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Technically Working - EP2 - 4th tip

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 22:28:48 -0000

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Converting Markdown to Rich Text: The Magic of MultiMarkdown"

Mon, 13 Feb 2023 16:37:52 -0000

Show Notes:

In this episode, Damashe demonstrates a tool that he uses on macOS all the time: a macOS service that converts Markdown or MultiMarkdown into Rich Text.
He explains how he uses this service to send emails with nice formatting, including links and bullet points, without having to use the formatting tools in the email app.
He also mentions that the service is from Brett Terpstra and will be linked to in the show notes.
Michael makes a brief appearance, discussing the benefits of writing in Markdown and how it allows you to format your documents anywhere, as Markdown is plain text.
Finally, the episode ends with a reminder about the upcoming launch of Technically Working in February 2023.

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Technically Working

Thu, 02 Feb 2023 19:05:35 -0000

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Marry Christmas with Unmute Updates

Wed, 21 Dec 2022 03:06:47 -0000

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Marry Christmas With Unmute Updates.

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[0:00] Hey listen, so it's been, well it's been a while. Last time we talked, well last time you listened to me.

[0:10] Was August. Damasi, I got something exciting coming up for you. Stay tuned, we'll share more information about that. I wanted to drop in and say, hey, Merry Christmas. I think Damasi can drop his own message in if he wants. And I also wanted to give you a quick recap some of the stuff that's been going on with unmute presents. Those who don't know unmute presents is live on ACB community. You can go to ACB.Community, no.com after that, just ACB.Community.

[0:41] And get more information about how you can get the emails that are sent out on a daily basis and how you can see what's coming up. So Marty and I have been hosting a call every Tuesday at 10 a.m. Pacific Time, that's 1pm Eastern, where you can come and ask your questions and we'llpretend like we know the answers. But in addition to that, we've also been publishing some extra content. So for example, on Sunday, Marty shared a quick demonstration on how you can use Siri to restart your phone in iOS 16 or greater. This past Thursday, we sat down and had a roundtable conversation. Marty, myself, and Michael Dois. You've heard Michael Dois on the podcast. Tune into DM81. Who's that? We talked about some of the new features of iOS 16.2 and some things you can expect. Tuesday we published a recording of our most recent Unmute education cast. This was a series that was related to taking pictures from a blind person's perspective.

[1:57] So if you are interested in some Unmute Presents content, definitely check it out. You can subscribe to the Unmute Podcast on your favorite podcast app, simply search for Unmute Presents on ACB Community. Hope you enjoy this and share it with a friend. And stay tuned for a project Mossy and I are working on that has the word working in it. Thanks for listening to this pale media production.

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DM - Unmute Presents - Something Special

Sat, 27 Aug 2022 02:22:42 -0000

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The episode Michael entions is:

Tek Talk welcomes presenters from BlindShell USA to discuss the BlindShell Classic 2 Accessible Cell Phone. 08/08/2022

and you can join Michael and Marty every Tuesday at 10:00AM PT

On the 13th of September, BlindShell USA will visit Unmute Presents to talk about this fun and accessible phone.

email community@acb.org for more information about attending this event.

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DM100 - Problem To Be Solved

Tue, 02 Aug 2022 08:00:00 -0000

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This is our final episode of this version of the podcast.

We talk about several problems to be solved, and how we expect to handle these problems.

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DM99 - A Quick Question

Tue, 19 Jul 2022 08:00:00 -0000

Starting this episode out we discuss the accessible covid tests that you can now get and what we would like to see with these tests. Damashe tells us about the smart plugs he has picked up. and how easy it was to add to his Home! Damashe finally put a jeap together for his kids that was acquired in December. We talk about how Michael has used a $11 cable and the podtrack P4 to solve our audio issues with the soundcraft signature 12MTK. Damashe got a scanner and explains why he got this after having a 3 in one as well all ready. We talked about what was just discussed on Kelly and Company and how Damashe enjoyed presenting for Michael while he was at convention. Links: · Amazon.com: Fujitsu ScanSnap iX1300 Compact Wi-Fi Document Scanner for Mac or PC, Black · Securing routers with HomeKit - Apple Support · Meross Smart Plug Mini, 15A & Reliable Wi-Fi, Support Apple HomeKit, Siri, Alexa, Echo, Google Assistant and Nest Hub, App Control, Timer, No Hub Needed, · 2.4G WiFi Only, 4 Pack - - Amazon.com · Zoom PodTrak P4 Portable Recorder for Podcasting | zZounds

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DM98 You can tweet us

Tue, 05 Jul 2022 08:00:00 -0000

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DM98: You can Tweet Us
In this episode, we chat about

The exhaustion that comes with creating good accessibility feedback
Micharl switching computers, not platforms
We’re both using Microsoft Edge
Michael’s travel plans
And more…

Links:

Abortion Funds

OWC USB C Travel Dock
OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock
Caldigit Thunderbolt 4 Elements Hub
Podtrack P4
Homebridge
Accessible Power Bank: AT Guys
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DM97 - According to the Juices

Tue, 21 Jun 2022 08:00:00 -0000

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DM97 - According to the Juices

Starting out with a discussion about note taking and how both of us are handling capturing thoughts. Michael admits that drafts no longer live on his doc. Damashe shares a little about why he doesn’t want to use notes. Damashe helps us learn a little more about DEVONthink and how he’s using it. And Michael shares his ideal note taking wishes. Michael acquired a new piece of hardware for his audio setup, and we ask if you know the perfect solution to solve our problems. Damashe shares with us his consideration of Google workspace abandonment And this turns into a conversation about why we explore automation as much as we are. Damashe shares his predictions for the iPhone 14 line. And we discussed what Apple could do next. We close this episode out with a brief discussion of Apple’s passkeys and a little something we forgot to put in the show…

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DM96 - Its Not A Pod

Tue, 07 Jun 2022 08:00:00 -0000

This episode starts out talking about the new Mic Damashe ended up with. Remember that the podcast was recorded Friday June 3rd. Should we have talked about this? Michael is playing with the Pixel, and Damashe shares his thoughts about Core OS! Why we think people need to use your words, and how Damashe ended up installing his own RSS Service to sink his feeds.

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DM95 - New Gear for the both of us!

Tue, 24 May 2022 08:00:00 -0000

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DM95 - New Gear for the both of us!

In the latest episode of the DM series we talk about new tools both of us got. mallory says that it looks like an arm! We share with you a couple of microphones that we've both dropped some money on to try out, and this transitions into a discussion of the manual connections function on audio hijack we ask you to send us a tweet with some ideas of ways you might want to route audio! What streaming service would you keep if you had to narrow it down to one, tune into this week's episode to hear both of us try to narrow our streaming services down. And finally we close this episode out with us talking about the value of outsourcing tasks we really don't want to do.

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DM94 - Its A Dog

Tue, 10 May 2022 08:00:00 -0000

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DM93 - Whats that baby Doing with the iPhone and a mixer

Tue, 26 Apr 2022 08:00:00 -0000

DM93 - What’s that baby Doing with the iPhone and a mixer? Clubhouse and loopback VAC (Virtual Audio Cable) Soundswitch The new feature in Jaws that lets you switch between sound cards Follow-up regarding the Meater Plus that Michael talked about in DM92. We talk about clubhouse and if a club prevents people from seeing the room. Caldigit Elements Hub is mentioned in our discussion about the Mac Mini that Damashe has Damashe shares a tip about Facetime links that may or may not work depending on how Siri feels Damashe shares how he’s going back to the basics with NGINX The SMR Podcast

Your UX makes a major differenc to Blind and VI users.

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DM92 - Empty pineapple tweets

Tue, 12 Apr 2022 08:00:00 -0000

DM92 - Empty pineapple tweets Topics: In this episode of the DM Series, Damashe and Michael discuss the following Topics: Livestream to clubdeck

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DM91 - Gravity forms solves all your problems

Tue, 29 Mar 2022 14:00:00 -0000

briefly explain how we stream the show into clubhouse with the Mac

This drops us into a conversation about gravity forms and michael's comparison to visual form builder

Michael shares a quick navigation tip for gravity forms.

Damashe asks Michael what problem he has with google docs on the Mac and shares his thoughts about google docs.

Gravity forms has a lot of additional addons you can use to extend the functionality of it.

Michael asks Damashe how to add snippets to a Wordpress site that you may get from gravity wiz.

Michael shared some of his challenges he's had with sign in with Google, with one particular application and how you can get around it.

Michael also shares away he's using text expander efficiently on windows.

Michael and Damashe also talk about the concept of a home page to run your life from within the Wordpress dashboard.

This takes us into a conversation about Damashe's happiness with duo and his SSO setup

Gravity Forms

Visual Form Builder

Gravity Wiz

Maatwerk Online’s Magic Portal: agency automates customer reporting and streamlines collaboration through their own customer portal

GravityFlow

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DM90 - Done at 100!

Tue, 15 Mar 2022 08:00:00 -0000

DM90 - Done at 100! This episode starts out with Michael and Damashe Discussing the fact that we have 10 more episodes, and we really need a new system! Michael has been using the Mac on a semi-regular basis and shares his thoughts about it. Damashe and Michael also reviewed the experiences of Damashe resetting his Mac. Damashe is looking for some assistance with VS Code, do you have any suggestions for him? With the combination of using Windows and Mac, Michael needs a way to keep all of his files in sync. This episode discusses that, before we transition into our closing topic. Michael has a cousin who recently received his contractor's license for pouring concrete, and asks Damashe what the essential infrastructure tools are to get started!

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DM89 - Loopback To Mac

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 09:00:00 -0000

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We thank you for feedback in our episodes, this week we start out with a little follow-up from a listener. You can in fact resize a Linode. This then transitions us into a follow-up conversation from DM87 related to file extensions and what Apple is doing vs what we shared in that episode. A brief discussion about how we open files on the mac using Launchbar prompts Damashe to ask Michael what he is doing on the mac. Michael shares why he is looking at the Mac and his thoughts about using it. We share a little information about Loopback with Voiceover, and how Damashe got started with it. Michael asks Damashe if he finds himself in a situation where he should know how to do something however just can’t grasp the mental concept? Damashe’s answer to Michael is a suggestion that all of us can use in life. Damashe and Michael then share some tips for navigating around the loopback interface with voiceover. Michael had to call Apple Accessibility while setting the Mac up, and Damashe has him stopso he could emphasize an important tip for the listeners. Michael shares a tip for quickly recovering voiceover speech that Damashe had to try. Damashe reminds you to just wait if you lose speech while trying to change your voiceover output. Damashe and Michael talk about what we want Loopback to provide, and then share some tips for creating devices in MacOs with virtual mix minus. This gives Damashe and Michael a chance to talk about Loopback in conjunction with the Soundcraft Signature 12MTK board we both bought last year. We close this week's episode out with Michael sharing his announcement about Payown Media, LLC and how switching his primary domain with Google Workspace has gone.

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LaunchBar 6 OWC USB # Travel Dock Loopback Apple Accessibility Phone Support The Network

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DM88 - Serverless Club calendars

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 09:00:00 -0000

DM88 - Serverless Club calendars"

Let’s jump in with Michael explaining how he’s getting audio from cleanfeed into Clubhouse. We did end up figuring out after the show ended how to bring people on stage and not here themselves, the secret is we just set Clubdeck audio to ⅞, hit group on ⅞ and left the AUX setup as Michael explained in the start of this episode. This then transitions into a conversation about how we block time on our calendars and a new feature for a tool both of us have used. Damashe tells us a little about AWS, and what AWS is. He gives a couple of examples of services you can get through AWS, however as he said he’s not even using nearly a quarter of the services they offer. This then takes us into a conversation about deploying serverless wordpress installs! curious? You’ll have to listen to this week's DM Series! If you're working on a website Damashe asks that you do him this favor and stop making edits on the live site you're working with. We talk about the importance of building out a staging site to try things on before pushing to the live site. We chat then about our favorite weather app and why we like it. This conversation was prompted by a listener who was curious why we use a particular weather app. We close this episode out sharing information about a project we are working on that you can be the first to learn about. Simply fill out the form to get on the mailing list to stay updated with information about this event to come soon!

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DM87 - Tracking Voice Toys

Tue, 01 Feb 2022 09:00:00 -0000

DM87 - Tracking Voice Toys

In the latest episode of the Damashe and Michael, Just Talking Tech Series we start out with Michael demoing one of the new narrator voices. Damashe shares info about how you can now type either / or \ to get to a url. This takes us into a conversation about focus modes and automating the use of these. Damashe and Michael discuss the problem with a unified design for credit and debit cards. This takes us into a conversation regarding the Lookout app on Android and how effective it is. You can listen in on our conversation about backups and what we are using to keep our digital lives backed up. This then takes us to a conversation about Damashe’s new toy, let us know what you think of it! This then takes us into a discussion about this being the year of tracking. And Damashe closes our chat out with a way he’s using AIRA.

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DM86 - It was a big deal when Michael wore pants

Tue, 18 Jan 2022 09:00:00 -0000

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DM New year

Tue, 04 Jan 2022 09:00:00 -0000

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In this episode of the DM Series, Damashe isn't feelling well so Michael clipped a few clips out of our 2021 episodes.

You can listen to this episode, and go back in your favorite podcast app to listen to any of your favorite podcast episodes.

Finally, don't forget to share this episode or the show with someone you care about.

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DM85 - Cooky Ideas

Tue, 21 Dec 2021 09:00:00 -0000

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DM85 - Cooky Ideas

In the latest episode of the DM series, we talked about cookies and the importance of them when used properly. We then transition into a discussion of keeping ideas straight, some of our best ideas come to us at the strangest times. The most important thing however is to have a system in place that allows you the ability to get those ideas out of your head and into a tool you can reference later. Michael explains how he was using Todoist to capture his ideas and how that didn't quite work out. Michael also talked about exploring One Note as his ideas come to him and don't care what platform he's on. Our conversation then transitions into a brief discussion of why Damashe is switching from Audible and what he's going to do. Michael is switching the application he uses to track packages both personally And for work. You learn why he switched from deliveries to parcel, and what his initial thoughts are. We come back tips, dimassi's includes leveraging Apple headphones while using Android and Michael tells you how to keep your contact details up-to-date easily. Don't forget to tune into this episode and share with a friend who may enjoy it.

Links for this episode

WP Affiliate Plugin (tips and tricks)
Cookie Monster wordpress plugin
Affiliate WP
Getting Things Done
Connected #376: The Jape That Went Too Far
Backup Todoist
Flexibits | Fantastical | The calendar and tasks app you won't be able to live without.
Flexibits | Cardhop | The contacts app you'll actually want to use.
Libro.fm | Libro.fm, Your Independent Bookstore for Digital Audiobooks
Social purpose corporation - Wikipedia
Deliveries: a package tracker for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac
Parcel - Delivery Tracking for iPhone, iPad and Mac
Apple’s h1 headphone chip
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DM84 - Communications

Tue, 07 Dec 2021 23:10:00 -0000

DM84 - Communications

Ways to support the show: https://yourownpay.com/support Pinecast And Bedrock Innovations! --- Follow-up --- Follow-up re Michael’s headphones We talk about how Michael’s headphones are treating him. ---talking points Michael has Extreme reaction to little tech issues, then find out it was something simple A brief reminder/explanation of Audio setups for Damashe and Michael Social networks and apps looking to make accessibility improvements Tips for navigating in Google docs Communications platforms we discuss

Thoughts on Google Chat
Microsoft Teams
Slack
Doug Lee’s scripts
Voip.ms setup
Telephone
Groundwire

Michael reset his phone, what made it on his homescreen?

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SMR Podcast

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DM83 - rout it threw that hole!

Tue, 23 Nov 2021 09:00:00 -0000

DM83 - put it in that hole! We start this episode out talking about some changes Michael discovered to improve Our new audio setup Damashe shares his thoughts on the Enthusiasm garnered by the new macbook pros and he may have got something that isn’t a macbook pro. Do you remember when you could be entertained by a box? We talk briefly about this and another new thing Damashe got from Costco This took us into an opportunity to share our thoughts about the new 1Password 8. Closing the episode with a discussion on widgets.

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DM82 - What’s that in your ear?

Tue, 09 Nov 2021 09:00:00 -0000

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DM82 - What’s that in your ear?

Followup: We start this episode out explaining why we did not stream to the clubhouse. And a brief suggestion for the Google Docs team. Damashe explores the answer calls with Siri Unicorn We talk about our notification problems, and how we both think we turned two mini of them off. This takes us into an unscripted discussion of Focus modes. We talk about the new headphones Michael got, why he likes them, and what they are. This then transitions into a discussion of the new headphones Damashe has acquired, as well as the ones he has to return as someone in his family liked the new headphones he got over the AIR Pod 3’s. Damashe shares his theory on what he expects to happen in the earbud market with Apple while Michael mentions what he would like to see as well.

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DM81 - Who's That?

Tue, 26 Oct 2021 08:00:00 -0000

DM81 - Who’s That?

Follow-up: We start this episode out talking about how Damashe is liking the phone he announced on DM80. Transitioning into a conversation about Michael's Simplisafe experience. We are then joined by some guests, and explain how this is possible with an overview of the board and what Michael’s setup is. Damashe and Michael then talk about the Unleashed event. Michael has switched between podcast apps more than someone changes … Anyways, today we talk about why Michael is no longer using Castro, and what app he has finally stuck with. Briefly we touch on the Calendar app used on Windows and what Damashe is using on the mac. Mainly because he thought Michael was late for tonight's event. The BlindShell 2 phone is a new phone that has physical buttons. Michael shares his thoughts on the phone, and gives a very brief informal demonstration of it.

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DM80 - Initiating Operation Wipe and Reset

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 08:00:00 -0000

DM80 - Initiating Operation Wipe and Reset

This episode like a lot of our episodes starts out talking about the Audio mixer we have with a little reaper talk. We are doing follow-up on Tia’s experience with the new Safari and how Damashe just didn’t know. Michael shares his setup on the board and how he figured out what some buttons that we didn’t know what they were used for are used for. We talked then about Michael resetting his computer the same day we recorded. This conversation turns into a discussion of 1Password 8 Early access. What new item did Michael get, you’ll have to listen to learn. Damashe also got a new tool different from Michael’s acquisition? Google frustrates Michael, and now you can subscribe to the podcast on Youtube!

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DM79 - The Click

Tue, 28 Sep 2021 08:00:00 -0000

We start this episode out talking some troubleshooting steps out for Michael having strange Audio with his internet with a discussion of his reaper setup. Damashe shares a little about how he's getting better video into his video calls. Michael asks an important question about what does hardwired really mean? while we discuss how nice it is to have the ability to call someone for support. We take some time to share information about the Apple event and what was announced. This then transitions us into a conversation about IOS15 changes. We chat briefly about our thoughts on using Android with the Pixel and this episode is closed out by each of us sharing our favorite app/book for this week.

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DM78 - Say Yes To Answer

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 08:00:00 -0000

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DM 78 - Yes to answer

Important Transcript Notes

The transcript in this episode was generated with machine learning, and is not to be used as an accurate transcript. We start this episode out talking about our mobile experiences, including siri setup and both of us using Android and IOS at the same time. Damashe taught Michael something about using the Airpod Pros that he didn’t know. This takes us into a brief sidenote about Damashe’s Timetracking. We share our thoughts on the Epic vs. Apple Court Fight. We close this episode up with sharing our thoughts on the new apple event with a app choice and a tech tip from each of us.

DM78 - Yes To Answer Transcript

Dm78 - Let'S Play Together

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Jingles: [0:00] This is a Payown Media production. The following podcast on the your own pay podcast network will contain adult content, listener discretion is advised. More information about this episode can be found at your own pay dot com. Sorry to interrupt, but it's time Democracy and Michael just ducking tack Yeah. Michael: [0:26] There is if you want to open it up you don't have to let me rephrase that. There should be in the D. M. S. Folder. A google doc. Just say no, there's nothing in there. Track 2Damashe: [0:38] Oh Golden! Michael: [0:41] I'm going to use that for taking notes because the last time I took all these notes and got everything in there and had him a note pad and then I restarted the computer and even remember why I lost him. And yes, as Mallory says, uh prompts you multiple times, Michael, are you sure you want to restart when you have unsaved content, and you know, Michael, did he just click the yeah, I'm sure I'm sure I want to restart and so that was my bad and google doctors, Auto savings. So I said we'll do google doc. I think I called you when that happened do didn't I? We are on D. M. 78. Anything we mentioned can be found at your own pay dot com slash dM 78. So democracy got to ask you, did Siri tell you when you went into the office that in this part of the house you usually listen to audible. Mhm. Track 2Damashe: [1:38] Oh, hold on, let me see, hold on, hold on, hold on. No, I did see Bluetooth later when I connected Bluetooth though. Uh I was like record series. So what we're talking about folks is the serie widget, which I currently have on my home screen in a Smartstax or the stack, which is rotates and it shows me care whether fantastic out to do it and serious suggestion. Michael: [2:08] Mhm. Track 2Damashe: [2:08] So what I found interesting this morning is plugged into headphones, I'm sitting outside. Uh and the recommendation from Syria was sort of suggestion from theory was you should listen to uh open overcast based off the location you are in your home. And I was like, what? Michael: [2:28] Mhm. And I told them Aussie uh if Syria is that smart, why can't she send messages whenever using airpods and tell her to send messages? Although with airpods, I have noticed that it's been more reliable and uh well Democracy is looking to see if it has a different suggestion at a different location in his home. So as of the date of this being published, two days after we record, I should have a pixel in my hands, and Democracy and I kind of talked a little bit about it, I think, I don't know if he was serious, but I took his comment as a fully serious comment. So I think what my workflow is going to be as my iphone is going to hang out upstairs, it's probably going to be plugged in most of the time because I can't just give up the iphone, I just got Nicholas, to switch back to the iphone and so I have to at least have the iphone so I can do facetime calls with them because we're not switching back to duo. And then I'm going to use the Apple. Yes it does. I'm going to use the Apple Watch for notifications on the iphone for things that don't work on the android and or in case mallory calls, music or something because I don't think switch my other number over to android yet. We'll see where things are because I'm kind of excited about where those things are going with android and then I'm going to use the air pod pros so that I can engage with my phone hands free, and we'll see how that goes because. [3:57] In conjunction with Siri when she actually uh in conjunction with Syria when it actually worked properly. I. Track 2Damashe: [4:05] It feels a little disrespectful though like. Really? I mean I get it. You know what the political, so that's when political and pc this or whatever it's actually supposed to be called nowadays because I'm old. Ah. Michael: [4:08] Yeah, I know because I have the right. [4:14] Uh huh. [4:18] And see I'm going to leave both of those edits in there because it just adds a level of confusion. Like, don't you want your personal assistant to be personal? Track 2Damashe: [4:25] It's like, right like my serie is a lady. Ah. Michael: [4:31] I'm using Siri Voice to 12 or one. I think it's too it's a female. Track 2Damashe: [4:36] Yeah yeah so it's a she if you switch it over to a male voice then you can call it the hell. Michael: [4:39] Yeah, then it's a here. Okay, so as long as theory, as long as she is, you know, being smart and stuff, I forgot the exact wording I was using, but I'll just jump right back in there with it like that. And that's why I'm going to keep the edit in then I can use my airpods to reply to messages. I can use airpods to uh reply to discord. I think maybe not. But uh you know, I can get all that information from my airpods and then I can use my Apple Watch for other things I can't do. And then you do most of my primary stuff on the android phone and maybe that might mean switching a phone number back over to android, you know, because I don't want to pay for another service. So I don't know, but it will be an experiment. It will be a process and democracy and I think are probably going to take this adventure on together. Maybe. Track 2Damashe: [5:32] Yeah, this is going to be fun. I mean, what I'm gonna do is essentially what you're doing is if I don't have airpods so I can't answer the phone, you know, answer the iphone calls with just by saying yes, drives me fucking I'm not really sure how I feel about it. Actually going to say it drives me nuts, but I can't say it does. I don't know how I feel about it, tears hanging out in the kitchen, washing dishes and she just says yes, like because you're talking Uh huh. Yeah. Michael: [5:59] Wait, walk me through this. Track 2Damashe: [6:01] Uh huh. Mhm. Michael: [6:05] Because I've been squeezing the tip of my airpods. I hope Jason's not listening. Or maybe hopefully is. Track 2Damashe: [6:11] Uh huh. Uh Yeah that that is a thing, we shall report back to you folks on how to, if either one of us figures out how to be able to answer the phone with Siri directly to be interesting. Michael: [6:25] Sounds like democracy. We just need to start being nicer this area I think. Track 2Damashe: [6:29] Man, that beach that that really is nice. I'm sorry. Michael: [6:32] Yeah. Track 2Damashe: [6:33] Anyway, small personal assistant whatever. Uh, but what I'm what I'm going to do is um use the android phone and one of the nicer things like you kind of mentioned, you know, you think you can reply to messages from discord although you wouldn't really need to because you have discord on android so I don't think that would be an issue. Michael: [6:51] And it is accessible for my understanding. So. Track 2Damashe: [6:53] Mhm I'm not sure for me we're gonna put this card on my android phone but I probably will because I pop in there enough. I use it ain't enough. Michael: [6:56] Mm. Track 2Damashe: [7:00] Oh and started sending you messages through this course I guess I will out that she put it on the phone. Uh but. Michael: [7:04] Yeah. Although now you can text me because I can connect android windows so, but if I don't have any. Track 2Damashe: [7:11] Who mm what just how that works. Yeah I'm going to go on this this basic journey as well uh use my Apple watch for the apple connectivity stuff that I you know, has to be in place such as I messages and things of that nature I'm actually going to set up or I'm going to attempt to set up. So I will definitely report back in our next show how this went uh set up, sip calling using the native android uh sip integration and see how well that works. At least I will have service for a number while I'm on wifi just to have something to kind of, you know, see how that that fleshes out, because I, you know from a business perspective, I'm extremely interested in the different ways that small businesses or entrepreneurs can. [7:58] Have multiple phone numbers but have it actually operate like a business line and not just before 41 call to another call because then you get into the weirdness when you got to call people back and now they got your phone number, mobile number or whatever, and google voice like I have, I'm going more and more concerned about google voice as a free service being out there for people uh, and some of the limitations and restrictions that they're putting on the actual paid or that are in existence with paid service if you're google workspace customer. I don't think we mentioned this on the show but I found out shockingly, I was shocked, absolutely shocked. And I mean that seriously, no sarcasm was I was absolutely shocked when a recent google workspace customer disclosed to me that you can no longer set up a free google voice number if you have a workspace account. Uh I still have a free google voice number upon the G suite high google screw you because you can't do anything about it. Michael: [8:54] Oh yes they can. Track 2Damashe: [8:55] Ah I mean they could but you know, I mean I've been paying well I haven't been paying google for the entire time. I've been using google apps, but I've been a customer since google apps and I've been paying them since around like 25 15 in 2016. So and I brought you quite a few customers, maybe not as many as other people have brought in, but I brought you some customers, probably more than I actually know because oftentimes I'm not actually giving people my referral link because I maybe don't have it uh ahead, and google keeps changing it. But so I'm interested in different ways of using sip providers, especially when like maybe it's unfeasible, you know, unreasonable to pay for, an entire second line phone service through T mobile or Verizon or us more, you know, any of the regular care carriers or M Viviano's, but you still want a separate number, so I'm going to play around with that to, this is gonna be interested I think, yeah. Oh man. And I can use focus time on IOS to control what comes through and with it, man, I'm really kind of excited about focused on, I haven't done anything with custom home screen yet, but I'm excited about focused on as a general feature. Michael: [10:10] That's funny. I haven't done anything about custom home screens either but I use the um sleep focus all the time. Well not all the time. That makes it imply that I sleep all the time. Although I used to sleep focus on quite often. And then I also am experimenting with those. What are they notification summaries? Yeah. Notifications summaries have a love hate relationship with that. Um Yeah. Track 2Damashe: [10:38] They're still broken. It's my opinion because I have twitter so I'm still using the twitter, the official twitter app. But I have. Michael: [10:45] Yeah. So if anyone wants to tweet him we're still waiting for someone to tweet them to see how's time tracking going to Marcy. Track 2Damashe: [10:50] Somebody. Mm Damn it man. Uh huh. You know I think I may, yeah I think, I mean just quick site on time tracking I made because I have set out for a year. I may actually try out using timing because most of the time that I need to actually track business wise, you know what I'm doing is at the computer it's very relevant. I'm actually doing I mean I'm not obsessive about it to the point that I want to know, how much time do I spend listening to audio books this month or today or this? Like I don't I don't care that much about it. I mean maybe there's a focus like when I trigger this focused and it starts the time and that can be a way to deal with that shit. But I don't know but to answer your question it has been going terrible. I have tracked time when I have needed to for projects for clients but that's about it. If there's no time constraints like I'm not building hourly. I haven't been tracking time at all. Michael: [11:51] I have been tracking time on podcast, editing mainly for the DM series. So I know how much time I'm spending and then I'm editing a couple of other podcast now. One other one right now, it sounds like it'll be two other ones. Uh So I'm going to be tracking time on those 21 of my I've been editing since March and I wasn't tracking in my time, so I don't really have a baseline for how long it will take me. And someone asked me, Michael, how much time do you spend on on editing our podcast? Uh uh I can give you a rough estimate, and that's something that even if you're not getting paid for, probably something you should you should know because if you do want to get paid for doing that particular project, you should have a baseline to give people, well, you know, a 30 minute episodes gonna take me 55 to 60 minutes to edit on average or something like that, because then you can price yourself to, you know, I want to make $20 an hour, Which at first sounded ridiculous to me, but now it sounds, you know more doable in some scenarios. Uh and or I want to make $40 an hour because I know your content is going to take me two hours or something, you know. So yeah time tracking is important when you get. Track 2Damashe: [13:10] Yeah, it is, it is important, especially if you're going to do anything where you're going to build people already because having that baseline, like guessing is not good because things always like yeah, just generally tracking time in your brain, like things always, you're always going to be way off basically. You can be like, man, this shit felt like it took forever. God was doing something today. And I sent a like a 30 minute timer and I swear I was like, man, this freaking timer just did not go off, like it just didn't go off, okay, whatever, I might as well finish doing what I'm doing now and I get up and go check on the kids, And what seemed like about an hour later, it really didn't feel like an hour. Well what I really felt like about 20 minutes later than the timer goes off. And I looked at the time like, oh actually it was only 30 minutes, but it seemed like I had been sitting here for 45 minutes already. Uh Conversely you can think something, it doesn't take that much time which happened to me finally above yesterday like sitting here, I started working on something, And I look up and I was like, Okay, Lincoln's off the bus, okay, that's like three, it's like, you know, I was like about 45 minutes I've been working. Yeah, the next time I looked up it was 5:00 and I was like, what do you seem like I was sitting here that long, got a ton of shit done, but I really didn't feel like I was sitting there for two hours. Michael: [14:23] Right. Yeah. Remember that conversation we talked not too long after that. I think you looked up because I called you if I remember I because I wanted to test the headset buddy. Track 2Damashe: [14:31] Yep. [14:35] Mm Yeah, you called me and then you said what time it was on your side? And I was like, yeah, I just saw that I was like, man, it really didn't feel like it was that late, like this day really? I don't know where this day went. Like I did get stuff done, so it's not like I don't, no, you know, like I just wasted the day, but it's like jesus really went by fast. Michael: [14:45] Uh huh. Yeah, you did. [14:56] So back to how we started this conversation. Did you ever get a chance? Look at series. Track 2Damashe: [15:01] Yeah, it was showing me an option to do a quick text. Really was saying ai or decision michael babcock. Michael: [15:03] Ah [15:10] Hmm, interesting. So back to our conversation about Siri. You said to you had an experience with Syria recently. Tell us about it. Track 2Damashe: [15:22] So I don't quite remember the context of the conversation. Uh No. Between no. Michael: [15:29] Between you and Siri or I mean you and T. R. TN series. Track 2Damashe: [15:32] So between me and tear because we were talking about something. Somebody said something or did something or something. She was telling me about something she saw on facebook or some situation that went on around here and she was like, all right, what's wrong? Do all that? I would just bash him in the head or something like that. She said a budget number something like there was some, you know, some some you know, I would do something violent to her individual and Serious like would you like me to call 911? And I said, man, I'm gone. Michael: [16:00] Mhm. Know what the fuck. Track 2Damashe: [16:00] Mhm. I was like, man, what kind of shit is this? Michael: [16:07] That is. So she just happened to say like hey stupid, I would smack him in the head or something like Yeah, that's some creepy shit man. Track 2Damashe: [16:12] No, no, no, no. It was like, man, she was like, I don't remember that. I want to say it may have been one thing, but I don't want to say that thing and I really don't want to get in that conversation. Anyway. Uh but it was something like she was talking about something, she saw like this person did this thing or destroyed their property, doing this to somebody. She's like I would just bash him in the head. She was like, would you like me to call 911? And I was like or would you like me to call emergency services or something like that? I was like, man, what the fuck? I'm out peace. Michael: [16:44] Mhm. Did did did did she reply? No in Syria's like be safe then? Track 2Damashe: [16:45] Gold. [16:49] Donald? Michael: [16:51] Uh huh. Your response has been recorded. Don't blame me for your difficulties. Be safe. Track 2Damashe: [17:00] Oh I was like man, what kind of shit is this? You say something violent in series like would you like any call 911 because I don't think that's a good idea to advance. Well, I'm just saying I'm not sure it's a good idea to resort to violence. I can't call the emergency services. However, what kind of shit is this? Michael: [17:14] Mhm. Oh shit that is funny. That is good. Kind of creepy though. Like I'm not surprised because we hear stories and I haven't experienced it actually that much but we hear stories of, smart devices getting activated inadvertently and so yeah, I'm not surprised. I'm glad she asked first though. Track 2Damashe: [17:39] Yeah, it would have been really weird if the phone started ringing. Michael: [17:42] Yeah. Yeah. Track 2Damashe: [17:44] Uh like I said my my first experience with the Apple watch is accidentally call 911. Michael: [17:50] I've done that too. Have done that too. Track 2Damashe: [17:54] Histories and now when I set up an Apple watch number one when I turn it on, I know just be patient and wait because eventually triple click will turn over is over, and secondly don't hold on that side button until you have went in and turned off the setting that says automatically called emergency services. Michael: [18:07] Mhm. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Track 2Damashe: [18:12] I was like, well at least I know the cellular connection works because it's not connected to my phone yet. Not even sure how that worked. All right. Michael: [18:18] Mm mm. Good times and spooky times. [18:31] So Democracy. You had something you wanted to mention today. Track 2Damashe: [18:35] So what was at the time that we're recording this which is Saturday September 11th. Michael: [18:41] This could change will not change but more details could it could emerge. Track 2Damashe: [18:44] Yeah. Yeah. More details are probably going to come out about this. Uh And and of course Apple has to go through the process, but essentially on friday september 10 2 judge and I have just heard her name when I have forgotten. It's Gonzalez Rogers that her first name, super smart lady based off how she has responded, And the questions that I know I'm not sat and read through any of the documentation directly but just listening to people reporting order to reading on people's reports of it. Extremely smart lady. Like you know we've all seen these cases with tech companies evolved where the judge presiding over said case doesn't even understand the thing that they're supposed to be, trying to pass judgment on or come to a decision about this lady is on her shit. She should be like, I don't know that she should be the next Supreme Court justice because she, she grasped this shit in a way that I think even a lot of detect press doesn't quite get. So she's past her ruling down. Of course, Apple is probably going to appeal that that hasn't been dropped out there yet. That's just speculation on my part. Michael: [19:52] I was just reading article Tim's I can't pronounce his last name from Fortnite is, uh, already has announced that they're going to appeal it. Track 2Damashe: [20:01] What the fuck. Okay. Michael: [20:05] Yeah, he says it's not a win for small businesses or consumers. Track 2Damashe: [20:12] Um, so we'll, we'll get into that. I'm going to come back to that because I mean you had a pretty good conversation about that earlier. So well we will look back to that specific point right there. Who this helps and who it doesn't. But essentially just to update everybody at this point, what we know is that Judge Gonzalez Rogers has passed out her verdict and is it averted whatever it's called, we're not lawyers here uh, has passed out a verdict basically here the key takeaways that I know right now that we know right now at this moment, uh, it was first found that Epic was in violation of their contract with Apple, with Apple, which they were when they put their app for people who don't remember how this whole shit got start in the first place. Epic pushed an update to the app store well because a lot of epics code on the server side once the app was in the app store and people started updating Epic just flip the switch on server side that added a button in the, interface of the app that lets you pay them directly and bypass apples. And our purchase. [21:11] Uh, judge Rogers, you know, said that there was a violation of the contract that was in place at the time with Apple, which it was and I said that at the time that's a clear violation, they knew it was. So like, you know that's, that's not, that's obvious to me. So the result of them being in violation of said contract though is, They have to pay apple to 30% of the money that they did earn during the time that that that feature was active in their app before Apple suspended their application, which comes out to I've heard numbers around like three, three or 3 million in some change. Uh not a terrible amount of money to either one of those companies, but you know, they still have to fork that over. [21:50] The second bit of her ruling is around the what was being called anti trust or or monopolistic behavior by Apple. It is controls over the app store. Epics argument was that the platform that they're kind of trying to, you know, grow within, is controlled strictly by Apple and the iphone is the platform or the iphone is the marketplace. Apple of course, trying to argue the entire other side of the corn, which is, we're just a console. So you know, we have to we lock things down to everybody else that runs consoles, you know, does this look at the Xbox, look at the playstation, so we're not doing anything wrong. It's not monopolistic because we don't own the market share for smartphones or gaming consoles. [22:43] Judge Rogers, I keep want to call them Miss Rogers but it seems very disrespectful to call a Judge Miss uh Judge Rogers, basically went right down the middle and was like, you're wrong and you're wrong. Here's what the marketplace is that, this is all about, This is the mobile gaming market that you were discussing here, Like, this is the, space that we're in right now, that this relates to is the mobile gaming market, Apple. While they do make it quite healthy profit off of this space, they are not the sole owner of mobile gaming, they don't have all of the control over mobile gaming. And just because they're successful at running their mobile gaming business does not make it a monopoly, which again, I like this, this is like, and here's the thing, right? I wouldn't have thought to split this this way because I didn't want, I didn't think that deeply about it all the second year, I probably still would have come up with what she said, but it makes perfect sense to me. The point that she made that I have said before very simply is people should stop trying to go after tech companies or any sort of big companies just because they're successful in making a ton of money and saying you're a monopoly just because I'm good at doing what I do. [24:00] Uh huh I'm going to sidetrack for a second to a conversation, man, Michael had a little earlier and I gave this analogy, I said, think about it this way. Like a lot of people don't consider this when you look at Apple and say, oh, they're monopoly just because they're going all the money and they're making you pay them 30% or look at google or amazon anybody else in this space. And they look at tech companies like, oh, it's a monopoly is antitrust because they're successful and dominating their industry. But if you, if we were to flip this completely on his head and let's look at restaurants, let's look at fast food restaurants specifically. [24:35] What epic was trying to argue and what a lot of politicians and a lot of different countries, not just the US or trying to argue or would be arguing in effect, in my opinion, somebody, you know, tweeted us on, you know, if you feel like I'm wrong about this, or if you have different opinions, I love to have a discussion about it. But in my opinion, what a lot of companies that are suing for antitrust with a lot of politicians who are trying to enact antitrust laws and all this sort of shit against these tech companies. If we flip this around and say fast food restaurants, it to me is an Oculus to saying that Mcdonald's, we just can't have you dominating the way that you're dominating because everybody loves your fries. They're great. Like people go, bye supersized fries because they're so good. People like me, I'm one of these people that has went to burger king and gotten a burger or went to Wendy's and gotten a bacon cheeseburger and went right across the street to the Mcdonald's about some french fries because their fries are simply better than everybody else's. Well, my feeling at the way that a lot of people are approaching antitrust with these tech companies is similar to saying, well, Mcdonald's. [25:46] You're going to have to do one of two, like, we're gonna have to do something about this, you're either going to have to allow other people to use your fries, that you will spend time, you know, engineering, you know, coming up with a recipe for that successful or, you know, something, we're going to do something about you because you can't just keep dominating with these fries because they're so good. Like we can't have you being the only company that makes a good french fries. Michael: [26:09] Yet the person who is making that comment probably has a super sized fries in there handle they're saying that. Track 2Damashe: [26:15] Well, there are exactly right. Like these people, they got an iphone shot on iphone on the desk. Well, these are apple is, is, you know, but to me that's what it is. Very simple simplistic, right? But her point, judge Rogers point about success does not accompany of monopoly being extremely successful, does not make a company of monopoly is exactly what I'm trying to get in the right. Mcdonald's has been extremely successful with their french fries. Like they, to my knowledge, they have the best french fries that any fast food restaurant has ever produced. When you're talking about, you go sit down and You know, you actually got somebody back there chopping off the potatoes. Maybe five guys, five guys, that's pretty good. Really good friend for us. Michael: [26:55] I've never had five guys. Track 2Damashe: [26:56] Yeah. Most people haven't those, that's the thing. Like I I didn't have them until around about maybe 2013, issues. Like, I mean for most people, McDonalds have the best French fries. Uh no. Hands down, especially for a fast food restaurant. You can't go and say, well Mcdonald's, you're just too successful with these fries. So you're gonna have to cut, you know, you gotta cut burger king some slack. Like either you're going to have to dial back your fry production or you're gonna have to share this recipe with burger king so that they can also be successful. You know, you're making it too difficult for other people trying to sell french fries out here. It's like, we'll get your fucking french fry game up is what I would tell you. Michael: [27:35] So I have mixed feelings on this because I've, you know, Apple right now is the only app store you can easily get apps on. However I have learned over the last couple of weeks of an alternative app store you can get but it does require more work and at first I was like, well this is all messed up. I was, I was on the antitrust Ballgame because I was saying, hey, I can only buy apps in the app store and Apple won't let me get up from other people. And maybe Apple doesn't allow you to use like salt store or or what not, in their terms, but it is something that can be done and when I think about android unless I'm mistaken, I think you have to side loaded alternative app store on android. Yeah, yeah. So it's it's similar. No, you cannot directly side load stuff onto your iphone, but you can have the ease of mind when you have the app store and all you have to do is go into the app store and, your payment information is saved there, you're only paying one person, if something goes down and you no longer want that banking information added your app store, you have one place to remove it from and you know I'm comfortable with that, with that fact and with those conveniences and I do realize that with that I'm giving up some things kind of sort of on relation to the conversation we just had about me switching over to Andrew but that's besides the point, so those are my initial thoughts. Track 2Damashe: [29:03] Yeah. And so I'm not one side of like Apple is not, I'm not one of them and I don't haven't found very many people that feel apple is 100% right? Uh have found some people that feel apple is 100% wrong. I don't agree. But I didn't. One of those statements, Apple definitely like the things uh and the final thing that Judge Rogers ruled on so we can roll this into the conversation as well is that Apple has to stop their bullshit with this. Oh well you know, you can put your app on the app store and people can log in and you don't have to use our in app purchases, but you can't tell people how to pay you or how to sign up for your service bullshit, right? That has been bullshit. Day one. And I have said it has been bullshit from day one. Uh She she has named that that is anti competitive. Now there's a different state, there is a huge and again this lady is super smart uh or a beer or glass of wine or martini or something. [29:55] Uh if I ever run into or somewhere I will buy that lady because she is super smart because to me that there is a clear difference between, anti trust which means you're using your power over a market, your dominance in a market, your your dependence in a market to manipulate people for your own benefit, right? To manipulate prices and or whatever for your own benefit. Whereas anticompetitive that is absolutely anticompetitive to, you know netflix and I went over this with you today, I was like, you know, as it stands right now, if her mother were to download netflix for the first time today because she heard about netflix from one of her friends who has a fire tv stick or whatever. She was like well I'm gonna try this netflix, I want to watch that show, he was looking at your house, I'm gonna go download netflix, you go to the app store to download netflix, she opens up inflicts, it says log in Netflix right now, I can't say I don't have an account, click here to go create one or, you know, I don't have an account, you have to go here and start your subscription that you can't say any of that right now, due to Apple's policies, that is a load of shit. Michael: [31:03] It is, and when you are trying to get more people to use your apps, not having any explanation of what that app is can be detrimental to your potential customers. Because I could download an app an email app, for example, and it says, hey go, hey log in, I'm going to keep that in there for sure. Track 2Damashe: [31:20] Hey, Okay. Michael: [31:25] It says, hey, go log in. And then I'm like, well why do I even like, why? What's the whole point of this? What is this app? So it's interesting. That was good. Track 2Damashe: [31:34] Yeah, that, that, that to me is any competitive. Um my general feelings about This overall situation, one, I don't like the, I don't like it from top to bottom. I don't like a government coming in and feeling like, oh we're going to tell Apple how to run their business. Also don't like the way that Apple kind of mix tapes too, developers how to run their business. There are some rules that I feel are fair or some policies that I feel that our fair because Apple is the platform owner, right? You have to see some something to the company who built this. Apple has no obligation to say, well we built this thing but we're just going to give it to you and let you do what you want to do with like they have no obligation to do that the same way google has no obligation to say, oh well, you know, of course android is open source, you can go use open source android, but if you don't comply with things the way that we want you to comply with certain things for the protection of our users in the protection of our business, right, are back in our api our infrastructure, then we're not going to let you use google play services that they're totally within their rights to do that because they built the shit like it. Again, it's like telling the Colonel man, you got to hand over this chicken recipe because this KFC chicken, it's just killing everybody's business so you can't do that. Michael: [32:51] There were attempts to that with new an interesting history of KFC. Yeah, yeah. On that, on that podcast, I've told you listen to a couple of times Business, yours. I'll link to it in the show notes, so maybe you'll go listen. No. Track 2Damashe: [32:58] I vaguely remember something about that. [33:07] Yeah, I will go listen to it because I'm vaguely remember here something about this two of some years ago, like I was a bunch of younger, but I vaguely remember hearing something along those lines. Michael: [33:15] There was guns involved in shit like that, man. It was, it was rough, but yeah, yeah. Track 2Damashe: [33:20] Oh shit, hold on, I really gotta listen to this. I didn't hear about the guns. There was some old mob shit churches showed up with mrs winters and it was about to go to town on the Colonel. Michael: [33:27] Mhm. I'll send you the first episode of that series. Um, so it'll, I don't know, I don't know, Damashe See what's going to happen with the world. Track 2Damashe: [33:40] I mean, uh, as as many long time listeners know like I have a big, big chip on my shoulder about the state of internet and the United States of America whilst we have congressman. So senators and representatives both uh, as well as states attorneys generals or attorneys general or however you say that, uh, drafting proposals for laws and amendments to bills and all this shit to curtail how Apple runs their business, how google runs their business, how amazon runs their business. Uh, number one, nobody stepping on facebook for the bullshit they're pulling. Number two, nobody stepping on Comcast a TNT spectrum or any of the other companies who are flat out lying to the federal look, Apple ain't taking money google and none of these big tech companies which I do have issues with all of them. Like I'm not a, you know, I love apples products, I love, you know, google's products just google about as good. Michael: [34:44] As long as they keep them around. Track 2Damashe: [34:46] Yeah, I mean I trust Google 2nd. Like Apple has more of my trust, but also like Apple has to hold themselves to a higher standard. But outside of the tech companies, right? My issue really comes down to the fact that google amazon apple Microsoft. None of these big tech companies that people are trying to regulate or Saini regulating or even got some crazy woman running around talking about what we should break them up. It's like what the fuck do you mean? So this company sells the iphone and that company sells macs and ipads like what the fuck kind of business are you trying to do here lady. Uh huh. But the problem is they're not taking federal money and then doing, you know, shit detrimental to the people that they're supposed to be serving right there. I mean, they are mostly publicly held companies, but in the general says they're probably all right, they're not getting money from the federal government to run their business. Whereas A T and T. Comcast spectrum and the rest of these fucking internet providers are taking federal money, which means they're taking our tax dollars because we all pay taxes. [35:47] Even if you don't pay taxes when you go buy something at the store you're paying and so it effects you are paying some sort of tax. They're taking federal money to build out their infrastructure and then they're flat out lying to the sec, the FCC and probably all the other seas to about what they're actually doing and where their coverages. And you would think after The Lockdown of 2020, that this would be abundantly clear to people when, you know, I mean, never mind just I mean, even if you're selfish is shit. There's a ton of selfish as people who feel like they're big shots that didn't have good internet when they had to go back to their little town or whatever that they come from and they were on lockdown on the internet didn't work. So they couldn't show up to do their voting that they were supposed to like all this right here, but you're not going after these companies for what they're doing. I'm annoyed on that level with the government. Apple in general. Like get there should be some changes. I feel like at this point Apple could and it seems as though Apple is like slowly letting people kind of chip away at their policies. Like they're changing them one at a time and just trying to play the long game. I feel like that's a little stupid on their part. One reason. Michael: [37:00] Big Change at Once. Track 2Damashe: [37:02] Well, there's an argument that they could implement what they think is a great plan and that, you know, maybe I would agree with it is a great plan and maybe a large majority of Apple users and developers may agree it's a great plan. But then the government comes, somebody's government comes in and says, well we don't think you did enough. And I was like, well shit, we, we that's it. We out, it's over. We ain't got no more ideas, man, we're done. [37:24] But I feel like there are enough countries in this world that don't work in our if not more organized, at least there's more directives. Like there's, there's more directness there in these countries and there may be in the U. S. Where you know, somebody says, oh we're going to have to be able to deal with this situation where area three years from now my kids are being, my youngest kid will be in, You know, 5th grade by the time this law comes up to get voted on Germany ain't gonna take that long. You know, you fuck around with that lady over there in Germany, like she's liable to get some shit past tomorrow. Like, Alright, album, this is what you gotta do. You know, South Korea did not take that long to pass their law that they passed saying essentially what is her name, Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, mm hmm. [38:11] Well she said Apple has to do, which you can't tell people that they can't link to their shit, right? It's basically what South Korea says. So my thing is number one Apple should just let that go. Like just don't fight, don't put that back, don't push back on that. Just just implement that rule and they you know good way. It's arguable at this point whether or not Apple has to and I think that's going to be like they're going to have to draft what their proposed to do and take it to the judge and then let her you know say yeah this is within the guidelines of what I was saying. You know you didn't do enough but it's arguable at this point whether the actual ruling means Apple just has to let people link out to their websites and explain to you how to get their shit or how your alternative payment methods. [38:54] Or whether it means you literally have to let you know epic. And everybody else basically do what amazon dot com does right now because amazon out man. Look I don't pay for anything in the amazon app through Apple because you can't just all paid through amazon right? Michael: [39:09] I kind of wish you could sometimes, but you can't. Yeah. Especially when I have money in Apple Pay. Track 2Damashe: [39:10] Yeah man. Mhm. But if anybody wants, especially when you got money, like amazon doesn't even take Apple pay like that's that that's one of the dumber things to me, it's like So you've got Amazon pay, why not take apple? Like you're getting the money, it's not like apples taking 30% of your apple pay payment. Michael: [39:31] Right. Right. Right. Anyways, not to derail you. Track 2Damashe: [39:34] Ah oh no man because this whole conversation has been the real, the whole nation has been derailed now. Michael: [39:42] That it has, but that's a discussion for another show if you're interested in the Politics show. Yeah. Track 2Damashe: [39:49] Uh, but it's arguable as to whether or not they actually have to allow people to, have payment systems inside the outright right alongside the in app purchase system that Apple provides or whether they only have to a lot of the link out my concern with this whole deal though. Uh huh. Because tim whatever his name is from epic, you said, he said this is not a win for small businesses or consumers. Dude, stop your bullshit. First off. First and foremost, I'm saying it on the show, I don't play a clip, I'm gonna post this clip on twitter, It might keeps it in the show. Stop your bullshit dude. You don't give a fuck about a little dude or or or the customer, right? You're just trying to make more money. You want more of the money that you're getting because you don't want to have to give Apple, they're 30% now, to be fair, 30% is a little much at this point in time. I'm just saying, Are you serious? Really? 30%, man, come on come on, But here's where my concern go. And again, there's always these unintended consequences whenever politics and legalities get involved and people just don't do the right thing in the first place as a business. [41:01] This ruling could come down and say, okay, well Apple doesn't have to let you put your payment system directly in the app, but they do have to let you link out to it. Okay, well Epics going to do it and facebook is going to do it and you know, all these other places are going to do with smaller developers, a lot of them are not going to do it because they're not gonna want to deal with the headache of the shit, some of them may, but what you're gonna end up with, is I, let's say, so you, you were bringing up this example earlier market, like with Nicholas or, or Ben or Andrew wants to go buy something from the store right now, it goes through Apple and you know what they're doing and all of that and you know, I don't know if you have some place for Nicholas or not because he is a little older, to my kids, but From my perspective and I also have the ability to turn on asked to buy, right, so I know what they're going to buy before they buy it and I can say, yeah, you can get that game and I don't think you really need to get that right there or I don't want to pay $20 for that, like whatever the case may be. Michael: [41:54] $20 every seven days mm. Track 2Damashe: [41:59] Speaking of which man, okay now you directly uh because that's yet. Uh But no but here's the problem right? So this this could come down in favor of what a lot of people say they want, Which example just let people offer to compete with with the other payment processes. Let people roll a strike right? Like people you know rolling and Paypal or we pay or whatever it is they want to use and take payment that way a couple of issues. Apple could take the mike. I can't say that's a dick move. Apple could take the route of Okay we're being forced to do this but we don't have to do anymore because we invested all the money into the research and development of this platform etcetera etcetera etcetera. We don't have to do anything beyond what you told us to do? Which is they? Okay now I can go into Epic store or Fortnite whenever if it makes it back on the app store and buy gyms or whatever you're buying for tonight. I don't know don't don't even tell me about it. I don't care. Mhm. But I can go buy stuff. [42:58] Alright well now buying this stuff directly from Epic instead of going through Apple. So does that bypass and because it wouldn't be me or barbie my kid. Right. But there's this bypass parental controls at this point. So does this bypass asked to buy, do I have to now put a credit card in each person's device that wants to buy something inside of the app that has chosen to go outside of the app store. Uh huh. Like how does that affect any of that? Most certainly. And I've heard people argue this point that yes, Apple could probably write the ap is to allow people to you know keep connected to the lower level os you know systems that power that stuff in the app store. But I got to tell you it's probably not as easy as me just saying it and they can get happened first off secondly first you tell me, I mean again let's let's let's take this scenario. You gotta you gotta grown up kid who's living with you was like well I want to live with you anymore. I'm going to move out and get my own place. I got a job, I got my own money and want to move out and get my own stuff. All right, right, fine do that. That's okay. No problem. No hard feelings. But you still want to come to my house and eat every fucking day. Michael: [44:07] Yeah. Track 2Damashe: [44:09] It's like you wanted to take your own payments, you wanted to handle all your money by yourself. You didn't want to give us a cut of our money. But now you want us to do the work To integrate your payment system or make it possible for people to integrate their payment system with our back end system that protects our users. They do it. There's an argument for yes, they should. But on the flip side, Apple people like well this is what the fuck is 30% discovered. Michael: [44:32] But why couldn't apple say we'll do that for an additional $99 a year or something like that and and recoup that money? Track 2Damashe: [44:39] Because that ain't enough, because that's not really that that legitimately is not enough money. Like I said I I think Apple probably could get away with taking 10 to 12%, of each transaction in the out store and people will probably be more happy now you're epics of the world would not be but most people I think would be a lot happier with that Because what you're getting what happened, what I think a lot of people outside of it outside of developers don't think about. Yes, we're pissed about the 30%. I'm pissed about 30% of its not even coming out of my pocket. Uh You know history reason I have donated money to developers. You know, even after I have bought their app and they have a tip jar like I got the money until Jordan out there because I know you're not charging me for this app every year. You haven't one subscription. Uh. [45:29] But what people outside of messages say Apple should, you know they should charge what stripe charges. Well they can't charge. I mean they could charge what straight? Well they have all these billions of dollars. Yeah but you know what happened has to pay for. So let me make it very simple when you develop an application. First of all, Apple pays all of the engineers that developed Mac OS which is free. You don't pay for Mac Os. You pay for the Mac. But once you on the back, like you don't pay for updates, you don't pay for our west updates. Once you buy your phone, you don't pay for any of the platform updates to software updates, you just play for the hardware. [46:04] Right? But Apple has to pay the engineers that write the code and NPR's that run Mac OS and allow us to have the nice apps on my Mac Os, IOS, watch us ipad Os, right? They write all the code for that. They they got to pay those people a part of a big part of Apple's businesses, research and development. Like tim cook. This doesn't shit out the plan for iphone every year. And then they just start making that shit. Like they spend a ton of money, like a ridiculous amount of money, enough money for me probably to live off for the rest of my life on research and development when they're making new devices. How does this glasswork? Is it really more shatterproof? What about this camera bump is just gonna be a problem. Like the money that goes into that shit is like, just if you're really interested, you probably can pull apples public reports because they are publicly held company and look at their R and D budget, right? It just extrapolate, like even if you just split it, you know, equally up amongst the devices that we know Apple sales today and look at how much money goes into that on top of that when an app developer develops the app. Yes, there's a lot of hoops they have to go through. Yes, there's a lot of bullshit they have to deal with. Yes. Apple does not respond to their feedback requests, which again is another whole motherfucking problem that Apple needs to solve. [47:19] Uh don't respond to my feedback requests either. That makes anybody feel any better though. You know I write accessibility Apple dot com several times. I sometimes don't get any answer so uh I feel your pain but I ain't go developing out right now. I don't have to pay for exco already on the Mac. So I mean of course you got to have a Mac but already on the Mac. I go download X. Kodi build my app. I test my app. Apple has test flight, I don't have to pay for you know, upset or any other third party tool to provide betas to my users. I do still you do still have those options but I don't have to use test flight infrastructure to beta test my app. I pushed my app to the app store, he goes through ap approval. Again. Something else in the Apple does need to work on. Seriously. Uh huh. But it goes throughout review, it gets approved and it's in the app store. The only thing I have to do once my app is approved is to determine or maybe before it's approved. But at some point in the process determine what countries I want my app to be available. And if I say release it to the entire world where it goes out to the entire world. I am not paying Apple any money for that bandwidth. I'm not paying Apple any money for storing my shit. I'm not paying for their CDN cost and Apple uses a comma. A comma is expensive by a commode doesn't even come up in conversations for me when I'm talking about c. D. S because I cannot afford it. Michael: [48:46] Yeah Yeah. Track 2Damashe: [48:48] Uh so there there's all of that infrastructure never mind that. I mean literally probably millions at this point, hundreds of thousands of free apps on the app store now, is it fair that everybody has to pay for the people who don't pay anything with the developer fees? I mean I don't know what to really say about that. I don't I don't feel that the people who do well on the app store can make a living off the app store should be picking up the cost for someone who just creates a free app and throws it up on the store. But on the flip side of that, a lot of people get their career started with those free apps as well. And I would really feel kind of shitty about telling a kid well you know we can't put a free app on the store man because we're not going to tell me that we're not going to cover that shit right, I really would feel shitty about that. So I don't know how to deal with that situation. But my point being Apple has to charge more than what started charges because Apple is providing more infrastructure then stripe is providing uh not to mention Apple as much money as Apple actually makes, their market is honestly pretty small compared to a strike. Michael: [49:55] Yeah, yeah, because stripe is all of your e commerce, all of your well not all of your in person, not all of your e commerce either, but a substantial amount of your e commerce, a substantial amount of your in person if you're using their stripes payment methods and, a lot of people use stripe and they don't even know they're using it. Track 2Damashe: [50:13] Exactly like stripers all over. What I mean is like their their their their potential market, the potential growth for stripe Is in my opinion exponential to what Apple's potential growth is right because apple can only, you know, get 30% off people who put apps in the app store and sell apps again, I don't think it should be 30%. I think it should be more like 10 or 12% and they would do just fine. Mm honest. I truly honestly believe that also honestly believe that if they were to loosen up some of the restrictions that some of the seemingly arbitrary restrictions that they have in place that probably at the time they were put in place made sense. That's the other thing. Lot of people don't think about it. Some of the rules that apple has in place regarding their devices and the app stores, they absolutely made sense when the iphone IOS was super young, Super constrained. [51:09] You know, 10, 12 years ago. The problem is apple hasn't grown and evolved as the industry has grown and evolved. It's the reason they're having all of these problems. I've heard people say that institutionally a lot of old apple people and these are the people that you tend to see on stage a lot, you know, your tim cooks and your craig Frederick G. S and your craig johnson wax and uh my scott forestall, He's the guy who got fired. Uh the other guy. Michael: [51:44] But the Faces You know of Apple. Track 2Damashe: [51:46] Yeah, the people you meet all the time, like they were around apple and Apple literally was about to go out of business. Like they were, you know, they had to take money from Microsoft. Like Bill Gates gave them money so that he wouldn't be the only company making computers to keep them afloat. So it is said, I don't know how true this is or how not true, but it doesn't make a little bit of sense to me because it is in a lot of ways how steve jobs operating. And his wife steve had the mentality that he did about owning as much of the product line as he possibly could. Like Apple started making their own processes because they didn't want to be beholden to somebody else for their processors took him years to get to the M1. But they eventually got there. They started with their mobile devices 1st. But that's a part of that culture is like, well we don't want to find ourselves in this situation, we deal with power Pc and then we had to quickly switch over the intel even though steve really didn't want to do that business from what I hear. They come from the time when Apple was the actual underdog and they had to scratch for everything they could possibly get. So therefore they try to hold on to as much as they possibly can. There are huge trillion dollar company, hundreds of millions of dollars at this point you're not so small anymore. So I mean don't go through a party and throw all your money in a fucking pool and jump off a diving board into like uncle screws like don't get stupid but. [53:11] Evolve so that you can continue to grow as a company because one of the sad things to me out of this whole situation is that yes, I do know that there are problems internally at Apple that we probably don't hear about. But the things I do know about, just the things I know about with the app store and the way that things operating some of their policies and how this app, you know, their ap approval shit is really screwed up. Uh huh. I don't like that because I'm one of those people that looks at and I'm like if you're slipping and your continuing to slip in these same areas like what else are you fucking up on that you're supposedly so great at, because Apple come out on stage and tell you how great they are and how good they do for developers and how much money they paid developers and all of this shit. But I've also comes out on stage and tells me how great their security is and how their privacy focusing, they're concerned about your data and your data being your data. Michael: [54:02] And we're all going to hear about that on the day that show publishes. Track 2Damashe: [54:07] Yeah, but you know, I know apps that have developers that get their acts rejected for stupid shit, nobody can explain to him and it turns out all the way it was a mistake. We're sorry we reinstate the draft, you know, or flagrantly I mean just flagrant, not even an attempt to try to obfuscate the fact that they're ripping off the app. Just flagrant ripoffs of apps showing up in the store and getting higher ratings or showing surfacing up higher in search than the actual legitimate original app does when you're fucking up on shit like that. It really makes me question what else you're fucking up on with when it comes to security. Uh huh. Yeah, on the data show Publishers, Apple has an event going on. We all suspect it's going to be the new iphone and a new Apple watch. I ain't buying shit. I'm not excited. Uh, Also have any money. Yeah, but I think outside of something that is truly going to be like probably the only Apple thing I will buy any time soon. Might be some airpods and that would still be, you know, some months off uh some newer airpods or something. It's just because I really am going to disdain the bluetooth earbuds that I do have. But I've also been looking at these Sony's That is certainly true quality earbuds that are out there. Michael: [55:31] You've been on Some are. Track 2Damashe: [55:35] I mean look at these, somebody's thinking about these. I'm like they get longer battery life than Apple ones and don't really talk to my devices all that often like so I don't really care about that. Uh I've been I've been, but I mean I'm sort of at a point like I can't go on strike because like Apple wouldn't give a shit everybody I know that has, you know, oh it did. There are more people than I can count on my fingers that I know for certain is going to buy whatever Apple selling Tuesday, but I ain't bond shit. Michael: [56:05] Yeah. Yeah. I'll watch it see what's going on. Probably. Mallory will probably end up with something. But I don't there's nothing, nothing really interests me right now. I'm pretty happy with what I have. So. Democracy. Do you have any more to talk about related to the Apple stuff? Because if not I think we should wrap it up by sharing a couple of apps. I have a new app that I've been playing with. It will only be effective for some users, very limited amount of users. And I'm sure you may have an app you can recommend to people. Track 2Damashe: [56:38] Yeah, fantastic out get it, it's fantastic and all these kids What you Got man. Michael: [56:44] Uh node remote. So I recently got a new and I will link to this in the show notes by the way in the google doc. There's a place for you to put your affiliate link for google workspace, we can get some time. So node remote is a tool that I am using. It costs $5 in the app store. And uh Andrew bought it for me because we're on a family sharing account, he accidentally added $25. Is that full account? I'm like I so you can just go by this out for me the real quick even though you'll never use it, I will be available to download it then. Uh You can never leave the family now either I, but it allows me I got a sherry note or sorry, notice how it's also pronounced. So I got a shari note which allows me to use my radio to remotely connect to other people who have a Shari note on their end or a uh a all star note. And it gives me substantially higher quality voice. But the problem with it is it is simplex which means that if someone is talking, you can't send D. T. M. F. Or dial tone. I forget exactly dial tone multi frequency ah buttons from your radio while someone else is talking. So. Track 2Damashe: [58:06] I thought it was a dude, I thought it was a new show with Tom Barry, Yeah. Uh huh. Michael: [58:09] Oh no, no, it's the touch tones. You remember democracy a couple of years ago, maybe like 10, 15 years ago we had to pick up this handset and you would hear a buzzing in your ear and you had to push these buttons to call people. It wasn't no touching the screen or telling Siri to call them, it's the beeping noise you hear when you're pushing the buttons now. Track 2Damashe: [58:28] Mhm. Michael: [58:34] So when someone is talking I can't press keys. So I was recommended by Doug I think told me to get this app. W always recommended everything to me to get and it will let me control my radio that's connected to the raspberry pi four B remotely from my phone. So if someone is talking and I don't want to listen that conversation anymore, I can hit disconnect and it will disconnect me from that person and I can connect to someone else or to another hub. So it's a the radio. The reason I got involved in radio isn't necessarily for emergency preparedness but it does give me that added benefit. I also like it as a hobby and the convenience of being able to use my phone to control my radio just as kind of cool. So noting out node remote if you're not a ham it probably won't do you any good but if you are or you're interested. [59:30] Well worth the $4.99 a couple of unlabeled buttons and I just went in and labeled those real quick. So I don't forget with a two finger double tap and hold on the button that needed labelled. So that's your quick tip that you might. Find useful if you're using an app that has enabled buttons that stayed the same. So if you know that you know this button is always the scan button. For example, you can double tap and hold with two fingers on that button and then it'll put you in an edit box that you can either type or dictate the text of the button and then hit OK. Track 2Damashe: [1:00:07] You just happen to say this game. But then I know you probably weren't talking about this, but I can't remember the Apple. There was an app that a lot of people were like, oh this is great. And I think they were trying to target it at blind people for text recognition and they had unlabeled buttons in it. Michael: [1:00:22] Prisma. Track 2Damashe: [1:00:24] Principal was there's Yeah, yeah, they were there. And the man I hadn't used that happened so long. You know, actually owned the Mac app, I think I mean I don't use it. Uh it's also a set up. Hey, that's gonna be my way. Did I talk about sit out recently? Michael: [1:00:41] We talked about a we talked about some apps in set up but you didn't really actually talk about that because that's how we got on the opener conversation. Track 2Damashe: [1:00:42] All right. [1:00:50] Yeah. And to open it up was amazing. Hold on, let me look around you forgot something else. I can't think of the app. I feel like I just told you about the app and you're like, I might buy that. Michael: [1:01:00] Well not the most recent app we talked about was voice dream reader. Track 2Damashe: [1:01:07] Mm everybody should know about that already. Mhm Okay. Michael: [1:01:10] Should know about it, but everyone doesn't. Track 2Damashe: [1:01:15] No, we were talking you were looking at some app that I had and you were like, should I pay for this or not? Because it's not. Ah paprika, was it? Maybe? Michael: [1:01:23] Yep, that I thought it was. Track 2Damashe: [1:01:25] Yeah, well do enough actual real recipe following to do So I will do voice dream reader. And I think I do also have a two. Michael: [1:01:32] By the way, I just want to be fully transparent with the listeners. I don't think Damashe He knew I was going to throw it at him like this. We we we generally talked about it but. Track 2Damashe: [1:01:42] Oh man, I wouldn't even think about it. I was trying to remember what the hell I was supposed to tell you about Syria and bashing somebody's head. Michael: [1:01:48] Mhm. Track 2Damashe: [1:01:51] Like I can't forget this yet. Oh man, I've been moving shit in and out of into Cindy all day. So like my brain is is I'm just as a kind of spreadsheets in my mind right at the moment. Although I will tell you uh numbers is not terrible and there are some very handy shortcuts. So that will be my tip that I will leave you with. Uh first and foremost is if you are a macro issues and I do not touch the numbers on the iphone at all, but only on the Mac ed. I am, I'm gonna say 100% certain that there are similar shortcuts in exhale uh if you're an exhale user. But one of the things that one of the things I was having to do was so I was importing spreadsheets, we'll see SV exports of mailing list data, to migrate somebody between mailing lists or email marketing services. So this format That I was getting the files in first, it had like, I don't know, 18 column. Michael: [1:03:01] It's between 18 and 21 yeah, definitely, way too. Track 2Damashe: [1:03:03] Well 18 columns that I didn't need, right, so like 18-19 columns and the sheet that I did not need. So I had to delete all of those uh one shortcut I found which I, when I try to repeat to you is in the menu bar up on the tables and numbers, but what you're essentially looking for is something that's gonna whether it's numbers or Excel is something that's like, select all rolls to the right or select all to the end of right or something along those lines. Basically what I was doing is I was skipping past the first two rows, which I did need to email in the name, then I would just select the row all the way across the header to the end and then hit a keyboard shortcut and it lead to the entire section of that sheet. It's all gone poof. So if your spreadsheet user and you're finding yourself trying to manipulate data around another thing that also works and should work in Excel as well, is the ability to select an entire column, cut it and paste it into an empty or overwrite an existing column of data and have everything just feeling like I I I learned a lot about using numbers over the past couple of days. Uh I'm probably a barely scratched the surface. Uh huh. Also, another tip just just I know don't get in the business of moving people between email marketing services. I'm just saying, or raise your rates before you do it. Uh. Michael: [1:04:27] Substantially. Track 2Damashe: [1:04:30] My app I would like to share is going to be voice Dream reader. We haven't talked about this app in a while on the show. I feel like we may have done an episode about it early on for those who are not familiar because mike made a very good point. Everybody should know about it, but everybody probably doesn't Voice Dream Reader is 10 bucks. I think It might even be 15. I think it was 15 when I bought it. I don't care by the app if you do any of the following. Uh, and this also work society people too. So you don't have to be a blind person. Mm. Michael: [1:05:05] Are you ready to hear how much it is now? 20 bucks. Track 2Damashe: [1:05:09] How much is it? Still buy it anyway? Michael: [1:05:12] Yep, yep, well worth it, I put it off for years. Track 2Damashe: [1:05:17] I bought it when it first came out. Like I probably wasn't the first person to buy and I wasn't the first person to buy it. But as soon as it was out and I heard about it. Like read about it. I think I listen to somebody talk about it and I would have bought it. So essentially what voice train reader does for me and we'll do for you if you happen to be a screen reader user or someone in general who doesn't mind listening to texas, speech voices, read things to you. Ah you can import just about any kind of file type, but you can think of them as text pdf word docks, doc's D O X D O C X D O X E. I don't know if that's form out of the uh Rtf txt html, all, all of the things as well as uh e pub, so open uh DRM e books, pdf Sandy pubs, ah and much like listening to a podcast or audiobook, you can just drop whatever that document happens to be in there and play. You have the ability to adjust speech rate and choose different voices. Uh It does display the text on the phone. And I do remember several years ago when I was first getting into uh teaching IOS the ipad specifically at that time, working with a couple of people who were cited actually, but we're uh you know, or have some usable vision and getting them, you know, helping them learn. [1:06:47] Not so much to read, but just improve their spelling by following along with his Avalon properly dropping on my kids are passed at some point, I just got to find books for them to actually read that I can put in there and I haven't done that yet because I'm lazy. Uh, but voice during reader is essentially is going to allow you to clip uh, text or add files into it and have it read aloud. So what I use it for it lies if I need to read a manual or I just want to read a pdf book that I have bought or epa book that I have bar from somewhere I drop in an airport in there. Listen to her, just say, well listen to an audible book or in a podcast. So uh, check it out. It now does ocr of uh documents directly inside of the app. So I don't think you have to buy pdf, whatever it was, whatever the scanner app. Voice dream scanner. Yeah, I don't even think you have to buy that anymore. Uh At 20 bucks, if I, We're buying it today, I would spend $20 for it. I honestly think I spent $15 for when it first came out. It has gone up and down in price or at least been on sale periodically. Uh but for the usefulness of it, like I told Mike, it is one of that, that's what I told you about. Mike was that dropping shit into that upload folder and iCloud, that's what it was, but as I was telling Michael the other day when I was explaining one of the features of a voice tree, which is it sinks through iCloud or can't sing through iCloud. Michael: [1:08:05] Yeah Yeah. Track 2Damashe: [1:08:16] You have a folder that shows up in the reader inside of iCloud, your iCloud folder reader and then upload, you can just drop a file in there and listening to your device. But what I was telling, Mike is like, Voice Dream is one of those apps to like, I don't open it regularly, uh because I'm sort of an audio book junkie at the moment and podcast junkie, so I'm not reading as much ah, through voice straight, but it's always on my device, it's always on my I mean, I own the android version of it, uh, how great if the app it is, and it's one of those deals with, like, when I need to solve it, but like, I need to read a thing or I want to read this long article somebody wrote on medium, but I don't have time to sit there and hold my phone, it goes to voice tree and then I'll read it. So if it's not on my devices, like, you know, when I get ready to go for it, it's like something's broken. Michael: [1:09:07] Mhm. Right. And yeah and I am setting up sinking right now because I forgot to do that and you were talking about it and I literally just went downloaded that book I was going to read and I'm like I'm going to get this in there now. Track 2Damashe: [1:09:08] So check out voice Dream reader. Mhm. Michael: [1:09:20] Because I've had this book and I need to read it. Track 2Damashe: [1:09:24] That's the video book. Michael: [1:09:25] NVIDIA. Yeah. Track 2Damashe: [1:09:28] Oh yeah go by the N. V. A book if you're a Windows user or if you're interested in using every day. Yeah. Michael: [1:09:31] Damn it. Not going to have that to the links to. Uh huh. You guys, that's how it works. He just throws random shit at me to put in there. Maybe he'll put it in. No I'll go grab it because I have the email up right now so I can get back to it. Ah. Track 2Damashe: [1:09:43] Okay. I was gonna say I was just gonna search my email forward to find the link for you can even to. Michael: [1:09:49] Yep, that's what I was going to do. Um So yeah that's all I have today. Track 2Damashe: [1:09:55] Links show notes. All that will be at your own pay dot com slash dM 78. Um. Michael: [1:10:02] And you can find me on twitter at Payown P. A. Y. O. W. N. The show at the D. M. Series and he's on twitter. Track 2Damashe: [1:10:11] At Damashe C. D. A. M. A. S. H. E. [1:10:18] D. M. Underscore series. I think his deal on I think it's DM underscore series. The know how fucked let me go see it now teeth of you are, the D. M. S. Er It's the D. M. Series. I think that's what you said. I just keep want to put an underscore in there for some reason. I don't know why. Michael: [1:10:46] Because you're You like the underscore. Jingles: [1:10:48] You've been listening to your own pay podcast. If you've enjoyed today's episode, visit your own pay dot com slash casts for exclusive content and to contact us today. We're eager to hear your thoughts and about how you're making this podcast, your own thanks for listening. We'll be back soon the your own pay podcast, your own pay dot com.

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DM77 - don't fall off the bone

Mon, 30 Aug 2021 08:00:00 -0000

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We start this episode talking about a clean feed announcement. This then took us into talking about a Tool Damashe uses to control what apps open links on his Mac. Conversations about Browsers and sending links. Drafts is then discussed with a action Michael is now using, with a discussion about browsers and why bookmarks aren't used. Damashe mentions something he lost, and his headset that isn't working correctly. We of course can't go threw an episode without talking about Todoist and how the 2 of us are using it now after some major cleanup! Damashe is on the new IOS and Watch Beta and shares his thoughts about how it's going. We close this episode talking about eartips for headphones and some conversation about BBQ.

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DM76 - Our Most Serious Episode Ever

Tue, 17 Aug 2021 13:20:28 -0000

We started this week out with Michael trying a discord test because he wants to stream into discord. Michael explains that Evan is living with him again as well. with a brief conversation of the workethic of his 15 year old brother Andrew. Do you know how football works in small towns? and Damashe has to start time tracking "Hey @damashe how's that time tracking going? Just following up from DM76 - Our Most Serious Episode Ever at https://yourownpay.com/dm76 " Click to tweet the above message to @damashe

Michael is working on reimaging this radio he has. and Damashe has aquired 2 raspberry pi's and talks a little about what he is doing with them. Michael asked Damashe what he is doing with Todoist. And Michael and Damashe get into a conversation on what's in the news from apple.

Let's get social

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DM75 - 3 Calendars and a Plugins

Tue, 03 Aug 2021 08:00:00 -0000

Damashe rearranges his office and Michael is playing with new tools. Learn about the plugins Michael is playing with in wordpress, and why he is using them. Damashe is looking into Calandely at this time, and will share his thoughts with us in a future episode. and we start talking about the increasing price of streaming services causing us to transition into a discussion about addblocking. Damashe is starting to get happier with firefox on the mac. Michael explains his use of Widgets and why he's currently using 3 calander apps on his phone, well 2 mainly. We then talk briefly about how Michael has also sped up his navigation in Mail using a trick in voiceover on the iPhone. Damashe and Michael also share information about the latest beta for IOS while Damashe teaches Michael the Single finger tripple tap trick. Michael shares one of the things he enjoys about IOS15. And Damashe closes this episode out with a plea to Tim COok (or someone at apple listening)

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DM74 - 1 Watch with 11 Apples

Tue, 20 Jul 2021 08:00:00 -0000

Starting this episode out with a very brief discussion of a discovery Michael makes in clean feed, we then share a quick tip for saving locations on the web to jump to in order for you to take action.

Michael then transitions into his relationship with the todoist application.

We then talk briefly about iCloud backups and the pricing of cloud storage services.

Damashe admits to not watching the 2021 WWDC while we talk about Apple pricing and plans.

He does get to his tip, we promise!

Before that though a brief side conversation about installing Beta's on devices we have.

You will also here what Michael really thinks of the Fitness Plus service.

Damashe shares more information about his revised recording setup and new desk arrangement.

This then prompts Michael to ask about the Intel Mac in Damashe's setup and you can learn about his plans for this device.

We talk for a little while about thoughts regarding the rumored iPad Mini to come out.

and then the reality or lack there of making the apple watch a stand alone device. Come down this memory lane with us while we discuss old technology we use to have.

Michael is enjoying windows 11 and the layout of the new start menu.

He also shares some navigation tips and keystrokes to help you hit the road running with Windows 11.

We close this episode out talking about gaming systems.

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Transcript Imaging: [0:00] This is a Paone media production. Hey bro, let's get into this thing. It's Democracy and Michael Just Talking Tech. The following podcast on the your own pay podcast network will contain adult content. Listener discretion is advised. More information about this episode can be found at your own pay dot com. Enjoy the show.

Michael: [0:25] So what I discovered today is remember how when we were playing around with clean feed a couple of weeks ago and I added four different sources because we wanted to play with that a little bit and then I was complaining because I couldn't figure out how to remove them. Well you have to go back to audio and then go to audio sources and change it from 4-1. And that's why I was echoing is I had both sources. I had two of the four sources enabled. So that's why I said it better have been in sync because if not then that's not good.

Damashe: [0:55] Gotcha okay.

Michael: [0:57] So anyone listening to your own pay dot com slash dM 70 for if your jaws user set a place marker on the save button so that if you are thinking about it, you can simply tap K, for kilo and that will move you to the save all button and then you just tap that button and now I have a download of the first two minutes of our audio but it will be less than that when we edit it. But still quick tip.

Damashe: [1:22] Nice to if you want the Mac. I don't remember the keyboard shortcuts offhand, but you could sit.

Michael: [1:28] Vo shift and then a number isn't it?

Damashe: [1:31] Is it is that the temporary hot spot? I don't remember. I don't remember. But yeah, you're right. Vo shifted a number will set a hot spot where you are. I can't remember if it's temporary or permanent, but there you go.

Michael: [1:36] I don't remember. Yeah.

[1:46] Yep. So what's new with democracy man? I thought about whether or not we should talk about this but I'm going to be transparent to do is just pissing me off and it's not to do it. It's the concept of keeping track of the task and we've talked about this multiple different times but the concept of keeping track of a task, inside of a task manager, I have so many things that I just go in there and I look and I go I need to do that and I need to do that. But then by the time I get done doing it, I don't want to be on my phone anymore. So I don't look at the task anymore to mark them off, and I've honestly even gotten worse at just looking at the tasks of things I need to do. So I need to I need to either figure out some better discipline for myself or do something because to do it, I don't think it's a problem with the application. I think it's a problem with my mindset.

Damashe: [2:42] I'll get that. I mean, I think it's also just the, the inherent fiddle itchiness of it. Like you said, you have to first you have to put the task in there, which there are shortcuts in ways to quickly do that. But then you have to go back and look at it right, because notifications aren't always useful because it may not be a time sensitive thing is just the thing that I need to remember to do uh you know, before a certain date or whatever the case may be. So there's that, then you gotta look at the list and then once you do it, you gotta go check it off. Otherwise, you know, it doesn't appear to be done. It's a lot of steps and honestly this is one of the few times I'm going to evoke the privilege. Ha ha we have brothers do the privilege of a blind person and say that I think one of the frustrations with task management for me has been like there's so many steps, taps, flicks, scrolls. That has to be done because I'm using a screen reader versus some of the much quicker ways to input and access information, uh for non screen reader user.

Michael: [3:49] And if the experience was better on desktop, I think it wouldn't be as difficult as it is for me because, I'm getting shut down on the desktop and then I have to go pick up my phone and these airpods, by the way, people, I've got air pod pros and I'm loving them, but that's besides the point. Uh these airpods have kinda made it to where often this is weird, but my phone isn't even with me.

Damashe: [4:12] Yeah, I'm not a feeling because you can do most of what you want to do. As far as audio answering calls, messaging, all of that stuff without having to physically touch the phone.

Michael: [4:21] Yep, yep. Um and Syria is a bit more reliable in IOS 15 and I say that hesitatingly because is that going to stay that way or is it going to get broken? But right this minute, it seems like Syrian and I are getting along, which is awesome.

Damashe: [4:40] I will be on data as soon as I restore my phone. I've been meticulously going through and trying to check to make sure that it's not like some app data that I need to export before I reset it. Uh then I'm like, oh well no, I can't really get that back and that means I can't do something that is important.

Michael: [4:57] Mhm. What? There's stuff that's not saved in iCloud in your life?

Damashe: [5:06] Mhm. You know, there's still someone else to do, not allow you to back up their actual data into the iCloud or if they do like I'm not going to be restoring from iCloud backup. So how would I necessarily get that data back? I know for anybody listening who pays attention to such things. Yes. Apple says when you reinstall the app that your data should be restored from, said Apple, there's a backup in iCloud, but that only applies, if one said application actually makes use of, out specific backups for their application, not just relying on your general overall device, iCloud backup, and secondly that I trust our cloud to do what is going to do, we're supposed to do every time they're supposed to do it and not do you? I mean look, here's a side note, I have set up a whole convoluted process that I forced here to deal with just so I can back up her photos to my google photos account.

Michael: [6:01] Oh Boy do you want to share Yeah major installed google photos.

Damashe: [6:03] I mean basically I just, I mean, and you basically made her installed photos and sunday with my account and then set it to also back up your photos. So yes, they are in iCloud photo library, but they're also on my google account too. Just in case.

[6:26] Jerry.

[6:31] Nope, it does not affect me, I feel people's pain, I empathize with them, but I'm still in a position and google hasn't made me move off of it yet where I basically have unlimited google drive stores. Mhm. That's going to change at some point because they're going to force me to go up to actual workspace versus the G suite plan that I happen to be on, which is confusing and weird, but I haven't made me move yet. They can't really just arbitrarily move my account because if I want to keep the same benefits that I have right now, it's going to cost me an extra $6 a month, which I'm not certain I want to pay.

Michael: [7:12] Well. And that comes down to my dropbox scenario, like there's stuff, there's projects that I want to work on, but I'm not sure if I want to pay for Dropbox, I just wish all of these cloud storage solutions would play nice together. So if someone adds a file to a shared Dropbox folder than updates in your shared google drive folder, and it doesn't matter how much space you have in dropbox. But that would imply that these companies would play nice together and I don't ever see that haP.

Damashe: [7:41] I would say a better way to deal with. It would sort of be what we have with google at least, which is shared drives, where if I invite you to share a drive on my account, All of the stores being used only counts against me. So it doesn't matter if you have a terabyte, 200 gigs or 15 gigs of stories, I can share whatever I want to share with you so long as I have the stores to do it. And I really honestly wish that dropbox, I would add that feature. Hey, if you know the dropbox has this feature, you can reach out to us on twitter or something like a dropbox does support this on whatever plan has to be because it's shocking to me that they don't have such a feature at this point. Uh but that would solve the problem because I, I am vehemently, opposed on my behalf and yours honestly to pay for dropbox to do what is essentially something that's not now if it's paid work and you have to get dropbox in order to, coat with a customer, you know, well, you build that into the cost of what you're charging for your services. But for, you know, sharing purposes only.

Michael: [8:51] I was gonna say for voluntary work or volunteer work and that being the only reason for using it and there's that's a harder sell.

Damashe: [8:59] That's a harder sell. Exactly in my opinion, from volunteering to do something on behalf of you or a company or organization or agency. And it requires me to have a paid dropbox account, My perk shoe, it should at least extend to you covering the cost of that, not me having to cover the cost of that because you're not paying me for the services on providing.

Michael: [9:23] Mhm. But I did see that Dropbox now offers a family plan. I don't know if they have always offered this, but it's for $19, if billed monthly 1649 or something around that if build and holy. And it allows you and up to six users to share a dropbox setup. I said three terabyte, it might have had two terabytes, so I'm not clear. We'll have links at your own pace dot com slash dM 74. But it had it was either two terabytes shared or each of those six users gets two terabytes. Kind of like what office does with their family share plan. So they do offer a family share plan now.

Damashe: [10:06] Mm. Business a two terabyte pool because one of their business level accounts, I remember which one it was like the kind of entry level team account or whatever at one point in time, in their past offered.

Michael: [10:09] Yeah.

Damashe: [10:20] A similar thing where you can have x number of team members and everybody shared from a pool of data.

Michael: [10:27] Mm hmm. Yeah. And just to add one more level of complexity to it, I now have two terabytes and iCloud. So.

Damashe: [10:28] Or pool of storage.

[10:39] What again argues. Why should I go pay for Dropbox? Because I like you. Like I got two terabytes of iCloud storage. Just a tip for people to I don't know who's really depending on iCloud like this at this point. But if you are paying for Apple one Premier, it's not confusing at all. Right. How can you call an Apple woman has multiple tiers? I don't Anyway, another conversation.

Michael: [11:03] And isn't it? Isn't iCloud Plus part of being part of Apple? What.

Damashe: [11:07] Oh man. See I don't even know anything about archive. You know something I got to make an honest, honest admission here. I still have not watched WWDC. I watched a couple of sessions, videos from WWDC through my developer account but I have not actually watched the WWDC event that everybody watched on the day that it happened.

Michael: [11:31] Well with dois and Doug and myself and other people you're connected with Really? Do you do you need to.

Damashe: [11:38] I mean sometimes it probably would be valuable for me to watch it because things get muddled there is that, but a part of me kind of just like, I don't give a shit whatever.

Michael: [11:45] Mhm.

[11:51] Right. Yeah. It.

Damashe: [11:53] I am thinking about doing public beta instead of using the developer beta though, since that's already out.

Michael: [11:59] Yeah. There you go. On the watch or not.

Damashe: [12:00] I don't I don't know why on the watch for sure.

Michael: [12:04] Okay. I will let you take that plunge. So I went into the developer beta and I've had a pleasant experience. You tell me how the watches and I don't know if I want to, I don't even know what's new on Apple Tv, whatever version it is. I did think about public beta and one of them that we have, but I don't know. I don't know. I got to get used to Apple tv as a platform first again.

Damashe: [12:28] Yeah I don't I can't remember ever putting bait on apple Tv because I've not really ever seen any point to it. Plus if that's probably one of the few things I really don't want to break.

Michael: [12:35] Yeah.

[12:39] Right, Right.

Damashe: [12:40] Mhm. I can cope with the phone because I don't like that. Like what do I wipe up? Apple T. V. I mean I know how to do it but like I would be sitting there for a second like what do I do I go here here not there not there. Oh there it is.

Michael: [12:51] You're going to have to duck it. So what were you saying about people who may or may not rely on iCloud services with Apple one premier.

Damashe: [13:00] So if you have Apple one Premier where you're getting all of the apple services at this point for was basically $30 a month gives you two terabytes of iCloud stores in addition to, Apple music and Apple News Plus and Apple Arcade. All the stuff. Apple Tv plus all of the things. Fitness plus, Fitness plus. For those of you people wondering how did you get that too?

Michael: [13:22] Mm Yeah, that's a shitty service. Anyways.

Damashe: [13:26] Mhm. Man I leave my side wards set up. I just said the fucking Bixler. Uh leave aside books fired, ran down.

Michael: [13:34] The opinions, the opinions expressed on this, your own pay podcast network podcast. Are those of those? Yeah.

Damashe: [13:38] Are absolutely 100% true.

[13:44] Absoluteing 100% true. Uh Look, I get free. This should tell you now granted I've been slacking off a little bit the past six weeks. But honestly, I get Apple one. Apple fitness for free. I promise I'm going to get back to my point about this story because it's just very short thing. But I get Apple Fitness for free. I have had Apple Fitness for free from the time he was released because it actually wanted to pay or whatever at the time that they released Apple One and I immediately jumped on Apple One because I was already paying for all the shit itself for news plus and arcade. And I was borderline about having to pay for arcade because I was like these kids has always come and wanting to get a new album. And if I give them a bunch of games that are just free, they'll leave me alone for a second. Uh, so no brainer for me doing Apple Premier. My point Fitness Plus comes for free and I still took advantage of a discounted deal to pay for fit bod as opposed to Apple Apple Apple Fitness using Apple Fitness.

Michael: [14:46] But football doesn't give you class is, do they? And that's more what the fitness the premium apple fitness gives you. It's the actual classes.

Damashe: [14:53] Yeah. So what I like about fit body is that it will give me a workout routine based off, you know, what equipment I tell that I have available, even if it's, I'm the only equipment I have in the floor, but they'll build out a workout plan, it will change over, you know, over day. So I'm not doing the same muscle groups every day and as far as any exercises that they give me, they're going to give me, they give you videos, I don't care. I've never even looked at the videos because they do give you very well written, like the app is a little Jenkin will be honest, but they do get very well written descriptions of how to do said exercise. Like I didn't know what the hell of superman was and I was like, what is this? So I went in and I looked at it and describe what I do to do the thing and I was like, okay, I'm pretty sure I can do that. My back is probably gonna hurt in the morning, but I'm pretty sure I can do that. So that's why I actually used to bod fitness Plus. My actual issue of fitness plus is not the difference in the types of exercises is that there's not enough description for the type of workouts I want to do that is the problem.

Michael: [15:57] In General in General That's.

Damashe: [15:59] Well, I haven't looked at anything with something stuff I want to do that because I figure if I'm on a bike, well I'm just on a bike, are you going to do is tell me to speed up or slow down? But if I'm trying to do like some some actual muscle building or you know, any kind of aerobic exercises, I need a lot more description of what they're giving. And honestly, I'm a little disappointed that Apple didn't think of a better way of handling that. Like there's some instruction but not enough. And let's be honest, like this is not even a personal disappointment. It's more of a general disappointment in Apple because you've got to expect that, Apple Fitness, the Apple watch all of these things are going to be a lot of people's intro into this space and if you're a blind person that's newly entering into, you know, working out and trying to get fit, you're not going to know. Like I said, I mean I used to live waste in high school, I wrestled in high school. I know squats and thrusts and you know the difference in the types of shoulder pressure you can do. I had no idea what the fucking superman was. Never heard of this shit before in my life, some guy on a video telling me now you're going to go do this or do this. Like I have no idea what you're telling me to do dude, like what are you saying? Speak english.

Michael: [17:08] Right, speak well. And the other thing is, and I'm taking this back from the blindness aspect of it in total. But it is possible that you know Benjamin or Mallory or Nicholas is doing a workout and they're not looking at their phone or they're not looking at the tv. And so having better integrated description would make it a better experience for everyone.

Damashe: [17:32] This is true, this is true.

Michael: [17:34] Where were you going without the one?

Damashe: [17:37] Mhm I forgot man, I'd probably say forgot. But.

Michael: [17:39] Okay. I gotta keep reminding you because I will forget.

Damashe: [17:43] No I forgot because it's just a tool for people that may or may not be useful at all. But that is a very good point about like taking a step back just from blind, like adding that capability for a blind individual or a low vision user of the service would greatly benefit everyone like you said because even if, you know you're in a space where like till will probably be trying to do this on her phone when she was just running on her phone and have her watch going and all that. Like she got to stop and focus in on her phone that's sitting on the table versus just like no just throw the airpods in and get to it.

[18:18] So extremely disappointed in Apple. This is one of the few things Apple has rolled out where I didn't really have a what I consider to be a reasonable Well I know why that's a little rough around the edges type of deal. Right? Sometimes we get stuff and it's like, I see why that's rough around the edges. This though, as long as they have had to been working on edge could have been better. Should have been better. But the tip with Apple one in addition to the fact that you don't, you're not technically actually having to pay for fitness posters just bundled in. Look if you're paying for two terabytes of iCloud stores, that's 10 bucks a month. Even if you share with your family, $15 for Apple music Family. You're 25 bucks Throw in either arcade or Apple TV plus and you're at the $30. So whatever services you're not going to pay for, uh what makes and if you're like me, you're going to get the two terabytes iCloud storage anyway because there's too many apple devices on the family, shared entire thing for me to be like, oh well I'm gonna parcel this out. But if you're Apple Premier, Apple one premier subscriber, You got your two terabytes of iCloud stores, right? Somebody's thinking it. So I'm going to help you out If you need more than that to terabytes, tactile stories for extra $10 a month, you get a whole another two terabytes. So for $40 or what basically you get four terabytes of storage in addition to the Russia, the stuff that comes with Apple one premier.

Michael: [19:43] Mm. I didn't know you could do that. I thought they would Yeah.

Damashe: [19:46] Yeah, I wonder if, nope book it's another service.

Michael: [19:50] Yeah I thought they would do what you would do if like if we had the Apple TV subscription and the Apple one Premier maximum plus whatever it's called.

Damashe: [19:59] But yeah, as of the time of recording that that is possible to do that. I didn't think they would do that in africa, they would just captured storage. They never offered a plan for more than two terabytes. I just want to point out something to, there seems to be a misnomer. And in the cloud storage arena is that Apple's cloud storage? It's crazy expensive For the longest time. Apple was the best deal going in cloud stores now. May have not been the best service to be like, I'm gonna throw all my stuff over here. But it was the best deal going to cloud stores when you got to a $10 a month price point. Because when Apple first started doing iCloud stories, you could get two terabytes for 10 bucks. Well let's see, Google was giving me a Terror Body 10 bucks. Dropbox is giving me a terror body 10 bucks Box I think has given you 100 gigs at 10 bucks. I don't know, I don't use boxing forever. One drive was $10 for a terabyte. Apple was $10 for two terabytes.

Michael: [20:55] You can now get two terabytes from dropbox for 1199. So their price has increased. Yeah.

Damashe: [20:59] Yeah, I know They tweak their pricing since then but initially like they had the better deal and they still have a better deal.

Michael: [21:03] Yeah.

Damashe: [21:05] I mean maybe not intrinsically across services, but people always seem that I hear a lot of people say this like, Apple Apple charges of life for discharging lots for stores when you're upgrading your computer that you're buying from their cloud stories has always been fairly reasonable.

Michael: [21:18] Right. Not the cloud storage though. Yeah I mean you can get, what is it? 100 gigs or is it 200 gigs for a dollar 99?

Damashe: [21:27] Yeah, I think that's right. She's the 199 or 2 99.

Michael: [21:29] Yeah And 50 gigs for 99. Yeah it's $1.99, The main reason why we upgraded is two fold number one Nicholas came back to the light side and now he has an iphone and so I wanted to get arcade for him and Benjamin and, I like only being built once a month versus one charge here. Another charge here.

[21:59] Because we were gonna have to start paying for Apple Tv plus so that was gonna be yet another charge from Apple. That is like what is what did I just get built?

Damashe: [21:59] That was the other reason.

Michael: [22:06] Okay it was Apple T. V plus.

Damashe: [22:09] Yeah, that happened to me like that. That was another reason that it was a no brainer for me either. Like I wasn't, I wasn't at the 30 bucks because I wasn't hadn't gotten to the point of having to pay for Apple Tv plus I was like, man, look if I do this then all my, all my, not all of them, but I don't know exactly what I'm being billed for Apple services. Uh, because now I got to see Apple Premier one, whatever it is. Uh, that's one bill and it covers all of the things that I got to have because the music's got to exist.

Michael: [22:37] Mhm. Yes. Yeah.

Damashe: [22:38] You've got to have the music, the family music, like I'll use this onto everybody uses it. The storage is necessary for backup purposes and if nothing else. Um.

Michael: [22:50] Although Apple, you know, I've got this this one drive that I'm using, it sure would be nice if I could automatically back my iphone up to a different cloud storage provider, just just saying.

Damashe: [23:03] You know what's funny is everybody trying to sue Apple for at a competitive blah blah blah. Nobody's brought up that point.

Michael: [23:07] Uh huh. But no one's brought that up. Yeah. Yeah.

Damashe: [23:12] Like if you made it so that I can selectively choose where I wanted to back my stuff up instead of having to put it in his act out on. Maybe that is a little anticompetitive if you want to pick on anything.

Michael: [23:21] Mhm. Mm.

Damashe: [23:22] The fact that they run the app store and also sell absence said app store like man the fuck out of here.

Michael: [23:29] But the response would be, well you can still back it up with finder slash itunes do an encrypted local backup and to move that to a cloud. That is true.

Damashe: [23:34] If you don't have a computer though. My answer to that is I know people who literally do not have any sort of traditional laptop slash desktop in their house. Everything is either ipad or iphone and Apple tv.

Michael: [23:48] For T. V. Mhm.

Damashe: [23:52] Mhm. Man you said something earlier and I was going to go down and passed with that and I forgot what it was.

Michael: [24:01] No. No.

Damashe: [24:04] Anyway. No.

Michael: [24:04] Mm. Well we'll make an edit point and hopefully clean feed records because I just realized I'm not recording a backup.

Damashe: [24:13] Uh huh Save save, save, save and save.

Michael: [24:21] Yeah.

[24:26] Well we have the 1st 26 minutes if we need if worse comes to worst and we'll wrap it up with that.

Damashe: [24:33] I started restarted reorganizing my desk so.

Michael: [24:39] Yeah. Tell us about that. That was project.

Damashe: [24:42] So I've cleaned, cleaned all of the crap off of it. Uh So it's pretty free space. With the exception of a couple of things braille displays over here on the right. A couple of kids I pass her up because they pissed me off earlier and I took and I get back. But that happens. So I took the mixer off the desk and put it on a small table because I finally you know, went ahead and finished making the table that I was building for the printer. Uh So that is put together. So I took the table that the temporary table I had to print or sitting on and put the mixture on it. And it is now sitting off to my left about maybe 6" below the level of the desk.

[25:25] So I can just reach over with my left hand and do any adjustments that I need to do, you know, on the fly as necessary. But it's not a much more comfortable position. Now, the only problem I have not solved, I mean it's temporarily song because apparently it has to be, or we wouldn't be recorded. So right now I have my microphone on my uh my old tripod floor stand with the bull market and it stands out across the desk and I'm just sitting up at the desk or not back in my normal feet propped up position. I'm sitting straight up at the desk right now talking into the microphone directly in front of me because I was getting super annoyed with the, with the boom arm that was clamped to the front of the desk, but it was off at an angle so I either had to turn my head directly to face the microphone or if I were facing a computer, as I tend to like to do would be off the mic a lot. Whereas now I don't think I've been off the mic too much because I don't, I'm not moving, I'm just talking straight in front of me, which is where the microphone is. So that's pretty much all I've done at this point. I'm going to get rid of some cables.

[26:33] Rewire some stuff and probably moved his laptop off to the left or right, uh, eventually, but it is much more workable, at least this way, had enough room to push the laptop all the way back so I can put my bluetooth keyboard up on the, desk and use it normally.

Michael: [26:55] So you have a better organized setup and that gives you an opportunity to quickly make adjustments, like we need to adjust volumes for people and stuff like that. Um Where's the intel Mac in this whole scenario? Where is it completely out of the picture now?

Damashe: [27:10] It is currently closed Sitting under the M1 Mac Book Pro so it's sustained. Right.

Michael: [27:16] Ah Okay. Yeah.

Damashe: [27:23] I was actually thinking last night uh huh About some things. So Intel Mac, I think I'm going to install Windows 10 on and boot camp and just run mac os on it as well. I'm also going to use it for sort of a secure system. So I think I'm going to set up a partition for a Lennox installation. Just go play around with some desktop stuff. I have a strategy for a in case of an emergency break glass like if all of us, if I die unexpectedly for example, I'm not trying to be morbid but this is stuff that we have to think about. I think I think we really should think about it and start planning out those of us who tend to be the more technical minded people in our families, we know where all the passwords are and all of that crap and most people don't. So I think I have come up with a solution that even would satisfy the tin foil hat paranoid out there, which I am sometimes a member of Sand Club. Sometimes I'm a part time member.

Michael: [28:28] You come and go Mhm.

Damashe: [28:29] Yeah. You know, I come and go. It depends on how the wind blows.

Michael: [28:33] What type of moons out?

Damashe: [28:36] Or type of weight? It is. No. Uh huh. But I'm not going to expound on that strategy just yet because I have not put it into reality. Yeah, but I did come up with an idea for that. Also thought about this. So my M1 is cool. I thought about what if I wipe this computer and then try to use it. Like I'm not going to do that yet because I got stuff I need to finish doing. But what if I wipe this computer and used it more? I can't I'm going to try to talk out this concepts. So if you get a gist of what I'm trying to say and you can explain it better jump in at any time. But I think about my phone. Most people don't hesitate to wipe their phone right? Because you know you can restore from a backup or whatever data it is you need to get it can be easily recovered. There are some people who operate their computers like that, but most people don't. I currently am not one of those people was like at the drop of a hat, I can wipe my computer. I mean I can wipe my computer any given time. But like there's so much preparation that goes into it. What if I set it up from the point of I had an idea like let me set this computer, I'm going to wipe this computer. I was having a paranoid moment to be honest, but I was like what if I said just wipe the computer set it up and I'm going to see how much stuff I can do just in the browser. Like no apps except where I absolutely have to have apps.

Michael: [30:01] So be a hell of expensive Chromebook.

Damashe: [30:04] Uh something like that. Yeah. Don't know if I'm going to do it or not.

Michael: [30:06] Uh huh Audio editing I couldn't do it.

Damashe: [30:11] Well like I said, except for where I have to have apps right? Like I'm not completely like, oh I'm gonna, you know, no apps like what this is going to be a crone, I'm not gonna do it that way. But it was like what if I ran as more of a I'm going to say disposable machine because I'm not tossing it out the window but like oh in case of emergency, I can easily wipe this and not shed any tears over. Because like I know I have backups of the data data that I need somewhere and you know, I was running pretty lean and clean at the moment. I don't know that I have time to actually explore this. I may actually end up doing it with the intel back, for my Mac OS account on that computer because I'm going to mostly probably use it for testing or use it for well going to hand it over to you so she can learn to really get into Mac Os and see if she likes that as a platform or not. My suspicion is that other than for specific things she's going to prefer hours, which means definitely an ipad pro is the thing that has to happen. I was going to be expensive.

Michael: [31:09] Yes, yes, it is.

Damashe: [31:11] Speaking of I pass though, man, I need to get this start out. So rumors out and listen to connected this week. So the rumor has been kind of floating around, we're getting a new ipad mini. His whole point rumor now has it, you know, somewhere probably around like 8.4 ish inches. So bigger screen, probably smaller body. The rumor has it sounding like the, is going to look like a shrunken down version of the current ipad Air or something along those lines. Right. So that's intriguing. But what was really intriguing to me is I put my watch all last night because I and then out came in and took a shower, God shower through my watch on, did not pick my phone up and I was like, man, it will be great if I could just operate with just my watch.

Michael: [31:57] That's interesting concept.

Damashe: [31:59] And there are a couple of major things right now that I feel that hold us back from that point. Which means I expect Apple has to deal with these at some point because I envisioned the new watch. Like I know what the future of the Apple watch could be. I don't say it should be but could be. But to get to this point, the biggest problem we have is that you have to have a phone to set up to watch right now, wants to set up your your free from it to a certain extent, but you have to have a phone to set it up. Why can't I use what you've got to watch out for the ipad?

[32:34] Because my thought was I had two thoughts. I had several thoughts actually want to try to get to all of them. But my initial thought was well if I could just use to watch in an ipad then I would have like everything I kind of needed. Like ipad mini will be great because it'll be a big enough screen for me to comfortably do certain things on a small enough device that I could move around with. It still has all the capabilities and I just use my watch and my, you know your buds or whatever for mobile travel, like I'm out of the house, I don't need to take a phone, the watch has all the stuff on the, you know that I can call people, I can text people, I can track my steps, I'm good. Uh get notification. It was like but on the problem is there's no watch app for the ipad. And then I said well there's a couple other problems with the watch too in that scenario that need to be solved before we could get there number one I noticed it. Mm.

Michael: [33:31] Web browsing I said go ahead, go ahead, uh you'll get there, I said web browsing.

Damashe: [33:38] Oh no we'll see. I don't care about that though. If I'm if I'm at home or from somewhere while I need to do well browsing I'll deal with that. No uh First problem if I turn my if I power my phone off and then I turn it back on and I take my bluetooth earbuds and I turned them on they will pair to my phone and I can enter my password and do all those things totally over blue too. Right I turn on my Apple beats flex which you know because they're the apple Airbus they have that connectivity at all the night clouds. So I turn them on. I only have my watch on my phone is not even on yet and power the phone back on and I'm waiting for the Airbus to just automatically connect to the watch. Didn't happen. So first that needs to be fixed because to me that's above if I have a pair of earbuds that are that are Apple. No buzz whether they're the airpods or any sort of beach that support that functionality. Uh They should automatically pair to any available device when they're turned on. Especially if it's the only device there. I can totally see that being an issue of my father was on and they connected to the phone but you should switch to my watch. You do it sometimes when I don't want you to but the watch was locked. Yeah but just do it right.

Michael: [34:53] Uh huh Just do it when I need.

Damashe: [34:57] And of course there's no way for me to get to Bluetooth for anything on the watch until I actually type in the pin code to unlock the watch. Right so there's a problem right there. Number two is typing in a freaking pin code. Well man if I got a voiceover on and I can't use my bluetooth, I don't want to be in the middle of the room of people. And I'm typing in a passcode on my Apple watch because my Apple watch theoretically. Well, in reality could get you into my Mac.

Michael: [35:21] Can get you into your phone now.

Damashe: [35:23] Could get me into my phone and theoretically at some point in the future it'll get you into my house.

Michael: [35:29] Yeah.

Damashe: [35:30] So major problems with that, it occurs to me. We need two things. We need touch ID on the watch on a little crown.

Michael: [35:39] And you could do it because you already have some sensors in the crown.

Damashe: [35:44] Mhm. The other thing we need in order for the standalone wants to be a viable product period and it's not just for me, this is what I think that, the industry would need, the masses would need to buy into this is, this under screen camera technology. I keep hearing about that. Nobody seems to have perfected yet. There was a few Angelo, there's several android farms that have deployed it at this point, but it doesn't seem to be perfected yet. I need Apple's version of that to be working those two things. Number one for people with phones that gets rid of the notch. Okay, People don't like to know it's not just gone because your cameras under the screen, but it's still great. Well what also you get is the ability to probably put a camera up on the screen of the Apple watch. Now I know it seems stupid who's going to take a picture with the Apple watch guarantee? Somebody would, but I'm thinking about it more from a authentication standpoint first and foremost. Well here's face ID. Here's touch ID. So even if I take my watch off and lay it down for 30 minutes, pick it back up and put it on. If I can give you my fingerprint in my face, that's me. You let me into my watch.

[36:55] Then there's also you know, facetime calls just for the mental weird person wants to do a facetime call from the watch. But for authentication purposes, like there's three methods of authentication right there. Number one, my fingerprint to my face or my irish. Like if they can make an iris scan. Well, you know, that might be a little actually exclusive because I know people don't actually have their actual wise so that wouldn't work for them. But facial recognition I think is big enough for that. And you got the fact that you know, sensors touching my skin, Like maybe there's something there that could also be tapped into it. It's like, oh, we can tell something based off your other biometrics that this is you uh we we need that if we get that in Washington could be its own standalone device. Maybe you need another thing that set it up for a couple of years where they can get it all the way there. Okay, fine. Cool. Will give me a watch app on ipad and them because the other thing I thought about it, like maybe I should just start buying a big ass phone and just not carry the big ass phone everywhere and just let that be like my tablet slash, you know, the main device that runs everything. My hug for lack of a better term that runs everything empowers everything. I just wandered around the world with my Apple watch.

Michael: [38:10] But gotcha with that is and this is the ironic thing, you can get a slightly bigger if this ipad Mini rumors true. It's slightly bigger ipad for half or a third of the cost of that big iphone 12 pro max phone. So that's But you need the phone to set up Apple Watch.

Damashe: [38:27] Yeah but but but I need the phone to set up to watch. The phone would be more versatile until they get to the point where I can do all the stuff from my ipad. The phone will be more versatile because there would also be the best top of the line device for for camera. If I needed a webcam, you don't win a pinch shout out the camel, nice app, we'll put that in the show notes.

Michael: [38:45] Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yes. Great. Hap and pop socks. Mhm.

Damashe: [38:56] Yo yo the pop cycle. I just go by like the whole little Gobi gorilla grip, camera mount thing.

Michael: [39:02] Right.

Damashe: [39:04] But I mean if you already had the pop socket does different things, you know mike already had two pops. I can't wait to not go out and buy your popsicle for these. Do we ever explain to people what you did?

Michael: [39:06] Yeah.

[39:14] Yeah, we did. I'll find the episode that we explained it and link it in the show notes.

Damashe: [39:15] Okay refer?

Michael: [39:19] Long story short, use my phone to be my camera for a zoom call, which was awesome.

Damashe: [39:24] And apparently it was apparently was amazing. Everybody loved it. They thought his camera quality was was amazing.

Michael: [39:26] Yeah. Yeah. Was it was a great quality camera. And then I told them it was just an iphone camera And they said it's still a great camera looking better be for $6 $700.

Damashe: [39:36] Mhm. Mhm.

[39:42] Uh But that that's so your your thought is, where how I got to the ipad and the rest of the story was I was thinking about the phone like why should just buy the biggest best phone, Give me your best camera and it, you know, has a big battery and if I'm traveling and I need a device to do work on that would be great. And I got more space, more battery life etcetera. But what I could start doing is just leaving that device around to be the hub and move around with my watch and do as much as because usually when I'm out and about I'm not going to stop and do a lot. Like I know if I'm going to or not like running to listen to his apple from going out to dinner with T. You right, I'm not really I don't really have to have my phone so long as everything that I could possibly need to do, such as call someone or answer a call.

Michael: [40:30] Call get directions and use Apple Pay.

Damashe: [40:32] Yeah, yeah, I can do all that long. So technically I wouldn't need my phone at that point.

Michael: [40:36] Yep.

Damashe: [40:37] I'm not going to be opening a spreadsheet or respond to an email, you know, mounted dinner.

Michael: [40:42] To be fair you could reply to an email from your Apple watch though.

Damashe: [40:45] I know, but I don't I just don't.

Michael: [40:47] And I found out yesterday you can even compose an email like this would not be very, yeah. Yeah you you pick the you can dictate an email address which I'm sorry I will not do that.

Damashe: [40:50] That I don't think I do.

Michael: [40:59] I have I have used you dictation and I know how it reliable you are. So I will not be dictating email addresses but you can also choose an email address from a contact in your contact list and then you dictate the subject and you dictate the body of the message. I'm not gonna start sending emails from my watch.

Damashe: [41:23] Oh man, I would go start.

Michael: [41:23] I would do though does it say sent from my Apple watch at the bottom?

Damashe: [41:26] I was just about to say that we're going to start saying no bunch of people's emails and said sit for Michael's Apple watches it for, you know, it's her personal Dave Apple watch. It was like no man, that steve jobs was an arrogant dude.

Michael: [41:36] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Damashe: [41:39] How are you gonna just oughta basketball default putting everybody's fucking email signatures sent from my iphone. Like get the fuck out of here.

Michael: [41:47] Mhm mm And so many people never went and change that.

Damashe: [41:47] What I paid for this phone. You don't need no free advertising.

Michael: [41:52] I think mine right now actually says sent from my iphone. It does when I see underneath.

Damashe: [41:56] I know mine does because since I last white my phone, I have not reconfigured it at all. So it does say that sometimes I just erase it if it's, if I'm replying something that was short enough for me to dictate or whatever and clean it up and send it. That's like a more official type email. I will delete two sent from my iphone. I'm just replying to you or deseret or something like that. I don't care like whatever that will probably hit to you guys over. He's probably if you reply from his phone, I mean he's probably in traffic somewhere or something. So you know this is, this is as good as it's gonna get right now.

Michael: [42:30] Did a blackberry say sent from the Blackberry or something to, I don't remember. Yeah.

Damashe: [42:34] I don't I never had a black bear, I don't remember Blackberry is dead to me. I don't, I don't remember those years.

Michael: [42:41] Yeah mm.

Damashe: [42:43] What's weird is I used to really want one though. I had the what was the Windows mobile phone that sort of looked like the Blackberry? I was HTC.

Michael: [42:45] Yeah I did too.

Damashe: [42:57] Oh man, yeah, in the middle of the washing dishes on town tomorrow afternoon.

Michael: [42:57] It will come to us in the middle.

Damashe: [43:04] Mm But anyway, there was an HTC phone that looked very much like a Blackberry, like most Blackberries that I see with the full corded keyboard on the front, all of that crowd. And it was a cool phone but it was Windows Mobile. Like back in the Windows Mobile, six point old days or something. So it's kind of terrible. It worked, but it's kind of terrible. Uh huh. I was like, man, it would be great if I could just get a blackberry. Everybody has a blackberry, I want a blackberry. That would be cool.

Michael: [43:30] Then you didn't have accessibility and then accessibility came and it was very I was gonna say under under advertised because I heard about it after Blackberry wasn't a thing anymore.

Damashe: [43:44] Oh so see no, so I don't I don't know what you heard about, what I heard about, I think it was a cold factory product, possibly it was somebody's product that that you could put on the blackberry. But to get it it was like, I mean shit caused in some cases it costs more than the blackberry costing, I might be misremembering this, but I'm pretty certain that it was it was it was the additive product sort of like Windows Mobile wasn't built into the system and it was fairly expensive, and from what I heard from people who actually used it or tried it, it wasn't that great. It was more like the rudimentary kind of accessibility with texas speech that you've got on something like an L. G. Chocolate or something.

Michael: [44:28] Man, there was a lot of HTC Touch Windows phones. There's like the age. Oh it wasn't touch. Uh huh.

Damashe: [44:32] I know this wasn't touched, right. The best, the best touch screen phone ever made those, the HTC Touch Pro too.

Michael: [44:41] Yeah. I was just looking at the Touch Pro two and I'm like man, I remember that one. Mm. Yeah.

Damashe: [44:45] That was a good phone.

Michael: [44:52] And then the HTC Thai tea and two. I don't know if you ever use that one, T. Y. T. N. Two.

Damashe: [44:58] Nope, we use our.

Michael: [45:03] Good good memories. Good memories. Also frustrating memories. Uh huh.

Damashe: [45:10] Yeah, but look dude, when I could pull up a spreadsheet and email to somebody off my phone, like it freaked him the hell out. So I gotta say it did wait for some good their balls and nothing else.

Michael: [45:21] Yeah.

Damashe: [45:24] Like, oh you didn't get my baby hold on once a week or two forever, but you know, here's your spreadsheet.

Michael: [45:28] But but they got it. So if I'm not going to go I was going to bring up Windows 11 but I haven't done enough with it to to to talk about. Yeah.

[45:41] Yeah. Actually, well, so I have played a little with Windows 11 on the surface book and I'm kind of excited about it. Um Today I was going through my list of apps and I'm like, man, I really like the way Windows 11 put the list of apps as its own list all by itself. So let me take a step back. If you press the Windows key and Windows 11, you're put in a search field so you can still do what I do almost all the time. And that is hit Windows start typing what I want and then hit enter when it comes up. One thing that I can say is we discovered this the other day. I typed I think it was D. O. C. And it brought up um what did it bring it? Oh the documents, settings, documents and privacy settings and that's not what I wanted. I wanted my actual documents I download to documents and I hit enter in that open document and then I went back to the start menu and this sounds familiar to democracy. I think I was on the phone when we discover this. I type D. O. C. And then the first option was documents And so it seems to be working a lot like launch bar. Did and that is amazing or does and that is amazing and I'm super excited about that. So you press windows that puts you in the search field then you down arrow and you have pretty much your power options. So you can turn off your computer, you can log off and go through all those.

[47:04] If you press tab from the search field it will move you to your pinned apps. So things that you've pinned to your start menu and you can arrow around that list.

[47:15] And if you press tab again it will bring you to your suggestion. Apps if I remember I am doing this from memory and of course this can and probably will change a little bit before it comes out this fall slash winter they're saying around christmas, but then you press tab again and then you hear all programs are all apps, I think it actually says and you press enter on that and then you can arrow through all of your apps or programs and choose enter on that option. And so just the way that to me it seems a lot cleaner. It will take a bit to get used to and uh I I understand that frustration but I really like it. And then also when you hit windows A you're not put into action center where you can really only take one action and that is manage your notifications, but you're put into kind of like the task but I mean the uh system tray so you can go in and you can turn on or off bluetooth, you can control your volume from there and then you can control wifi et cetera. And that's with Windows A and you don't see any notifications there. So to me, Windows A for actions because those are quick actions you can take in the Windows operating system and then Windows in is notifications. What? Yeah. Yeah. Control center.

Damashe: [48:36] So says control center.

Michael: [48:38] Yeah I never thought about that but it is it's control center. I think you might have mentioned that to me, we talked about it. Uh Windows in is the notifications so you can go in there and see all your notifications in one place. Um It's a pretty straightforward process, kind of like using Windows eight and Windows 10 right now. That's a lot of keystrokes, needless to say I'm cautiously optimistic about this experience and I am excited. You're not Yeah.

Damashe: [49:05] So let me start with the negative number one, I'm betting it's going to be sometime 2022 before they actually release the release version of Windows 11.

Michael: [49:08] Okay.

[49:13] Mhm. Mhm. Mhm.

Damashe: [49:15] Ah To like they really need to get their messages straight. I don't, I personally don't care. Uh well actually I kind of do because upon what their original terms for what devices can run Windows 11, I could not run Windows 11 on my macbook pro. I think hints that has possibly changed, but Microsoft doesn't seem to be certain themselves, but.

Michael: [49:41] Yeah.

Damashe: [49:42] In all seriousness, I am like from what I've heard from people using Windows 11 who watched the event all of that, it does sound like a nice step forward. Uh For Windows there are features coming out there doing things for developers that are great. Uh Android apps apparently work over there so that that's going to bring some interesting possibilities. Ah Two Windows 11.

Michael: [50:05] Maybe ability used to do it on my desktop.

Damashe: [50:12] Did think about that, what I thought about was like, see Microsoft.

Michael: [50:12] Mhm Yeah, bring it full circle from the beginning of the episode. See.

Damashe: [50:16] If we would have kept running your own fucking phone store you wouldn't have to be borrowing shit from amazon to put on your device just as you can compete with the fact that Apple is letting people run ipad apps on there max.

Michael: [50:27] Mhm mm.

Damashe: [50:29] Not that Apple nailed that one when they did, it just be fair about it. So I'm gonna catalyst apps are complete shit build with swift people.

Michael: [50:36] Yeah, yeah, messages.

Damashe: [50:39] Let me just give you that advice if you want to add to be cross platform, build it in the native you are the native ah development language for said platform or just use with you I for your interface that don't make it a whole lot easier.

Michael: [50:55] Yeah Windows 11 will be interest and then Microsoft went and dropped a bombshell on us all last week. I don't know if you have any thoughts about this, but Windows in chrome or Windows and the browser. Windows 3 65.

Damashe: [51:04] Oh you know it's talking about.

[51:09] Oh what those 2 65 Oh yeah I'm actually very interested to try this out.

Michael: [51:15] Yes, we will come back with more information once we've actually tried it out and can share more information about it because I I'm intrigued to see how well it works. I.

Damashe: [51:24] It might be something I would pay for if the pricing is reasonable and it works reasonably well with screen reader technologies for Windows.

Michael: [51:30] Mhm.

Damashe: [51:33] I could see myself actually paying for from what I've heard up to this point. I haven't seen it yet though.

Michael: [51:38] Right, um meet me as well I wouldn't have a problem with because so Benjamin and Nicholas both have chromebooks if it is a decent slash, it won't be completely like free but lag enough free that they can get some stuff done in windows, that they can't necessarily do in chrome. It would be awesome if they could gain with it. I don't think they'll be able to but if if it worked that well it would ex cloud what?

Damashe: [52:03] It's Cloud man. X cloud. Yeah, the Microsoft streaming.

Michael: [52:07] Mm Yeah.

Damashe: [52:09] They can do that in the browser that should work in chrome on a chromebook.

Michael: [52:12] True. Uh huh. Man I don't want to spend money.

Damashe: [52:14] And if you got the X you got the Xbox one game pass for 15 bucks a month, you already got it.

Michael: [52:20] Mm I have not paid for xbox one but and Lenovo keeps popping up a notification. Hey you have a free month of Xbox game pass. Do you want to try it out? No, I don't want to try it out. But maybe well anyways where was going with that? Is that maybe this would be a good solution for the boys to use from their chromebook. But maybe I might not have to go through all that and I might be able to just use Xbox one X pass game, whatever it's called.

Damashe: [52:46] I think it's Game pass, but there's different levels but the one that I'm aware of that gets you your games, you know, all the games that you get with xbox game pass, It's 15 bucks and you get the the X. The thing is X cloud, I think you get the x cloud version. Uh well I know you get whatever their cloud version of their games are included on that $15 plan. In addition to a bunch of games, I don't know what you get but you know, maybe the boys would be interested in playing some of those games and your Xbox house.

Michael: [53:21] Xbox Cloud gaming is what it's called. Yeah.

Damashe: [53:23] There we go.

Michael: [53:29] So they could play probably in a Chromebook Project X Class.

Damashe: [53:34] Yeah, it works on, I mean it's been a little Laghi but for them to roll it out to everybody at this point forward to becoming out of date. I kind of expected some hiccups anyway, but it works on the ipad and stuff like that so I don't see why wouldn't work on a Chromebook.

Michael: [53:44] Mhm.

[53:49] See I completely disregarded it because we don't have an Xbox in the house but maybe I'll look at this more mm No, we're all playstation.

Damashe: [53:58] I thought you guys had an Xbox, you don't have Xbox. There was an Xbox at some point.

Michael: [54:04] There was an Xbox years ago. Yeah, like like like when we first started talking years ago.

Damashe: [54:06] Okay. Just making sure. I'm not crazy though because you were playing it or at least you were using it. Oh no it was a little bit after that though because you I remember you telling me like you were using it because it had Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So I'm not crazy just making sure.

Michael: [54:20] Narrator. Oh yeah, it was when we were living in Pendleton, so it's been like three or four years. But yeah. Yeah.

Damashe: [54:30] Well I can't keep up with them all. I don't know. I just don't know how to counsel. I just assumed that was Xbox.

Michael: [54:33] Sure all I know is that we've spent so much money in the Playstation world that I'm not willing to No.

Damashe: [54:41] I want to move. Mhm.

Michael: [54:45] No, I'm just thinking about that like yeah.

Damashe: [54:46] See that's vendor lock in C. You want to talk about some monopolistic uh antitrust?

Michael: [54:52] Damn, I'm trying to think of, wow. Anyways Yeah, but with what you're saying, because I don't want to think about how much money was spent on Xbox.

Damashe: [54:56] No it would be like trying to calculate how much money has been in the Apple store. No it's like thinking about was whether you spend in the ice hole stories. Like you know what I just know it's a lot.

Michael: [55:05] Yeah. Yeah, well we buy The Boys is the Playstation Plus for their birthdays every year, So that's 60 bucks per boy per year for the last three years right there. Damn, 180 times three. Is what? 3, 8, 16 5 40 right there. Yeah. Anyways, now that I've realized how much I've spent on gaming stuff and I don't even play the damn thing.

Damashe: [55:40] Well, think about it this way. It is significantly less than a dollar a day per per boy. For three years. You pay $540, you paid a dollar a day. It would be much higher. So you're you're coming out ahead.

Michael: [55:58] Yeah. Yeah. And and the thing with the Playstation Plus I think is what it's called. Sony has so many different subscription models. They have the Playstation Plus Playstation now. And because there's such similar names I know Plus and now is not the same, but it's close enough that I don't even remember what goes with what but Playstation Plus is the one that allows them to play online. And one of the added benefits as they get to games every month, that they have the service. So like The Boys this month got a Call of Duty Game and a WWF I think it was game and both of those games, if you would have bought them outright would have been close to $100 for the two games. So and that's typically the case with all of them. No, you don't get to pick the games, but as long as you you know, go in and and choose your games, well as long as you go in and select the games that are free, add them to your library. Even if you don't download them, as long as you keep the Playstation plus service, you can download those games at any point, even if they're not free because they already added to your library, so that cost value right there, I think makes it worth it because they can try different games, and we would have never had nothing like that, it would have been going to game Crazy or Gamestop and and by your games and hopefully they'll work because once you break that cellophane, you can't return them.

Damashe: [57:22] Exactly, that's that's the beauty of what Microsoft is doing with their their Xbox cloud gaming, whatever it's called, I'm going to call it X cloud because it sounds cool.

Michael: [57:32] Yeah, X allowed. But what's the name of of of Apple's cloud development service?

Damashe: [57:36] Uh Uh huh But this was.

[57:43] X cold in the glass.

Michael: [57:45] Uh huh. No confusion there at all, you know?

Damashe: [57:51] Yeah. Well, to be fair, responsible is their first, honestly. Mhm.

Michael: [57:54] Yes, Yes, they were.

Damashe: [57:57] Yeah, it's interesting what they're doing because apparently that that game pass that they do with Microsoft is also a very, very good package for what you're getting and.

Michael: [58:06] Mhm.

Damashe: [58:09] I mean, I don't know what google kind of killing off stadium or apparently abandoned preparing to abandon ship on stadium.

Michael: [58:16] Wait, I did not hear this.

Damashe: [58:16] Uh I mean, it's not any announcement has been made, it's just their behavior don't seem to be put in the effort.

Michael: [58:20] Okay, Okay. It's it's just inevitable. It's a google product. Uh huh.

Damashe: [58:24] Yeah, Yeah, and they don't seem to be really putting a whole lot of effort into marketing or anything like that right now, so.

Michael: [58:28] Right. DM 70 for show notes at your own pace dot com slash DM 74. And this episode will be titled subscriptions. No, no Apple. No, I don't know. We'll figure something out. Apple subscription. No, because you talked about Xbox anyways.

Damashe: [58:45] I was going to say we can call it podcast well, but I think that's a company that anybody come out, so by doing that one.

Michael: [58:49] Yeah, We'll call we'll just call it d. m. 74 1. Uh huh.

Damashe: [58:56] Uh huh. Mhm. Though the DM Series one, episode 74.

Michael: [59:03] Mhm. Mhm. See this is the type of things that go through my mind when I'm editing is what am I going to name this episode? It's not like we stayed on one talk, although for not having notes, I think this episode turned out fairly okay, biased opinion.

Damashe: [59:18] What are we doing that thing with doors where we're swapping shows or is that another thing anymore?

Michael: [59:22] Oh shit, that was supposed to be this show.

Damashe: [59:25] Uh huh.

[59:30] I mean it was supposed to just to be a regular show. It's just that we're going to post on two different feeds. Uh So we weren't supposed to say anything specific like hey welcome to the a cast. Like we're supposed to do that at all. Ah It was supposed to be a mix up.

Michael: [59:45] Maybe maybe this will go into the i a cast feed I don't know, we'll see.

Damashe: [59:50] Mm mm Well anyway go to your own pay dot com slash dM 74 to get the show notes. Mhm.

Michael: [59:59] No matter where it is.

Damashe: [1:00:01] You can talk to that guy on twitter. He's at pay on P. A. Y. O. W. N. Oh man if you mentioned me on twitter I'll see if you deal me on twitter it's going to take a second. Uh But if you mention me on twitter I will see I'm at Damashe C. D. A. M. A. S. H. E. I'll get the notification and then I'll go read your tweet. If you deal me though. Just tell you. Don't be upset if it takes 1 to 2 weeks before I even noticed that you said something about being rude. I just don't go check twitter and I don't have the official twitter app, so I don't get notified about GMOs, but there you go. Also. Also the show itself is at the D. M. Series I think. Okay.

Michael: [1:00:39] Yes. Yes. Yes. See we're still getting used to that. It's growing pains. We're on episode 74 actually technically at 70 six. Yeah.

Damashe: [1:00:50] Nope nope, don't try to do the math.

Michael: [1:00:52] We're still getting used to the twitter account so yeah the DM series on twitter a month. Yeah. Mhm.

Damashe: [1:00:56] Well the Twitter accounts only existed for like three episodes. Mm, So the show's account is the DM series. Uh there we go. That's it.

Michael: [1:01:08] Very low traffic there just to throw that out.

Damashe: [1:01:11] Probably just going to tweet to you about episodes when they go live. If we ever decided to do a livestream, we'll tweet that through that account also because we might do that one day.

Michael: [1:01:20] But we'll also probably tweeted on her personals.

Damashe: [1:01:23] I probably won't. But anyway, yeah, we'll probably do a livestream at some point. Hey, you can go over to europe A dot com slash D. M. 74. Drop your name and email address in the newsletter form there and you get special sneak peeks and information that Mark sends out sometimes.

Michael: [1:01:40] Yeah you usually get the episode the day before.

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Michael: [1:02:03] I just spent $118 on dog food today. Mhm.

Damashe: [1:02:08] Yeah, because rooms you got to get his cut too, can't forget that uh clean your feet ain't free. But if you would like to just throw us a few bucks, five bucks, 10 bucks, something like that. You know, go to your own pay dot com slash support.

Michael: [1:02:21] Support, yep. And it's not a subscription just one time donation.

Damashe: [1:02:22] And it is not a subscription as a one time fee, it is being handled through stripe. So we don't have your credit card info, so we're not charging the dog food to your account. Thanks for listening guys, go home, it's over.

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DM73: Podcasting

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 08:00:00 -0000

This episode, it's all about podcasting. We haven't taken you through our process in a while, and Michael's offering a new service; So we thought this would be a great time to review how we make the show happen.

Of course, it wouldn't be our show if we didn't go off topic just a bit.
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DMSpecial

Tue, 22 Jun 2021 08:00:00 -0000

A DM Special

First of all, thanks to you if your the one who has ordered the Pine Cast service over the last couple of Months, it really helps the DM Series.

In this DM Special Damashe and Michael decided to spend some time with family.

Damashe's kids are blowing bubbles while Michael's are playing with Beyblades.

Nicholas also pretends like he's blind!

Michael also shares a history of the 11.58 hours we have produced for you since December 22, 2020.

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DM69 - And Then I Can

Tue, 27 Apr 2021 08:00:00 -0000

DM69 - And Then I can

This episode starts out with us talking about the fact we are enjoying editing again!

Thanks to some classes the two of us have taken.

We also talk a little about Damashe's new business!

The soundcraft Signature 12MTK is then explained as it's a new tool Michael got.

M1 computer is ending up in Damashe's hands soon, and with that conversation we talked about the Apple event.

One last thing is how if you want you can support the podcast.

Michael also randomly shared with Damashe that they were recording on his birthday!

Explaining how the soundcraft signature is laid out!

The top of the board has 8XLR ports Directly below that are 6, 1/4 in inputs followed by 2 1/4 inputs on top of each other (left on top, right on bottom). The USB B connection is next to these input jacks. to the right of this usb connection is a single 1/4 jack (for headphones). Above the headphone jack is a 1/4 jack for AUX1. To the right of these from top to bottom is AUX2, AUX3, and Foot pedal (1/4 jacks). to the right of this are 2 XLR at the top (left and right master) Below these are 1/4"ports for Group 1 (left) and Group 2(right). we start with Chan 1 Limiter button Gain NOB 100HZ, and USB RTn Buttons (left to right) HF NOB MF NOB MF Again LF NOB AUX1 NOB AUX2 NOB AUX3/FX NOB PAN NOB Mute Button PFLButton MST Button 1 -2 Button Strips are layout: 1 - 6, 7-8,9-10,11-12 fx return is 10th slider Pan and Balance are bottom nob 2 nobs on right hand side are Trim (left) and headphone (Right) adjustments USB/rtn is the button slightly separated from the strip of buttons (I think this is a master USB/RTN) phantom power is the one next to the light far right param1 and 2 are below that. FX nob is below this, turn and press to select. Below this are 5 nobs. From top down: Left, aux1 and 2 Right, aux1, 2, 3 master 6 pack of buttons is to the right of the 5 nobs previously explained Left from top to bottom, aux 1,2,3 Right, AFL (all 3 buttons) Interval mute above master slider on far-right side Mono and Master both are master

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DM68 - NO Creative Title

Wed, 24 Mar 2021 03:39:21 -0000

So i didn't do show notes, nore did we come up with a creative title for this episode!

We missed a week, and wanted to get this content to you as quickly as possible.

Please, hit us up on twitter, and let us know what you enjoy about the content

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DM67 Surge Protection ++

Tue, 02 Mar 2021 09:00:00 -0000

DM67: Surge Protection ++

We're back, and chatting about the new Watch, protecting against power surges, $1100 left on Damashe's porch, and of course… Reaper.

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DM66 - Robotic Pi Ham

Tue, 16 Feb 2021 09:00:00 -0000

Damashe And Michael, Just Talking Tech

In this episode we talk about robotic vacuums, raspberry pi, and ham radios.

Of course, we are talking a little reaper and so much more!

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DM65 - Accessibility+

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 09:00:00 -0000

DM65: Accessibility+

In this episode, we don't talk about Reaper at all😯
We do discuss scripting screen readers, Damashe trying a new email service, and the shrinking browser landscape.

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DM64 - Talking podcasts with Kitchen distractions

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 09:00:00 -0000

The following podcast on the Your own pay podcast network will contain adult content. Listener discretion is advised. More information about this episode can be found at yourownpay.com/dm64/

In this episode we start talking about the REAPER offer available to all users, all they ask is that you wear a mask.

Transitioning into a conversation about how Damashe would like to set a keyboard macro up to add markers while recording in Reaper.

Michael gives us a quick tip about adding a TextExpander to Drafts on iOS, followed by Damashe explaining how snippet don't necessarily have to be super short.

Sometimes talking threw a problem helps Michael find the answer, like his attempt to use the new feature in 1Password he was explaining.

Podcasts, Todoist, and M1's are a few other topics we talk about in this weeks episode.

NOTE: At yourownpay.com/dm64 you can get an unedited transcript of this episode under the "transcript" heading after the Resources heading.

Resources

espanso – Text Expansion for Nerds on Podfeet
Use your Apple Watch to unlock 1Password on your Mac
lire: RSS Reader on the App Store
lire on the Mac App Store
GoodLinks — Save links effortlessly. View them later, from ...* ReadKit for Mac
Blind Bargains Qast 219: The 2020 Blind Bargains Holiday ...
Blind Bargains Qast 218: Socially Distanced Kitchen
Using Todoist with Fantastical
Filters - Todoist Todoist filter help documentation Ami link

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Dm64 - Talking Podcasts With Kitchen Distractions

2021, The Your Own Pay Podcast Damashe and Michael, Just talking Tech

Imaging: [0:07] The following podcast on the Your own pay podcast network will contain adult content. Listener discretion is advised. More information about this episode can be found at your own pay dot com. Hey, bro, let's get into this thing. It's DiMasi and Michael just talking tack.

Damashe: [0:27] I am recording, uh, everywhere. All of the recordings.

Michael: [0:32] Anyone who has been interested in trying reaper out. This doesn't really help you if you're just trying it out. But they have extended their free license to the end of January 2021. All we ask is that if you use this license, please wear a mask.

Damashe: [0:46] Yeah.

[0:50] What.

Michael: [0:51] Yeah. Mhm. Yep. Yeah, they did.

Damashe: [0:56] They didn't really say. Please wear a mask. Yeah.

Michael: [1:00] Important. We kindly ask that users of this license commit to wearing a mask at all times. When in public. Uh huh. Uh.

Damashe: [1:09] Oh, man, that is Wow. That's that's I think that's all I could say about that is wow, that is a.

Michael: [1:17] So you're prepared to come such d m 64? We'll have a no, we won't, because this is going to come out in January, but yeah.

Damashe: [1:24] Well, I mean, they might still be helpful for somebody that didn't know about it. Uh.

Michael: [1:29] And they were doing this through July, and apparently they've They've reissued that. So who knows if it's still going to be there? But we'll have a link to Reaper and the important pertinent information to get started with Reaper will using an assistive technology device.

Damashe: [1:44] I need to figure out I need that shit on a plate with keyboard maestro and some time frame where I have time to just kind of screw around with stuff Not like, Oh, let me build this quick little thing that does this thing and then get out of here because I got work to do. I would like to set it up so that I have a system wide keyboard shortcut that will trigger a keyboard. Maestro, Macro, I think this is gonna be the best way to do this Anyway, Sugar keyboard Maestro, Macro, that's a mouthful. Ah, that will jump to the Reaper. So what I wanted to do is press the M Keon Reaper, right? Like I wanted to press the M in Reaper to drop a marker so I don't have to do what I just did which is flip out of the browser and then go back to Reaper, drop a m and then go back to the browser so I could finish Uh huh. Scoring around, which is basically what I was just doing. But I don't want to move my focus, right? I just want, you know, uh, uh, keyboard maestro. Just t just address that in the background.

Michael: [2:46] That's what I'm gonna say. Can you not have keyboard maestro run actions in the background and not move? Focus? I don't know if that.

Damashe: [2:52] I think so. I think so. That's the thing I got to play around with is like, how to actually get that working. And I most likely what I'm gonna end up having to do once I start actually trying to work on that because it's been a a semi thing semi goal of mine for a while since I started back. Actually, recording in Reaper, uh, is to be able to just drop those markers. That was one of the purposes of trying to get the whole mixture things that work in Reaper s so that I could drop markers as we were recording. And then we know where our edit points are. Or, you know, we know where a chapter should start. Uh, if we get that professional about this whole thing.

Michael: [3:30] We have chapters for a little bit. And then I Friendly said Fuck it. We don't stay on a a single topic for long enough. Uh huh.

Damashe: [3:32] Mhm, that. That's why I said when we get professional, that's what I meant. Like not putting chapters in. But I was being professional enough That there it actually makes sense to have chapters because there are delineated sections of the conversation that stay on topic, which doesn't really happen. So.

Michael: [3:49] Man people. He has high hopes for this show. Yeah.

Damashe: [3:53] Uh huh, yeah. Uh huh.

Michael: [3:57] So the topic that we're going to talk about is text expander and how you're organizing your tax expand or how you've gotten around it. But before we get into that, I do wanna give to caveat for well, caveats and tips for what I learned. And that is, if you are adding, I'm taking notes and drafts If you are, adding, uh, text expander two drafts on IOS you do once you connect it and you go in and hit the button to allow text expander. Then you hit refresh snippet, uh, closed drafts, closed text expander and then reopened drafts.

[4:34] Because I spent probably 20 minutes this morning before I went down my hazel path of trying to figure out how to get snippets, toe auto, fill in drafts, and I'm like, this is stupid. That was a lot of work to not get it to work. But if you close drafts and you close text expander and then you reopen drafts. It seems like it's working. So if that's ever an issue, uh, what did I learn when I was using computers when I was younger? If it's broken, restarted? Oh, Uh huh.

Damashe: [5:01] That's how it works most of the time.

Michael: [5:04] On then The second thing is is I kick it So I went my initial thing. Waas I wanna download text six. Pander to the Mac so I can quickly go through my snippets, delete the ones I don't want And then, you know, go ahead and just start getting familiar with my snippets again.

[5:24] But the problem is, is my stupid weren't anywhere where I thought they were. Long story short. I had a couple of groups. One was a je my snippets thing that had one snippet in there in there. And that's what I saw on the Mac. And I'm like, Well, this is where because I have a lot more than one snippet. All of my snippets were going into a group that I shared with a virtual assistant three years ago. I don't even know if that va has access to that that group anymore. But it was in the assistant shared group. And how I found this is I went on the iPhone, and I was playing with text expended on the iPhone. I'm like, Well, why don't I try to clean them up here? You can flicked down on a snippet to delete it. So side note, they do take advantage of actions. But once I did find all those snippets, I was able to go delete everything I didn't need, which brought my snippet count from I think I had, like, 71 to now I have 14, because yeah, like, right now, I'm I'm pretty much starting from scratch. My next goal is to figure out how to move the snippets out of the assistance group and put them into the my snippets group s. So that way I can play with that. I'm not sure if I could do that with the new text expander, or if I'm just gonna have to rebuild them. Which either way, wouldn't it be an issue? Because I'm down to 14 versus 71. So what Good.

Damashe: [6:47] You don't say. So I was thinking up until this most recent update to say suspender on the Mac, I could have told you exactly how to do what you want to do with this new Texas pander man. I don't know because I haven't even looked at it. I just I saw it and I was like, What the hell did they do to my app? It looks like a Web browser thing. Now, I don't like this and I left it and it's still running because obviously I still deep my snippets, the work. But I have not been back in there since then. And I'm gonna, like, just be honest, I have not even looked at another dead. I saw that and I was like, Oh, man, they really screwed up Texas manner. And I texted Mark and I said, Man, they really screwed up Texas manner. This most recent update, that is what Mike said to me.

Michael: [7:22] And then I said, Welcome to my Windows life.

Damashe: [7:26] And I was like, I assume that's what they were doing is like making it match up with the Windows version in the Web version. But, man, you know, a little warning smile would have been nice, because it's not a major version update that that's, I think, what kind of actually has me angry about it or just a little bit? Not not too angry, but just slightly more annoyed than I would normally be, because it's not Version seven of Texas pandered. We're from version 6.7 something to 6.8, and all of a sudden I have an entirely new design. And it's like, Man, what? The one Inspector news. That's not how this is not how you do these things, man. That's why version numbers exist. So when Hey, there's gonna be possibly radically different things going on in here. Ah, you know, Look, I don't understand how you gonna start switching to the random Leary big versions, but point updates like Apple was doing with Mac OS. As soon as Apple switches away from doing that, that makes it.

Michael: [8:24] I was thinking maybe we're on a beta, and then I just went and quickly chapped. And I am not on a bit of text expander. So this isn't like something they're experimenting with. They just surprised we're live now.

Damashe: [8:37] It was update because I knew I wasn't on a baby. Because I've never been on a beta for Texas matter anywhere. Uh, and, you know, you get a little update window that was showing, like, updated Texas Spender. Version 6.8, blah, blah blah.

Michael: [8:44] You need that to work.

Damashe: [8:50] Right. And I'm like, Okay, just normal update. You know, that's how that happens. They probably got Big Sur compatibility things or something like that. Cool.

Michael: [8:56] Oh, they did.

Damashe: [8:57] Here's the update. It comes back and it's like, What the hell did you do to my eye, man?

Michael: [9:03] Uh, So what are you doing with text expander?

Damashe: [9:06] Um, bitching about it and angry and thinking about trying out this new service.

Michael: [9:10] Yeah.

Damashe: [9:11] So there's a new service that I meant to talk to you about. I'm going to get back to the things. See, this is why we can't have chapters, man. This is why we can't have nice things. Oh.

Michael: [9:20] Mhm.

Damashe: [9:22] One thing that I was thinking about in this things, random 6.8. Change to my craft has annoyed me. Alison Sheridan over at pot feet dot com hosted on those silly cast and a couple of other great podcasts. Um, found a tool called Expands. Oh.

Michael: [9:40] Mhm.

Damashe: [9:42] Which has a command line element to it. Ah, I will attempt to for the show notes. I will grab a link to deep portion of her show as well. Let's link it to the block post. She wrote about it, uh, talking about it, but it looked kind of interesting. It's also cross platform, and I was gonna mention it to Mike at some point. And then I realized it might seem to be kind of slowly graduating back into, uh, Mac os. So I was like, Well, never mind. I'm not gonna say anything about it now because, well, he's coming back into the apple world again, which is ah, slightly weird. Uh, in some ways, I thought Mike was gonna go try Linux desktop Lennox out at some point. Uh, if you continued on the path that he was on and hey, just completely reversed.

Michael: [10:25] Yeah.

Damashe: [10:28] Uh, but expands, though sounds like an interesting tool. I'll probably take a look at it. Has some, uh, she has the title of expansive text expansion for nerds. So we will link that in the show Notes at your own bay dot com slash d. M 64. Um.

[10:47] But to answer your question, mark, about what am I doing with Texas Pander. So, uh, I have a question for you when I get to the end of this, too. But what I'm doing, because I have a ton more snippets than 14. It might be nice to get back down to 14 snippets, so that might be nice to get down to 71.

Michael: [11:05] Mhm.

Damashe: [11:05] Uh, but I do make I do use groups in Texas, man. They're very heavily for several reasons. I do have a couple of shared groups, one of which I think you share it with you.

Michael: [11:18] Yep. Yeah, we do have a shared group. I don't know if it's still active. I think it is.

Damashe: [11:18] Possibly, maybe still share it with you. Ah.

[11:24] Uh, I'm not looking at this hour. I'm gonna go to the web browser now. I'm done. Just Texas pander in the browser all over the place. Uh, but also.

Michael: [11:34] Did they not used to tell you hate Tomasi text expanded in the browser is a better experience than in the APP itself.

Damashe: [11:41] Yeah, but that was from a window side of things. And I'm like and, you know, compared it to Windows? It might be, but on the mag, maybe. Probably not.

Michael: [11:42] Yes. Yes.

Damashe: [11:48] I'm not going over there. Uh, now I guess I better go take a look at it. So I know, Uh, oddly enough, I'm probably gonna end up using windows quite a bit here pretty soon.

Michael: [11:49] Mm hmm. Yeah.

[11:57] That's weird. I'm coming back to Mac, and you're using windows more.

Damashe: [11:58] Um, that is weird. Yeah. Windows seven, those the last great windows.

Michael: [12:04] Okay. Yeah. You can have windows seven. Yeah.

Damashe: [12:11] But I also make heavy use of groups because I I started early enough in my use of tissue expander using their groups to keep things separate. So, for example, I I tend to create snippets that I use in the terminal, whether locally on my mac or from remote ssh. Connected to a server, You know, little snippets for different commands that I know that this this command exists. I'm not going to remember the exact syntax of how to write it to get the results that I want. So I make it a snippet. Ah, and I put it in a group called command Line. Uh, well, I think you just called command. Yep. Just called command line. And what I also do is I prefix all of my group. So when you greater group in Texas, man it, you're able to put in, like, a prefix for said group. So all of my snippets that are in the command line groups start with cli hyphen. Ah, And then the second thing that I've started to do more recently than using groups is I will. I don't like when I first started using Texas manner, I had it in my brain for some reason that like, oh, all my snippets need to be, like super short. So, like, you know, I need to use, you know, mhm DT.

Michael: [13:28] Sima Cullen, M for M for email addresses or.

Damashe: [13:32] Yeah, something like that. Except I would never use just any colon. Uh, you know, uh, dtm for democracy, Thomas Male or something? I mean, from my email. Right, But it just, you know, and then you screw around and you start running out of little short codes to use. So what I have recently started doing, I said, probably in the past year, is not really caring If the snippet is long but carry more about me being able to remember what to snip, it actually is.

[14:02] So an example of that there is a command line Eso for WP Klay, which is the WordPress command line. Uh, utility, Um, I have because it's weird and it takes up a bunch of memory when you try to install a package with WORDPRESS. Uh, cli right. Not really relevant for everybody listening. But this is why this command is this way. Because if you just run WP package installed and then give it a package name nine times out of 10 is going to say, Oh, I ran out of memory while I was trying to do this blah, blah, blah. So there's a different command that you use is like, you know, WP something something PHP memory limit equals, Ah, etcetera, etcetera, right? Like I can't even remember what's all in the command. But what I made the snippet, uh, is I made to sniff it all of that glop at the front, and then all I have to do at the end is just type in the package name or Aiken backspace and hit uninstalled from trying to remove it. But I made the snippet cli because it's in the command. I grew hyphen, uh, WP package installed.

[15:11] Now that is long as hell for a snippet. Uh, in my mind, it still seems like it's super long, Right? But on the flip side, I'm never going to forget what it is. So I'm not gonna be sitting there trying to get the snippet to expand. And I'm typing different things trying to see, you know. Oh, no, that's not it. Backspace back base backspace type something slightly different. Note. That's not it. Like I'm wasting more time than it would have took me to just go Google it Copy and paste.

Michael: [15:36] That is so true. And it works for you. And even though it is long, I imagine it is shorter than the actual command that you have to type. Yeah. Yeah.

Damashe: [15:48] Oh, man. It is way shorter than the actual command.

Michael: [15:51] And you don't have to worry about type. There's typos, Yeah.

Damashe: [15:55] Miss Takes no typos. Exactly. Uh so and that's just the tip that I was in the process of sharing what might? Yesterday he said, No, you should stay with the show s. So now it's a tip for you all listening to You don't have to make them as long as I made that. But I do have a lot of WP command, So that's another reason for that being extremely long, because I do have a lot of WP clean snippets saved. But don't be afraid to, like, use a slightly longer snippet that make sense. Like just make it two words like, uh, you know, work email. Well, type M B work email, Right? Like it's in that case, maybe not shorter than your email addresses for work. But you know something similar, like, you know, don't don't be afraid to put more words in there, because the thing that happens and everybody that I know that has ever used, got really gotten into using Texas pander like comes to rely on it the way that we do. Um, they have all said the same thing. I forget that I have a snippet like it got so bad. I'm pretty sure this is such a repeatable things that, you know, smile, put in a feature in I believe it came to version six. It may have been their version five, but I know it's been there since since our version six launched, which is also when they switched to subscriptions where you have the option to have texture. Spender, you know, remind you when it sees you type something that you have as a snippet to be like, Hey, you have a snippet for this. Would you like to use it?

Michael: [17:20] Or my other hated but enjoyed feature is Hey, you seem to be typing this a lot. Would you like to make a snippet out of it? And then I'm like, Yeah, that would, But I'm not gonna remember what I make that snippet. But recently, So what I've been doing is I have to send pre formatted invoices to people, and typically these invoices are in word documents. And so I have gotten to the point where I and and maybe I will take your tip up and put the actual client name in the i N V after it or something. Because I was using, like, uh, client First initial of clients name I envy. And sometimes it was, Was it HP wasn't. Oh, age. Like what? What did I put there? And did I put a hyphen or a special character before that? Whereas if I just type in clients name space I envy or because you can have spaces in your expansions, Hmm?

Damashe: [18:16] No, you can't. No, because the space usually trigger shit I envy. Yeah.

Michael: [18:16] Okay. No, you can, But you could put clients name Ah, I envy at the end. And then you know that that's going to send the prompt you to fill in the information to create the invoice so you can send it.

Damashe: [18:29] I see. The good thing about something like that is that you're not likely to accidentally type that right. Like you might type the client's name somewhere. But you're not gonna type client name I envy on accident. Right? That's gonna be, um, or intentional thing. Uh.

Michael: [18:44] Unless you're writing clients name investigation. And if so, then maybe you have more problems of worrying about a text expander.

Damashe: [18:49] But there would be a space. Uh, well, I mean, if you were putting a space in there, you probably Okay, Uh, but yeah, that And that's what I mean, like, just something simple like this.

Michael: [18:51] Yeah, there would be a space, so just.

Damashe: [19:03] So that way you're not in that that scenario. Like, I know I made a snippet for this, but what exactly did I type for the snippet? Because I was trying to be fancy. Uh, like, I still have a problem that I'm just, you know, honestly, too lazy to go fix, because I think about it when I'm actually trying to figure out what snippet is. And then, but at the same time, I'm trying to do what I need to do. So I'm not in the mood or the frame of mind to go changes snipping in there as soon as I'm done, I'm done. But it's to create a database like create. Go through the steps of inserting the.

[19:36] Proper syntax to create a database user and create a database and give the database user permission. Give the user permissions to, you know, access to database and SQL syntax, and I don't remember exactly how to write it. So I made it a sniff because I know I would do it a lot because I do a lot of local development on the computer with WordPress. So I need to create a database and a user. Uh, the simple thing probably would have been to just have one database user and just create new databases every time. But screw that. Ah, it's not what I did. But anyway, there's one particular command where I'm trying to create the user, and I always forget what it is. And a part of the problem is that I have a cli hyphen. Ah, create DB pops up the little little fill in a statement from you put in the database name and then I'm done. Okay. And then I was like, OK, I didn't do cli hyphen. Create user. Uh, we'll create user because the CLI hyphen is just because it's in that that group I didn't put create user I can't type. It can't be create DB User because as soon as I hit to be like poem, there's another sniff before you know, it's like, jeez, I should fix it. And no, Michael don't remember what it is right now either.

Michael: [20:51] Mhm. Now you can use a shortcut to search your snippets. But in my opinion, once I've searched the snippet, why don't even want to type it? I'll just copy it out of the snippet body itself and paste it where it needs to go.

Damashe: [20:52] Rob talking it out.

Michael: [21:06] Although I do type the snippets because sometimes I do use a search.

Damashe: [21:08] Uh.

Michael: [21:10] Can you search snippets and launch bar?

Damashe: [21:14] You can There may be a action you need thio install. I can't remember, but yeah, you can't search your snippets and, uh, you can't support yourself that search your snippets in launch bar.

Michael: [21:17] Yeah.

[21:27] Clipboard manager in launch bar. When I saw that in the preferences, Um, like, that's one of the things I missed about Man, you have a limited clipboard manager on Windows 10. But sometimes I get myself into the place where I'm copying and pasting some of the same things over and over and over. And I'm like, Man, I wish I had a way to build to quickly do this. But the clipboard manager and launch bar could have helped me with that with previous projects. So that's my quick side note. Mhm. So for people who didn't know in the latest version of one password on the Mac, you can have it unlock with your apple watch. If you have that and a T chip, I think it works with 21 anti too, right?

Damashe: [22:13] Yep.

Michael: [22:14] Yeah. And then the other new feature with one password is the fact that you could just use your arrow keys to quickly fill content. If you only use one password manager and you're not using iCloud and one password, I was trying to think of a connected joke to make their.

Damashe: [22:29] Yep, that sense so far, Uh, that isn't so. If you've used one password X at all in chrome or Firefox or brave or edge, Uh, this basically in one password 7.7 as a similar feature is not the same feature because it's still dependent upon you having the main one password, app, install, whereas one password excesses on stand alone, Web version of one password, but it gives you that similar functionality. So when you're in so far, you can use your arrows to select and hit Return and you'll fill in your passwords, credit card numbers, all sorts of things. Uh and yeah, you don't wanna have that running at the same time that you have iCloud keychain on because then they kind of fight with each other, and you don't know which one you're getting.

Michael: [23:17] And with the apple watch. Unlock. Go ahead.

Damashe: [23:19] Although, uh, I say, although I found the car, it's strange to use Apple Key chain and one password at the same time anyway. But that's just me.

Michael: [23:30] Yes, in general and with the Apple watch T J Apple Watch unlock ability. Uh, you do have. And let's be transparent here. I have not gotten the Apple watch feature to successfully work. Uh, it says that it's gonna unlock with my apple watch, but then it prompts me for my password or from my fingerprint. However, I think that may have been because I hadn't restarted the Mac. I'm gonna play around with a little bit more of the near future because I recently like right when I noticed that was a feature in one password seven point two or whatever version number it iss uh, when that was released. That's when I reset up in security to have the Mac book unlock with my Apple watch, and then I never rebooted it. So what's supposed to happen is when you open one password as long as that Apple watches on and it's close to the Mac, um, which you would have to have super long arms for not to be. But that's besides the point, uh, or or using a Bluetooth keyboard.

Damashe: [24:33] Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That that actually is a practical Ah.

Michael: [24:34] Yeah, right, right. I just thought about that as I saying it. But when you open one password, it should not prompt you for any biometrics or for your password and, uh, in the preferences instead of it being 10 minutes for to prompt you for a password, they have changed. The option for the default thing is one week, and when I first saw them like what? You don't want my password for one week? And then I put two and two together and realize, Well, yeah, it's gonna prompt me for my password once every week a za long as I'm using the apple watch. But in the interim, I won't have Thio enter my password unless I don't have my apple watch on me. Which, as I said, I have to be transparent. Say I haven't gotten us to work the way it's supposed Thio. But it is the first generation of it, and I'm excited to see where they're going with it because.

Damashe: [25:25] This is a feature that I have wanted since Apple introduced the ability to unlock your Mac with your apple watch. Uh, which I think probably was around before I actually had an apple watch. So I think I wanted this ever since I got an apple watch and decided I liked it. Uh, there's a forum thread which I will attempt to link to if I remember. Uh, hold on one sec, cause I should all.

Michael: [25:53] So I got it to work. Have to give, uh, follow up on this Literally follow up. And maybe it's been working. Yes. Maybe it's been working this way the entire time too. So let me walk you through.

Damashe: [26:01] Real time feedback. You have to double click the button. Ah, that's what you were doing.

Michael: [26:07] Yep. Yeah, I would always feel the tap, but I would never look at my screen. Well, this time I felt the tap and I decided to look at my screen and hey, look and unlocked one password with my apple watch. So it does work it disregard everything I just said. And I'm gonna leave it in there because it happens. So what you actually have to dio is when you open one password or you feel that little tap and you're expecting it, you do have to double click the long side button as if you were using Apple pay. I think is how that would work. So.

Damashe: [26:41] That's how Apple pay works. If you don't have touch idea on your Mac. Also.

Michael: [26:44] Yep. So that is That is awesome. It does work that way. Good times.

Damashe: [26:52] A few other things. Like also, I think it started in Catalina. You could, uh, turn on the option where I think just checking the box did a lot of Washington lock. Your mac also turns this on. Oftentimes you get a password prompt for your user account password. Uh, for something it will tap your wrist instead of You haven't actually type in that password. I really am excited about this feature. Found the coming. Unfortunately, it is only restricted to those max Probably. I'm gonna say from 2016. Forward. Uh, because I think that is when they first had the t one chit was in those Mac book pros with the touch bar and touch I D. Uh, this also is extended to computers that don't have touch. I d. So, like the any current generation iMac, I would say, released in the past three years. Uh, the I Mac pro, if you own one of those, the Mac pro the Mac, the M one max, of course. And then also the 2018 Mac Book may not MacBook, Mac mini. Uh, So all your computer, actually as averages, to teach a version of the teacher whether the team wanted to teach to on your ableto take advantage of this feature, which means now really incentivized to get a new computer. Making it real difficult is not helping with this old in one problem, man.

Michael: [28:17] No, no, not at all. Do you use Lear on the map?

Damashe: [28:22] I do not. Because it was a catalyst at when I tested out the beta of it. Ah, couple of what was the last year Catalina's when they introduced Catalyst. Right. Okay. So, yeah, I actually installed a beta of Catalina back then because I want to take a look at it. And I joined the beta of Lear, and nothing against Lira is just I think I don't like catalyst APS like I don't I don't like the way they're built. They to me, they are horrendous. Eso Yeah, I didn't like it. Also, uh, the Mac out was when I was on Catalina. Full time is 20 bucks and I was like, I don't read RSS on my computer like that in that way, enough thio even justify that purchase even if I loved the app.

Michael: [29:12] If I need to read something on my computer, all good, thinks it and then go open toe, Go open good links, and that will let me open the article or at least get the information to find the article again, and then I can read it on the computer.

Damashe: [29:25] I did own or do on if it's still being developed. Read kit for the Mac, which is RSS Reader as well. Don't have it installed at the moment I downloaded. I purchased that some years ago when I was doing mawr research in, like, needed links and stuff like that for posts and all sorts of things. And it was, you know, quicker, too. Incorporate reading through a a star. No, I would. That's when I actually made heavy use of starring articles in my RSS reader, too, because I would jump over to the Mac when I was, you know, building out a post or something like that. And baby quickly go through grab links and incorporated that into my workflow. But I don't even have that installed. So yeah, no way in the world of not paying 20 bucks for a layer on the back, unless they give me a touch screen back. And then we might revisit that whole conversation.

Michael: [30:20] You don't need a touch screen map. Mhm. Although editing audio on a touch screen map could be fun.

Damashe: [30:29] Ah ha. See? You see, see, see.

Michael: [30:32] Yeah, C c. And there was no editing in that. It literally took me that long. At first, I'm like, you don't need one, And then 15 seconds later, if that Yeah, well, although.

Damashe: [30:42] Or think about drag and drop, right? Like, oh, I'm over here and I want to drag that over there.

Michael: [30:47] Mm Mm hmm. So did you listen, that blind bargains podcast they sent you?

Damashe: [30:47] Yeah, yeah, some haptic feedback. When you're editing. I did not. I did see the link, and I will get around to I think I'm subscribe to their show somewhere.

Michael: [30:56] Yeah.

[31:00] So I want ever. Well, I'll get to that in a second. I don't know if we, shared this in one of the previous episodes, but a couple of weeks ago, before our state shut down my leg and I were sitting at the bar and she said, Hey, why don't you try resetting your phone and see if it stops hanging up on people after six minutes? And then I lost my freaking move streak, which I'm still not Actually, I'm not as upset about it now, but anyways, so I reset my phone. Uh, Castro did not appear to save the links. And in retrospect, what I should have done is I should have backed up my phone, and I also should have exported my OPM l file. Not horribly worried about it now, uh, because I'm slowly rebuilding my podcast subscriptions. And two of them was blind abilities and blind bargains that I was no longer subscribe to until this morning. I'm McMahon.

[31:53] That holiday 2020 holiday shopping guy never played for blind bargains in Castro. And then I remember it. Well, yeah, it never played because you never re subscribe the blind bargains. So I went re subscribed. Listen to that episode. And then I went back. I'm like, there was something about the kitchen that I wanted to hear because they had a episode where they were talking about kitchen gadgets and Shelly Brisbane was on there. Uh, no offense to anyone else, but I forgot the other ones that were on there. I just remembered Shelley because she I mentioned her book last week, and she was on the whole. They died, too, Shelly and JJ and there is to other people.

[32:30] Uh, and so Shelley was on there and she was demonstrating a Sufi, and I'm like, Well, de Masi was interested in that, so I sent that over to you mainly for that. But they also demonstrate air fryer, which now I gotta go and maybe reconsider my air fryer. And then they have a mixer that I look at because apparently, if you chop off the top in the bottom of the onions, you can put the onions in the freaking little mixer food processor thing and put it on high, and it will slice them uniformly in like 20 seconds. And he said, I'm like men, man, how that would save me some time. Mhm. I would I would be willing to pay $100 toe, not have toe toe slice onions. That's the one job I hate doing.

Damashe: [33:16] Bro. Whoa, Whoa. That's that's all. Never thought about it. And, you know, I actually could the top on the bottom off the onion most times, anyway, just to make cut and get easier. But whoa. Never thought about that.

Michael: [33:29] Right, Right. So, yeah, Give it a listen when you get some time. Had me thinking.

Damashe: [33:36] Man, huh? The answer. Head exploding Emoji. Uh huh.

Michael: [33:42] Mm hmm.

[33:47] Maybe I'll make more salsa, then.

Damashe: [33:47] Mm hmm. Oh, man. Something. I will probably do more stuff. I need to make some salsa and made. Not in a while.

Michael: [33:51] Yes.

[33:57] Yeah. Yeah. Salsa. Sounds good. Um.

Damashe: [34:02] I don't want a taco salad.

Michael: [34:04] Mm.

Damashe: [34:06] Well, shit, Mike. See what you did, man.

Michael: [34:09] Have to work tomorrow, okay? I don't know why. Why? That just used a tacos. Oh, because I was thinking Tuesday's tacos taco Tuesdays. And then I'm like, man, Tuesdays after work.

Damashe: [34:12] Mhm.

[34:23] But just could still have a taco.

Michael: [34:25] Yes. Yes, I could. I could even have a taco. Well, I'm working. Maybe. Yeah, yeah. Be that rebellious.

Damashe: [34:29] Oh, my. So, I've been trying something a little different with to do ist, um,

[34:42] also need to clean up my to do it, but I've been trying something a little different. What to do is and all that. Really. Is that so fantastic? Al Version three, if you are a premium subscriber, will allow you to.

[34:56] Connect to a lot of different third party services, one of which happens to be to do it so it will show you what to do is taxed the same way that for any, you know, long time fantastical user, very similarly in the way that it will show your reminders if you turn that ability on in in the settings I don't now show your to do his tasks and projects and all of those things you can add task and all of this. So I decided that I was going to take a stab at, uh, just trying to manage them, uh, to do this through Fantastic cow. I still have the absence stalled on to do it's abs installed on the mackin on ours. But so it's gonna, you know, experiment with just using it through, uh.

[35:43] Fantastical ah, part of reason that this is possible for me at least, is because I have calendar set, so I can, you know, make a calendar said that is only a, you know, certain group of task and then just switch to that or make a widget on my home screen on IOS that shows this particular deal, which I haven't done that yet. I gotta make sure you can actually do that with fantastical eyes, make the widget show a particular calendar, said, regardless of what the main app is said to haven't haven't been doing it too long. Mostly, I've been checking off stuff. Have added task that way. Ah, which led me to discovering Oh, slight incongruity disturbance in the way that sharing stuff on IOS works.

[36:35] I was looking at a plug in. I think it was a plug in. We're going to say it was a plug in on I wanted to add it to. To do is so that I would remind myself to go take a deeper look at, uh, this plug in to see if it was something I wanted Thio get involved with using.

[36:54] So instead of doing what I normally do, which is, you know, hit the share sheet and go to do it and do all of that. I took that off and I just went to fantastic out. And then I hit the little button and made it into a reminder. I think it's what they call it. Uh, but my default reminder list for to do list, I mean, for fantastic out is my to do its inbox.

[37:15] So I did that, uh, you know, converted from a event to a task, uh, didn't hit safe. And then I was still inside a fantastic out. And I was like, This is very strange. What happened? Something must be broken because ordinarily, when you are in another app and you use your share sheet to send something to ah different out like to do ist or mail or messages, you complete doing the thing the operation that you need to do to complete that share process. Uh and then you fall back into the app that you started out in. This does not happen with fantastic Out on IOS. I have tried this several times and different from different APS all, you know, even including creating an event on just it's not actually taking me out of fantastical. I'm just staying in fantastical once I complete, you know, adding the event or task, which is disconcerting. It is a first world problem, most certainly, because all I have to do is, you know, four finger swipe to the right to get back to where I was, or probably hit the back to whatever at Button in the Status bar, but is disconcerting and annoying.

Michael: [38:27] Yep. You may build. Fix out the shortcut and x callback. You Where else to go back to the previous app that you were in?

Damashe: [38:35] Oh, man. Then I got to go make the whole thing. What's the point in having to share sheet?

Michael: [38:37] Yes, Exactly. Exactly.

Damashe: [38:41] They should let me. Well, look, if that would not be such a issue to me if it didn't put all of your shortcuts at the bottom of the list like I know I could drag him up to the, you know, move them, I think higher.

Michael: [38:52] Mhm.

Damashe: [38:53] But they're still on that. That second level off the share sheet? They're not. You know, first class citizens.

Michael: [38:58] Right.

Damashe: [39:00] Uh, you know, I can't put it right next to messages, which would be nice.

Michael: [39:02] Mhm. So was to do it. I'm I first of all have to give to do a support. A shout out. I asked a question on Twitter and to be fully honest, I literally did not expect an answer. They sent me back the answer, and I played with it once, did not work, so I was getting ready to tweet them back and be like, Yeah, that did not work. And I'm like, Well, let me try to add a space before the slash and I added the space and it works. So I ended up tweeting them and saying, Thank you. That really worked. And so shout out to to do is because that was that was awesome. If you need to add something to a specific section while using the to do list, um uh, quick entry or using an app that interprets your text drafts, in two quick entry, then all you need to do is add hashtag project name. Make sure to match your case for the project or you'll end up with duplicate project and won't know where anything is mhm. Uh huh.

Damashe: [40:02] That is very important. That's very important. Make sure your case, it is case sensitive, which is the thing I did not know. So yeah.

Michael: [40:07] Yes. And then hit space slash in the section name again. I think that is case sensitive to after learning the project thing. I didn't even try.

Damashe: [40:17] Let's assume it is. Let's let's just assume let's just assume that the section name is also cases.

Michael: [40:18] Yeah, yeah, Let's let's just assume it is.

[40:24] Yeah, And then that will put it in the section. And, of course, what they need due dates that you add to it and stuff like that, which I'm starting to play with reminders more to keep and and work out of my today screen. So let me let me explain that a little. I want to know when I have a task to. So a bill, for example, has a due date needs to be paid no later than X Day. And so that will show up in my today screen, and then I will complete it when I get it paid. I love picking on bills, but if I just need to do something or need to remember to do something, I'm setting reminders, typically, a reminder that will be about 10 minutes before I actually need to do that task type remind Mallory to grab something before she goes to work will go off. It's 6 40 because she leaves at 6 45 and then that also shows up in my notification center. So if I miss that reminder, well, maybe it's too late to tell her. But that reminder still there so I can go take a look at that task and market completed or not market completed. There may be an alternative way to handle that. Um, and right this minute, that's what I've been experimenting with. Eso I could just work out of one view, which is today and then specifically if I'm working on a different project. So if I'm working on some client work, I'll go into their project just to check to see if there's anything in there that doesn't have a due date. But it's something I could get done, like right now, while I'm sitting on the Mac or something.

Damashe: [41:53] So I have to been experimenting with due dates, uh, and reminders. And so remember this whole thing where, you know, deferred dates, right? This is the reason we started messing around with Romney. Focus for a second again. So what I'm starting to do, uh or I just recently started to do, actually, is, if the thing has a due date, Like, I just started building out some stuff for, uh to be so if we were talking about earlier on the call, right? Eso a couple of those things actually have a deadline. We need to be done by, like, march 1st. 2021. Like we need to have this figured out.

[42:34] Well, that's a deadline. That is a hard deadline. Um, and I added a reminder so that it will remind me to look into it or make sure that if somebody was looking into it on the 15th and then on the first of 15th of January 1st of February, Right? And it occurred to me while I was setting that up, I could possibly use due date because some some things do have a Dubai date, right? Even if it's a project that you're working on is like, I wanna be done with this by this date. So you can't not have a due date because then you don't know. You forget what you said you were going to do. Ah, so I was like, Well, I could use reminders in place of deferred dates on. Just have a reminder. Go off. That reminds me because I'm and the reason I went down this path and you could tell me if you know the answer to it or not. I think you could also build a filter based off whether or not something has a reminder.

Michael: [43:31] You should be able to. I don't see why not like that. That would be classified as a more advanced filter, but that that should be Thea other one that I have not played with and maybe you have is priorities. Eso that may be something to look at, too.

Damashe: [43:46] I don't do much for priorities because for the most part, they don't really don't change anything for me. Maybe as a maybe, as a filter tool. Possibly that that is that is a way to use it. But just in general speaking, I haven't used them because they don't change anything for me. Doesn't prioritizing in any specific way. We're like, Oh, we're gonna notify you 17 times until you check this off. We're not going to stop annoying you because it's a priority. One like no. For visually, it does something but just screen reader for screenwriter uses voiceover uses. It does nothing for you. It doesn't even move it higher up the list of notifications like Make sure you keep different pinned to the top because it's priority one versus two testes, you know, priority for or whatever. Uh, does work for filtering, though eso you know, maybe something to think about. Also, the backup has gotten better enough to the point that I could now grab the link very easily so I could email or task into a project.

Michael: [44:45] Mm. Right. So you can dio This is filtering based on date you can do due date. January 3rd shows task that air due on January 3rd, uh, do before May 5th do after June 20th. No date overdue. Five days re occurring. Do before without was clever do before, plus four hours which will show all tasks that are overdue and do in the next four hours. So you could do some interesting filtering stuff just based on due dates. And then you can add priority levels. Ah p one through p four or no priority. And then you can also filter based on labels, projects, sub projects or, uh, sections. I'm sorry. I got distracted.

Damashe: [45:42] Mhm.

Michael: [45:45] So what were you asking?

Damashe: [45:48] So based on Mike's, uh, delving into the search filter constructions, for to do ist one possibility for at least making a a filter that you could look at, uh, for, uh, in place of deferred days not being a thing and to do is could be, Let me think about how to construct this now, Ah, due in two weeks or do within the next three days. You know, something like like, you know, you end up with a bunch of filters, though, is the problem right? Because if I want to defer, you know, uh, working on the redesign of your own pay, I want to defer that until the end of December. That means, like, but the due date. Maybe, you know, march right, So that that wouldn't help me see that. And at the end of December, right, there's just not I can't think of a good filter that would structure that well, enoughto they just need to add the for days is what they need to do.

Michael: [47:00] Yeah. Yeah, it would be. It would be helpful, but I am going to play with filters because I've went down that path before and.

Damashe: [47:04] Through this goofy can ban board crap.

[47:10] Yeah, I'm gonna play them because there's there's there's some interesting things you could do there for filtering out, especially when, Let's say okay, there's a thing I need to do that has to be done on Windows, right? I think for me not so much to do date of the thing would be Wow. Use filters. I think I would end up using Dittemore based on project or labels.

Michael: [47:33] Mm, yeah.

Damashe: [47:34] Um, because, like, let's say for me, it could be, uh I have a label that says, I don't know. I can't think of a good label, which is why I'm not using them right now because I could never think of a good label. So I'm gonna use Michael's life as an example off how to use a good label. All right, so Mike needs to do a thing, but he could only do that thing on the Mac. So when he creates a task, uh, that needs to be done. He would just apply to label Max. So we put at Max on their on Then when he could create a filter that is searching for any any project or any task. Um, that has that filter has that label. I was very basic. Now Mike was really getting convoluted, like, Well, I'm only gonna edit my podcast on the Mac, but I'm also only gonna do, you know, x y and Z on the MCAS? Well, then he could start, you know, filtering it out by due dates and or when the task any task created in the past, month, That has the label, Mac, uh, you know, he just opens up that filter when he sits down at the Mac, and he's like, Okay, now I see things that I said I was going to do when I got over here, including installing audio hijack, Uh, because it's amazing, Uh.

Michael: [48:53] Uh, in reinstalling Reaper because I scratch that Teoh, see if that fixes some of the issues. And I have been watching this battery as close as possible. Uh, this is this is probably better than last time because we're running at about. Maybe it's the same an hour and 15 minutes, and we've dropped from 100% to 42% So yeah.

Damashe: [49:21] I'm right at 75 minutes and Reaper. So that that is, I think, the most accurate amount of time that we have been the most accurate time count of how long we've been talking about 75 minutes because I started the Reaper recording first.

Michael: [49:32] Right.

Damashe: [49:36] He said, What? What better was the better represented?

Michael: [49:37] Battery percentage right now is 41%.

Damashe: [49:41] Looks like Mark may have a.

Michael: [49:43] And one in the near future.

Damashe: [49:44] In one Mac in the future. So I'm curious. I'm honestly curious because we've kick this around multiple skip to kick this around, and even right now for me, I'm not 100% certain which way I would go.

Michael: [49:52] Mhm.

Damashe: [49:59] I know where I would go if I had to make a purchase soon. As soon as possible, huh? No, I will go with them. One. Uh, no, I will go with them one, but I would go with the Mac mini for sure. Ah, but I was gonna say, like, if you decide to go up to a m one back because I would assume you wouldn't buy another Intel Mac at this point. Or would you.

Michael: [50:29] No, I don't think I would, Uh, the only.

Damashe: [50:32] Not even like a used one or refurbished one.

Michael: [50:34] The Onley reason why I might buy an intel Mac is two fold number one if I got a super good deal on a refurbished one or even a new one, uh, that that justified. But the numbers for the M one and the intel are pretty much the same. So that's why I would would kind of go with E or the M one. The only other reason I might do intel, which using this Windows keyboard tells me that it's not even worth it is if I wanted to boot camp or use VM ware. Now my understanding is parallels has some tentative support for you running Windows on the Mac, which tells me that tentatively, eventually maybe windows will come to the map. But when I think about it, how off do I use Windows? And we have a Windows computer in the house. So if I'm on the Mac, why not just use a map for the Mac? So to answer your question, uh, to come back a full circle, it would be the M one, probably for me. Mallory's really sold on this Mac book Air M one because she's always like the MacBook airs, and we sold our last one to her sister. But if I had, if I was the one getting it and it was not influenced by her or the boys at all, it would probably be the Mac Mini 16 gigs. In reality, what will probably happen is what you learned up with a Mac book pro or a Mac book air.

[51:59] Because yeah, although we are really looking at this map mini, because then we could just put it up in the desk and that are put it on the desk in the dining room and the boys could use it to and it would be stationary. But Mallory, if we do that, we're gonna be paying cash out of it. Not doing the trade in program with Mallory's laptop because number one, it's Mallory's laptop eyes. Ultimately, who it was thought for and number two, she doesn't want to go from a laptop to a stationary computer, because if she needed to take a computer toe work or if she needed thio for well, for example, she's flying to pick Nicholas up later this this month so well earlier, last month. Ah, yeah. Uh huh.

Damashe: [52:44] Uh huh. Hey, we could do the cortex thing. It's an episode out of time. Who knows what time is? Nobody really knows what time is.

Michael: [52:46] So she's flying the right. Uh huh. So at the end of December, she's flying to pick Nicholas up and or she flew to pick Nicholas up. Everyone aware that and in that case, she might want to take a computer with her. But net that that's what?

Damashe: [53:04] I'm as you take that iPad pro.

Michael: [53:06] Well, she's having iPad Pro Shoes has IPAD air way we see him, she had one.

Damashe: [53:10] Uh, push it on paper.

Michael: [53:14] She had 12 years ago. But we sold it so she could get a new TV because I wouldn't let her get a new TV unless she sold her iPad. And the only thing she was using her iPad for was watching TV. So why would you get a new TV and not selling fucking iPad?

Damashe: [53:24] What's the watch TV? Uh huh.

Michael: [53:28] So but But she does have iPad and iPad not air.

Damashe: [53:30] Oh, man. Okay.

Michael: [53:37] It's just the regular iPad. I think it's 1/6 generation. Um, did Apple release? No, she got the new one this year. So the seventh generation, uh, and so she could take that with her to the airport, and that's what I've kind of tried to explain to her. And it may be that that's what we end up doing because I'm gonna be fully honest with you. Apple quoted us $700 for this laptop. Which means Michael could get a 16 gigabyte Mac many for $300.

Damashe: [54:04] Whoa.

Michael: [54:06] Uh huh.

Damashe: [54:08] Whoa, Wait a minute. Okay. And you bought this Mac book Pro was the 2017, Huh?

Michael: [54:15] Mid 2017 got 5 12. Or maybe it's a to 56. I don't know, but it's Yeah.

Damashe: [54:17] I should go.

Michael: [54:22] That's why I asked you. Did you ever check to see what Apple would offer you?

Damashe: [54:26] Yeah, but you didn't tell me that part. See, that makes a huge difference.

Michael: [54:28] Yeah.

Damashe: [54:31] I know my price is not gonna be that. But even if it's if it's half of what yours is, that would be better than I expected. That the reason I have not checked because I expect you to be like, Oh, we'll give you 75 80 bucks.

Michael: [54:33] No.

[54:42] Yeah. No, no. They quoted seven for this, which could get me get us into a map, many for $300 Like a decent Mac Mini, too. So it's It's a difficult decision to make. And if I didn't have other bills to pay, then I would have just jumped on it. And chances are maybe when you're hearing this episode, we may have jumped on it, so yeah.

Damashe: [55:05] It's already done it.

Michael: [55:06] Yeah. So this whole conversation might be mute waiting to hear back from some other people about Reaper. I need, uh, and waiting to hear back from other people means Michael's waiting to actually reach out to them to hear back from, uh, to find out about Reaper, and then I need to do some research, especially since I'm getting more into it. And that's another reason why I'm highly considering of the Mac Mini on. I told you this kind of this morning. I've been playing with Hazel lately, and if I could get the Mac like what I almost did. And then I'm like, Well, I don't know. Should we do that or not? Is I almost put a rule on the D M show? Uh, folder and Google drive to say, move all these files somewhere. I don't know where, but move all these wave files older than two months out of this folder, and then I'm like, but where we're gonna move them to. I don't wanna take a space on this hard drive. So right now they're going to just stay there. But yeah, I was I was playing with that and got my down those rules toe work, which is awesome.

Damashe: [56:11] So this is a question. This is a good deal, because, uh, that's a good question. Do we actually need the way files?

Michael: [56:20] No.

Damashe: [56:21] Uh, I would like to keep the MP threes. That air in there? They're still in there. I think they're still in there. I tend to leave monitor.

Michael: [56:25] If they're not, we need to go re download them so we can put them back in there and just keep. And that's something to think about. Like, do we really need the original files for them? Technically, no.

Damashe: [56:30] Yeah.

[56:36] Yeah, because we're not gonna do Ah, you know, we get the episode 100 we're not gonna be pulling clips. And if we do pull clips for some random reason that I haven't thought about right now, we're just gonna pull them from the MP three file. We're not gonna go back and sourced away like we're never going to re edit those files to do anything with them, which will be the only reason to keep the originals.

Michael: [56:57] Sir. Yeah.

Damashe: [56:59] Like, Oh, we're gonna go back and re edit a show from, you know, 2017 and re release it as I don't know, like, yeah, there's not a thing that's gonna happen. I can't even think of a scenario.

Michael: [57:05] No. Well, and and I'm thinking about it. Well, I'm looking at the Google Drive folder, and we did that purge on episode 41 because I think, Yeah, it looks like we're starting from 41 now, and so we don't have any of that old content anyways.

Damashe: [57:21] No, I don't think we were using Dr before. That is the problem.

Michael: [57:27] Uh, Dropbox, huh?

Damashe: [57:31] I don't think we were doing Dropbox. Mhm. Yeah, I think we're doing Dropbox.

Michael: [57:34] Yes. So we go back to the point of we don't have any of the content from before 41.

Damashe: [57:41] Oh, actually, though, actually, it's not even that. I'm betting that. Dare hold on one second. I'm gonna go look. Ah.

Michael: [57:52] Because I wonder if we put him into, like was maybe not with solving this might be a good What's that? Glacier. Is that what Amazon calls for archiving old content that you're not gonna actually pull?

Damashe: [57:53] Because.

[58:02] Amazon Glacier?

Michael: [58:03] Yeah, Yeah, although just I guess it's not that big. I was gonna say Right now, the Google drive is 20 gigs for that boulder.

Damashe: [58:13] Uh, no, I think we actually have a share because we e think we did move to Google drive before shared drives were things. So we have a folder, remember the D M shit folder?

Michael: [58:27] Mm e, remember that? Do we serve content in there?

Damashe: [58:35] So Google drives started out as Googles. You know, competitors, er or alternate service or their service version of something like Dropbox or one drive right. And for the longest time, Google drivers just Google Drive. You had a Google drive folder. You could share folders with people they're sharing. Used to be horrendous. I just want to throw that in because I think we have discussed this on a previous show long, long time ago. Uh, as to why we were still using Dropbox, I think, uh, possibly. But it was maybe a couple of years ago. I don't remember the exact timeline of this, but Google introduced for G suite. Customers should clarify that point four g suite customers, um, now Google workspace. Yet we got the memo. I'm still not happy about it. I still got previously Google Maps. Yeah, I got an interesting thing to tell you to about that.

Michael: [59:27] Previously Google APS. Yeah, yeah.

Damashe: [59:35] You probably heard this thing anyway, So for google app slash g suite slash now today. Google Workspace. By the time this is released, it could be done. Something else. Uh uh. Users. You have the ability, Thio. You have now two different folders. What are folders inside of your drive account. You have a my drive, which is your personal stuff. It's all of your things on. Then you have a shared drives section. Uh, now bear with me because it does get a little weird.

[1:00:07] On the Google Stream. App for Google Drive file Stream app for Mac and Windows. You will see those two folds. You'll see my drive and you'll see shared drives. Maybe share drives doesn't show up if you don't have any shared drives. But it should, because if you're G suite customer, you can create your own. Uh, my drive, as I said, has tended to be for your stuff, like your personal things that you're holding all toe or and then share drives originally started out as a way to share, a folder with someone else inside or outside of your organization. So me and Mike have a folder called or a shared drive is as Al Google Uh ah, cause it, uh, called journal be or what the hell is a call? We have a shared folder inside of this shared drives. I shared this photo where Mike initially Now the key thing about shared drives versus.

[1:01:09] Any other sharing that I know about from any other service on the reason that I liked shared jobs when they were introduced is that the share her. So the person who actually creates and shares a folder inside of a drive that Dr Council, the store is being used on the counts against their stores. The person who is to share he who is the recipient of the shared folder does not have that folder space count against their personal Google storage. So in the case of Me and Mike, for example, I think Mike said our D M voter was 20 gigs, right? Well, that's 20 gigs of my stories just being taken up. That is not counting whatsoever against Michael Stores Cap for Google Drive It all just counts against mind. The reason I like this is because I became a G suite business customer about a year ago, which is why I'm upset. Anybody knows about the difference between the different G suite levels and what they're doing with Google workspaces, which is a whole different conversation for another show, because I still have research to do. But when I became a Google uh G suite business. Uh, customer. I got a limited drive storage on at the time of this conversation. I have 2.2 terabytes of stuff in Google drive.

Michael: [1:02:27] That is ridiculous to think about just saying.

Damashe: [1:02:31] It is, it is. But I'll come back to the side after we're done to explain how I got there, because it's not just, you know, I'm gonna throw everything in, you know, it's not how it works. Uh, so that's how shared drives, working and shared drives have permission levels on them. So, like you can share a folder with someone and only give them read access. Or you could give them reading right access or whatever that has gotten way better because when shared drives were first introduced, you could Onley share on the primary folder level.

Michael: [1:02:53] That has gotten better for sure.

Damashe: [1:03:03] So me and Mike's folders called Y O P N Ah, we wanted to invite other people to this folder, but, uh, I have since kind of turned that off because I wasn't able to give them access to just a sub folder in the beginning. Now I can. So now, inside of, you know, they don't have access to anything outside of the sub folder, whereas it used to be.

Michael: [1:03:24] But maybe they need access to their show a show title and and audio image ing. And now we can do that and they want.

Damashe: [1:03:31] We can set that up right without them having access to anything else inside of there s So it's gotten way better, Uh, a couple of things I'm uncertain about with shared drives. Just as a side note. I don't know how it works with people who, if you share with someone who has just a regular Gmail account or regular Google account and not a G suite account. Uh, because I don't think they can download the Google Dr Foul Stream app on their desktop because that is restricted to G suite customers. And I think if they download just a regular Google Drive Apple Google Drive, sinking back up or whatever, it's called out that, uh, normal Google account. You just have I'm not certain that this year of Dr we show up there Ah, thing that I should try to figure out. I don't know how to try to figure it out without, you know, I know where I could do it that Yeah, because I got that second installation of Catalina now that I could actually do it, and I could set up that personal set up my personal account over there.

Michael: [1:04:22] Invite your personal account. Thio shared drive.

Damashe: [1:04:35] I figure it out. Anyway, the thing is, uh, drives. Our shared drives are great. They're great for internal stuff. You can share stuff with specific people, then you know, not have toe make it they shared. You know why? Thing also again? The story doesn't count against people's stories. So if you have additional in this scenario where you and, three other people are in a the same G suite account and you pay for individual extra stories, but they don't your stories that you're using up and shared drives on the council against yours, which was one of the primary reasons I moved over to G suite, uh, to Google drive full time, You can steal. This is where I said, this is gonna get confusing. So hold on. Let's go back to the my drive section. I have a folder. It's there. It exists. I can share that folder with other people still works just like the old days. Ah, Michael, you should still have access. It is.

Michael: [1:05:31] My I will check on the Web because it might not pull my shared folders down. And I haven't sat because I think you can set it to not pull your shared folders. I'll look on the dry on the Web later.

Damashe: [1:05:47] Uh, but as far as you can still share folders with people because I was just in the sharing view for a folder that is inside of my drive on, I had the ability to invite someone else to that folder. Um, the other thing that is weird is if someone shares a file with you. Uh, so here's the example, right. Had a designer share a ah file with me that she needed me to add to the WordPress site and I could not find it. And like, I just know I was like, Oh, she's like, Oh, I just shared it. What you would drive. I was like, Oh, cool. You would drop using two. That's excellent. Like I was all happy. I go to find her and I go open up Google drive foul stream and I go to my drive and I don't see it. And then I said, Well, maybe put it in shared drive. So I go to share drives. No, don't see it. You know what I had to do? I had to go to the Web and on the Web. There's a whole another tab that you don't see in Google drive file strain.

Michael: [1:06:50] Yeah.

Damashe: [1:06:51] It's called Shared With Me.

Michael: [1:06:53] Yeah. Shared with me.

Damashe: [1:06:56] Super annoying Google. You should fix it while you're changing names and stuff and rejiggering services and levels and storage Grady INTs and all of this. Why don't you just fix that thing like that's just show up to me somewhere on my desktop? I should not have to go out to the web to retrieve a file that was shared with me, Uh, through Google.

Michael: [1:07:12] Because your Google Dr site though it has gotten better over the years, is still pretty shitty.

Damashe: [1:07:20] Still Conkey? Yeah, it is. It is? Yeah. It could be better. It could be way better. Uh, what I was about to say is not actually true.

Michael: [1:07:29] Think about how you want to wrap this up, because I am at 22%. Uh huh.

Damashe: [1:07:36] Oh, no. So Mike battery's dying, so we'll catch you guys next s Oh, yeah, that is Google drive. My drive is tended to be for your personal usage, and if you share a photo or someone out of there, the storage council against both of you share drives our business a business feature, a g suite where? Or Google workspaces. If you're new to it now, feature only. Ah, but pretty handy. Um, and that's about it. That's all I have for this week. Uh.

Michael: [1:08:06] We will have show notes and more information at your own pay dot com massage d m 64. Unless we completely butchered those numbers and we're on a different number. No way. I think we're on the same page. We are at D M 64.

Damashe: [1:08:19] We're on the right number. Yeah, we are on d M 64 your own pay dot com slash d on 64. Be sure to check out Mike on a Oh, my.

Michael: [1:08:29] Mondays at 2 p.m. To 10 p.m. Eastern 11:10 a.m. Pacific time where we are doing tech with Michael because I kind of come up with a more creative name giving you a shot of technology news to get your week going. Coffee was my reference for the shot. No one has asked me that. Yeah.

Damashe: [1:08:49] Uh uh uh Okay, uh, given the you are able to listen to your show, man on Mondays?

Michael: [1:08:54] So yeah, am I audio? No. Am i dot c a slash listen live. But there will be a link in the show notes Now that I said something, I have to put a link, Or if you follow me on Twitter at peo p a y o WN.

Damashe: [1:09:07] Yep. F There you go.

Michael: [1:09:10] You will get alerted Thanks to drafts on Sunday's The day before I go live and you can follow De Masi who is going to be retweeting these even though he doesn't know it yet on Twitter at.

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DM63 - Shh Watch - procrastinate time

Tue, 05 Jan 2021 09:00:00 -0000

DM63 - Shh Watch - procrastinate time

Do you ever procrastinate on doing work you know you should? Well we do sometimes… And we chat about working around that tendency when it comes to our editing process.
We also share the all important method of having a completely silent Apple Watch, with the additional advice on trimming notifications.
Also in this episode, find out why Mike's wife called him an idiot and reversed the usual technology conversation on him.

Questions… comments… enjoying the episodes… reach out to us via Twitter, @damashe and @payown.

Links to stuff mentioned

dm62 - Feeding emoji Links

Tue, 22 Dec 2020 09:00:00 -0000

Starting out discussing reasons Michael would think about going back to the mac, followed up with a brief discussion of how he could accomplish what he wants to do from windows.

We then talk about why not just get a mac mini, with this transitioning into a conversation about thunderbolt.

Discussions of RSS Readers, saving links, Draft actions and the best emoji app for Mac.

Tune into this weeks episode to listen to Damashe and Michael, Talking Tech for just over an hour!

Lets Get Social

If you have feedback or just want to connect lets get social on Twitter!

Michael's on Twitter @PayOwn
And you can find Damashe on Twitter @Damashe

Links in this episode

DM61 Auphonic Prime Deliveries

Tue, 08 Dec 2020 13:18:26 -0000

DM61: Auphonic Prime Deliveries

This time, we go in deep on Michael's use of the excellent Auphonic service. He takes us on a journey of how to make use of the multitrack productions. We also chat about our love/hate relationship with Amazon.com, and why can't I just get shipping with Prime. Speaking of prime, Michael shares extremely important information about holiday shopping… Damashe will talk about his experience signing up for Apple 1, and what was playing when Michael got in the car.

links to stuff mentioned

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DM 60 - Managing Kitchen Layouts

Tue, 24 Nov 2020 15:24:18 -0000

Damashe And Michael, Just Talking Tech

start out talking about reaper and computer setups, michael is using a different setup.

Damashe mentions the new Shure MV7 USB Podcast Microphone Damashe then chalanges Michael to an activity chalange.

(Damashe won the compatition)

We then talk about how the compatitions can motivate people to get more active.

we talked about a shortcut we are using to get ideas into the show.

and of course this then moved into a conversation about project management apps.

Damashe tried to use all google services on IOS and ended up back on apple for everything.

We then talk about how our phones are set up and the layout of our watch's.

We then close the episode talking about technology in the kitchen.

Links Mentioned in todays Episode

Shure MV7 USB Podcast Microphone | Sweetwater
Unauthorized Bread: Real rebellions involve jailbreaking IoT toasters | Ars Technica You can get the original show notes for this episode, DM 60 - Managing Kitchen Layouts, on the original Your Own Pay Podcast Network page.

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DM59 - Watch Podcast Players

Tue, 10 Nov 2020 09:00:00 -0000

In todays Damashe and Michael, Just Talking Tech series episode we start out discussing the fact that standing desks would be useful!

This topic is followed up by Michael's favorite podcast app, while Damashe talks about his favorite IOS podcast app.

The apple watch had been in Michael's life for a couple of hours at the time of recording this episode, and we talked briefly about the size of the watch as well as some of our favorite apps on the apple Watch.

Tune in, and share with someone else who may enjoy this episode.

Resources for DM59 - Watch Podcast Players

Mosen At Large episode 18, Castro Podcast Player, the best podcast app for iOS I’ve ever used
[Episode 31: Mushroom FM soon turns 10, Main Menu just turned 20, Nest Video Doorbell review, plenty of tech and audio geekery]Castro(https://mosen.org/episode-31-mushroom-fm-soon-turns-10-main-menu-just-turned-20-nest-video-doorbell-review-plenty-of-tech-and-audio-geekery/)
Episode 74: Review and demonstration of the 1Password password manager
Overcast
How to adjust Taptic Time Speed on your Apple Watch
Feel the current time on your Apple Watch with TimeBuzz
‎Little Ben, Haptic Feedback on the App Store - Apple
Automatic Sleep Tracking with Sleep++ 3.0 - David-Smith.org
‎NapBot - Auto Sleep Tracker on the App Store https://apps.apple.com/us/app/napbot-auto-sleep-tracker/id1476436116)
Wyze Scale
Pedometer++ 4.0 — Our most personal update, ever
Introducing Workouts++ 2.0 - David Smith, Independent iOS Developer
‎CardioBot - Heart Rate Tracker on the App Store

Damashe And Michael, Just Talking Tech

You can get the original show notes for this episode, , on the original Your Own Pay Podcast Network page.

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DM58 - 3 Task managers and a launch bar.

Tue, 27 Oct 2020 08:00:00 -0000

Damashe And Michael, Just Talking Tech

DM58: I have three task managers on my phone

In this episode, we're talking about some of our favorite audio tools, Launchbar and 1Password. Also, how Mike gets less done with more task management… As usual, Damashe has a rant about something, a tip on importing items into 1Password, and a new career in the made with iPhone movie business. Well… maybe not so much…

Links in This Episode

[Installing Reaper with OSARA and SWS on the Mac}(http://audio.pizza/reaper01/)
Side Chain Compression, Ducking for Voice Overs in Reaper –
Bunch - BrettTerpstra.com
NC #804 Screen Recordings with Loom, Zoom Drinking Agenda, Security Bits
Automators Podcast
Bundle Hunt
1Password
OmniFocus
ToDoist
Things
OmniFocus Series Part 09: Advanced Tips and Tricks
Damashe's short film
Loopback
Audio Hijack
Screenflow
VoiceOver navigation options
Link to Michael on AMI You can get the original show notes for this episode, , on the original Your Own Pay Podcast Network page.

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Keeping To Your Productivity - DM57

Tue, 13 Oct 2020 08:00:00 -0000

Damashe And Michael, Just Talking Tech

Keeping To Your Productivity [0:00] Hey, bro, let's get into this thing. It's Tomassi and Michael. Just talking. Tack.

[0:09] So is edge. Said is your default browser. No. Well, that doesn't make any sense. It does not. So what I did is I went thio Seymour APS.

[0:25] That does look for another app on this. Be really you're gonna make me completely browse to Google Chrome Dxy. This is ridiculous. Yeah, I think it'll be faster for me to just open it. See, And people, This is why you need to figure out your work flows for being productive. When you try new things that you're trying to get shit done, that is often time was leads to, uh, what is the opposite of being productive? Non productivity. Yes, will be the way to go.

Traps

[0:54] Yeah, it's funny because a lot of people in the in that trap uh oh, I got to try this new app or just new service or this new feature that just added to my operating system and instead of, you know, setting aside.

[1:08] Quote unquote downtime Thio, you know, play around with a new thing to see if it works. You're like, Oh, no, I'm just gonna do it right now, while I'm in the middle of, you know, working. It's like, Yeah, that doesn't always go well. Most times does not go well, So it's interesting you bring that up because while working, I sometimes you have that ability to have downtime. Sometimes you have to be flexible to be able to figure out what's going to make you the most productive while doing everything you need to do on a daily basis.

[1:42] Because I for me, I've learned when using zendesk, I need to turn virtual viewer off. If I want to make any settings to certain parts of the zendesk interface, E want to make any changes to that, then I need turn virtual viewer off. Well, I worked for the company that I'm working for right now, and it took me a month to figure that out. But now that I know it, it makes me a lot more productive at my job on a daily basis.

[2:12] But it's not like I could just sit around and poking different things, but that comes down to your.

[2:21] Ability or desire to be more productive. Because if you just want to get the minimum done and take however long you want, then you're not gonna find those little loopholes while you while you're working.

[2:34] Yeah, I don't know if that made any sense. Yeah, I don't Yeah, it didn't make sense. And I don't mean, like, be completely inflexible. What I was more touching on is like, let's say so. Apple ads, you know, like when Apple updated reminders, for example. Right. And you know, instead of you saying okay, I'm gonna take a look at this reminders out, See if it works, like, Nope, moving everything into reminders right away, Uh, it expecting to continue to be productive or, you know, somebody tells you about how great Texas Manders, and you're like, Okay, I'm going to start using that right now, like you go download it and start where you're going to spend, like, 10 minutes getting it set up.

[3:11] Then you got to figure out how to use it. Well, you're supposed to be working.

[3:15] Right, like you're not getting any work done because you're filling with this thing that's supposed to make you more productive like and and in your environment is very different because you really wouldn't have time to sit there and fiddle with Texas. Spending like that is definitely a a down time sort of activity. Ah, yeah, you're right. Like there are times where you need to figure stuff out as you're going, and you should totally be flexible enough to do that. But you also have to be, I think.

[3:42] Um, intuitive enough to understand when something is wasting time versus you getting something done. It's like, Okay, I'm doing this a long way. Okay, Well, right now I cannot stop my job or stop my work to automate this, But I know it's automated. Okay? I'm gonna push that off to a later date instead of just stopping in the middle of your work And, like, Okay, I'm gonna figure out automate this, right? This apple script, you know, do this, do this. You spend 2.5 hours and look, I'm guilty of it. First of all, like I had to learn the lesson that I'm speaking right now, but also, I am guilty of spending two hours on working on getting a little script toe work. That may be saved me 10 seconds every time I use it.

[4:21] Ah, but thing is, I don't ever have to worry about doing that that process again, because I have a script that does it for number one. I may never get those entire two hours back over the lifetime of using it. But the second thing that automation brings into your workflow, uh, is the ability to eliminate missed aches like when something done precisely by the computer every single time and that eliminates the mist aches, Uh, that you, the human were made because you will forget a step in this process. Well, let's let's get a little more technical. That eliminates the mistakes that may happen until I t decides they have better ideas in mind for you and changes a little thing around. We'll see. That's why I two people who should be like me Well, maybe not exactly like me, but they should be more like me. They should think more like me, which means number one before we push anything out here to the to the and I don't really seriously don't mean for this to sound derogatory it all. But before I push this out here to the regular people for them to have to use it, it should be tested first to make sure that it does what we think is going to do. Not just Oh, this looks great, right to code or make the changes to the settings and hit update. Now everybody's got it.

[5:37] Uh, it was like wordpress like you don't just go around randomly updating your WordPress site because 5.5 is out. Let me update it. Uh, it broke a couple of days. Like there were some issues where people couldn't, you know, add like what they call the image. The primary image that shows up on your press post. Yeah, like they couldn't feature them. Change next. Yeah. Feature images. Thank you.

[6:00] Uh, and for some people toe solution to that problem was to clear their browser cache, right? And then that, for some reason, solve the problem. Very weird. What? It turns out to be his word pressure removed some.

[6:14] Portion of the Jaqui library is very technical in order to get into it, removed a portion of J Career library that a lot of plugging developers were actually using at 5.5. So they had to put it back in 5.5 point one because it broke a ton of stuff for different. But if you went around just, you know, operating on the premise, well, it's an update. We're going to update it to see the update, right? And then now you're customers. Coworkers, etcetera, can't update their block posts or make changes in the way that they're used to because you just broke something cause you could test it first, right? That that's the whole premise behind you. Know what? A lot of corporate on the other side. You can't be so rigid that you can't move swiftly to, you know, roll out of update to your end users.

[7:02] When there's a major flaw, you can't take six weeks to text the update that contains a serious patch for a remote execution. Vulnerability, uh, to your software like that zone Unacceptable because in the meantime, while you're testing people to get the act, it's a fine line, Thio straddle because you you want to stay secure.

[7:25] But you don't want to break shit when you're trying to stay secure. So and you know this This is primarily focused at that point for we're talking about honestly to corporate customers or customers who are working with multiple different people. Because on the other hand, I see an update and Rami tells me to update it, Uh e like, man, push the button, man. I'll do it if you're gonna do it. So I see an update, and I will go in and push that button and I will update and because it's all, my stuff I mean, the worst is going to do is you're not gonna be able to do something and well, between you and me and the listeners and whoever's ears wearing, I'm sure you'll be able to figure out your way around it. If WordPress breaks or you will have already had the heads up and say, Hey, I can't I can't add media, Michael, because you updated your WordPress site. But the thing is, is it's the two of us, and that's really the only two people that log into that site. Now if I was managing a site for, you know, 5, 10 15 different people, then I would definitely need to figure out a solution to test that prior to pushing that update button. Because I'll be honest. I hate seeing those notifications and WordPress that says five new updates. So what needs to be updated? So I have to go in and get that that button to go away. So that way I don't see any updates.

[8:41] Yeah, and that's that's sort of the downside to that whole operation. I I often times if I'm completely managing the updates for a site, for example, Uh, and the owner of the site is, you know, just.

[8:57] Posting content, etcetera. I will hide admin notifications from anybody else so they don't ever see the update notification? Because the instinct is to just push the button to make it go away. And I was like, Oh, there's update. I better update it right now, uh, that that's kind of the world that we live in because people have been trained to that sort of behavior like, Oh, there's a thing. Click it, do this, do this. And then you also hear people like me who don't necessarily all the time clearly explain what we say. Well, you got to stay up to date, so you stay secure. He's like, Oh, so there's an update. I should push it just in case it's got something to do with Security is like, yeah, take proper precautions, right? And that's the thing that a lot of people leave out of that hole. Step is like your scenario. If you just update, you don't pay right, and then it breaks something. Well, number one uh, there's a backup of that's like that's within the last 24 hours that has been performed so, like, completely hosted site like it just rolled back to the update right like that. That's a quick recovery. I was out of anything else.

[9:54] Um, everybody did not take it just like me. When I update my man like I get update was like, there's update for Mac OS 10 0.15 point seven or whatever.

Back It Up

[10:06] Yeah, uh, if I'm not actually doing any work when I see that, I will go ahead and update it. But I also have a backup that was done it like three something this morning, right? So if it hoses my system like the worst is gonna have the worst problem. I have to deal with eyes potential screwing up of iCloud data. Right? Because Google is not gonna let you wipe out all of my stuff out of my Google Drive folder just instantly like that. And I have a backup that I could restore back to the previous version of Mac OS, so I feel more comfortable hitting that update. Plus, I don't have a Mac to go test the update on what it's like. Well, let me test this up. It's old back and see if you like there, isn't it. But again, like taking proper precautions, though you feel more comfortable doing that right. Whereas for clients, I you're gonna take a little bit more mawr patients, even to the point of like, Well, I've updated my site, and I use, you know, some of the same plug ins that use over there. There are no issues. There have been no issues reported by anybody that just, you know, completely hose somebody's database or something, so it should be safe to update, right. You don't have to necessarily go through the entire thorough, um.

[11:13] You know, deployed. Pull a copy of the site. Local installed it locally. Updated locally. Okay, that works locally. Okay, push it to a staging server. Okay? It works in staging. Now we can update the productions. Like Like you don't have to go through that entire process, especially for, you know, most WordPress sites. It's like if you if you have a enterprising site, big business, you know, New York Times, something like that is run on. WordPress like that process should already be in place, right? They do need to do that because they cannot afford to, but they're they're really, honestly wouldn't even want to be involved in there.

[11:46] Deployment slash update process. Uh, because in between you testing update like somebody's posted 10 new articles to the website E. Roll the database over that. Like, uh, database merging. I don't like it. Uh, thing.

[12:05] So moral of this section of the podcast is, if you're going to try things out, figure out what your workflow is to try him out. Would that be?

[12:14] Roll it out to a test group of people to see how they like it, Or just make sure you have a backup because backups concern Save your ass. A lot of times I told Mike this story before offline, I don't know if I ever mentioned it on the podcast. I was going through doing some cleanup on my system because I was trying to recourse restore some storage space on my SSD, and I deleted a couple of folders that I shouldn't have deleted. But I wasn't thinking I was like, Well, no longer working on that project or no longer I'm not currently working on that. I need to do blah, blah, blah. And unfortunately, the CONFIG files were also in the folder that let me connect to databases or whatever it was like. I don't even know what the name of the databases anymore. Uh.

[12:59] Well, backups saved my tail, right? I was actually going to arc for this particular do. And the thing is, like, I didn't realize it until two days later. So, like I have backups, my backups on the external drive were written like, Oh, you deleted that file. We're gonna delete that file. Alright, Get there. That's what you wanted us to do, Arc, is what saved my tail. In that case, we go back a week, an ark, and then pull the file and re, you know, reacted to my back to my computer arc. Amazing application.

[13:30] I have not looked at version six of that recently, but I do know it looks appears to be an electron app. It works very hardly on the back. Mike says it works good on windows. Sure does. I mean, it's not fully accessible on windows, but it's it's doable For what? You need to dio art five. On the other hand, I'll let you explain that on the map, but on Windows and not the most user friendly kind of interesting how that flip flops E, Yeah, Arc five is what I'm what I'm currently using right now because it is still, uh, watch percent accessible. I should I have mentioned this to Mike. I should ask you send feedback to the developer about version six, and I feel like I kind of did.

Sending Feedback

[14:15] But I'm not certain if I actually sent it or if I wrote it and then never got around to sending it because it is a little if he just sort of explains one of those accessibility things like showing somebody is much better than.

[14:28] Uh, you know, much better than trying to, explain it to them and worse, because it's like you really have to be a voiceover user in order to understand what I'm trying to tell you, unless I show it to you and then just getting out stream flow, toe record, a quick demonstration that, you're not ultimately going to make money from is it's a lot of work. I mean, you might think, Oh, I just you could just record a So I told them Aussie about this yesterday. You could just record a quick game of you're doing it Well, that's that Things don't always work the way you expect them to dio. For example, yesterday I was working on one of my Kelly Co segment, Prerecorded Things and I Got, Time kind of got away from me, and I recorded for 20 minutes and after editing and everything realized I only had three minutes of content. So sometimes when you're trying to get get something recorded, especially if you wanted to come out Semiprofessional, so people will take you seriously. It's not as easy as just whip it out and record it.

Talking Productivity [15:28] So democracy. Let's transition into the primary topic of something that I know. We've talked about offline, and I think we kind of want to focus on links to anything mentioned obviously in this episode can be found at your own pay dot com slash d m 57.

[15:47] Yes, D M 57 had to make sure I had that right. And because way are ahead officially. So now it's going to throw me off that is, productive ity and using APS to help you be more productive. We've touched on this a couple of times I've mentioned to do us. Tomas is mentioned to do it. I'm fairly certain De Masi has mentioned Omni Focus on the podcast. But when I realized that I was kind of falling off of the to do list bandwagon like Man, E told them Aussie and, I believe either he said it or I said it, but we figured we needed to talk about to do it in our productive ity habits on the podcast. So what are you doing for productive ity and how is that going for you? Tomasi. Here's where I am and I am. There's some stuff that makes it into to do it for me, and there is a lot more stuff that is not making it into to do ist um.

[16:48] Part of it is just I don't know, man like, I really can't explain how I feel, but I just feel like things air tedious Thio ad. It's like, you know, open up the app tap add, you know, type in or dictate se. But then I got to configure all these little minor steps, and some of this could be possibly remedied by me going over some of the help, docks a little bit more to figure out how to, you know, set the reminder schedule, uh, in natural language. So I don't have to manually go through and select, you know, notify me, remind me, etcetera, etcetera. But it just feels a little tedious because I'm thinking about something I could very easily, you know, write that down. But then it's the extra parameters that air starting Thio that that seemed to really kind of aggravate me. It's like, Oh, what's to do date and does it go to a project or not? So I'm not doing great with to do. Is that the moment I'm still using it? I'm still overall happy with to do its itself like that. I don't think there's any other application out there that solves this problem in any sort of significant way that that makes it different. Eyes just don't know my just TDs. So For me, it's slightly different cause I have a love hate relationship with to do us myself. I have a problem with completing tasks. So I get shit done. I get stuff done. But then I forget to go market off into do with saying, Hey, I finished that up.

[18:14] So on Android, which probably by the time this episode comes out, we will have changed things. So hopefully you're following us on Twitter because I'm really looking at the iPhone for me. I can just add a add new task widget to the bottom right corner of my phone. Is there an add new task widget or a quick way to add new task? Because I'm wondering if maybe leveraging shortcuts in some manner might help with remedying your problem with getting tasks. And, um, there is So now when I was 14 years, they add, uh, there's several kind of widget for to do is to actually, uh, one, is a add new task on its even customized down to, you know, letting you pick the project that is going to go to or the label that will be applied to us. So it is pretty. I haven't actually sat down and said it. Witches are a little fiddly with voiceover on 14 right now, like they seem to be not all of them are as accessible as others, so you have to do a little faffing around to get it to work. But that that does exist another thing is that, like I need to. So I part of this is my fault because I started deconstructing some of the automation is and things that I had set up because things to me, at least it got out of control. I had, like, I don't know, 200 some shortcuts. And like most of these.

[19:31] Uh, drafts, I cleaned out my I've been to cleaning out my draft, so I dumped most of the actions that I had in drafts itself for very handful that I knew I used on a very regular basis. And then I started either rebuilding or, you know, adding action someone else had created. I still wanna ask you don't my entire database of drafts out and empty it out as well. But there is some stuff that I need to keep their. So I've been doing some digital cleaning, one draft action that I need to add back, which I have one. Now I need to tweak it a little bit, but I said and draft like as we're from, you know, conducting a call with a potential.

[20:09] Customer, I will write down things right, and then I can run this this action and it will add all those things to a particular project or inbox or whatever, and to do it now, what I want is to be able to, write my notes and then using particular. Indicators like saying putting a hyphen in front of something would indicate the deaths a task so that is not trying to process the entire draft is looping through the draft and picking out the things that match a certain, you know, syntax and adding those as, actions as to do so.

[20:42] Uh to do is shortcuts. I really have not played around at all. To do is short cuts that are there partially because going into the summer, you know, a lot of shortcut. She was broken. Uh, yeah, going from out. And you are on beta over the summer, weren't you? Yeah, I was. That's what I'm saying. Like a lot of stuff was broken on beta with short because, like some, you know, dissipated, This works Next beta, That doesn't work. But now this one works like it's very weird. So I didn't start adding new stuff. Also, they change. They make some underlying changes to the way shortcuts work in 14. So I didn't really the entire summer. Other than some shortcuts that I built just to test things, I really didn't add anything new or try out anything new because I knew, you know, I wasn't gonna really get the full effect of it until they could push their updates live two hours 14 once it was released. So, for example, there's there's new actions for several laps. Like Devon Thing, for example, has, uh, shortcut actions now, So you don't have to screw around with the u R L scheme to do stuff. And I think a lot of that is due to some of the underlying changes in 14. So, yeah, you're right. There are ways to automate the process, is just one thing that I need to do personally because, like I said, well, you know, spending most of the time is trying to get the reminders toe work because I don't always get notifications when I think I should. I know I have set them up, and it's like, Oh, I'm to the notification for that thing that I forgot about, Yeah, also like you.

[22:10] Um, the things that make it in there like their their uh like you, like, oftentimes forget to go check them off like I have done the thing and it's like, Oh, I'm going to do is Thio, clean up some stuff or add some new things create a new project or something like, Oh, I don't have all these past due to Oh, I did that. I did that. I did that. I did that. I did. Just like Jesus. Like what? But that goes back to the notification problem, right? I don't get a notification. So it doesn't necessarily prompt me, because that's my prompt right is like either I need to go start doing this because I haven't done it yet, or I have done it. So let me check it off, because I got the notification, which is fairly easy to do, you know, even from the lock screen, like, just, you know, flick down, complete. All right, you're done. That Mark O that is the man Flick down. Just flick down. Uh, some of the other things I do want to do it to do is to, uh, you know, get Mawr introducing the A p. I with third party services like we have a couple of things that, you know for for our hosting project that we're working on like that is one thing I wanna be able to do is that support tickets come in and have those get filed to a project into newest.

[23:24] Uh, so did I see it? But I'm not dealing with email because man email annoys me todo but I'm still to do it's usual, man. Like it is going forward. And I said I probably should spend some time with the docks a little bit more. Uh, you found an interesting article on Reddit that someone walked through this What looks like an extremely convoluted way of doing the for date. What was what was what I said when I sent that to you? Uh, I think this looks like what you want, but I need to wrap my mind around. I read it and I was like, Oh, I get the gist of what they did. I need to get a couple of times before I could actually go produced. And it's like, Do I really want to go through all of that trouble? Because here's the problem with it. Like, here is the overarching problem with it anyway.

[24:18] Ah, it is the manual moving over task or task from this list to that list. So did they go from being, you know, deferred into active, and then now I'm done with it, especially if it's a recurring task something to move it back. That's problematic democracy. My question for you, though, is why to do ist over omni focus. If Omni Focus was working well for you in the past Very simple Web access, A p I a third party integrations like that. That is what did it once I started looking at to do it in the accessibility of the hours app did improve. Uh, tremendously. Over the years, the Mac app has gotten better. It's not perfect, but it's better than what it was. But, uh, yeah, it's It's the ability for third party integrations like, uh.

[25:10] You know, like I said, our support ticketing system that we configure for businesses like for me at least is gonna be tied to to do it. So if one of you guys marks assigns attached to me and they're like, that's gonna go to to do it, so that way, I don't forget about it. Uh, that's something I can't do with Omni. Focus at this point, uh, the closest you get to third party integration when Omni Focus is, forging a email to your Super Secret Army focus email address, which then goes to your inbox because last I looked, they did not have the capability. They did have the capability for you to create multiple of those secret email addresses. Like I could give one to Michael that Michael could use and did I could. So if Mike started to annoy me with task, I could turn here is often not school. My stuff. Uh, but they all go to the inbox. It's not like, Oh, here's one for your you know, d M D projects or everything that gets it to this address goes to d m d like there wasn't even that level of customization. And I'm not certain that they're gonna be able to or at least at this current time, they're able to even do that. Uh, so you look at something like Xavier that does have an integration with.

[26:23] So is a pure, sappy or whatever Z a whatever is happier. You look zap yer that has integrations for Omni Focus. But all it is basically doing is the same thing. It's like whatever comes into zapper or whatever gets processed buys. Appier then gets sent to your Omni Omni Focus email that goes into your inbox. So now is incumbent upon you to go to your inbox and separate things out and move them around and assigned them to the correct project. Now, on the one hand, I hear some people yelling. I am yelling at myself right now. That's part of the whole getting things done mentality. You dump it all in the in, boxing in your process. It later. Mhm, Yeah, How's that working out for you to Moscow? Yeah, so look, that works to a certain extent. But sometimes I know where a thing needs to go, but they know exactly where it needs to go. I don't wanna have to process it in my inbox, or I don't want it to get lost in the mix with other stuff. Go back to our support ticketing system. A question comes in. Mike sees it first But then Mike says, Oh, well, that's the thing for democracy to deal because I don't know the answer to that. So he assigns it to me. It goes toe not only focus to do it well, the way that might to do is is gonna be configured that anything come again. First off, it goes to a particular project.

[27:48] And everything in that project gets a label in a super high priority. So nothing in that labor or project nothing in that label is gonna be, uh, you know, priority for priority theories when we probably won, because I need to look at it, or at least priority to We'll save the priority water stuff with some shit really blows up. But party to write. So that automatically means that if I just have a filter dish says, show me all of the priority to stuff I haven't had to go in and move anything, right? This task came in and got assigned to me what Teoh to do list, and bam when I opened up a particular filter that said, Show me all of the things assigned to me that have priority to Well, then, now I see somebody is having a problem with their media files in WordPress. Okay, let's go solve this problem, Omni focused. That's in the in box, which means if I go process my inbox at 10 o'clock at night, well, you know, probably not going to feel like trying to solve that problem 10 30 at night.

[28:53] Which means it gets pushed off to tomorrow, so Yeah, third party integrations. What? Do that for me? The biggest thing I miss about Army focus at this point. Honestly, that is difficult to duplicate. And to do it is, uh, differ date. Sometimes you have a project and the best example this guy gave in the or this person gave all the office car. Not that this person gave and read. It was I have recurring task to, you know, change. The filter in the furnace is, um ah. Well, once I check that all of us not do again for another three months, I don't want to keep seeing that when I look at my task list, uh, that I need to deal with the furnace because it's not do. It's not time yet.

[29:38] It will be awesome if to do is get add, like some sort of deferred day or some feature. They don't have to call it the first days because it was hide intel or show good hide until or something. Ah.

[29:54] And there's people out there saying, Well, just look at your daily tasks or your seven days test. Well, sometimes I wanna look at all of the household tasks to say, Well, what do I need to get done? And some of those tasks will show up even though they're like, for me, mine is changed. The water filter. I have to change the water filter every I think it's 160 days or something. I put whatever the package said I literally threw that into. To do is change water, filter every 160 days. And you know what? Every 160 days it pops up and tells me that I need to do it. Thea, other one related to that is because I know we have three water filters. I put I multiplied 100 and 60 times three, and I said by new water filters in X amount of days, So I don't want to see that I need to buy new water filters until it's actually that time. Um, but if I go look at all my household tasks, there it is right there. Granted, I see the due date, but I really don't wanna worry about that. Yeah, because what if you like, you might be in a frenzy, and you're like frantically buying things in Amazon or Walmart e by this, too? Because I need this. We're all shit. I did not need those water filters, and I just 45 bucks on water filters I didn't need yet.

[31:12] Yep. Yep. But now I could mark this off, and it won't remind me for, Well, if I set it up right, Every exclamation mark, 600 days or whatever now won't remind me for 600 more days, but it will still be there. So I might buy more water filters a couple of face, right? Like it's not just that I'm gonna foolishly do something that I didn't intend on doing like that. That's possible in some circumstances. But it's also like it's just cluttering up the interfaces like, Oh, never mind. Ignore that. Ignore that. And then your mind gets into this state where is, like, you see something it doesn't immediately all the information that you just took, it doesn't immediately click. And you start ignoring things because you keep seeing them until it's like, Oh, I didn't check it off because Oh, shit. I actually did it to do that yesterday on. Then you fall into the trap that we found ourself in where you're not adding task to the tool to help you with staying on task. And you're not completing tasks in the tool to help you stay on task. Here you go. But enough beating up on the app. So, Mike, what are you doing that is working for you and to do it? Because one thing I want you to, you know, talk to what talk to me about which, when you talk to everybody else about at this point is your use of labels. That's something really haven't explored too much. I do know you have a couple that help you deal with filtering.

[32:30] Yeah, So I have a set up. It's It's a pretty basic set up, in my opinion. Eso What I have is I have my inbox like everyone has. I do dump tasks in there every once in a while. But like you, I also like to be able to categorize or moved to a specific project items when they need to be moved, and then I have to labels. Right now I have a well to that I can think of in chair. I have a Bills label and then I have a phone calls label. I also have a smiling heart. Emoji that are that to me. Reminds me I need to talk to Mallory about this. Usually if something comes up during the day and I need to talk to her, I'll throw that label on it and then I can have filter set up. Well, actually, I'm not using filters. I'm just and I'm thinking about this now. I just use the label itself and pull that up. Or is that a filter set up that grabs the label? I don't remember. Ah, so I could ask you a question, but that is a very Mallory doesn't listen to the show, does she? No, No. See, she doesn't. This is why she should listen. She shouldn't listen to any prior episodes because But with her job, maybe. Maybe now I can download a podcast app and she'll start listening. Yeah.

[33:50] Uh, anyway, uh, but yeah, So if you're not so if you don't do, like a filter where it's, like show task that have this label in our blah, blah, blah, like, just happy if you just go to the label, just tap on it that that technically is a filter. But you didn't make it just like it's just showing your stuff with that label. Uh, but you can set up a like one of the things that I know I have set up and this might be redundant, but I do have a set up A zey, as a bills filter, is, I have a Bills tag and all of my task to keep my household, uh, to keep my inbox empty, go into the household project, which I was just talking about. And so if I want to go see all of my bills, I hit the menu button in the top left corner on Android. I go down to bills, which I believe is the label, and I just tap on that and it shows me the bills. I think I can set up a filter while I'm thinking about this. That would show me just bills due in the next week. Um, but I'm not 100% sure how that would work. Yeah, because I'm horrible about that. Yeah, but that that is that that would be you setting couple filter. So it's like, you know, label on it. Kinda if I remember, Because I haven't set up a filter in a while, actually, but it will be sort of like, Okay, anything with this label you would put in the label, like, I think it kind of wash it through the process, Uh.

[35:14] And due date within, you know, next seven days. So that would constantly be a moving target. Right? So, like, if a bill was due today, it would show up when you look at it today. But when you look at it tomorrow, that bill shouldn't be there because it is not within the seven days now, But that doesn't mean you actually marked it as complete. It's just based on the dude because that you did not pay that bill. What? So yes. Uh, yeah, that is literally the one thing I can consistently say that I used to do is for I know my bills start about the 25th or 26th of the month. So about the 25th or 26th of the month, I kind of work out of the Bills tab. I go in and I pay some bills that I no need to be paid, and then I'll check them off in there. And I do remember to check those off. But here's the thing with bills when you're just working out of the label, not the tab, but the label. Uh, if I marked off, pay the water bill, which is due the 29th of the month, and I marked it off on the 27th because I got paid a couple days early and I just went and took care of that.

[36:19] I still see pay the water bill, but it says the 29th of October instead of the 29th of September. And that's why deferring tasks or setting up a good filtering system, which I need to get back into the habit of doing, would be nice. When I'm on IOS. I do plan to do it and honestly, actions. I miss actions. I already said that, but the actions are other option to build to just flick down the market task is complete because right now.

[36:48] I have toe flick to the right of the task to find the check box to market complete, which sounds trivial. It does sound trivial, but flicking down once and double tapping sounds a lot more convenient to me. Although now that I'm thinking about it, it's the same thing. I'm just flicking in a different direction.

[37:08] Can you, Mark, Can you select items with the road or into do ist like both select Um so let's say you had 20 task to your inbox and you're like, You know what? 10 of these need to go into the podcast, uh, project. Can you multi select? Because with Android, you have to double tap and hold on each task. Just look add it to the multi selection. So to do that, you hit the more actions button in the top right corner, mhm.

[37:37] And then there's a select task option in that menu that pops up. Then you can go through and just double tap to select the task. Uh, I should see if that works the same on Android because maybe I've been doing it a long way for a while because there is a more options button in the top right corner, but I've just found double tap and hold. Do you feel that little tap? And then you go down double tap and hold, because if you just double tap on a task and not double tap and hold, then it pulls you into the task so you could make modifications to that task itself.

[38:06] Double tapping and holding just then when I did it, because I thought that was the way to do it. And maybe maybe that's a hold over for me. Looking at it on the android, uh, brought up the context menu, which gives you the same options that are basically on the road or for voiceover users, which is, uh, maybe select task was in that menu. I didn't go out with that. I just saw, uh, complete reschedule. Couple of the things that are in the road when I was like, Okay, it's a roller thing. I know that there is a way to get that instantly pop up. Yeah, the more actions button top right corner get you there to do this is actually really a nice app. Thistle. Terribly awesome service. Uh, and maybe I just feel to anything Yeah, yeah, Maybe we should. We'll readdress filtering. I think we need to commit to playing with to do it in the next couple of weeks and figuring it out because it could be even more powerful than what we're using it for right now. Because right now, if if if you're using it the way it sounds like you're using it, we're both just using it for pretty much Get this out of my mind. I'll go completed when I got time versus I should be working directly from this app like I used to be in the past when I first got started and maybe that's.

[39:22] I was gonna say, Maybe that's just part of growing with the task management tool is you realize once you put it in there, you're going to do that task. But there's going to be a consistent way, toe complete stuff. So do watch over the next couple of weeks. I think we'll focus on trying to be more productive and keeping track of that productive it because, well, I feel like we have this conversation about two or three times a year, either on a podcast or privately with trying to get things Mawr, completed, Maura and being more productive insight of to do it, uh, let us know what you're using, for productivity and to keep track of all of the task because I'm very intrigued by people who are just using IOS reminders.

[40:09] I don't know if that would work for me, but I also haven't played with IOS reminders. So let us know. Uh, he's on Twitter at De Masi D a M A S h E, and I'm on Twitter at Pay on p A y o W n show notes um, links to stuff mentioned at your own pay dot com slash d m. Of 57 You've been listening to your own pay podcast. If you've enjoyed today's episode, visit your own pay dot com slash cast for exclusive content and to contact us today, were eager to hear your thoughts and about how you're making this podcast your own. Thanks for listening. We'll be back soon. The your own pay podcast your own pay dot com.

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Mixing IOS Home School Recordings

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 08:00:00 -0000

Damashe And Michael, Just Talking Tech

Mixing IOS School Recordings

Audio Recordings

We start out with Michael shairing information about a voice project he did.

This transitions into a conversation about IOS and apple watch.

The episode we recorded was recorded the day before the apple event. This transitions into a conversation about School from home and how that's going for Damashe and Michael.

Recording workflows and how we both record audio. and we start to conclude this episode with Michael locking himself out of his computer.

> Mixing IOS School Recordings

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DM55 - Follow-Up

Tue, 15 Sep 2020 08:00:00 -0000

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DM54 - Credit Building Subscription Vacuums!

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 08:00:00 -0000

Damashe And Michael, Just Talking Tech

DM54:

We're back, and before we get into it, let us apologize for the audio quality. We could have delayed our recording, but we decided that the show must go on.
We start off with an unplanned discussion about installing Reaper, the excellent DAW, and some of the issues now being experienced. It seems that some Mac users are having issues installing Osara, the Reaper script add-on that makes the interface accessible to screen reader users.

Then we get into a discussion about different ways to build and keep track of your personal credit scores. We mention several services and some apps that we have or are actively using. The basic take away here is that we believe it smart to use credit monitoring service to keep up with what is happening, and if your score isn't perfect, there's room to improve.

Subscriptions, subscriptions, subscriptions… The fatigue has definitely set in for both of us. We discuss the subscriptions we consider essential to us. We also chat a bit about the subscriptions we most likely will be getting rid of, and some that we have already removed.
We want to hear from you, which subscriptions are essential for you, and what have you cancelled?

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DM53: Marking down Fido

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 08:00:00 -0000

DM53: Marking down Fido

In this episode, we talk about Fido, not Mike’s new dog, and our love of Markdown.

We get pretty indepth on Damashe’s use of the Yubikey security keys, and the different ways it can be used. Damashe describes using the security key to store 6-digit multifactor codes for an easy backup and portability. Mike has been super impressed with how the security key functions when logging into work applications.
We then shift into talking about JAWS and how Mike is expanding his knowledge and use of FlexibleWeb. This topic quickly expands into how knowing your AT can more than level the playing field in the workplace by making you more efficient. We’d love to hear your uses of your tech to get work done…
Then we talk about Markdown, the plain text markup language. Damashe talks about some cool macOS services that allow him to write in Markdown virtually anywhere, then convert to rich text or html. Mike has a really cool tool for writing Markdown inside Microsoft Word. He also wonders aloud if anything like macOS services exists for Windows? Mike also revelas that he hasn’t actually looked for any Markdown editors on Android. There are several forums and commenting systems on the web that accept Markdown natively, including Discourse.
Damashe shares which apps he’s used on iOS for Markdown, and both of us share our experience with Byword.
Be sure to reach out on Twitter @Damashe and @PayOwn

Wed, 12 Jul 2017 01:12:41 -0000

DM20: Publishing with Purpose Damashe.org beside yourownpay.com Why are we doing this show? Why should you actively engage on social media? Why take any of the advice you can find on the web about marketing? These three questions all come down to the same answer, having a purpose. Whether we’re talking engaging with your potential ... Read more Publish With Purpose People – DM 20

Tue, 21 Feb 2017 16:45:54 -0000

Manage That Inbox. In this first episode of the Your Own Pay podcast with Damashe and Michael, dubbed the “DM” series until we come up with a better name, we chat with you about ways that we are able to handle the overwhelming clutter that is your email inbox. If your ready to Manage that ... Read more Manage That Inbox – DM1

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