Owen joins Tim this week to discuss the California Wildfires, Ice Storms, Acer desktop, mini Arcade games, a car sales story from Owen, Macstock expo, inventors killed by their own inventions, and the Lawn Chair Pilot, Larry Walters. Plus Owen’s opinion on Star Trek Discovery and The Orville. Sorry for the bad audio, something happened that was not heard until after recording the episode.

Download and listen here
RSS Feed for your podcast app
Subscribe in iTunes

Sponsor: MacSales.com and the new OWC USB-C Travevl Dock

Links:
Lawn Chair Pilot, Larry Walters
List of inventors killed by their own inventions
Macstock Expo

Find out how much fun David is having with High Sierra! Plus, the ThinkPad turns 25, Tim gets an Acer desktop for review, looking at Star Trek Discovery and The Orville, plus a little Inhumans, and so much more.

Download and listen here
RSS Feed for your podcast app
Subscribe in iTunes

Sponsor: MacSales.com

Has Elon Musk lost his mind? Apple’s iOS store takes center stage in our WikiTrolling segment, and listener BJ supplies our ad read for sponsor OWC – MacSales. Finally, Wire kinda sucks now, and we kick off the show with more Sticker news from Donny!

Download and listen here
RSS Feed for your podcast app
Subscribe in iTunes

Sponsor: MacSales.com
Wiki Link: App Store (iOS)
Links:
You Can Only Wash Google And Levi’s New $350 ‘Connected’ Jacket Ten Times
Showtime websites secretly mined user CPU for cryptocurrency

Will iPhone users wait for an iPhone X, or pick up a readily available iPhone 8 now? Also, adventures in Back-up cameras, shopping malls, and some podcast history.

Download and listen here
RSS Feed for your podcast app
Subscribe in iTunes

Sponsor: MacSales.com
Wiki Link: Shopping mall

Much feedback on replacing Wire kicks off this weeks episode. Then David and Tim discuss hackable pacemakers and Marvel Comics Secret Wars from 1984 as part of our WikiTrolling segment.

Download and listen here
RSS Feed for your podcast app
Subscribe in iTunes

Sponsor: MacSales.com September Garage Sale!

Links:
Marvel’s Secret Wars
Pacemaker vulnerability

Wire problems kick off the show, Mayweather and McGregor fight, political talk and why we don’t do it much, the solar eclipse, AccuWeather’s scumbag partner. Reveal. and their practices, and shadow dog hand-puppets.

Download and listen here
RSS Feed for your podcast app
Subscribe in iTunes

Sponsor: MacSales.com

Links:
Everyone is rightfully mad at Nintendo
Wading Through AccuWeather’s Bullshit Response
Amazon warns about counterfeit eclipse glasses
JBL E55BT Quincy Edition – Review
Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017

Tim and David discuss the David’s DJI Spark mini drone, the lack of political talk on the show, and a lot from listener Brendan. Also discussed, the TechFan Sticker pack, the Wiki for Packard Bell, and much more!

Download and listen here
RSS Feed for your podcast app
Subscribe in iTunes

Sponsor: MacSales.com

Links:
Download the TechFan Sticker Pack!
Packard Bell on Wikipedia

Owen Rubin returns to join Tim Robertson and David Cohen to discuss Uber, Apple CarPlay, Consumer Reports on the Microsoft Surface, and some history of Claris. Plus your feedback!

Download and listen here
RSS Feed for your podcast app
Subscribe in iTunes

Sponsor: MacSales.com

Links:
How one hot sauce seller hauled Uber into small-claims court and won $4,000
25% of Microsoft Surface owners report problems within 2 years, Consumer Reports finds
Investors hit Uber ex-CEO hard, sue over alleged “gross mismanagement”

Wiki Trolling
Claris

Tim and David get about ten minutes to chat before Wire and Skype let us down, so we continue with two solo segments. David discussed Formula E and Find my iPhone, while Tim looks at troubling news about Blu phones on Amazon and what we should do about privacy and data protection.

Download and listen here
RSS Feed for your podcast app
Subscribe in iTunes

Sponsor: MacSales.com

Recorded a week earlier, David and Tim discuss the Apple I Redux presentation gave at Macstock.

Download and listen here
RSS Feed for your podcast app
Subscribe in iTunes

Sponsor: MacSales.com 

Links
Macstock

Okay, so I’m writing this shownote at 5AM, the day after I returned home from Macstock, as well as a six and a half hour drive, so honestly i don’t know what the show is about. I know Guy Serle and Tom Schmidt joined David and Tim, but beyond that, I don’t know. Recorded on the first two days of Macstock Expo.

Download and listen here
RSS Feed for your podcast app
Subscribe in iTunes

Sponsor: MacSales.com 

Links
Macstock

Macstock Expo is two weeks out, and Tim and David give an update on sponsors and more. Google has a adware problem, iOS has a bloat problem, the Transformers have a quality problem, and the iPhone turns 10! All that, and how many of you remember TCR Racing?

Download and listen here
RSS Feed for your podcast app
Subscribe in iTunes

Sponsor: MacSales.com – Refurbished iMacs

Links
Google Play is fighting an uphill battle
What Does ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’s Box Office Performance Mean for the Franchise’s Future?
Total Control Racing
Macstock

Tim finally gets the new stereo system in his Sequoia, David has a Drone coming soon, and the new iPad 10.1 is talked about. In Wiki Trolling, we look at the Borovsko Bridge.

Download and listen here
RSS Feed for your podcast app
Subscribe in iTunes

Sponsor: MacSales.com – RAM for the new iMac!

Links:
DJI Spark drone
Highest possible score on  Ms Pac Man for the Atari 2600
Borovsko Bridge
JVC KW-V230BT

Tim is joined by Owen Rubin this week to discuss Malware, Disney World’s reliance on video screens, the Kenbak-1, and much more.

Download and listen here
RSS Feed for your podcast app
Subscribe in iTunes

Sponsor: MacSales.com

Links:
Rouge One Spoof
Macstock Conference
Kenbak-1
Kenbak-1 Reproduction on eBay

Tim and David discuss the new Echo Show from Amazon, a new vehicle for Tim, and the McDonnell XV-1 thanks to our Wiki Trolling. And yes, we are still looking for a better name for that segment!

Download and listen here
RSS Feed for your podcast app
Subscribe in iTunes

Sponsor: MacSales.com

Microsoft comes out with a great looking Surface Laptop, Siri may be getting worse, a new HD for Tim’s daughter, and an all-new feature: Wiki Trolling debuts!

Download and listen here
RSS Feed for your podcast app
Subscribe in iTunes

Sponsor: MacSales.com

Tim and David celebrate 300 episodes of TechFan! We take care of a little business from last week and our Nintendo Discussion, talk a bit about the OWC DEC, and then spend the rest of the show on the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Tim and David have a very heated discussion about the NES Classic and Nintendo’s decision to cease production. Plus the original Starcraft is update and free, a $400 juicer, Google, and Adidas’s stupid PR. Also, Tim announces the Association for Fed Up Consumers!