Thursday, August 28, 2014

Show #67 A Return to Form





In this episode we...

welcome back ourselves from our extended summer hiatus,
wallow in pre-announcement rumors,
plan a three year iPhone strategy for apple, and… decide Windows is the best all for one strategy. 

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Friday, June 6, 2014

Show #66 The Great WWDC Purge


Show #66 The Great WWDC Purge

In this episode we...

ditch the coast of Mavericks for the heights of Yosemite,

realize dropbox doesn’t look so shiny compared to iCloud Drive,

program with Swift iOS code,

 

and…

 

so thoroughly cover WWDC we’re ready to declare ourselves your one stop tech news center.  


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Thursday, May 15, 2014

Show #65: The Beating of the Dryer Drum


Show #65: The Beating of the Dryer Drum

 

In this episode we...

 

deal with classroom concerns, mostly,

watch Triumph of the Nerds,

feel good about solving problems,

complain about YouTube,

praise YouTube,

solve the problem of scalability,

 

and...

 

leaf through Theedtechreview Flipboard magazine.  


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Saturday, May 3, 2014

Show #64 Swimming with the Big Boys


Show #64 Swimming with the Big Boys

 

In this episode, we…

 

unveil the new MacBook Air,

compare Macs to the iPad,

ring the death knell for the iPad maxi,

find the patina in an iPhone case,

search for apps in Windows Metro,

vision a world with IOS8 in Mavericks,

 

and..

 

 

ease into the WWDC pool.


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Friday, April 18, 2014

Show #63: Podcasting to the Test


Show #63: Podcasting to the Test

In today's episode, the gents dive into the world of state testing.  This is their attempt to calm the fearful.  They also curse Google and iTunes for running in the background and messing up the Smarter Balanced Consortium's secure browser.  Mr. Hayes is reintroduced to the wonders of the four fingered swipe.  They then plant their feet firmly in both worlds with Virtualbox running Windows 8 on Mac.  Listen now and learn why one button good, no buttons better.


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Friday, March 28, 2014

Show #62: The Genius Button


Show #62: The Genius Button

We find out that Ty can fix HP laptops at will.  Microsoft announces Office subscription for iPad offering a chance to reopen the rent vs. purchase debate. Jeff finds the Pages newest update to be unsound.

They also talk over the upsides of a bring your own Google version of teaching.

 

All this and Android wear, plus the HTC new phone still seems to have bright light issues on a knock-down, drag-around, and spit in the gully new episode.


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Friday, March 14, 2014

The EdTech Review #61: Fore!


Show #61: Fore!

Today opens with the unveiling of Phillips's new MacBook Pro with a 13" Retina display.  They attempt to redefine screen real estate and show how it's bigger than a much bigger Mac.  They then shop for a Surface Pro 2-the Laptop pad everything machine.  They update to the new IOS 7.1 and agree it's good but has no killer selling point.  The talk then moves to headphone do's and don'ts.  Finally Jeff explores cloud storage plans with Flickr and Google Drive as supplemental solutions.


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