{"id":478,"date":"2023-08-24T15:57:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T15:57:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-10-23T03:09:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T03:09:49","slug":"updatesand-murals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brothers-in-tech.com\/?p=478","title":{"rendered":"Updates\u2026and Murals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6571\"><a class=\"wp-embedded-audio\" href=\"https:\/\/chrt.fm\/track\/7FB487\/rss.art19.com\/episodes\/67f8b4fa-ab1c-41c0-822d-c46afdf12f07.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIgxCbHVicnJ5BjoGRVQ%3D--a8950c811add1124beefcda61e27f2a7f7825eba\">https:\/\/chrt.fm\/track\/7FB487\/rss.art19.com\/episodes\/67f8b4fa-ab1c-41c0-822d-c46afdf12f07.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIgxCbHVicnJ5BjoGRVQ%3D--a8950c811add1124beefcda61e27f2a7f7825eba<\/a><\/div><p>After a couple of weeks of testing out the new messaging, browser, email, and social apps we presented in the previous episode(s), the Brothers are back to give their verdicts. Which apps are still in the regular rotation, and which have been moving to app purgatory and why? Most importantly\u2026are any of them worth your time (or money)? And, as a special treat for those who stick around to the end, we have a very important discussion of firefighters, tornados, bears\u2026and child abduction?<\/p>\n<p>Products\/Apps\/Services mentioned in this episode:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beeper.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Beeper<\/a> (free for now; invite only): Communication\/messaging app that brings all (or, quite a few) of your messages into one place. Continues to be updated\/improved.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arc.net\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Arc<\/a> (free; currently Mac only): A fresh new approach to web browsing, including format customization, note sharing, and more.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sparkmailapp.com\/features\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Spark<\/a> (free for basic access, $4.99\/month for Premium Individual use, but now included in SetApp): Email client with a number of useful features, including a unified &amp; filtered inbox, snooze, filtering\/blocking, etc.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Threads<\/a> (free, but must have an Instagram account): Meta\u2019s attempt at a replacement of Twitter\/X, soon to have web access.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Your Hosts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alan Jackson<\/strong>&nbsp;(the older Brother) is a producer of online content with<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejacksoncreative.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Creative<\/a>&nbsp;and survey researcher with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacksoninsight.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Insight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Jackson<\/strong>&nbsp;(the younger Brother) is an Associate Professor of Kinesiology at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacificu.edu\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific University<\/a>&nbsp;and Product Director\/Consultant at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/senaptec.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Senaptec, Inc.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have any feedback for the Brothers regarding this topic (or future topics)? Visit&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brothers-in-tech.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">www.Brothers-In-Tech.com<\/a>&nbsp;or email&nbsp;info@themesh.tv.<\/p>\n<p>See Privacy Policy at <a href=\"https:\/\/art19.com\/privacy\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/art19.com\/privacy<\/a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href=\"https:\/\/art19.com\/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/art19.com\/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a couple of weeks of testing out the new messaging, browser, email, and social apps we presented in the previous episode(s), the Brothers are back to give their verdicts. Which apps are still in the regular rotation, and which have been moving to app purgatory and why? Most importantly\u2026are any of them worth your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brothers-in-tech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brothers-in-tech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brothers-in-tech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brothers-in-tech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brothers-in-tech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brothers-in-tech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651,"href":"https:\/\/brothers-in-tech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brothers-in-tech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brothers-in-tech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brothers-in-tech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}