Author: Chris Marquardt

Photo: Kārlis Dambrāns - used under a CC-BY-2.0 license Seriously dude, do we really need the Apple Watch? (substitute with your favorite wearable device) Not really. Actually not at all. Your iPhone (substitute with your favorite mobile platform) will do almost everything the watch does. It’ll show you notifications, it’ll tell the time, let you reply to messages, allow you to make video calls, track some of your health stats, allow you to cross items off your shopping list. And you can use it to watch TV. All you have to do is pull it out of your pocket. Your iPhone will even do a lot of things that your Apple Watch can’t do. But do we really need the iPhone? Not really. Actually not at all. Your Macbook (substitute with your favorite portable computing platform) will do almost eve...

The people who brought you the original Bossjock Studio app have now released bossjock jr, a free and wonderful little podcast recording app. When I say “podcast recording" I actually mean “a frigging full-featured podcast studio with jingles and all in one free app" - it does everything, from recording your voice, allowing you to add in jingles, pause when you need a second to think of what to say next, export to all sorts of formats, include artwork and meta data in your recordings. It’s brilliant! It even comes with an Apple Watch extension. There’s not a single excuse not to start a podcast now. » bossjock jr (iTunes link)

Judging by the amount of effort that you nowadays have to take to keep your Wordpress blog at least partially clean and safe from hacking, it really reminds me of the days of Windows XP (that’s the last time I seriously used Windows) and the numerous measures you had to take to keep it free from malware. Similar to Windows in the 90s, Wordpress is pretty much a mono culture at this point. And monocultures attract vermin. All my Wordpress instances have recently been infected. The goal of the infections was never to bring the sites down though. Destruction doesn’t help those who infect the sites. They want to either boost someone’s Google rank by creating more back links or they simply try to spam others through links or spam mails. In the case of my Wordpress instances, I began notici...

Interessante Beobachung zum Downloadverhalten. Fast niemand abonniert unseren neuen Podcast. Trotzdem stimmen die Hörerzahlen. Von vorne: ich habe kürzlich den neuen Podcast Glutenfrei gestartet, den ich mit meiner Mutter produziere. Für den Feed und die Website benutze ich den Firtz. Um es den Hörern und Hörerinnen leichter zu machen, den Podcast zu abonnieren, ist er zum einen in iTunes gelistet, zum anderen verwende ich den Podlove Subscribe Button, um auf der Website selbst einen möglichst einfachen Abo-Prozess bereitzustellen. Soweit erst mal das meiste richtig gemacht. Um die Abonnenten einfacher von den Websitehörern zu unterscheiden nutze ich folgenden Trick: es gibt nämlich zwei Feeds. Der Firtz macht das in Zusammenspiel mit Auphonic recht einfach. A) der MP3-Feed füttert den Pl...