What set of tools, software and equipment do you use to produce your podcast? After a year, my co-podcaster, Tara Fort, and I are still experimenting and learning. We record our own conversations while in the same room, using digital recorders. Interviews are either recorded while in the same place as the interviewee, using digital [...]

Ok, I’m not that far from home, but am writing this in Mexico (Puerto Peñaco, Sonora). While being a virtual worker and working while mobile and away from the office is something I’ve mentioned before, this is different, for me at least. Puerto Peñasco is experiencing tremendous growth and the number of WIFI spots has [...]

Chug-chug-chug… conquering insurmountable odds, two very special little iPods deserve special commendations. My ddil (dear daughter in law) Skyla told me today that she and our son finally broke down and bought a refurbished Shuffle. They had it for only a few months when SOMEONE forgot to check all the pockets before doing laundry and [...]

I remember when a VA colleague of mine announced that her office was going paperless. That was in 2004, when I was tired of running spyware and virus programs everytime I turned around. Paperless wasn’t a goal of mine, but becoming a PC-less office was. Whew! Am I glad I am all Mac these days. [...]

When the world gets confusing it is wise to go to a sacred and safe place. Yesterday felt like one of those days, so Chester and I headed out to the rookery on the edge of Willow Lake here in Prescott. Great blue herons and cormorants are nesting there now. This place is lively and [...]

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I’m still on my first. I treat it like a cherished heirloom. It gets most of its workout in the car, when hooked up to iTrip. As a recording device with iTrip clipped in place, it’s proven its worth over and over as I conduct onsite interviews for clients’ press releases. A real trooper, my [...]

I just replaced my old-school stereo system with one of the many ipod sound system choices. My goals were to reduce clutter and get rid of the wires that were just too enticing to my grandchildren. I found new homes for all the components, but something told me to hold onto the speakers and woofer. [...]

Baseball America has an article in this week’s issue touting a new use for iPods. Players’ at bats are video’d and then the video is transferred to a database. Next, individual players are able to then grab the video of all of their at bats so they can view their visits to the plate.

Most of the ads we see for iPods just show people acting cool: dancing their way through life with their headphones plugged in. My nieces in Chicago let me in on their secret theory: that many of the people one sees on the street aren’t even listening to an iPod at all, but are just [...]

Heading to Chicago today, and used my iPod on the way to the airport to catch up on the Kojo Mnamdi (whoa on spelling – that can’t be right!?)’ Tech Tuesday with the Computer Guys podcast. A caller asked whether he should update his OS (caller was a PC user) to Vista or just start [...]