On The Road to Macstock Conference and Expo Allison Sheridan previews both her workshop and her session. Her main talk focuses on how everyone has something valuable to contribute, while her workshop explores the advanced capabilities of Apple Photos on the Mac. Both sessions reflect her passion for empowering others through technology and developing community.
Katie Fawkes and Doc Rock from Ecamm join The Road to Macstock Conference & Expo to discuss how video has become essential in both personal and professional life. They share their excitement about sponsoring and presenting at Macstock, offering hands-on demos, conversations, and practical advice. From remote church services to family memorials, they highlight how easy it is to create meaningful content with tools like Ecamm, and why video is now accessible to everyone—no tech background required.
The May 2025 MacVoices Update touches on some MacVoices Live! show feedback and how it fits in with the show’s objectives and why you should attend Macstock Conference and Expo. How the show schedule has been evolving and the month’s Support Report concludes the update.
Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Marty Jencius, Brian Flanigan-Arthurs, Eric Bolden, Jim Rea, and Jeff Gamet engage in a lively, unscripted conversation, looking at how Apple user groups have evolved over time. Once central to learning and community-building, these groups now face new challenges—from shifting tech habits to digital alternatives like Zoom, Discord, and online meetups. The panel shares personal experiences, celebrates the value these groups brought, and explores how the spirit of community can still thrive in modern formats.
On The Road to Macstock Conference and Expo Brett Terpstra previews his upcoming talk on Mastodon, highlighting its benefits over traditional social media platforms. He provides some thoughts on how to choose the right server, migrate accounts, and even host your own instance for better control. The session aims to guide users through Mastodon’s structure and community, helping them get the most out of the platform while eliminating confusion. Brett also shares why he’s left most other platforms behind in favor of Mastodon and Facebook.
Adam Engst discusses the state of iOS 13, iPadOS 13 and Catalina, why our smart assistants aren’t smart enough (yet), and why he is so steamed up about your data being sold. From Netflix to subscriptions, paragliding to printing address labels, and after 1,500 issues...
Our third MacVoices holiday Gift Guide show might be the most diverse yet, with selections from hardware to software, from services to training, with entertaining comments and banter to boot from the panel of Norbert Frassa, Frederick Van Johnson, Mike T. Rose, and...
Our second Gift Guide show went about as expected - out of control, with lots of laughs and lots of off-beat picks from the small to the extravagant by the panel of Jeff Gamet, Joe Kissell, Jean MacDonald, and host Chuck Joiner. This edition of MacVoices is supported...
At AltConf in San Francisco, the founders of the event, Rob Elkin and Judy Chen discuss the growth and success of AltConf, the controversy over streaming the Apple WWDC keynote, and why they offer “Hero†tickets as a method of drawing attendees, not...
Apple's World Wide Developers Conference hasn't been formally announced, but that doesn't mean that the AltConf crew are waiting. Rob Elkins takes us through this year's alternative conference that happens in parallel to WWDC. A new venue with three different stages...
From AltConference 2014 in San Francisco, Laura Brown of Artsy discusses how they are trying to expand awareness and availability in the art world, and their ambitious Art Genome Project. Laura also shares her thoughts on diversity in the developer community and some...
At AltConference 2014 in San Francisco, Mike Lee discusses why he feels the issues of safety and inclusion is so important at AltConf in specific, and the developer community in general. It is such an important topic that Mike delivered a presentation about it at...
Rob Elkin is again organizing a parallel event to Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. This year, it will be called AltConf, and is a follow-up to last year's very successful AltWWDC. Rob talks about their new venues (yes, two of them) that will make this year...
At NAB 2014 in Las Vegas, Sean Safreed, Co-Founder of Red Giant Software, explains why they are starting a community, Red Giant Universe, around their video plug-ins. Featuring a free option, free plugins and the opportunity to provide feedback directly to the people...
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