerminal (free)
Steve – Readkit($4.99/US)
John – GPGTools – (donationware)
Don’s ScreenCastsOnline free video on GPGTools: http://www.screencastsonline.com/mac/show/0411/
THIS VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OINa46HeWg8 (I forgot my phone)
Al – Mobi Eye-Fi Card ($50)
Chuck – Logitech UE Mobile Boombox ($90)
Hey everyone, Allison here. Steve and I have made it 90% through the equipment Tim Verpoorten’s wife Alice sent to us (she spent $2800 shipping 22 boxes!) and we’re finally putting it up on Amazon for sale. We’ve set up an Amazon Storefront at:
amazon.com/shops/nosillacast
One tricky bit – if you click on the image or link, it will take you to all sales of that type of item, so click on “used from” to get right to Tim’s item. We’ll be adding LOTS more items over the next few weeks so maybe make a reminder to check the link every few days?
We also have a few specialty items for sale on eBay:
Seiko SNK809 Wrist Watch for Men
NEW Lucien Piccard Men WHITE Rosegold OVERSIZE DIAL Emboss 28104BR WATCH
FirmTek SeriTek 5PM 5 Bay Hot Swap External SATA Port RAID Hard Drive Enclosure
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 for PC, Mac
UPDATE: We cleared $2500 in sales so far, which means we’re still $300 short of breaking even on the Estate Sale costs of shipping to us. Working on posting more items – we just posted a bunch of bare drives, a cool auto-backup solution called Clickfree and there’s some awesome studio headphones in there too!
If you have enough equipment of your own but you’d like to help defray the costs she spent to ship everything to us – the Paypal button below will be dedicated to donations for Alice until we finish the sales.
Mac Roundtable 217 is hosted by:
Chuck Joiner – MacVoices Twitter, App.net
Allison Sheridan NosillaCast @podfeet on Twitter
Bart Busschots www.bartb.ie @bbusschots on Twitter
Adam Christianson Maccast @maccast on Twitter, App.net
In this more serious episode of the Mac Roundtable we talk about what kinds of things we, as geeks, can do to help our friends and families in case something ever happens to us.
Making Arrangements
– Not just “final arrangements” but in event of emergencies, natural disasters, accidents
– Hurricanes, tornados, floods, fires make houses and offices disappear
– Does your partner/family/trusted freind know where the keys to your digital kingdom are?
– Do they know what it is you care about and would like to see preserved?
– Have you spoken with them about how they could do that?
– Have you told them what’s valuable and what’s junk in your nerd cave?
Backup Backup Backup
– Because something as simple as thurough burglary or a house fire could easily lose you both your computer and your backup disk(s), it really is vital to get at least one copy off-site.
– If you have the luxury of a fast internet connection, cloud-based backups are a great option – particularly those that run in the background without you having to remember to do anything
– If you don’t have the luxury of a fast internet conneciton, keeping an ENCRYPTED disk in your parents house or your office drawer in work is a great option.
– Backups come in two versions – clones, and versioned backups – they solve very different problems, so you really should have at least one of each
– Bart’s setup is an encrypted TimeMachine disk which never leaves the house (a versioned backup for those ‘oops I guess I deleted that 6 months ago by mistake’ moments), and a pair of identical encrypted clone backups which I rotate between home an a trusted off-site location. The reason to have a pair is that if you only have one, the night you bring it home to do a backup, you have all your eggs in one basket – if you do that multiple times a week, you are un-protected much too often. By having two there will be times when both are away from the house (where the Time Machine still is in case the safe location is destroyed), but never times when all my eggs are in one basket. He rotates his clones 3 to 4 times a week depending on how creative I’m being that week.
Passwords
– Password managers – 1Password, LastPass
LastPass allows you to share passwords – you can share your master password between accounts so your partner has the keys to your kingdom
– Printed copies in safe-deposit box
– Be sure you can give someone access to master password for your password manager
– Be sure you supply the master password for your Mac and/or iDevices.
– What about 2-factor authentication?
– Have you added someone else’s nunber as an alternate ID
– Do they have access to your backup 2-fact keys?
Services
– What services are used for what and why? What would someone need to know about these services if something happened to you?
– Dropbox – shared files? Synced files?
– Flickr – photo storage/backup? (not a viable backup for serious photographers, only stores JPEGs, not RAWs, so equivalent to a film shooter backing up prints but not negatives)
– CrashPlan – online backup, versioned backup
– Other off-site backup options – where are they, how to get to them?
– Social media services
Credit Card-funded services
– Cards get cut off…does that mean your service will too? – eventually, yes!
– Beware of PayPal-based subscriptions – they can get cut off instantly when your card goes – I’ve repeatedly lost partial months of subscriptions to Mac OS Ken Day 6 because I had to change the credit card on file for various reasons (card expiry, new card issued by bank out of an abundance of caution etc.).
Hardware
– Label your power adapters with Sharpies!
or get a label maker
– What do you have, what is it worth?
– Organize your cables into big ziplocs and write “micro USB” for example and put them in drawers. You’ll be happier and more efficient and so will your survivors
– Bart has a secure note in 1Password for every major item he buys including what he paid and warranty expiration
Trusted Geek Friends
– Who can and will help with critical data
– This is the best thing you can do. Someone you trust AND who’s knowledgeable
What do you want to survive you? And what will your family want to survive you?
– web site?
– social media presence(s)?
– photo collection?
– how to fund those, who is caretaker (if one is needed)
– Google recently made the first move towards making this kind of thing easy with their “Inactive Account Manager” – http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.ie/2013/04/plan-your-digital-afterlife-with.html
– Hopefully other service follow Google’s lead soon
Geek syndrome
– We have this need to be “that guy” who has the right cable, that piece of old memory, but that crap ends up someone else’s problem if something happens to us. Maybe label boxes of crap as “crap”? (becuase we know we’r enot going to change our behaviors
There’s nothing the Mac Roundtable crew likes more then an Apple Keynote. On this episode we talk about what was announced at the WWDC Keynote (in only the way the MRT crew can).
(Show note: Chuck did join us for a short time at the beginning of this episode but had to drop out due to poor hotel Internet)
Your hosts:
Steve Stanger: SteveStanger.com | twitter
John F. Braun: Mac Geek Gab | Twitter
Chuck Joiner: MacVoices | Twitter
Allison Sheridan: NosillaCast at Podfeet.com | Twitter
Jeff Gamet: The Mac Observer | Twitter
Links:
WWDC Keynote video
OSX preview
Macbook Air
Mac Pro
iOS 7 preview
Adam Christianson got together with Joseph Nilo and Steve Stanger to remember Tim Verpoorten, fellow founding member of the Mac Roundtable.
Tim Verpoorten passed away today. He was one of the first Mac podcasters and one of the founding fathers of the Mac Roundtable. More importantly he was our friend, and he loved the community he built with all of you. We wanted to give you a little bit of Tim through a short slideshow of photos of him at Macworld in 2010 and 2011. Please feel free to share your experiences with Tim in the comments.
Panel:
Dave Hamilton – Mac Geek Gab Podcast, Twitter, , App.net
Chuck Joiner – MacVoices, Twitter App.net
Don McAllister – ScreenCastsOnline, Twitter App.net
Steve Stanger – stevestanger.com, Twitter
Topics:
Why is so much tech advertising stupid?
Apple is quiet, very quiet. Do they need to come out with something that’ll “blow our socks off”?
Is this a temporary lull or will Apple have these long gaps between product launches moving forward. What are we expecting to be announced at WWDC.
What is the best leadership style, and who’s got it, for Apple?
Picks:
Chuck – Apple Pro Video Series – Final Cut Pro X – Second Edition from Ripple Training
Steve – AirParrot
Don – Up wristband and App – The new version
Dave – Synology Diskstation DS 412+
Panel:
Chuck Joiner – MacVoices, Twitter, App.net
Allison Sheridan – NosillaCast Mac Podcast, @podfeet
Steve Stanger – stevestanger.com, @tmasteve
Topics include:
What Is Adobe afraid of? At NAB Adobe was giving away free copies of Premiere Pro. (Just one observation (of many) – article)
Are you all buying the Facebook phone?
Will there ever be an end to the Apple is dying stories?
Ambrosia Software layoffs
Apple streaming music service closer to reality – Do we really need or want another music streaming service?
Picks:
Allison: Viscosity and OpenVPN Connect from the iTunes App Store for iOS. Allison’s setup tutorial:
Chuck: The Padcaster. Interview with the Padcaster folks – MacVoices #13103: NAB – Josh Apter Turns Your iPad Into A Serious Video Tool with The Padcaster.
Steve: Forecast a great interactive weather iOS web app.
Panel:
Katie Floyd – Mac Power Users, katiefloyd.me Twitter
Jeff Gamet – The Mac Observer, Twitter
Chuck Joiner – MacVoices, Twitter, App.net
Steve Stanger – My About.me page, Twitter
Topics include:
– Google’s killing of Reader
– Dropbox buying Mailbox
– Does Apple need a bigger iPhone
Picks:
Katie – Dataman Pro
Jeff – IFTTT
Chuck – CloudPull Free
– CloudPull Premium
Steve – Clear for iOS and OSX
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WWDC Apple Keynote Address video - Click here
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