This week, Will, Norm, and special guest Jeremy Williams discuss Amazon’s mystery event, Star Wars leaks, loosened Kickstarter restrictions, and all the news from WWDC. Enjoy!
One Day Builds
Adam embarks on one of his most ambitious builds yet: fulfil…
Show And Tell
Adam recently completed a build of the royal St. Edwards cro…
Making
Viewers often ask to see Adam working in real-time, so this …
One Day Builds
Adam and Norm assemble a beautifully machined replica prop k…
One Day Builds
One of the ways Adam has been getting through lockdown has b…
Making
Adam unboxes and performs a quick test of this novel new hel…
Making
When Adam visited Weta Workshop early last year, he stopped …
One Day Builds
Adam tackles a shop shelf build that he's been putting off f…
Show And Tell
Time for a model kit build! This steampunk-inspired mechanic…
One Day Builds
Adam reveals his surprise Christmas present for his wife--a …
2:42:47!? Be still my beating heart.
Is Will wearing new glasses??
As an EMT, I’d love to see people use the Health app to it’s full capacity…
I’ve been playing around with the beta the last couple of days, and I can see the Medical ID feature being extremely helpful for first responders to get pertinent medical information on patients (Current medications, preexisting conditions, etc.), especially if they are unresponsive.
The problem, like with all technology, is educating them on how to take advantage of it and how it could be beneficial to them as patients and us, as healthcare providers.
Maybe the spirit of Ryan Davis descended upon them and made them go long!
Also, I miss that guy…
I love a LOOONNNNG podcast! *Dick Joke.
Cheers
Steven
Maybe it’s because I was listening to it through DoubleTwist on my N7 but this episode had some pretty bad auto quality. Lot of skipping and cut outs during conversations, etc.
I haven’t even listened to the episode yet, but a title of “Sweat and Creamy” and a run time just shy of 3 hours has me brimming with anticipation.
I understood that the beats acquisition by apple was more a move to take on Spotify and Pandora by using beats’ system (possibly re-branding it)
So they are just buying the users and a new platform to add to iTunes radio perhaps? They also get crappy headphones in with the deal.
You can create private repos on github if you pay $7 a month https://github.com/pricing. Bitbucket allows unlimited private repos for “small teams” https://bitbucket.org/plans. Bitbucket now allows for Mercurial and git repos, too.
T-Mobile has a voicemail to text service that is shockingly good. And they all go through their voicemail app which is like a messaging app. It’s good enough that I briefly considered paying the $5/month they want for it.
I think I’m starting to like Jeremy more as a guest than even Gary. Which reminds me I should order the Game Frame while I still can.
The 30s blank leader had me wondering if something had crashed on my end.
I have never seen space jam either.
I had the same weird audio problems when I switched over to the audio-only podcast. And yeah, I used my N7, as well..
Will’s Tennessean comes out in his Nashvulls and Huntsvulls.. From a fellow TN native.
Edit: Also, the MJ being a draw for the Barons is absolutely true. I have friends whose parents took them to B’ham to watch Jordan and we’re about 3+ hours away.
1:32:28 You don’t actually have to open messages and hit play to listen to or to reply to a voice message in iOS8. As Graig said in the keynote, when you get a voice message you can just put the phone on your ear and it plays. And when you want to send a reply, just pick up your phone and speak. When you put the phone down it’ll send.
1:40:00 Who uses Mail.app? I do! It does everything I need, and I have yet to find a better alternative, and I’ve tried plenty.
I had a 30 second blank leader and how did you not talk about amazon avoiding selling hachette books..
The famous painting that experimented with parallax was “The Ambassadors” by Hans Holbein the Younger, made in 1533. There’s an anamorphic skull in the foreground, stretched out so you have to stand to the side of the painting to see it properly. Also Holbein was German but he copied the style of the earlier Dutch painters.
Its not parallax its Anamorphosis.
Ah, apparently Nuance software powers the Tmobile service. Well, whatever Nuance is doing, it’s pretty damn good.
No GitHub and you’re doing development work for products you make money off of? Get a private account and avoid disasters.
For backups, I prefer CrashPlan, it allows you to set your own encryption key for your data, so not even they can get it. For some of the others, it’s based off of your password, so if you can reset your password without loosing your backups, then they have a way to get at your data.
If you have several computers, CrashPlan’s Family pack is a pretty good deal. It was around $400 for 4 years unlimited data for 10 computers. So I shared the account with my immediate family, and with the unique encryption key for each person, all of our backups are private to ourselves.
For each backup set, you can set custom retention periods, so if there’s data you don’t want to keep for very long you can set a shorter retention period, but I think the default is either unlimited or 10 years. I believe you can also set how many revisions for a particular backup set you want to keep as well. It also permits you to backup the same data set to multiple locations, to include their cloud service, an external HD or a friend’s computer. Also, you can purchase a hard drive from them with your data on it in the event you need your data in a hurry after a major problem, rather than downloading it back from them.
On the topic of Cell Phone plans, one of the best things I did personally for my wallet was to switch from Verizon to Ting (Sprint VMNO). My monthly bill went from ~$130/mo (with 18% discount from my former employer) to ~$33/mo on average. With Ting you only pay for the amount of calls, texts or data as well. If you like the Nexus 5, you can buy one from the Google Play store (cheaper option) then purchase a TLE Sim from Ting for $10 (and they give you a $10 credit to your account when you do). I switched to Ting right after the Nexus 5 came out and they determined that they could activate it for their customers.
Jeremy, if you want to use something like Github but not have it open to the public and free, I would recommend Bitbucket. They support both hg and git right now and give you up to 10 (iirc) free private repository. If you set it as a git repo, you can still use the same directory and just add another source to push to github when you want to release the source for free.
Since my hard drive died a few years ago, I now keep triple copies of photos, documents, source code, all that’s important:
3 Stage backup strategy:
http://deckjockey.com/?page_id=28
The thing which I find paralyzing about backups is the question of content.
There’s no reasonable time frame I’m going to upload my 1TB system drive + apps to any service over ADSL2, let alone keep it reasonably recent.
But then my data directory is 100+ GB. But then there’s like, 30gb of music in there. But music is eminently replaceable…mostly.
But then what’s the goal? Avoid net loss or be back up and running quickly? Because reinstalling Windows/Linux + apps can easily take a week before everything normalizes again, which is kind of a lot of lost productivity. Sometimes longer – a system I use to do things ends up being customized in all sorts of small ways, and trying to keep all that straight is a concern too.
Thanks for all of the bitbucket recommendations, guys. I will investigate.
On another topic, I found this Beats playlist importer for RDIO.
Oomph. That conversation about Apple’s Swift language had me yelling at my phone quite a bit.
(reason: I’m a software developer by trade familiar with Objective-C, C++, and others)
🙂 Sorry. Please let us know what I got wrong.
I may be way off on this, but Jeremy sounds exactly like Patton Oswalt. No?
I need this weeks podcast for the drive home! (anywhere between 3 and 3:00 EST)
You’re not alone Jeremy, I have still not seen Space Jam.
Most of everything that was discussed as coming to iPhone and Android, is already on BlackBerry 10 devices. But the sad truth is that most iPhone and Android users don’t care because they have never picked up a BlackBerry 10 device to even give it a chance. Then they turn around and talk bad about BlackBerry about things they know nothing about. It really is very sad. I can run 95% of Android apps on my BlackBerry Z30 and some of them even run better than they run on Android devices.
Could you guys look into BlackBerry 10 and the devices and maybe include good accurate info these podcasts? All of the manufacturers deserve to be advertised properly and not degraded and belittled by people who don’t care to know the facts. Feel free to contact me if you need info or need good sources for info on BlackBerry 10, I do develop BlackBerry applications in my spare time and have been using BlackBerry 10 before it was available to the public.
I thought he sounded like Clark Duke.