Dave Hamilton has issues making mixtapes, and Jeff Gamet has issues with the new Mac mini. They join host Kelly Guimont to discuss, today on Coffee Talk Daily Observations.
Articles by Kelly Guimont
Apple Media Event Aftermath – TMO Daily Observations 2018-10-30
John Martellaro and Andrew Orr discuss today’s Apple Media Event, “There’s More in the Making,” with host Kelly Guimont.
Dave gets an iPhone XR, new iPad and Apple Pencil – TMO Daily Observations 2018-10-29
Dave Hamilton and Jeff Gamet join Kelly Guimont to discuss Dave’s new iPhone and the hints at what to expect tomorrow at the “There’s More in the Making” event.
What else at the iPad event, Apple vs Bloomberg – TMO Daily Observations 2018-10-22
Dave Hamilton and John Martellaro join Kelly Guimont to speculate on what else we’ll see at the iPad event (besides iPads), and Apple going toe-to-toe against Bloomberg.
iPhone XR pre-orders, 4K is here to stay – TMO Daily Observations 2018-10-17
John Martellaro and Andrew Orr join Kelly Guimont to discuss iPhone XR pre-orders and who is lining up, as well as 4K television no longer being a fad.
Two Creative Apple Watch Faces with Spiderman and Snoopy
Kelly Guimont found two cool images designed to be Apple Watch faces.
Apple Shakes Up Smarthome Market by Opening HomeKit
Apple has quietly made a change that could unlock the doors to HomeKit and help it become the standard for controlling HomeKit devices you built.
Star Wars Windshield Wiper and Other Great Star Wars Day Sales
Today we have come to the intersection of two glorious things: Star Wars and puns. May the Fourth be with you! Kelly found some sales on physical goods to help you celebrate, and zero Bothans died for this information!
8Bitdo AP40 Game Controller Inspired by Apple ][ - Fulfilled!
Last September, Jeff Gamet wrote up an Apple themed game controller by 8Bitdo, makers of a variety of retro-looking game controllers. Kelly Guimont got one, and she took pictures to show us just cool it is.
Star Wars Icon Carrie Fisher Passes Away at Age 60
The Star Wars universe got a little smaller on Tuesday when Carrie Fisher, who portrayed Princess Leia in four Star Wars films, passed away following a heart attack late last week.
App Camp For Girls Quiz Compendium
App Camp For Girls spends a week teaching 8th and 9th grade girls about iOS development. First, teams spend time in Xcode, building a quiz app. Then at the end of the week, each team presents a pitch for their app to a panel of investors. Then at the end of each summer, all the all the quizzes built in all the sessions are compiled into a Quiz Compendium. It’s up to each team to choose a quiz topic, and the door is wide open as far as subjects. This year’s quizzes include “Who Are You in a Cliched Young Adult Novel?” and “What Fruit Are You Most Like?” as two of the 18 in the app. Now that it’s available, pick up the 2016 Compendium for 99 cents, and all sales go to App Camp. (Full Disclosure: Kelly is one of the original App Camp For Girls volunteers.)
How to View Live Photos in iOS 9
These are playable on other iPhone 6s or 6s+ devices if you send it via iMessage, and I tested one on an iPad Air (gen 1) and an iPad 3, and both worked fine. You can also play them on an iPhone 5s or higher. If you send it to an older device, or one…
How to Upgrade to a New iPhone 6s or 6s Plus on Verizon
Verizon iPhone Landing Page Cash on the Barrel First up, you can buy your new iPhone outright and be done with the whole thing. If you choose the iPhone 6s, this will set you back $649 (16GB), $749 (64GB), or $849 (128GB). Going the 6s Plus route will damage your credit card at $749 (16GB),…
How To Use Your iPhone's Barometer to Crowdsource Weather
Right now this data is being used (if you allow it) by the Dark Sky weather app. If you allow it. In the current version, you can choose to sign up your iPhone to report barometric pressure where you are: Allow Dark Sky to send off your barometric pressure for better reporting. So if you…
How to Schedule a Genius Bar Appointment Via Apple's Webpage
First, load up Apple's Retail site, apple.com/retail. When you get there, feed it your zip code to get the list of stores in your area. Once the list shows, you can choose one: Here's the list I get in my area. What a pretty store! When you get the details page for the store, you…
How to Outsmart Browser Scareware on in OS X and iOS
Never ever call it! Oh no! This looks legit, it says Apple on it and my Facebook stuff might be at risk! Let me repeat that: never ever call it!! You want to, because hey, it was helpful enough to tell your computer has a problem. If that dialog knows your computer has a…
How to Place Calls Directly From Reminders
Create a reminder like Call Jeff Gamet at 8am. Make sure it starts with “call” and you have the person in your Contacts already. Here's my reminder. Good thing there's only one Jeff in my phone! When you have it set up, it'll pop up at the right time to remind you. Hey look! I…
How To Fix App Store Downloads on iPhone and iPad
First off, wait until you get an error. You think it'll be immediate, but iOS tries really really hard to do everything it can think of before it gives up, so sit tight and see if you can get a screenshot so you can look up that message later. A good way to tell if…
How to Set Up iOS With A Monitored iCloud Account
If you want to filter friend requests or iCloud messages, here's an example. When you set up the device, make sure it's using a sub-address of your main email. This is even more convenient if you set it up on the same address used for your own Apple ID. Now all the iTunes receipts and…
Three Things You Didn't Know TextEdit Could Do For You
Full Word Processing First off, there is a serious set of formatting controls tucked away in the menu bar, but you may need to turn it on. In the image below, I have a TextEdit document setup to be a “Plain Text” file. Note the Serif font and the lack of any kind of formatting…
Three Easy Ways to Get Started With Home Automation
Philips Hue I've talked about why Philips Hue lights are a good idea, and the biggest reason is because it's easy. Basically you plug everything in, download an app, and you're ready to go. There's even an option in the official app (as well as an IFTTT action) for having the lights automatically come on.…
Basic Checklist for Identifying Network Problems
Modems and Routers Let's start at the beginning: there a wire (cable or DSL or fiber or what have you) coming from the street to your house, and that wire connects to a modem. That modem can have a router built-in, or you might have a separate router, for instance an AirPort base station. Routers…
How to Deauthorize All Devices in iTunes 12
Oh that's not alarming at all. But I can totally fix it. No wait, I can't! Well now I'm stuck. I can't continue syncing, but there's not really a graceful backing out option either. I'm an optimist, so I clicked “more information.” Now, Apple has a nice page about deauthorizing extraneous Macs. It's all nicely…
How to Troubleshoot iCloud Syncing
It's not you, it's Apple First up of course, is making sure your issue is limited to iCloud. As long as your Mac can do other things online, and your iPhone still loads web pages and gets non-iCloud email, you're good. Then we move on to actual troubleshooting. The first two rules of Tech Support…