This is the twenty-eighth episode of the Ask Different Podcast. Your hosts this week are Kyle Cronin, Jason Salaz, Nathan Greenstein. We’re back after a long summer! Today’s episode is all about games. Kyle has recently been playing an iOS game called Super Hexagon by Terry Cavanaugh, a simple but deceptively-challenging game where one tries to man…

This is the twenty-seventh episode of the Ask Different Podcast. Your hosts this week are Kyle Cronin, Jason Salaz, Nathan Greenstein. We’re back already from our summer hiatus! Our topic this week is CSS development on the Mac. The software one spends the most time in when working with CSS is, of course, a text editor. Nathan is a fan of Chocolat,…

We bring you a short update to talk about our inconsistent schedule over the last two months, and to report that it will continue for the near future. We are calling a summer sabbatical hiatus off from the Podcast in order to have some time to straighten our schedules back out. However, we’re not leaving the site! We simply do not have enough time …

This is the twenty-sixth episode of the Ask Different Podcast. Your hosts this week are Kyle Cronin, Jason Salaz, Nathan Greenstein. We begin with more talk of the new iPad. One feature that we would have loved to see is pressure sensitivity. Apps like GarageBand are use accelerometer-based trickery to determine the pressure of a tap, but we would …

This is the twenty-fifth episode of the Ask Different Podcast. Your hosts this week are Kyle Cronin, Nathan Greenstein, and Mike Bradshaw. This episode is all about the big news of the week: the new iPad. The first interesting thing about it is its name: iPad. Not iPad 3, not iPad 4G, just iPad. Officially, it’s the iPad 3rd Generation. We discuss …

This is the twenty-fourth episode of the Ask Different Podcast. Your hosts this week are Kyle Cronin, Jason Salaz, and Nathan Greenstein. We begin with some important Ask Different news. Three new moderators have been elected. Congratulations to our own Jason, Daniel, and Mike! We look forward to working with you all. In other Stack Exchange news, …

This is the twenty-third episode of the Ask Different Podcast. Your hosts this week are Kyle Cronin, Jason Salaz, Nathan Greenstein. We begin with some talk of the Ask Different 2012 Community Moderator Election that is currently in progress. This year’s election is different than last year’s for a number of reasons, most of which are directly link…

This is the twenty-second episode of the Ask Different Podcast. Your hosts this week are Kyle Cronin, Jason Salaz, Nathan Greenstein, and Daniel. Welcome to the podcast, Daniel! This is the perfect week to have Daniel on the podcast because, in addition to being the #10 user on Ask Different, he’s a community college teacher. We begin with a discus…

This is the twenty-first episode of the Ask Different Podcast. Your hosts this week are Kyle Cronin, Jason Salaz, and Nathan Greenstein.We also have a special guest today: Ask Different user and TUAW editor TJ Luoma! We’ve wanted to have TJ on the show for some time now, but this week was perfect because of an upcoming contest on Ask Different with…

This is the twentieth episode of the Ask Different Podcast. Your hosts this week are Kyle Cronin, Jason Salaz, and Nathan Greenstein. This week we take a detour off the beaten path, and talk exclusively about best practices on Ask Different, and Stack Exchange in general. Stack Exchange is a Question & Answer site. It is not a Wiki, Forum, Blog, or…

This is the nineteenth episode of the Ask Different Podcast. Your hosts this week are Kyle Cronin, Jason Salaz, Nathan Greenstein, and Mike Bradshaw. We’d like to welcome a new co-host to the Ask Different Podcast, Mike Bradshaw! Mike is the #1 user on Ask Different by reputation, and worked in an Apple Stores for 4 1/2 years. Thanks for being on t…

This is the eighteenth episode of the Ask Different Podcast. Your hosts this week are Kyle Cronin, Jason Salaz, Nathan Greenstein. After we open with talking pleasantly about weather and recount the amount of time we’ve now been doing this show, we discuss the state of iOS 5′s Notification Center and apps that don’t seem to play nice with it. And s…

This is the seventeenth episode of the Ask Different Podcast. Your hosts this week are Kyle Cronin, Jason Salaz, Nathan Greenstein. Starting with some site news, Ask Different has seen record traffic lately. On the heels of iOS 5, iCloud, and the iPhone 4S, visits have gone way up! We hope to see similar increases after future Apple updates. We enc…

This is the sixteenth episode of the Ask Different Podcast. Your hosts this week are Kyle Cronin, Jason Salaz, Nathan Greenstein. We begin by asking Siri to introduce herself. She tells us who she is, and what she can be used for. We demo some of Siri’s core productivity functionality, as well as some more… playful things. For instance, we get Siri…

This is the fifteenth episode of the Ask Different Podcast. Your hosts this week are Kyle Cronin, Jason Salaz, Nathan Greenstein. Now that we’ve had time to digest Apple’s “Let’s Talk iPhone” event, we share our thoughts about the announcements and how they fit into the bigger Apple picture. We begin this show with some site news. Ask Different is …

This is the fourteenth episode of the Ask Different Podcast. Your hosts this week are Kyle Cronin, Jason Salaz, and Nathan Greenstein. Today, we cover Apple’s “Let’s Talk iPhone” event: Apple announced Cards, an iPhone app for sending cards via snail mail. We talk about what the app is, but we can’t help but ask “Why?” Apple gave a recap today of s…

This is the thirteenth episode of the Ask Different Podcast. Your hosts this week are Kyle Cronin, Jason Salaz, and Nathan Greenstein. We’d like to welcome our special guest, Stack Exchange’s Valued Associate #36, and member of the MAYHEM CHAOS team, Abby Miller! The CHAOS team’s “Raison d’être” is community engagement and promotion, both on Stack …

This is the twelfth episode of the Ask Different Podcast. Your hosts this week are Kyle Cronin, Jason Salaz, and Nathan Greenstein. We have been featured on the Stack Exchange Podcast, Episode #16. We recorded a short 30 second ad that Stack Exchange offered to air. You can listen to the entire episode, and note Kyle’s comment listing our ad’s air …

This is the eleventh episode of the Ask Different Podcast. Your hosts are, as always, Kyle Cronin, Jason Salaz, Nathan Greenstein. We have a special guest today: Long time Apple user, speaker, and author Tom Negrino! Tom was introduced to Macs by accident. He got a Macintosh after seeing the 1984 commercial, and has been using them ever since. He t…

This is the tenth episode of the Ask Different Podcast. Your hosts this week are Kyle Cronin, Jason Salaz, and Nathan Greenstein. We begin with some Ask Different news: On August 17, we celebrated Ask Different’s first birthday! On that date in 2010, Ask Different entered private beta. Since then we’ve seen tremendous growth, exceeding all our expe…

This is the ninth episode of the Ask Different Podcast. Your hosts this week are Kyle Cronin, Jason Salaz, and Nathan Greenstein. We’re back! Our (unplanned) summer sabbatical has ended, and we begin again. The length and frequency of our previous shows was too exhausting, so we’re cutting back a bit. Our shows will not occur every single week, as …

This is the eighth episode of the Ask Different Podcast, a podcast about Apple and related technologies created by members of the Ask Different community. Your hosts this week are Kyle Cronin, Jason Salaz, and Nathan Greenstein. We begin by bringing you some podcast news: We have created an ad for the podcast (Lion-themed!) and posted it in the Com…

This is the seventh episode of the Ask Different Podcast, an unofficial podcast created by members of the Ask Different community about Apple and related technologies. Your hosts this week are Kyle Cronin, Jason Salaz, and Nathan Greenstein. Last week was WWDC, and keeping up with the coverage of the keynote was a very intense task. Not to mention …

This is the sixth episode of the Ask Different Podcast, an unofficial podcast created by members of the Ask Different community about Apple and related technologies. Your hosts this week are Kyle Cronin and Jason Salaz. We devote this entire show to the announcements from the WWDC Keynote: First up, the next version of Mac OS X, 10.7 “Lion”, will p…

This is the fifth episode of the Ask Different Podcast, an unofficial podcast created by members of the Ask Different community about Apple and related technologies. Your hosts this week are Kyle Cronin, Jason Salaz, and Nathan Greenstein. We begin with a piece of errata from the last episode as Jason corrects a keyboard shortcut he misspoke. For t…

This is the fourth episode of the Ask Different Podcast, an unofficial podcast created by members of the Ask Different community about Apple and related technologies. Your hosts this week are Kyle Cronin, Jason Salaz, and Nathan Greenstein. We begin with site discussion: What, exactly, is the scope of Ask Different? Are questions about Windows XP g…

This is the third episode of the Ask Different Podcast, an unofficial podcast created by members of the Ask Different community about Apple and related technologies. Your hosts this week are Kyle Cronin, Jason Salaz, and Nathan Greenstein. Kyle begins with some news about this podcast: We’ve launched! We want to thank everyone that has sent us feed…

This is the second episode of the Ask Different Podcast, an unofficial podcast created by members of the Ask Different community about Apple and related technologies. Your hosts for this episode once again are Kyle Cronin, Jason Salaz, and Nathan Greenstein. Jason and Kyle begin with news of Stack Exchange’s improved tag sets filters tool, which ma…

This is the first episode of the Ask Different Podcast, an unofficial podcast about Apple and related technologies created by members of the Ask Different community. Your hosts for this episode are Kyle Cronin, Jason Salaz, and Nathan Greenstein: We begin by discussing the return of the Stack Overflow Exchange podcast, and some of the interesting o…