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MacVoices #25133: Road to Macstock – Brett Terpstra

May 13, 2025 | Events

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.

MacVoices #25113: Apple Intelligence Training, Mythic Quest’s Innovative Ending

Apr 16, 2025 | MacVoices Live!

The MacVoices Live! panel explores Apple’s new on-device approach to training Apple Intelligence, emphasizing privacy by keeping analysis on-device. They contrast this with data-hungry models from other companies and discuss whether Apple’s method can catch up in functionality while maintaining its core values. Reactions range from hopeful curiosity to cautious skepticism about its future impact. Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Brian Flanigan-Arthurs, Eric Bolden, Marty Jencius and Web Bixby also react to Mythic Quest’s cancellation, praising Apple’s rare decision to allow a reshot finale for proper closure.

MacVoices #25066: CES – WearableDevices (Mudra)

Feb 12, 2025 | CES

In the WearableDevices booth at CES we got to see the new Mudra Band that provides gesture control via Bluetooth and brain-computer synchronicity. Ariel Amar, Product Specialist, shows us how it works, the kinds of control that you can achieve, and the devices it can control.

MacVoices #20148: Joe Kissell Takes Control of Apple Mail For The Fifth Time (2)

Jun 3, 2020 | Author, Business, iOS, Productivity, Software, Take Control, Web

The second part of our discussion with Joe Kissell, the author of Take Control of Apple Mail,5th edition focuses on how Joe extends the capabilities of the program by using third party utilities, some of the necessary but annoying security interruptions imposed on...

MacVoices #20147: Joe Kissell Takes Control of Apple Mail For The Fifth Time (1)

Jun 2, 2020 | Author, Business, Productivity, Software, Take Control, Web

Joe Kissell has updated Take Control of Apple Mail to the 5th edition. In the first part of our discussion, Joe outlines some of the nastier bugs in Apple Mail, including one that can lose data, explains why you may want to avoid column view, and why recovering a...

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MacVoices #20145: Jeff Carlson Explains macOS Snapshots and How To Use Them (2)

May 29, 2020 | Productivity, Software

Jeff Carlson continues his discussion of the snapshot feature in macOS, explaining why disk Utility takes longer because of snapshots and why it is worth it, how to delete snapshots and why you shouldn’t, and more information to help you understand and use snapshots...

MacVoices #20144: Jeff Carlson Explains macOS Snapshots and How To Use Them (1)

May 28, 2020 | Author, Software, Tech Topics

Jeff Carlson draws on information from his Take Control of Your Digital Storage to help us understand macOS snapshots. A function of recent version of macOS, snapshots facilitate backups and data recovery in a way that is similar to, but different from, Time Machine....

MacVoices #20143: Bryan Chaffin Discusses His Satisfaction Level With Apple’s Release Schedules (2)

May 27, 2020 | Apple TV, Business, Commentary, iOS, iPad, MacNotables

Part 2 of our discussion with Bryan Chaffin of The Mac Observer starts with reading in bed with the iPad and ends with Apple TV+. In between we cover laptop use, Apple TV (the device), voice control expectations, Apple Pay, Apple Card, and why you should watch the...

MacVoices #20138: Glenn Fleishman Takes Control of Zoom (Part 2)

May 19, 2020 | Author, Business, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Productivity, Security/Privacy, Software, Take Control, Video, Web

The second part of our conversation with Glenn Fleishman the author of the new Take Control of Zoom from Take Control Books, gets into a discussion of Zoom security, how they have dealt with some of the missteps, and how comfortable you can be using it. Zoom has done...

MacVoices #20137: Glenn Fleishman Takes Control of Zoom (Part 1)

May 18, 2020 | Audio/Music, Business, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Productivity, Software, Take Control, Video, Web

The first part of our interview with Glenn Fleishman, the author of the new Take Control of Zoom from Take Control Books, has Glenn providing some of his favorite tips for the video conferencing service from both the attendee and the host perspectives. Glenn also...

MacVoices #20132: TidBITS 30th Anniversary with Adam Engst (Part 2)

May 8, 2020 | Commentary, MacNotables, Publisher, Web

TidBITS publisher Adam Engst continues his conversation on the 30th anniversary of their email newsletter, explaining why TidBITS avoided adopting publishing trends, why introducing graphics helps the reader, and in spite of all the changes, email remains the dominant...

MacVoices #20131: TidBITS 30th Anniversary with Adam Engst (Part 1)

May 7, 2020 | Business, Commentary, Publisher, Web

TidBITS, the longest running email newsletter on the Internet just had its 30th anniversary, and publisher Adam Engst celebrates by talking about how web development has become a discipline of its own, and how that affected TidBITs over the years. He covers the care...

MacVoices #20130: ‘How Long Should Tech Last’ with Charles Edge, Ken Ray, and Brett Terpstra (Part 2)

May 6, 2020 | Business, Commentary, Hardware, Software

The second part of the discussion on “How Long Should Tech Last” with the panel of Charles Edge, Ken Ray, Brett Terpstra, and host Chuck Joiner get into topics that include the costs of maintaining older hardware and software from both the end user as well as the...

MacVoices #20129: ‘How Long Should Tech Last’ with Charles Edge, Ken Ray, and Brett Terpstra (Part 1)

May 5, 2020 | Business, Commentary, Hardware, Software

A discussion on “How Long Should Tech Last” starts with the realization that the hardware and software you buy today is, sooner or later, going to be obsolete. That may seem obvious when it comes to computers, less so when talking about smart speakers, home automation...

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