AwesomeCast: Tech and Gadget Talk

This week’s episode brought to you by Slice on Broadway, Alex Kahrs Design & Media, and Dark Forge Studios! Sorg and Producer Missy were away at Podcast Movement last week – but the gang’s all here this week as we return to our regular schedule of things. Chilla joins us in studio while Katie is remote from a secure facility north of the City as we talk this week’s topics, including: Katie is...

Sorg, Katie, and Chilla are answering your questions in this special edition of the show! After the show remember to: Eat at Slice on Broadway (@Pgh_Slice) if you are in the Pittsburgh area! It is Awesome! (sliceonbroadway.com) Want to be part of our studio audience? Hit us up at awesomecast@sorgatronmedia.com and we’ll save you a seat! Join our AwesomeCast Facebook Group to see what we’re sharing...

This week’s episode brought to you by Slice on Broadway, Alex Kahrs Design & Media, and Dark Forge Studios! We’re back with Katie, Chilla, and Sorg as they talk about some tech. This week’s topics include: Sorg and Chilla are questioning Brian Crawford’s Sosoon bag recommendation (after they both got one). Chilla’s Awesome Thing of the Week is a cable organizer from Amazon. Chilla has some Kra...

This week’s episode brought to you by Slice on Broadway, Alex Kahrs Design & Media, and Dark Forge Studios! John from Looking for Group and Academy Pittsburgh joins the show to talk this week in tech, including: We are living in the future WITH Chilla this week as we got a quick early peek at the innaugural edition of the Pittsburgh Current. (Be sure to grab your copy when it hits newsstands!)...

This week’s episode brought to you by Slice on Broadway, Alex Kahrs Design & Media, and Dark Forge Studios!\ Rizz joins us to talk Game Jam and more, including: Sorg is re exploring his past few years with Google Timeline's web interface Rizz shows us a 48 kill record in Fortnite. Chilla is prepping for vacation with new Kindle Paperwhites Fan Brian Crawford is excited about the Lego Store com...

This week’s episode brought to you by Slice on Broadway, Alex Kahrs Design & Media, and Dark Forge Studios! Max Parker returns to the show this week to talk video games and E3 with us. He’s joined in studio by Chilla and Sorg to talk about this week in tech news, including: AC Chilla is sharing an Amazon update as his Awesome Thing of the Week. Specifically, Alexa voice controls are now availa...

This week’s episode brought to you by Slice on Broadway, Alex Kahrs Design & Media, and Dark Forge Studios! Krause is on the couch this week. Chilla’s on remote from Studio C. We’re not quite sure where Dudders is. But, Sorg’s holding it down with the boys for this week’s episode. We’re talking about: Krause is sharing Android Messages for web as his Awesome Thing of the Week. Do you want to b...

This week’s episode brought to you by Slice on Broadway, Alex Kahrs Design & Media, and Dark Forge Studios! It’s hard to believe it’s been 8 years since we picked up our microphones and video cameras and started this podcasting about tech thing. For the occasion, we’ve got Mike Pound, Chilla, Sorg, and Katie in studio to talk about a few things: Shout out to Rob de la Cretaz. We miss you, budd...

This week’s episode brought to you by Slice on Broadway, Alex Kahrs Design & Media, and Dark Forge Studios! Sorg is all by himself in studio as he’s joined remotely by Chilla from Studio C and Alex Kahrs coming in from Long Beach. This week has some great updates following WWDC, including: We promise we won’t be talking ALL Apple, but we will touch on some of the news and updates. Alex is shar...

This week’s episode brought to you by Slice on Broadway, Alex Kahrs Design & Media, and Sparkledragon’s Magical Emporium! We return after a week hiatus as Kenny Chen joins us for the main show. Kenny is joined by our usual cast of characters, Sorg, Chilla, and Dudders, as we talk about this week’s topics including: Katie is sharing an Awesome Thing of the Week that she literally found in the s...

This week’s episode brought to you by Slice on Broadway, Alex Kahrs Design & Media, and Sparkledragon’s Magical Emporium! Krause returns to the big purple couch this week to show off some of his new toys. He is, of course, joined by our in-house gadget hounds Chilla, Katie, and Sorg. This week’s topics include: Katie is fresh off the Millvale Music Festival and sharing some quick thoughts abou...

This week’s episode brought to you by Slice on Broadway, Alex Kahrs Design & Media, and The Millvale Music Festival! Cynthia Closkey is back on the show this week joining Katie, Chilla, and Sorg as they talk tech news. This week’s topics include: If there’s one thing you need to see this week, it’s Thanos dancing. Speaking of interesting dance moves, we’re taking a trip down memory lane with S...

This week’s episode brought to you by Slice on Broadway, Alex Kahrs Design & Media, and The Millvale Music Festival! John Carman joins John Chichilla and Mike Sorg to talk about what’s new in the world of technology. This week’s topics include: Sorg is setting the tone for this week’s Awesome Thing of the Week segment with his finds after hanging with the THRIFTY podcast crew last week! Carman...

This week’s episode brought to you by Slice on Broadway, Alex Kahrs Design & Media, and The Millvale Music Festival! This week Brian Crawford of The River's Edge rejoins our regulars Katie, Chilla, and Sorg as they talk this week’s tech news, including: Chilla is loving the Otterbox Avengers: Infinity Wars phone cases! Katie wants to show your mad skills with Rapchat on her phone. Brian is upg...

This week marks the return of Scot MacTaggart of Pitchwerks. He is, of course, joined by our usual co-hosts, Katie, Chilla, and Sorg as they talk this week’s tech news, including: Katie is talking Anchor as her Awesome Thing of the Week – and their ability to find you a podcast co-host! We’re talking the Tinder of podcast hosts. Scot’s Awesome Thing of the Week is the Hardware Cup finals with Pitt...

<p>We talk about Mike Zickefoose about the NEW Arts Festival as part of the Millvale Music Festival, what was awesome about the 2017 edition and more! Find more at millvalemusic.org !</p> Also, check out sorgatronmedia.com and awesomecast.com for more entertainment. Follow Michael Sorg (@sorgatron) and @AwesomeCast for updates and live streams of our interviews! Subscribe on Facebook,S...

This week’s episode brought to you by Slice on Broadway, Alex Kahrs Design & Media, and The Millvale Music Festival! It's a jetlagged edition of AwesomeCast with the LA returned Sorg, along with Katie and Chilla in studio! Sorg is sharing Hoopla as his AwesomeThingOfTheWeek. Sorg discovered that Hoopla has ShortCircuit, and we may have derailed the Podcast. Katie is sharing an Instagram fancy...

This week’s episode brought to you by Slice on Broadway, Alex Kahrs Design & Media, and The Millvale Music Festival! We’re back on schedule after last week’s brief interruption. Katie is in Studio A with Sorg and pizza, while Chilla joins us from Studio C to talk this week in technology, including: Katie is finding Waldo as her Awesome Thing of the Week! Chilla is sharing some DNS alterations...

<p>Krissy DeShetler is the Shared Services Manager with Family House, a non profit helping to house those coming into Pittsburgh for medical services. Krissy shares with us her venture into being an "accidental techie" for a non profit as well as a large project upgrading her organization to the cloud.</p> Find out more about her organization at www. FamilyHouse.org !...

This week’s episode was pre-recorded due to a scheduling conflict with our regularly-scheduled Podcast Day events, but we were able to get Sorg, Katie, and Chilla together to talk about some of this week’s tech news, including: We’re talking new emojis with Katie as her Awesome Thing of the Week. Chilla is talking some RoboKiller to combat spam dialers. Sorg’s Awesome Thing of the Week is his new...

This week’s episode brought to you by Slice on Broadway, Alex Kahrs Design & Media, and The Millvale Music Festival! It may be the first day of spring, but we’re not sure Pittsburgh got the memo. While Chilla is tucked away all nice and warm in Studio C, Sorg and Dudders braved the snow to make it into the Sorgatron Media studio for this week’s tech talk, including: Katie is sharing a YouTube...

<p>Karen Alexander joins us to discuss 360 video, VR and AR as we talk about her experience as the winner of the 2018 Social Justice Innovation Weekend pitching a program to get 360 cameras in the hands of kids and her company XRConnectED working with these new technologies and education.</p> You can find her final pitch presentation as part of the Final Showcase stream at Repair the W...

The couch is full. Our bellies are full of Slice on Broadway pizza. All is good in podcasting world as we talk with Katie, Chilla, and Sorg about: Katie is sharing dogs as her Awesome Thing of the Week! The Alexa app has some upgrades! And, they’re Chilla’s Awesome Thing of the Week. Since we’re speaking of Alexa, we have to address the elephant in the room with regard to devices spontaneously lau...

Katie is back this week. Sorg brought an old friend from college into studio (Nate Wright). Chilla is in Studio C. It’s definitely a great turn of events to make for some great tech talk, including: Katie is sharing a dating app for the ladies with Bumble sponsoring a patch on the LA Clippers jerseys. Our guest Nate Wright is sharing an update on the hyperloop as his Awesome Thing of the Week. Chi...

<p>Cindy Leonard joins us to discuss the Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management and the TechNow Conference, how she became the tech person first in her nonprofit, helping groups get the assets they need in tehnology, and more!</p>