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MacVoices #25090: Live! – Child Safety, Apple Watch on Ice, and Automatic Mac Updates

Mar 12, 2025 | MacVoices Live!

The MacVoices panel of Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Marty Jencius, Jeff Gamet, and Jim Rea covers Apple’s new child safety tools, emphasizing parental control and user privacy by minimizing data collection. We also discuss NHL officials adopting Apple Watches with a custom app, enhancing game flow and safety. Lastly, the group addresses unexpected automatic MacOS updates, exploring user and enterprise approaches to managing software compatibility.

MacVoices #24239: Live! – Pre-Order Experiences and OS Upgrades

Sep 25, 2024 | MacVoices Live!

The MacVoices Live! panel ordered new devices and things were smooth…mostly. Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Eric Bolden, Marty Jencius, Jim Rea, and Web Bixby discuss a Goldman Sachs fail as well as some other issues that cropped up. Apple Card may change back end providers and the panel looks at what that might mean for end users. Then, the conversation shifts to the recently released OS upgrades, who dove in and who decided to play it close to the chest.

MacVoices #24121: MVL – Alarms, ‘A Microsoft Problem,” and a New UK Cybersecurity Law

May 7, 2024 | MacVoices Live!

https://youtu.be/sPNIeiWBwwg Chuck Joiner, Dave Ginsburg, Marty Jencius, Jim Rea, Jeff Gamet, and Eric Bolden consider the issue with iPhone alarms not riniging for some users and Apple’s response. The panel then looks at the cybersecurity challenges faced by...

MacVoices #22200 – MacVoices Live! – Limited Edition Beats Pro, Apple’s Timely Security Responses, Developer Tools (2)

Sep 30, 2022 | Developer, Graphics/Photos, Security/Privacy

The MacVoices Live! panel of David Ginsburg, Jim Rea, Warren Sklar, Mark Fuccio, Jeff Gamet, Chuck Joiner, and Brittany Smith wraps up their heated Google Photos debate before catching up on a number of other items, including flesh-tone Beats Fit Pro earphones,...

MacVoices #20134: Developer John Brayton Updates Golden Hill Software’s Unread 2

May 12, 2020 | Developer, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Web

John Brayton of Golden Hill Software gives us an update on Unread 2, his RSS reader that not only looks good, but packs a ton of functionality. John talks about the addition of an option to override summaries and go straight to the web site text and images, the...

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MacVoices #20111: Jeff Carlson On Luminar 4 From a Photographer’s Perspective (Part 2)

Apr 8, 2020 | Author, Graphics/Photos, Software

Jeff Carlson covers more photo editing tips from his latest effort, The Photographer's Guide to Luminar 4. In the second part of our discussion, we talk about RAW files, whether they come from a DSLR or from your iPhone, and the difference it can make to your final...

MacVoices #20099: Glenn Fleishman Takes Control of Working From Home Temporarily (Part 1)

Mar 19, 2020 | Productivity, Take Control

Glenn Fleishman has a brand new, very timely, and absolutely free title from Take Control Books, Take Control of Working from Home Temporarily. He taps his experience as a work-from-home freelancer, as well as tips from others in the same situation, to help you adjust...

MacVoices #20082: Kirk McElhearn On Sonos, Gear Updates, and Obsolescence

Feb 5, 2020 | Audio/Music, Hardware

Kirk McElhearn and host Chuck Joiner dig into the Sonos smart speaker issue, looking at the past, present, and what we know about the future. They debate the issue of obsolescence in smart home devices and beyond, how manufacturers get paid to keep their tech current,...

MacVoices #20079: Jeff Gamet On Apple TV+, Streaming Video, and Evaluating Apple

Jan 31, 2020 | Apple TV, Business, Commentary

Jeff Gamet gets us back on a regular schedule with a discussion that starts with how Apple is being evaluated and his experience with Apple TV+. Other topics covered include what is missing in the streaming video space, Jeff’s new MacBook Pro 16”, and the possibility...

MacVoices #19254: Kirstie Tostevin of FXhome On New Upgrades to HitFilm and Imerge

Dec 11, 2019 | Software, Video

Kirstie Tostevin of FXhome is back to provide some updates on two of their products. HitFilm now supports industry-standard plugins from Red Giant and Video Copilot, adding to their already impressive collection of add-ons to their video editing and VFX creation....

MacVoices #19244: MacVoices Gift Guide #2

Nov 18, 2019 | Commentary, Hardware, Productivity

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...

MacVoices #15190 – Tonya Engst and Ted Landau on 10 Years of MacNotables and the Speed of Tech Changes

Oct 29, 2015 | Apple TV, Commentary, iOS, iPad, iPhone, MacNotables, Productivity, Review, Software, Web

Tonya Engst and Ted Landau join the party for another MacNotables 10th anniversary panel to talk about how podcasting has affected them, the speed of changes in technology and the seemingly constant stream of software updates. Deciding what is newsworthy, and why,...

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MacVoices #25090: Live! – Child Safety, Apple Watch on Ice, and Automatic Mac Updates

MacVoices #24239: Live! – Pre-Order Experiences and OS Upgrades

MacVoices #24121: MVL – Alarms, ‘A Microsoft Problem,” and a New UK Cybersecurity Law

MacVoices #22200 – MacVoices Live! – Limited Edition Beats Pro, Apple’s Timely Security Responses, Developer Tools (2)

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