Stewart Cheifet of The Computer Chronicles and Net Cafe joins me to talk about AI, self-driving cars, and Virtual Reality.

In this episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, we're joined by Barry Fulk. Barry is known as the nicest guy in the world who specializes in stalking Mac podcasters. He also directs mobile device management at a large, highly regulated company. He joins us to explain what MDM, or Mobile Device Management is, and how it allows two people in his company to manage thousands of iPhones and iPads. His specific expertise is in the MDM tool called Mobile Iron. We wanted to talk about this to help explain what the County of San Bernadino could have, and should have been able to do with Mobile Iron, which they actually had in house but didn't configure properly. Barry and I talk about encryption and tunneling and data security. It's a good geek time! You can find Barry on Twitter at @fulkb.

In this episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, we're joined by Barry Fulk. Barry is known as the nicest guy in the world who specializes in stalking Mac podcasters. He also directs mobile device management at a large, highly regulated company. He joins us to explain what MDM, or Mobile Device Management is, and how it allows two people in his company to manage thousands of iPhones and iPads. His specific expertise is in the MDM tool called Mobile Iron. We wanted to talk about this to help explain what the County of San Bernadino could have, and should have been able to do with Mobile Iron, which they actually had in house but didn't configure properly. Barry and I talk about encryption and tunneling and data security. It's a good geek time! You can find Barry on Twitter at @fulkb.

In this week's episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond I asked Cheyenne Swenson, 2nd grade teacher at Gallatin Elementary School in Southern California, to come on the show and explain Common Core Math to me. This is a challenging episode because my arithmetic skills were stunted by New Math in the 1960s. Cheyenne explains how she thought this was some crazy new fad when it started but that now she's a believer because she's seen kids really "getting" math in a way they never did before and she even enjoys teaching it.

In this week's episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond I asked Cheyenne Swenson, 2nd grade teacher at Gallatin Elementary School in Southern California, to come on the show and explain Common Core Math to me. This is a challenging episode because my arithmetic skills were stunted by New Math in the 1960s. Cheyenne explains how she thought this was some crazy new fad when it started but that now she's a believer because she's seen kids really "getting" math in a way they never did before and she even enjoys teaching it.

I asked Dave Hamilton to come on the show to help us understand the impact of Apple removing the analog headphone jack. I didn't want to do a big hand wringing about how annoying it might be to replace all of our headphones, rather I asked Dave to come on the show to explain in geeky detail what it means to have analog vs. digital headphones. We start at the beginning talking about how sound is produced in a computer and work our way through sample rates, bit rates and into some of the mechanics of a digital audio converter (DAC). We also talked about what's going on when you use Bluetooth headphones.

I asked Dave Hamilton to come on the show to help us understand the impact of Apple removing the analog headphone jack. I didn't want to do a big hand wringing about how annoying it might be to replace all of our headphones, rather I asked Dave to come on the show to explain in geeky detail what it means to have analog vs. digital headphones. We start at the beginning talking about how sound is produced in a computer and work our way through sample rates, bit rates and into some of the mechanics of a digital audio converter (DAC). We also talked about what's going on when you use Bluetooth headphones.

Chuck Joiner of the MacVoices podcast joins us to talk about how the simple reminder of the little loops on the Apple Watch Activity app got him to stand up once and hour, do a little exercise and start to feel better. We then move into conversation about how he records his video interviews for shows like CES. He's a one man band with a cool rig you'll want to hear about.

Chuck Joiner of the MacVoices podcast joins us to talk about how the simple reminder of the little loops on the Apple Watch Activity app got him to stand up once and hour, do a little exercise and start to feel better. We then move into conversation about how he records his video interviews for shows like CES. He's a one man band with a cool rig you'll want to hear about.