Notnerd Podcast: Tech Better

Besides bringing you all the tech you need to know we dive deep into cell phones and their operating systems. Listen up to get some great insights on how you can tech better!

If you have questions, answers, ProTips (ding), or anything else tech related, get in touch!

Links from the Show:

• Portland Retro Gaming Expo (01:45)
• Cord Cutting: Disney Movies Anywhere Roku free movies and TV (04:25)
• iOS 11 overtakes iOS 10, now on 47% of devices Android Oreo, not so much (08:45)
• 64% of Americans own an Apple product (23:20)
• iPhone 8+ battery life is really impressive (25:25)
• International Verify Your Backups Day (32:15)
• Dave: iOS 11 keyboard tricks (34:50)
• Not Ad:
  • Amazon working on smart delivery with Phrame (39:20)
  • New Amazon Kindle Oasis (46:05)
• RIP AIM (51:20)
• Dubai police officers have Star Wars-style hoverbikes (52:30)
• Google disables malfunctioning Home Mini feature (55:20)
• POTW:
  • Dave: Music Memos (58:00)
  • Nate: Clark Howard (61:45)

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Another week's worth of tech news. Google had their big announcement with all kinds of new products that you may or may not need. Stay tuned to the end for some very helpful picks of the week.

If you have questions, answers, ProTips (ding), or anything else tech related, get in touch!

Links from the Show:

• Dave's Tip: Apple's YouTube Channel, iPad Pro Tips from Apple, Tips App (03:00)
• Futuremark press release, is it true that iPhones get slower over time? (09:00)
• Microsoft kills Groove streaming, partners with Spotify (17:00)
• National Cyber Security Awareness Month (21:00)
• The Yahoo breach was actually three billion accounts
• Steve Jobs passed away 10/5/11, His famous Stanford Commencement Speech (23:40)
• Sonos announces Alexa-controlled wireless speakers (25:05)
• Everything Google announced October 2017 (27:30)
• POTW:
  • Dave: Movie Pass (45:12)
  • Nate: Freshbooks (51:05)

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Nate starts off with some analogies to try and justify his iPhone purchases. After that, he presents Dave, and himself, with a gift for a record podcast download month. Then we dig into all the tech news and info you need.

If you have questions, answers, ProTips (ding), or anything else tech related, get in touch!

Links from the Show:

• Join Nate's Fantasy Survivor tribe (password is password) (04:20)
• Podcast downloads - GLIF smartphone tripod mount (06:55)
• Equifax breach state sponsored?, CCleaner malware (11:25)
• Google/Levi Smart jacquard Burton Amp Jacket (13:50)
• Mac OS High Sierra (18:00)
• Dave's Tip: Ask Siri whose iPhone it is on the lock screen and other tips. (20:20)
• Twitter 280 characters (24:00)
• Bill Gates is using an Android phone (26:50)
• Anker portable projector Indiegogo (28:45)
• GoPro Hero 6 (36:30)
• Not AD: A bunch of new Echos Apple TV, maybe Amazon Treasure Truck (39:40)
• POTW:
  • Dave: CBS All Access (50:30)
  • Nate: iOS 11 Live Photo options (55:20)

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Nate has his new iPhone 8 Plus, but we also talk tablets and more in this tech-packed episode. As always you will get some great advice and knowledge about the tech you care about.

If you have questions, answers, ProTips (ding), or anything else tech related, get in touch!

Links from the Show:

• iPhone 8+ pickup/Apple Watches How Apple preps for launch day (01:10)
• Japan TV Xfinity parental controls Episode 72: Be Careful Drawing Dolphins (09:10)
• Dave's Tip: Checking Internet Service Outages (11:35)
• Samsung 6th in smartphone sales in China. (18:20)
• 'Innocent' Android apps watching videos and ads in background (21:45)
• Hackers Using iCloud Find My iPhone Feature to ransom owners (22:55)
• Bluetooth Blueborne vulnerability (25:50)
• Navy will use Xbox controllers to control submarines (29:50)
• Apple allows app downloads over cellular up to 150MB (33:10)
• Not Ad: New Amazon HD 10 Tablet (37:00)
• Not Ad: iMac USB port extension (41:45)
• POTW:
  • Dave: iPad - $329 (43:45)
  • Nate: GarageBand on iPad - Free (48:45)

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We have pretty much recovered from last week's Apple event. That doesn't mean we didn't have more to discuss on that. We then get caught up on the rest of the world of tech. Before our picks of the week, we talk about a few of our favorite new features in iOS11.

If you have questions, answers, ProTips (ding), or anything else tech related, get in touch!

Links from the Show:

• Apple Event Follow-Up Talk Show w/ Craig Federighi (01:25)
• NES Classic is coming back with Super NES Classic (21:00)
• Comcast Xfinity X1 adds YouTube app (22:40)
• Tmobile Offers: 55+ 2 lines for $60 Free Netflix (24:00)
• Dave's Tip: Refurbished Apple Products from Apple Store. (26:20)
• Mike's Tweet about a 4yr old using iPad (32:20)
  • Child's iCloud account
  • Amazon Freetime unlimited
• Equifax breach (39:00)
  • Clark Howard credit freeze guide
• Red Sox use Apple Watch (41:40)
• NYPD replacing 36,000 Windows phones with iPhones (43:00)
• Clear glass lyrics (44:30)
• PodCase (47:50)
• Juicero Dead (51:40)
• iOS 11 Features (52:55)
  • Automatic Wifi Password Sharing
  • iPhone Storage Recommendations
  • Control Center changes
  • Improved screenshot tool
• POTW:
  • Dave: Logitech AnyAngle iPad Air 2 Case (61:35)
  • Nate: FakeSpot.com Review Analysis (67:50)

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A special Tuesday Edition of the podcast covering Apple's iPhone X Event today. Big thanks to Dave for the quick editing and copious notes.

If you have questions, answers, ProTips (ding), or anything else tech related, get in touch!

Visit Apple's Event page to watch the keynote and see the products!

• Theater intro "Welcome to the Steve Jobs Theater"
• • Jobs voice over
• Tim Cook
• • Remarks on Steve Jobs
  • Relief efforts for hurricanes
  • New Home
  • • Move to Apple park later this year
    • The first step was theater
    • Apple Park built to reflect Apple's values
• Angela Ahrendts
  • Stores are now Town Squares
  • Brings people together
  • Simple, beautiful design
  • Apple retail is Apple's largest product
    • Courtyard outside,
    • forums inside,
    • board rooms,
    • genius grove,
    • avenues
  • Today at Apple
    • Teaching customers how to use products
    • Programs like photo walks
    • Swift Playgrounds
    • Teacher's Tuesdays
    • Local Artist Sessions
• New Products (Tim Cook)
  • Apple Watch
    • 50% year over year growth
    • Last year, number 2, today number 1 over Rolex, Fossil, etc
    • Video from customers about apple watch
    • Jeff, watch OS 4, September 19th
      • Updated activity, work out, swimming, gym kit
      • Heart rate monitor, core, most used in the world
        • Enhancements to heart rate
        • Resting heart rate
        • Recovery heart rate
        • Notify you if it detects elevated heart rate when you are not active
      • Heart regularity, afib
        • Often undiagnosed
        • Apple Heart Study launching today
          • use data from watch to analyze and notify
          • partnering with Stanford and FDA
      • New Apple Watch, series 3
        • Cellular built-in
          • receive a call, same number as iPhone
          • direction
          • location for find my friends updates to watch
          • Apple Watch and Apple music
        • New dual core processor
          • Siri can talk
          • W2 custom wireless chip
          • faster wifi and more efficient Bluetooth, elevation
          • Display IS the antenna
          • Integrated SIM
          • Same size case as series 2
        • Demo
          • Tap phone
          • Diedra on paddle board on lake
        • Gold aluminum case is new
        • New bands
        • Black Ceramic
        • $249 $329 series 3 $399 series 3 w/cellular
    • Apple watch Ad with apple music
  • Apple TV (Tim)
    • Awarded second Emmy for Siri media search
    • Apple TV 4K
      • Eddie Que
        • HDR 10 also Dolby Vision
        • A10X (iPad Pro)
        • faster everything
        • Worked with studios for 4K content
        • Auto upgrade current movies to 4K
        • New channel partners
        • Live Sports
        • New Game from "That Game Company"
          • Sky exclusively on Apple TV, iPad, iPhone, this winter
          • Sept. 15, ships 22
  • iPhone (Tim)
    • Video
    • iPhone 8 is the name
    • Phil Shiller
      • iPhone 8 and 8 Plus
      • New design
      • Aluminum band
      • Silver, space gray, gold
      • Aerospace-grade aluminum
      • Most durable glass in smart phone
      • Retina HD display
      • Truetone display (like iPads)
      • 25% louder speakers with deeper base
      • New A11 Bionic chip
        • six core
        • 2 cores 25% faster than a10
        • 4 cores 70% faster than a10
        • Apple GPU
          • 30% faster than a10
          • takes advantage of metal 2
        • ISP, image signal processor
        • Cameras
          • Front
          • Back
            • 12 mp sensor 83% more light
            • deeper pixels
            • new color filter
            • for plus all new sensors
            • Portrait lighting in new plus cameras
          • Highest quality video
          • 1080p 240 frames
          • 2 million tiles
          • Augmented Reality
            • Sky app
            • Directive Games Demo
              • The Machines
              • Real Time battle
        • Wireless
          • Qui wireless charging
        • iPhone 8
          • 64 GB and 256 GB
          • $699 $849
        • Plus
          • 64 GB and 256 GB
          • $799 and $949
        • Sep 15 pre-order
        • Avail 22nd
      • iPhone X (Tim)
        • Video
        • Phil
          • Edge to edge, curved
          • stainless steel
          • water and dust resistant
          • space gray and silver
          • super retina display
          • 5.8 inches
          • 2436 x 1125
          • 458 PPI
          • OLED technology
          • HDR
          • Dolby
          • Million to one contrast ratio
          • accurate color
          • 3D Touch
          • truetone
          • Raise to wake or tap on screen
          • No home button
          • Swipe up from bottom to go to home screen
          • Swipe and pause for multi task
          • Side button for Siri or say "Hey Siri"
          • Face ID
            • TrueDepth camera system
            • infrared camera flood illuminated front camera dot projector
            • Neural Engine in A11 Bionic chip
            • Dual core
              • 600 billion operations per second
            • Compared to Touch ID
              • 1 in 50,000 for Touch ID for random person unlocking
              • 1 in 1,000,000 for Face ID for random person unlocking
            • Adapts to face over time
            • Emoji, Animoji
          • Craig F. demo
          • Camera (Phil)
            • Dual 12MP sensors
            • larger and faster sensors
            • better low light
            • dual OIS
            • quad LED flash
            • Front side
              • Portrait with selfies
              • portrait lighting
          • Battery two hours more than iPhone 7
          • Wireless
            • Qui charging
            • Sneak peak AirPower
            • Wireless charging case for AirPods
          • 64GB and 256GB
          • $999 $1149 $56.16/mo order Oct 27 ship Nov. 3rd

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The iPhone is coming, the iPhone is coming. Apple's big event is Sept. 12th, but we still found some tech goodness to cover this week. Then before our picks of the week, we talk a bit about what Apple might announce next week.

If you have questions, answers, ProTips (ding), or anything else tech related, get in touch!

Links from the Show:

• Android officially announced Oreo during the Eclipse (02:10)
• The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is coming, it's big and expensive (03:30)
• CrashPlan is offering a steal on their business service for home customers (07:00)
• Dave's Pro Tip: Do Not Disturb on Mac - Ep. 85 (09:30)
• Apple clothing line from 1986 (16:40)
• FidgetlyCTRL Smart Fidget Spinner (20:45)
• Not News: Apple Watch arm sleeve from Twelve South (23:45)
• Apple Event at Apple Park (27:30)
• POTW:
  • Dave: Trello project management (37:50)
  • Nate: Giphy iMessage keyboard (41:40)

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We have some great tech companies to talk about this week, but also some crappy ones *cough* CrashPlan. Another jam-packed hour making sense of the wild world of tech.

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Links from the Show:

• CrashPlan is getting out of the consumer backup space (02:20)
• Dakine Backpacks - great customer service Ep. 85 (08:25)
• Original Gmail invitation from 2006 (10:10)
• Dave's Pro Tip: Finding files on your Mac (13:20)
• Whole Foods dropping prices and more - Ep. 80 (22:15)
• Amazon owns a whole collection of secret brands (25:45)
• SNES Classic pre-orders sell out immediately (28:25)
• BittBoy - retro pocket gaming console (31:10)
• Google pays Apple billions to be default search engine (35:35)
• Verizon has 'updated' their unlimited plans (41:25)
• AccuWeather caught sending user location data (48:00)
• POTW:
  • Dave: AppTrap for Mac (50:25)
  • Nate: iOS Dynamic Wallpapers (54:50)

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This episode was recorded 47,000 seconds before the eclipse. We've got some great follow up, news, and tips to help you tech better.

If you have questions, answers, ProTips (ding), or anything else tech related, get in touch!

Links from the Show:

• Android O(reo) coming (01:35)
• iOS and Android adoption rates (02:40)
• iPad Pro iOS 11 Videos (06:00)
• TunnelBear VPN public security audit (06:50)
• Apple Makes a lot of money (08:10)
• Dave's Pro Tip: Related Names in iOS contacts (12:20)
• Apple and Google pull hundreds of scammy trading apps (19:10)
• Defcon and Blackhat
  • U.S. voting machines hacked (21:40)
  • Robot safe cracker (25:40)
• Update bricks Airbnb smart door locks (30:10)
• New Tile Trackers (TrackR) (32:30)
• Mighty - iPod Shuffle sized Spotify player (39:10)
• Google Home gets free phone calls in the US and Canada (43:45)
• POTW:
  • Dave: Verizon Hot Spot (46:00)
  • Nate: Hydra - Amazing Photography (53:45)

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In this week's episode, we dig a little deeper into a few interesting stories and topics. Listen up if you could do a better job of protecting your phone and your data. Yes, we did bring up Charlottesville, but we managed to retain our claim of "The most non-partisan tech podcast on the internet."

If you have questions, answers, ProTips (ding), or anything else tech related, get in touch!

Links from the Show:

• See what the Amazon.com looked like ten years ago (00:40)
• LastPass pricing and options (06:50)
• Comcast launching YouTube app? (11:10)
• Apple's services Fortune 100 company (12:45)
• iOS11 is going to be great (15:20)
• Dave's Pro Tip: iOS/Android tracking and backup strategies (17:25)
• Airbnb ban's users going to Charlottesville (28:00)
• Not News? Have smartphones destroyed a generation (36:30)
• Consumer Reports don't like Microsoft hardware (47:20)
• Picks of the Week:
  • Dave - Glass screen protectors (48:50)
  • Nate - Product Hunt (53:40)

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