Podcasts Technology Back to Work Episode 407: The Wad-Shooter Option

Episode 407: The Wad-Shooter Option

Published: Jan. 3, 2019, 8 p.m.

DISCUSSED: "Rabbit Rabbit!"; partial shutdown and the toilet problems it creates; updates on options for Bluetooth keyboards; some extremely random and anecdotal reckoning about the recent Big Apple News; your hosts' beef with Wirecutter; some odds and sods recommendations and cool life hacks.

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  • Daring Fireball: Steve Jobs and Apple\u2019s Last Previous Earnings Warning
  • FruitJuice -- battery maintenance app for Apple Mac laptop computers. \u2014
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  • Brimley/Cocoon Line (@BrimleyLine) | Twitter
    When 'Cocoon' reached theaters on June 21, 1985, Wilford Brimley was 18,530 days old. This account makes note of people who have reached that age.
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  • The Best Shower Curtain for 2018: Reviews by Wirecutter | A New York Times Company
  • NetFlix Streaming by Alternate Genres
  • Fraser Speirs (@fraserspeirs) | Twitter
    The teacher who set up the world's first 1:1 iPad school. Between podcasts right now.
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  • On Switching from iOS to Android \u2014 Fraser Speirs
    I may be having the most boring mid-life crisis that any man has ever had, or I may be opening a whole new chapter of my computing life. I don\u2019t know.
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  • On Switching from an iPad Pro and a Macbook to a Pixelbook \u2014 Fraser Speirs
    The point, though, is that GSuite is so powerful and so much at the heart of everything I do at school that if you asked me to decide between giving up GSuite and giving up iPad, I\u2019m afraid iPad has to go. It is for this reason that I have been vocally advocating that Apple make iOS Safari as close to a \u201cdesktop class\u201d browser as it can be. I don\u2019t know the technical reasons why GSuite can\u2019t be accessed in Safari on iOS. I don\u2019t know if the browser has limitations that mean the apps genuinely can\u2019t run in it, or whether they could but Google just chooses not to allow it.
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  • Reviews and Ratings - RTINGS.com
    Straight to the point buying recommendations. We purchase our own products and put them under the same test bench, so that you can compare the results easily. No cherry-picked units sent by brands. No ads. Only real tests.
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  • List of Movies and TV Shows on Netflix | Flixable
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