Ty and Jeff take a look toward WWDC this week. They keep their expectations low but try to make a reasonable wish list. Jeff details the killer app for IOS7 that will revitalize new interest in the iPhone. Look for a new show June 10th.
Friday, May 31, 2013
Friday, May 24, 2013
The EdTech Review #35: The Gimp Seems a Pleasant Sort
Show 35: The Gimp Seems a Pleasant Sort
It's quiet. Too quiet. I had a strange encounter with Tristen Lumly in the hallway just before going to cubicle central to regale myself in the latest offering of the boys from Phelan. Lumly has been working nights for sometime, so it was unsettling to see him here. He tells me that the men upstairs (a euphemism since we are all on the same floor) have been less than truthful about the buyout. He says they have known where Tagpro is going to end up since November, but are trying to keep us on edge. Lumly doesn't know exactly where our offices are going, but he claims that it is all going to happen in the next three weeks. I knew I should have come in earlier.
For the show, Jeff and Ty talk over Flickr. The update in their view is attractive and the free terabyte storage is terribly compelling. Ty apologizes to anyone who subscribed to his feed five years ago and wants you all to know that yes, he did leave Hawaii and his daughter's first day of kindergarten went swimmingly.
They move to an in depth talk of Adobe's new subscription-only model. They find cons and pros and pros and cons before settling on cheaper 4th party solutions.
The discussion peters out when they talk of software-only grants. They make you feel like the government is just messing with them.
I know how they feel.
Sunday, May 19, 2013
The EdTech Review Show 34: Web Masters in the Sky
The EdTech Review
Season 2 Episode 12
Show 34: Web Masters in the Sky
In a morning show soaked in the coffees of a thousand sugars and fried pastries, the two tech pundits square up, face off, and giggle uncontrollably.
After Jeff's rant over his Nexus phone trying to link up to Starbuck's Wifi when 4G would be better, they get to the crux, the nub, the fulcrum of their podcast-Google's new IO announcements. They discuss trying to manage multiple Google Plus accounts to near tragic results. They ultimately come up with the novel resolution of keeping work and personal lives separate.
I only wish I could.
Saturday, May 4, 2013
The EdTech Review #33
Season 2 Episode 11 Show 33: Mad Dog
Too much drama at Tagpro. Theedtechreview will get a free tag later.
Nook hd can get Google apps
Google Now for iPhone
Dilemma of the upgrade vs castoff
The EdTech Review #33
Saturday, April 27, 2013
The EdTech Review #32
The EdTech Review
Season 2 Episode 10
Show 32: I am the Face. She has to know Me.
Here is the premise. Take two people who deal ostensibly with all technology, but who clearly have a serious Apple bent. Have them host a weekly podcast. Have that podcast be 85% about new Apple products. Have Apple not make any announcements, or even statements about possible announcements for the past seven months. Simmer. Watch them frantically vamp.
The product is so sweet, I half believe Apple itself is deliberately holding off information in order to see Ty and Jeff stretch creatively. This is one of the podcasts that would crumble like gossamer if dissected, so I will not be the instrument of holding back art. I say pick up your headphones; get on the mass transit vehicle of your choice; crank it up so high you can actually understand what Ty is saying; and feel superior to those around you listening to NPR.
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Friday, April 12, 2013
The EdTech Review #30
The EdTech Review
Season 2 Episode 8
Show 30: You Just Can't LookAway
In this lunch episode, over a dish of what sounds horribly unappetizing Pad Thai, the gents mull over a disparate collection of topics. Ty introduces the LookAway app for IOS that brings visions of A Clockwork Orange for education. In the Mailbag Corner, they read a note from one lucky fan who had some cogent points about last show's dictation topic. It's all about getting thoughts into print for these two, though.
They then drift to talk of new iPhone prognostications and conclude with their hopes of a new iPadMini Retina.
Ground shook=0%
Insights unearthed=1%
Time spent=100%
and that is both the direction and velocity on which they roll.
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