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Want to go to one of those really cool computer expos in the Mainland, but don’t really want to go alone? Are you a fan of Apple devices and want to learn how to get more out of them? Do…
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Nonstop Tech Podcast: Introducing iPad Mini
Our newest Nonstop Tech Podcast entitled “Introducing iPad Mini”, produced by the Nonstop Tech team. After Apple announced a flurry of new and updated products on Oct. 23, Doc and Jerome sat down and analyzed the autumnal harvest of Apple’s…
Nonstop Tech Podcast: iPhone 5 review
Our newest Nonstop Tech Podcast entitled “iPhone 5 Review”, produced by the Nonstop Tech team. Have you wondered if iPhone 5 is worth purchasing? Doc and Jerome have the answer in this episode of Nonstop Tech. As always, we present…
Kickstarting ‘Home of the Brave’
“Home of the Brave,” a graphic novel created by local duo—writer, Spencer Toyama (@spencertoyama), and designer and illustrator, Jon Lewis (@umiworkshop), illustrates the plight of a young female child trafficked in a third-world America. With more than two years in…
Upgrading to iOS 6 safely
If you own an iPhone, you may have heard by now of the latest version of the mobile operating system for iPhone coming from Apple today at about 8 a.m. This upgraded, iOS 6, is the sixth generation of Apple’s…
Nonstop Tech Podcast: Prepping for iPhone 5
Our newest Nonstop Tech Podcast entitled “Getting Ready For iOS 6”, produced by the Nonstop Tech team. This episode will be your resource for getting ready for the new iPhone 5. We talk about backups, clearing out your phone, selling…
Save big with MacUpdate Bundle
The newest edition of MacUpdate Bundle is amazing, with 11 solid apps for a crazy deal of $49. We’re not talking about a bunch of crappy applications with a few decent ones sprinkled in to make it sell. This time, the…
Nonstop Tech Podcast: When to buy a new computer?
Here’s our newest Nonstop Tech Podcast produced by the Nonstop Tech team and entitled “Time To Buy?” In this episode, we discuss the imminent release of “Prometheus” to Starbucks’ free app of the day. @Docrock, @TChaten, and @JeromeKoehler also answer…
Nonstop Tech: Omidyar Fellows Program
We had a chance to chat with Kalei Stern, director of the Omidyar Fellows Program, a new leadership development program for Hawaii’s next generation of leaders. The inaugural class will include 12-15 people, who over the 15-month program, will participate…
Nonstop Tech Podcast: “What’s on my computer?”
Our newest Nonstop Tech Podcast entitled “What’s On My Computer?” was produced by the Nonstop Tech team. In this episode we discuss, as always, our favorite tips and tricks. @Docrock, @TChaten, and @JeromeKoehler will also discuss some of the pertinent news in…
Nonstop Tech Podcast: “Plug it back in!”
Our newest Nonstop Tech Podcast entitled “Plug It Back In”, produced by the Nonstop Tech team. In this episode, we cover, as always, our favorite tips and tricks. @Docrock, @TChaten, and @JeromeKoehler will also discuss some of the pertinent news in the…
Nonstop Tech Podcast: “What’s on our iPhones?”
Our newest Nonstop Tech Podcast entitled “What’s on our iPhones?”, produced by the Nonstop Tech team. In this episode, we discuss our favorite applications taking up space on our iPhones. These apps cover everything from photography to podcasts, and from…
“InstaBook” – Podcast: Nonstop Tech Episode 14
Please enjoy our fourteenth episode of Nonstop Tech Podcast entitled “Instabook,” produced by the Nonstop Tech team. In this episode, we discuss Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram. Amazingly, after the deal was announced last week, many Instagram users scoffed at the…
Nonstop Tech Podcast: the new iPad
This is the 13th episode of our Nonstop Tech Podcast, produced by the Nonstop Tech team. In this episode, we discuss the new iPad and give you reasons (or not) to pick up this great piece of tech after having…
Should you buy the new iPad?
This is a special iPad announcement wrap-up episode of our “Nonstop Tech Podcast, produced by the Nonstop Tech team. In an earlier post, my buddy Tim Chaten (@Tchaten) and I gave a rundown of what we thought would happen at…
Predictions of iPad 3 announcement
Apple has its big press event today in San Francisco, and I’m joined by Tim Chaten(@tchaten) to discuss our predictions for this event, which kicks off at 8 a.m. (Hawaii time). It’s expected that Apple will unveil its next generation…
Nonstop Tech Podcast: Gotta-have-it gadgets
This is the 11th episode of our “Nonstop Tech Podcast, produced by the Nonstop Tech team. In this episode, we discuss cool, recently released gadgets and why you should get them. The picks for the week by @Docrock and @JeromeKoehler include…
Day One is hassle-free journaling
Day One is a simple and easy journal, note taker, dairy, text logger that takes the burden out of daily writing. It is totally cross device compatible via the Day One universal iOS application complete with iCloud and Dropbox syncing.…
Sweet makeover for Google Presentations
For the last two years, I’ve been trying to get people off the Microsoft Office bandwagon and on to more cloud-based document creation and management. I’ve been on this train because as the go-to IT guy for most of my…
Clear puts pleasure into productivity
Productivity apps for the Mac, iPhone and iPad are a dime a dozen these days. We’ve seen countless iterations of applications designed to make your life easier. Many of these apps, however, have a high learning curve and are likely…
Remarks for iPad the best note-taker ever
Remarks as a wonderful application for the iPad that allows you to quickly annotate PDF documents as well as do some really awesome free-form note-taking. Remarks was developed by Readdle the same people who brought you applications like PDF Expert…
Nonstop Tech: Macworld roundup
After a busy week of new apps, hardware and everything else you can think of for your iDevice, Nonstop Tech’s Doc Rock and Jerome Koehler give a quick overview of their trip to San Francisco for Macworld iWorld 2012. Doc…
CodeRacer a fun way to learn Web design
Code/Racer is a cool, challenging way to learn Web design and proper coding. This multi-player live-coding game was built by the team behind TeamTreehouse, Think Vitamin and Carsonified. The basic game is simple, you login via Facebook, wait for the rest of your competitors and,…
Nonstop Tech Podcast: Online Storage FTW!
This is the 10th episode of our “Nonstop Tech Podcast, produced by the Nonstop Tech team. In this episode we discuss online cloud storage, with services like Microsoft SkyDrive, Box and DropBox @Docrock and @JeromeKoehler give you some insights on…
Organize your brain with Workflowy
Workflowy is quite possibly the best list-organizing tool ever made. The interface is svelte and super speedy, mostly due to its lack of complex design, trendy thingamajigs and unnecessary options. Workflowy is like a blank sheet of paper that’s meant…
Five geeky ways to be more productive
Everybody talks about not having enough time to do the things they want, and every year, people resolve to try to do more. Productivity is the fourth subject we’re tackling in our series on getting you some tech help for…
Five geeky ways to get smarter
We’re off to a great start on geeking out your New Year’s resolutions. Now that you are slimming down and getting your full Richie Rich on, you might as well get smarter. The call to action is upon us all…
Five geeky ways to get frugal
Following up on our Five geeky ways to get fit post, we’ll now focus on another often-proclaimed New Year’s resolution, dealing with the finances. This one comes in many variations depending on where you are in your life. Whether it’s…
Five geeky ways to to get fit
Finally the madness of Christmas is over and we can get on with our normal lives. Well almost, because now we have to get cracking on our New Year’s resolutions. You remember those things right? The ones we all get…
Nonstop Tech Podcast: NASty talk & Siri
This is the ninth episode of our “Nonstop Tech Podcast, produced by the Nonstop Tech team. Please ignore the mislabeled title screen. It’s Episode 9 In this episode we discuss Network-Attached Storage, cross platform compatible USB drives and of course…
Transferring your data to iPhone 4S
iPhone 4S: Transferring data is a special edition of Nonstop Tech podcast designed to help you make the transition to Apple’s new iOS 5 mobile operating system as simple as possible. We give you the steps you need to ensure…
Getting Ready for iOS 5
“Getting Ready for iOS 5” is a special edition of the Nonstop Tech Podcast, designed to help you make the transition to Apple’s new Mobile operating system, called iOS 5, as simple as possible. We give you the steps you…
iPhone 4S Roundtable
@JohnGarcia, @JeromeKoehler and I got together on Skype to do a quick roundtable discussion on the iPhone 4S. We wanted to give you our viewpoints on everything from why Apple didn’t call it an iPhone 5 to how Siri is…
Nonstop Tech Podcast: Get the picture
This is the sixth episode of our “Nonstop Tech Podcast, produced by the Nonstop Tech team. In this episode, we cover a handful of tips on taking better pictures. It has been said the best camera is the one that…
Nonstop Tech Podcast: Mobile sounds
This is the fifth episode of our “Nonstop Tech Podcast, produced by the Nonstop Tech team. In this episode, we cover Pocket Podcast Catchers that let you grab your favorite shows over 3G or Wi-Fi without syncing with iTunes. We…
Nonstop Tech Podcast: Let’s keep it clean
This is the fourth episode of our Nonstop Tech Podcast, produced by the Nonstop Tech team, In this episode, we cover ultimate protections cases for your iPhone; Jetpack Joyride; making your computer perform better and last longer with a few…
Quick and simple sake tips
I wanted to call this “Sake for Dummies” or “Sake: Keep it Simple and Stupid,” but that wouldn’t be totally fair. See sake is not as difficult as many people tend to think. It’s actually very enjoyable and approachable. There’s only…
Nonstop Tech Podcast: Its all geek to me
Here’s another episode of our Nonstop Tech Podcast, from the Nonstophonolulu.com Tech team. This third episode is dedicated to getting your geek on. Jermome Koehler (@JeromeKoehler) and I talk about ways to learn about tech, keep up with tech and…
Nonstop Tech Podcast: Personal Stylus
The second episode of our Nonstop Tech Podcast is dedicated to personal landing pages, searching for the perfect stylus, Deus Ex and a rant about Microsoft Word vs. Text editors, with handy tips to even it all out. Below you’ll…
Simple ways to avoid viruses
By Kelly Guimont Special to Nonstop Viruses. You’ve heard a lot about them and about what software to install to protect from them. Sure there are a number of fine software packages that will guard your machine against malware and…
Nonstop Tech Podcast: Back it up!
The Nonstop Tech team is introducing a new podcast series. We don’t have an official name yet, so for now, we’ll just call it the Nonstop Tech Podcast. The mission of the podcast series is not only to showcase the…
How to convert videos for iPhone/iPad/iPod
I’m often asked how to get videos to iDevices in a simple and easy way. Following up on a post I did about downloading videos from YouTube, I received a question from one of my most prolific readers of my…
Chill makes video viewing a social outing
Have you ever wanted to “Chill” with your friends and watch something cool? Ever gathered around a monitor or TV to laugh at the craziest viral video you’ve ever seen? Well, this hot new startup coming from the “Founders Room”…
WAIT! Before you install Lion
The biggest story in tech today will be the official release of Mac OS X 10.7 or “Lion”, the newest versions of the Macintosh operating system by Apple. Lion has been on the minds of many Mac users since Steve Jobs…
Namesake iPhone app released
Namesake, the popular “Real-time Conversation” engine, took Hawaii by storm a few months back when @Hawaii made the mistake of inviting me to a social networking service that asks me to talk as much as I want about anything I…
Blotter: a cooler way to view your day
I have another calendar add-on to share as a follow-up to last week’s post about Fantastical. Blotter is a desktop calendar viewer for the Mac. It allows an “always on” look at your iCal and Google calendars without the need…
Fantastical makes calendar input easy
Ever forget to add something important in your calendar? Ever wish for an easier way to add things to your calendar? Well, Fantastical is the killer aha! application in computer calendaring that will make you wonder why it wasn’t always…
App review: Red Bull BPM HD
Nonstop Tech’s Doc Rock does a quick review on Red Bull’s BPM HD app for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. We also caught up with Red Bull BPM’s DJ Manny at the BPM launch party at NextDoor for live app…
How to: YouTube videos unplugged
There are many reasons why you may want to have some YouTube videos downloaded for offline viewing or for archiving. The most common reason I hear are for work and school presentations, weddings or other celebratory events. I get asked…
SMSW blog: Funny or sad?
I am forever talking about the sorry state of our education system. Often I am grabbing for straws attempting to defend my comments. Every once in a while, a gem like Sh*t my Students Write will come along to prove…
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