December 17, 2017

409: Holiday Tech

1 hour 32 minutes

"Deck the Halls with Ones and Zeroes."

In this episode, Katie and David break down all the ways to use your technology for the holidays including smart decorations, streaming audio (and David's Yule playlist), managing parties with tech, recommended family-friendly Apple TV games, David's holiday card production workflow and Katie's envelope hacks, tracking gift giving, and setting up your network for visiting relatives and friends.

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Thanks to MPU listener Jigar Talati for help with the shownotes this week!

Support Mac Power Users with a Relay FM Membership David's Yule Playlist

David's carefully curated list of holiday-themed jazz for Apple Music.

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