The 2025 Holiday Gift Guide series continues as the panel shares practical tech ideas for Apple users, from a 16-port USB hub and a powerful 75W USB-C charger to a MagSafe camera grip and a slim portable monitor. They also explain how to get great deals through Apple’s Certified Refurbished Store while trading stories about hubs, mice, and multi-display travel setups.
The 2025 Holiday Gift Guide continues with Norbert, Rosemary, and Mike sharing standout tech picks. Highlights include ShiftCam lenses for iPhone photography, the Logitech Reach document camera, Stream Deck Neo for automation, protective ESR AirPods cases, the Audioengine S6 subwoofer, and an AI-focused book recommendation. Practical gift ideas, smart tools, and creative accessories dominate this round.
Jeff Carlson returns to share insights from his updated digital storage guide, exploring NAS, SSDs, direct-connect solutions, and memory cards. He explains practical pros and cons, touches on backup strategies, and highlights security issues. Jeff also discusses his new role at CNET, where he covers mobile technology and photography, including testing the Pixel 10 Pro XL’s AI-powered zoom.
In the ShiftCam suite at The Bellagio in Las Vegas, Chris Herbert gave us a look at both new products, products that are on the market, and some new items coming later this year. New additions to the SnapSeries that include the a selfie-stick/tripod, light and phone grip complete an ecosystem that puts powerful video production with lots of options in an easy-to-travel-with package. The PLANK is a very small SSD that plugs directly into your iPhone for recording, and a complete set of professional-level lenses and filters that fit with their iPhone cases put a full cinematographer’s tool kit in an extremely small, affordable package.
https://youtu.be/8RxUnytgahI Our conversation with Jeff Carlson about his new Take Control of iPhone Photography from Take Control Books continues with topics that range from digital zoom to Macro Mode to low light capabilities, and what else you will learn in his...
https://youtu.be/l5urVhdPljM Jeff Carlson and Take Control have published the brand new Take Control of iPhone Photography for those who want to get even more out of the amazing cameras built into their iPhones. Jeff explains how just a little effort and a little...
Kirk McElhearn and host Chuck Joiner wrap up MacVoices Holiday Gift Guide #6 with gifts that include video gear, a lifestyle product, a productivity product, and something just plain fun. (Part 2) MacVoices is supported by Incogni. Don't let companies exploit your...
In Part 2 of our conversation about Adobe Lightroom: A Complete Course and Compendium of Features author Jeff Carlson explores the usability of Lightroom's features for landscape photography and the masking feature,which allows for precise adjustments without...
In our quest to better appreciate black and white (monochrome) photograph, Kirk McElhearn both talks about and shows some revealing examples of his own work. They perfectly illustrate some of the points Kirk makes, and helps us understand why what we might feel is...
Kirk McElhearn takes on the task of helping us understand and appreciate the appeal of black and white (monochrome) photography. In the first part of our conversation, Kirk talks about being a monochrome photography enthusiast, shows off a special camera, and how a...
Our conversation with Jeff Carlson, the author of the new Adobe Photoshop Elements Visual Quickstart Guide, wraps up with an examination of some of the other capabilities of Adobe Photoshop Elements 2022 that are geared more helping you do more with your photos beyond...
? Jeff Carlson, the author of the new Adobe Photoshop Elements Visual Quickstart Guide, helps us understand who this version of Photoshop is for and what makes it different. Just because it isn’t the full, professional version doesn’t mean that it isn’t packing a...
Our discussion of the Apple “California Streaming” event wraps up as the panel continues to argue about who wants to make movies before moving on to the Apple Watch 7. Guy Serle, David Ginsburg, Jim Rea, Kelly Guimont, Andrew Orr, Mike Schmitz, and Brittany...
Our MacVoices Live! look at Apple’s “California Dreaming” event continues with what many consider the major announcement: the iPhones 13. The panel of Mark Fuccio, Guy Serle, Frank Petrie, David Ginsburg, Jim Rea, Kelly Guimont, Andrew Orr, and Mike Schmitz discuss...
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