Episode 407: The Wad-Shooter Option

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.

Links for this episode:

• Logitech Backlit Wireless Keyboard for Apple Mac, iPad, iPhone & TV
  
• Logitech K380 Bluetooth Wireless Keyboard, Multi-Device with Most OS's
  
• Netflix categories codes - Find all categories codes
  
• Amazon.com: Vortexgear 75% - Grey CNC Case - PBT DSA Keycaps - Cherry Mx [CNC Aluminium Casing] (Mx-Brown): Computers & Accessories
  
• My (current) keyboard: Vortex Race 3 - Six Colors
  This is the rare mechanical keyboard that’s civilized to come with a set of alternate keycaps for Mac users (Command and Option rather than Win and Alt), as well as a few variant color keycaps for modifier keys and the arrow keys. (It’s also got a Mac keyboard mode, so all the keys work properly without any remapping required.) The keycaps feature very pleasant capital letters dead center, and come in shades of gray. I’ve swapped in a red Esc key, yellow arrow keys, and a blue Enter key.
  
• Twitter: Scott McNulty on the Apple News
  Here’s my hot take: most people look at their smartphones as an appliance not as a device that needs to be upgraded often. Just check out how many people are using phones with shattered screens. Only nerds with too much money and not much sense update every cycle (I’m one!).

• Daring Fireball: Steve Jobs and Apple’s Last Previous Earnings Warning
  
• FruitJuice -- battery maintenance app for Apple Mac laptop computers. —
  
• coconutBattery 3.7.2 - by coconut-flavour.com
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• On Switching from iOS to Android — 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’t know.
  
• On Switching from an iPad Pro and a Macbook to a Pixelbook — 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’m 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 “desktop class” browser as it can be. I don’t know the technical reasons why GSuite can’t be accessed in Safari on iOS. I don’t know if the browser has limitations that mean the apps genuinely can’t run in it, or whether they could but Google just chooses not to allow it.
  
• 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.
  
• List of Movies and TV Shows on Netflix | Flixable
  

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