Is Spotify archiving culture or exploiting it? This episode explores the ethics of music streaming, artist compensation, and global access to creative works. From libraries and licensing models to video game preservation, the panel debates how digital culture should be shared, protected, and passed on to future generations.
At CES Unveiled 2026, Matthew Ungar, Marketing Manager for Govee shows off the company’s newest smart lighting and home innovations. Highlights include LumaBlend Plus for richer color control, dynamic ceiling lights that mimic natural skies, an AI lighting assistant, and a nugget ice maker designed to bring restaurant-style convenience into the home.
The panel swaps stories from Black Friday and Cyber Monday, highlighting smart tech buys, overlooked gems, and a few near-misses. Beyond the shopping lists, the conversation takes a thoughtful turn—calling out deal fatigue, questionable discounts, and the frustration loyal customers feel when promos favor newcomers—while still enjoying the thrill of finding gear that truly earns its place.
Kelly Guimont, Jim Rea, Brian Flanigan-Arthurs, Kirk McElhearn and Chuck Joiner wrap up the 2025 MacVoices Holiday Gift Guides wraps up with “best of the rest” episodes, packed with practical picks and plenty of laughs. Highlights include keyboard travel cases, socks, portable power options, dictation software, a motorized TV mount, a light, and compact multi-port chargers. (Part 1)
This holiday gift guide panel shares practical tech presents for Apple fans and travelers, including a 16-port USB hub, a money-saving approach to Apple’s refurbished hardware store, compact GAN chargers, a versatile MagSafe camera grip, and a slim portable monitor. They explain how these accessories improve everyday and on-the-road workflows while keeping budgets in mind.
This holiday gift guide episode brings together Joe McKinley, Joe Kissell, and Brett Terpstra to share practical and quirky gift picks. Recommendations range from Theragun massage balls and USB-C cable testers to bidets, Matter-compatible smart plugs, Govee neon lights, Leatherman multi-tools, tiny pry bars, and Amazon’s Echo Glow, with plenty of anecdotes on comfort, tools, and smart home setups.
https://youtu.be/04Fprm8mtPE At NAB in Las Vegas, we caught up with Software Engineer Taylor Pearce for Skyglass, who discussed virtual production app for iOS that offers 100 virtual environments through Unreal Engine, allowing users to easily create a range of...
MacVoices went live on Facebook on 2020-06-09 with David Ginsburg and Frank Petrie. The topics ranged from video lighting and production tricks to Apple’s stock price spike, ARM-based Macs and using iPad Pro as the main machine. Oh, and we found out how Ansel Adams...
At CES in Las Vegas, Cindy Kuo, Global Marketing Director for Amaryllo, told us about their two CES Innovation Awards, their voice-controlled security camera, another security camera that integrates with your home lighting, and the fact that their cameras feature...
At CES Unveiled in Las Vegas, Greg Price of TandemLED introduces their two-wire system that controls lighting in the Kelvin range. That makes their HomeKit-compatible easier to tune lighting to a color that you like, no hub required. Best of all, theirs is tech that...
At CES Unveiled in Las Vegas, Ruochuan Tang, Smart Home IoT Business Development and Sr. Product Manager for Sengled, talks about the hub and new smart lighting options they released at the show. This edition of MacVoices is sponsored by Smile, the makers of...
At CES in Las Vegas, Luminook CEO Christopher Stubbs, MD, discusses the origin of their product that gives you adjustable lighting for your closet, or anywhere else you need it. This edition of MacVoices is sponsored by Smile, the makers of PDFpen and PDFpenPro,...
Chuck provides a Briefing and demo of the Dazzne Bi-Color LED Video Light Stand Lighting Kit, the LED light panels that he uses for MacVoices video recordings. This edition of MacVoices is supported by Linode, high performance cloud hosting and virtual servers for...
In our final holiday gift guide show for 2019, we catch up with the folks who couldn’t make other recording times, so we adapted the format for them. Audio, security, productivity, and some off-the-wall selections were made by the panel of Andrew Orr, Rosemary...
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