MacVoices

Tom Schmidt drops in on the Road to Macstock to talk about when and how to have your Mac repaired. You would think that would be a simple question, but Tom talks about why it you need to think about who turn your machine over to, where the repair parts are coming from, and what your options are. Should you automatically update Flash? Be concerned about static electricity? Tom tell us why he answers “yes” to these questions. Today’s edition of MacVoices is sponsored by Blue Apron, where you get fresh ingredients and recipes delivered to your door so you can fix delicious meals for your family. Get cooking and get three free meals (including free shipping) by visiting BlueApron.com/MacVoices. http://BlueApron.com/MacVoices and by The new MacVoices presence on Facebook. Watch the latest MacVoices episodes on the MacVoices Facebook Page, and discuss them, along with anything tech, by joining our new MacVoices Facebook Group. http://facebook.com/macvoices http://facebook.com/groups/macvoices/ Show Notes: Chuck Joiner is the producer and host of MacVoices. You can catch up with what he's doing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the show: iTunes: - Audio in iTunes - Video in iTunes - HD Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: - Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss - Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss Guests: Tom Schmidt has been using and supporting Apple products since 1986 and is the the manager of The MacGuys+, a member of the Apple Consultants Network outside Minneapolis, Minnesota. Previous to that he was the senior service technician at FirstTech in Minneapolis for 20 years, Apple’s first dealer outside California until it went out of business in 2014. He has done some writing for mymac.com and occasionally guests on several podcasts, including the MyMac Podcast, Three Geeky Ladies, and TechFan. Tom and his daughter Katie live in New Hope and enjoy movies, the zoo, museums, are huge Minnesota sports fans, and also enjoy all the other fun things Minnesota has to offer. In his spare time Tom also takes part in improv comedy and serves his community as chairman of the planning commission. You can follow him on Twitter. Links: Apple Consultants Network

The Road to Macstock 2017 makes a turn in to left field as we talk to Guy Serle of the MyMac Podcast. Guy and his presentation partner Tim Robertson will be bringing the MyMac Game Show to Macstock, introducing an element of fun to the event. Guy gives us some hints about how the show will work, his experiences in podcasting, and why he is going live on Facebook. Today’s edition of MacVoices is sponsored by Blue Apron, where you get fresh ingredients and recipes delivered to your door so you can fix delicious meals for your family. Get cooking and get three free meals (including free shipping) by visiting BlueApron.com/MacVoices. http://BlueApron.com/MacVoices and by The new MacVoices presence on Facebook. Watch the latest MacVoices episodes on the MacVoices Facebook Page, and discuss them, along with anything tech, by joining our new MacVoices Facebook Group. https://www.facebook.com/macvoices/ Show Notes: Chuck Joiner is the producer and host of MacVoices. You can catch up with what he's doing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the show: iTunes: - Audio in iTunes - Video in iTunes - HD Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: - Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss - Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss Guests: Guy Serle, best known for being one of the co-hosts of the MyMac Podcast, sincerely apologizes for anything he has done or caused to have happened while in possession of dangerous podcasting equipment. He should know better but being a blonde from Florida means he's probably incapable of understanding the damage he has wrought. Guy is also the author of the novel, The Maltese Cube. You can follow his exploits on Twitter. Links: IK Multimedia iRig Duo Boss Jock

Our trip on The Road to Macstock 2017 takes a social twist with a conversation with Barry Fulk, the organizer of The Midwest Mac Mingle, a companion event to Macstock, and successor to The Midwest Mac BBQ. Taking place in downtown Woodstock IL on the Saturday night of Macstock, The Mingle will allow attendees to eat, drink and socialize in a friendly, welcoming atmosphere. Barry explains how the event has evolved, some of the components of this year’s event, where he found the band, and more. This edition of MacVoices is supported by MacVoices Magazine, our free magazine on Flipboard that helps you do more with your Apple tech. http://MacVoices.com/Magazine and by The new MacVoices presence on Facebook. Watch the latest MacVoices episodes on the MacVoices Facebook Page, and discuss them, along with anything tech, by joining our new MacVoices Facebook Group. https://www.facebook.com/macvoices/ Show Notes: Chuck Joiner is the producer and host of MacVoices. You can catch up with what he's doing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the show: iTunes: - Audio in iTunes - Video in iTunes - HD Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: - Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss - Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss Guests: Barry Fulk is the Producer, Co-host & Roving Reporter at For Mac Eyes Only. Guy, husband, one kidlette, loves tech, travel, and photography (including in/outside of Apple stores). Tends to be CDO (which is OCD alphabetized). 1/2 Japanese, 1/2 mutt. Currently drinking as much Kool-Aid as possible.

After having an opportunity to work with the MacBook Pro with Touch Bar for a few months, the MacJury panel of Jeff Carlson, Dr. Robert Carter and Jeff Gamet convened to discuss their experiences. The panel examines the many controversies surrounding this machine and determine any of them were justified, including the choice of only USB-C ports, the keyboard, the RAM limitations, and more. Judgement is rendered on the MacBook Pro’s capabilities and viability as a productivity machine. Today’s edition of MacVoices is sponsored by Blue Apron, where you get fresh ingredients and recipes delivered to your door so you can fix delicious meals for your family. Get cooking and get three free meals (including free shipping) by visiting BlueApron.com/MacVoices. http://BlueApron.com/MacVoices and by MacVoices Magazine, our free magazine on Flipboard that helps you do more with your Apple tech. http://MacVoices.com/Magazine Show Notes: Chuck Joiner is the producer and host of MacVoices. You can catch up with what he's doing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the show: iTunes: - Audio in iTunes - Video in iTunes - HD Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: - Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss - Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss Guests: Author and photographer Jeff Carlson (@jeffcarlson, [email protected]) is a columnist for the Seattle Times, a contributing editor at TidBITS (tidbits.com), and writes for publications such as Macworld and Photographic Elements Techniques. He is the author of The Connected Apple Family, The iPad for Photographers, Third Edition, iPad & iPhone Video: Film, Edit, and Share the Apple Way, and Take Control of Your Digital Photos on the Mac, among many other books. He believes there's never enough coffee, and does his best to test that theory. Dr. Robert Carter is a university psychologist where he provide psychological services to students and trains pre-doctoral interns in the practice of psychology. In his other life, he is an Apple podcaster, producing and co-hosting the Tech Doctor podcast. The podcast is devoted to helping people get the most from their Apple devices. They are particularly interested in interviewing users and developers who incorporate Apple’s VoiceOver accessibility technology into their work-flow and apps. The Tech Doctor crew embraces Apple’s idea that Apple products are for everyone. Jeff Gamet is the Managing Editor for The Mac Observer, and the author of Fresh Brewed Tales, a chronicle of Jeff's strange adventures at coffee shops. He also is the host of the Daily Observations podcast and co-host of The Apple Context Machine. You can find his regular updates on Twitter. Links: CalDigit USB-C Docking Station Anker USB-C to Ethernet Adapter for USB Type-C Devices Including the new MacBook 2016 AUKEY USB-C to USB 3.0 Adapter for MacBook Pro Satechi Type-C USB 3.0 3 in 1 Combo Hub for MacBook 12-Inch (with USB -C Charging Port) Elgato Thunderbolt 2 Laptop Dock with Thunderbolt Cable

Allison Sheridan talks about her presentation on Wunderlist on The Road to Macstock. There are lots of to-do utilities out there; Allison talks about the characteristics of those programs, the different types of uses for them, and why it can make a huge difference in your productivity to select the right one. She explains the key features of Wunderlist that make it essential, and why it isn’t the only solution she uses. How she will demonstrate it to the Macstock audience, how the prefers to migrate between Macs and more are all covered in the discussion. Today’s edition of MacVoices is sponsored by Blue Apron, where you get fresh ingredients and recipes delivered to your door so you can fix delicious meals for your family. Get cooking and get three free meals (including free shipping) by visiting BlueApron.com/MacVoices. http://BlueApron.com/MacVoices and by MacVoices Magazine, our free magazine on Flipboard that helps you do more with your Apple tech. http://MacVoices.com/Magazine Show Notes: Chuck Joiner is the producer and host of MacVoices. You can catch up with what he's doing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the show: iTunes: - Audio in iTunes - Video in iTunes - HD Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: - Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss - Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss Guests: Allison Sheridan is the host of the NosillaCast Mac Podcast - a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Macintosh bias - which has been running for 10 years with more than 500 episodes. The NosillaCast brings you Mac and iOS tips and tricks and tools, but also dives into photography and security and accessibility among many other technology subjects. Allison produces the NosillaCast weekly as an audio podcast and an extensive blog at http://podfeet.com, and she also broadcasts the creation of the show live on video every week to an audience who affectionately call themselves the NosillaCastaways. You may also have seen or heard Allison on Tech News Today and MacBreak Weekly on the TWiT Network, the Daily Tech News Show, Let's Talk Photography and Let's Talk Apple, The Mac Roundtable, Mac Geek Gab, Cordkillers, the Pocket Show and The Mac Show on the British Tech Network, the SMR Podcast, Tech's Message, The Productive Woman Podcast, as a screencaster on ScreenCasts Online and as a columnist in SCO Magazine. Allison has a Masters in Mechanical Engineering and worked for a large aerospace company for 35 years. She ran a 170 person IT organization with budget responsibility for $50M/year. In her last few years she became an IT Fellow, the highest technical level possible in IT in the company. Links: Eye Chart Radio

Tom Piper is our latest conversation on The Road to Macstock 2017. Tom will be giving pointers on the power of Apple’s Pages word processor/page layout program, and talks about the evolution of Apple-authored software, and how databases disappeared from the equation. Pages packs plenty of power into a deceptively approachable package and Tom explains how and why he uses it for everything, including some things that might surprise you. Today’s edition of MacVoices is sponsored by Blue Apron, where you get fresh ingredients and recipes delivered to your door so you can fix delicious meals for your family. Get cooking and get three free meals (including free shipping) by visiting BlueApron.com/MacVoices. http://BlueApron.com/MacVoices Show Notes: Chuck Joiner is the producer and host of MacVoices. You can catch up with what he's doing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the show: iTunes: - Audio in iTunes - Video in iTunes - HD Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: - Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss - Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss Guests: Tom Piper is a member of the Apple User Group Advisory Board and president of Applejac in Jefferson City MO. Links: Duet

Kelly Guimont is our latest “Five Questions” guest, and shares her thoughts on how to get started with home automation and The Internet of Things and how moving into a new house figured in her decision on what note-taking apps to adopt. She also discusses her personal philosophy on when it is time to upgrade your hardware, what hardware and software she uses to back up, and how she cheats on keeping her favorite iOS apps at her fingertips. Today’s edition of MacVoices is sponsored by Blue Apron, where you get fresh ingredients and recipes delivered to your door so you can fix delicious meals for your family. Get cooking and get three free meals (including free shipping) by visiting BlueApron.com/MacVoices. http://BlueApron.com/MacVoices and by Smile, the makers of PDFpen and PDFpenPro, PDFpen for iPad, PDFpen for iPhone, PDFpen Scan+, as well as TextExpander for Mac and TextExpander for iPhone and iPad, as well as the new TextExpander for Windows. Great software to help you get more done. http://SmileSoftware.com Show Notes: Chuck Joiner is the producer and host of MacVoices. You can catch up with what he's doing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the show: iTunes: - Audio in iTunes - Video in iTunes - HD Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: - Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss - Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss Guests: Kelly Guimont is a longtime Apple geek, sitting down (on a telephone book) in front of an Apple IIe in 1983. She can still hear the ticking of the ImageWriter. Thanks to the miracle of the adjustable leg desk, she no longer needs the phonebook. Kelly writes for The Mac Observer, is co-host of The Aftershow, makes regular appearances on the Daily Observations Podcast and the British Tech Network and yet still has more to say which she saves for Twitter. Links: Henge Dock WeMo Switch IFTT WeMo Smart Plug Recipes Drafts Kuru Toga pencil Evernote Backblaze SuperDuper! by Shirt Pocket Software Carbon Copy Cloner by Bombich Software Weather Fahrenheit 1Password InPlay (no longer available in the App Store, but Kelly’s recommended alternative: Listen by MacPaw)

The Road to Macstock 2017 takes us to David Ginsburg of the Suburban Chicago Apple Users. David’s topic will be, "iOS: What you can do to be more organized and efficient in your life”, something everyone can benefit from. As iOS has become more powerful, many users miss features and options that would make it even more valuable. David outlines some of the things he will cover, how they apply to all iOS devices , and his views on the current crop of iPads. Today’s edition of MacVoices is sponsored by Blue Apron, where you get fresh ingredients and recipes delivered to your door so you can fix delicious meals for your family. Get cooking and get three free meals (including free shipping) by visiting BlueApron.com/MacVoices. http://BlueApron.com/MacVoices Show Notes: Chuck Joiner is the producer and host of MacVoices. You can catch up with what he's doing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the show: iTunes: - Audio in iTunes - Video in iTunes - HD Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: - Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss - Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss Guests: David Ginsburg is the President of the Suburban Chicago Apple Users Group, and is an IT professional supporting Mac, iOS and Windows users. Find and follow him on Twitter as @daveg65.

Kirk McElhearn takes up the challenge of informing you about the changes and enhancements to the latest revision to iTunes in iTunes 12: The FAQ. Various interface elements have come, gone, come back again and been updated, as well as new capabilities added. Kirk talks about some of the most used, gives perhaps the most compelling reason that iTune shouldn’t be broken down into separate apps. How and why to make a simplified iTunes interface, why it is important to dislike as well as like tracks, and the new tags specifically for classical music are just part of what Kirk discusses. Today’s edition of MacVoices is sponsored by Blue Apron, where you get fresh ingredients and recipes delivered to your door so you can fix delicious meals for your family. Get cooking and get three free meals (including free shipping) by visiting BlueApron.com/MacVoices. http://BlueApron.com/MacVoices and by Smile, the makers of PDFpen and PDFpenPro, PDFpen for iPad, PDFpen for iPhone, PDFpen Scan+, as well as TextExpander for Mac and TextExpander for iPhone and iPad, as well as the new TextExpander for Windows. Great software to help you get more done. http://SmileSoftware.com Show Notes: Chuck Joiner is the producer and host of MacVoices. You can catch up with what he's doing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the show: iTunes: - Audio in iTunes - Video in iTunes - HD Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: - Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss - Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss Guests: Kirk McElhearn writes about Macs, iPods, iTunes, books, music and more. He is a Senior Contributor to Macworld, where he writes the Ask the iTunes Guy column and the Hey Apple, Fix This! column. He is also a regular contributor to TidBITS, as well as several other web sites and magazines. He is co-host of The Next Track and The Committed podcast. Links: How to Set Up iTunes as a Minimalist Music Player by Kirk McElhearn The Next Track - podcast with Kirk McElhearn and Doug Adams

MacNotable Adam Engst outlines what their new TidBITS Content Network brings to Apple Consultants who are interested in providing their customers with quality information, but who don’t have the time or skills to compile. A subscription service with both articles and images, The TidBITS Content Network delivers tips and in-depth coverage of information created specifically for the service that are written and edited by experts. Adam talks about how the articles are received by subscribers, what rights they have to use both the articles and images, and why this was the perfect time to launch such a service. Today’s edition of MacVoices is sponsored by Blue Apron, where you get fresh ingredients and recipes delivered to your door so you can fix delicious meals for your family. Get cooking and get three free meals (including free shipping) by visiting BlueApron.com/MacVoices. http://BlueApron.com/MacVoices and by The new MacVoices presence on Facebook. Watch the latest MacVoices episodes on the MacVoices Facebook Page, and discuss them, along with anything tech, by joining our new MacVoices Facebook Group. https://www.facebook.com/macvoices/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoices/ Show Notes: Chuck Joiner is the producer and host of MacVoices. You can catch up with what he's doing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the show: iTunes: - Audio in iTunes - Video in iTunes - HD Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: - Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss - Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss Guests: Adam C. Engst is the publisher of TidBITS and Take Control Books. He has written numerous books, including the best-selling Internet Starter Kit series, and many magazine articles - thanks to Contributing Editor positions at MacUser, MacWEEK, and now Macworld. His innovations include the creation of the first advertising program to support an Internet publication in 1992, the first flat-rate accounts for graphical Internet access in 1993, and the Take Control electronic book series. His awards include the MDJ Power 25 ranking as the most influential person in the Macintosh industry outside of Apple every year since 2000, inclusion on the MacTech 25 list of influential people in the Macintosh technical community, and being named one of MacDirectory's top ten visionaries. And yes, he has been turned into an action figure. Want more? Follow Adam on Twitter for 140-character musings on a variety of topics. Links: Pixabay Pexals MailChimp Mail Designer Pro Jekyll NetNewsWire Divi WordPress Theme