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TEH

Tech from an Enthusiast Point of View

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Jan 31, 2024 · 1 hr 9 min
TEH 213: Apple Protection and Vision Pro, AI is faking it. And yes, Taylor Swift.
In This Episode: Apple Protection and Vision Pro, AI is faking it. And yes, Taylor Swift. This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 0:00 LN: Jury Duty 4:00 GR: What is this new Apple Stolen Device Protection thing? Protection for phone being stolen in a public place 8:00 New protections 13:00 Compare to two factor 19:00 GR: New Vision Pro No one’s really used it yet 24:000 Is Apple’s new Vision Pro is a privacy mess waiting to happen? 36:00 LN: Taylor Swift, and what it all portends for fake AI generated stuff? Can’t believe everything you see or hear 47:00 LN: How I was credited by AI generated article-vomit 50:00 GR: New App Store rules about monopoly. What does it mean? Ain’t it Cool 1:01:00 LN: (“Cool it ain’t”) Terry Pratchett – disappointed 1:03:00 LN: Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part I. 1:04:00 GR: Three Body (Chinese TV show) BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 1:07:40 GR: How To Use iPhone Stolen Device Protection 1:08:00 LN: How to Read Phone Charger Voltage Specs
Jan 17, 2024 · 1 hr 1 min
TEH 212: Apple woes, Vision Pro, Netflix History. Sorting data with ChatGPT.
In This Episode: Apple woes, Vision Pro, Netflix History. Sorting data with ChatGPT. This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 2:15 GR: Apple’s App Stores hit with a 1-2 punch. EU issues. US Supreme Court Declines to Hear Apple vs. Epic Games Case 16:00 GR: Apple Vision Pro coming fast…. 27:00 Might have it in two weeks! 28:00 LN: Netflix history download 31:00 GR: Viewing history. Account > Profile > Parental Controls > Viewing Activity > Download All button. 35:00 LN: Your Biggest Struggles: 2024 Edition 37:00 Used Chat GPT to manage the input 42:00 GR: ChatGPT for analyzing server logs. 48:00 LN: Google Podcasts going away (migrate to YouTube music?) Another in a long list of canceled Google tech Ain’t it Cool 53:00 GR: My Effin Life, by Geddy Lee 55:00 LN: The Rook – contemporary magic. (book 2 introduces Sci-Fi ish themes as well.) BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 57:00 LN: newsletter.askleo.com 1000 issues! 58:00 GR: 40 Years Of Mac: A Timeline
Jan 4, 2024 · 1 hr 5 min
TEH 211: SSD life, Server issues, AI copyright, Finding People
In This Episode: SSD life, Server issues, AI copyright, Finding People This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories LN: Bumpy start to 2024 (SSD / router) 2:00 GR: My own server slowness issue. SSD fail (and solution) 4:00 What you shouldn’t do on an SSD? or not… 10:50 Internet connection issues GR: 18:00 Finding IP addresses hitting the server 27:00 Script to block bad actors LN: 34:00 Thought this was interesting: How to Use ChatGPT to Read and Explain Terms of Service (via ResearchBuzz) – the caveat is good too Facebook’s Terms Of Service: Reduced 5000 to 227 words GR: 39:00 The New York Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft for Copyright Infringement 42:00 Apple Explores A.I. Deals With News Publishers (So this will be Apple’s strategy for AI, probably) Ain’t it Cool LN: 46:00 Jose Monkey – https://www.tiktok.com/@the_josemonkey – “I find people who ask to be found” GR: 52:00 Leave the World Behind (Netflix) BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion LN: 1:00:50 Is Private Browsing Really Private? GR: 1:02:00 Learn How To Take a Proper Screenshot On a Mac In One Minute
Nov 15, 2023 · 1 hr 1 min
TEH 210: Tech divide, new and old. Practical AI. Search engines. Future of programming.
In This Episode: Tech divide, new and old. Practical AI. Search engines. Future of programming. This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 0:50 GR: The tech divide in everyday life. Dealt with a 2023 ticket system and a 1990s parking system in the same evening with remarkable contrast 08:00 LN: License plate recognition 09:30 GR: Pay by phone parking meters 14:00 LN: Practical AI (as opposed to chatgpt, co-pilot, etc.) Added into existing tools like Photoshop, Canva, & others. Often disguised as features (though often AI because marketing) Grammar tools, for example, have been around for some time, and they’re getting smarter. 20:00 Large language models – turning into a buzz term 23:00 LN: Find myself using different search engine(s) 26:00 GR: Apple and search and billions of dollars! 30:00 GR: Will AI take over programming? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/a-coder-considers-the-waning-days-of-the-craft 32:00 Coding is an art 35:00 History in coding 40:00 Computer language speaks computer 49:00 Engineering Ain’t it Cool 51:00 LN: What’s Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies – Tim Urban (Wait but Why) 52:30 GR: Star Trek – rewatching original BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 59:20 LN: My Computer Is Infected With Malware. Should I Just Throw It Out? 59:45 GR: The Practical Mac Buying Guide
Nov 8, 2023 · 59 min
TEH 209: AI poisoning, YouTube privacy consequences, Vigilante apps, The Beatles
In This Episode: AI poisoning, YouTube privacy consequences, Vigilante apps, The Beatles This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 1:00 LN: AI poisoning. Deep fake detection. A race. 6:00 GR: Using AI to fake crimes, and removing meta data 10:30 LN: A clever shield against photo fakery – MIT Tech Review 11:15 GR: Do ad-blocker blockers violate a user’s privacy? If so, then could it mean the eventual death of web content? 16:00 Paradox of issues 18:30 LN: Youtube Premium 22:00 Social Fixer / Fluff-Busting Purity for Facebook. 3rd party extensions 24:00 GR: Every website has checkboxes and uses cookies 26:30 LN: The risks of “Find My” technologies. 32:50 GR: If you find a lost phone? Good guys vs. Bad Guys. Use ‘Find My’ phone apps. But don’t trust them. – WaPo 34:00 Vigilante-ism in general. 41:00 LN: The Beatles – Now And Then (Official Music Video) Are they deep faking John Lennon or not? (from TEH 197) Ain’t it Cool 51:00 LN: Bach Toccata and Fugue bwv 565 in d minor. – Constantini Music – An interesting take on my fav piece of music of all time: played on a Bandoneon (a type of concertina, which most people would incorrectly call an accordion). (My YouTube playlist of T&FinDm performances.) 54:00 GR: Beatles ’66: The Revolutionary Year, by Steve Turner BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 57:40 LN: Why Can’t I Talk to a Real Person? 58:15 GR: There’s No More 27-Inch iMac: Here’s What To Get Instead
Nov 1, 2023 · 52 min
TEH 208: Apple Computer models. Local AI vs. Cloud Servers. Creative ChatGPT and surveillance.
In This Episode: Apple Computer models. Local AI vs. Cloud Servers. Creative ChatPT and surveillance. This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 1:00 GR: New mac. Entire event recorded on iPhone i15 pro. 3:00 Record directly to external drive 4:00 New M3 processors. Upgrade entire Macbook pro line. 10:00 Time to upgrade? 15:00 Jan 1984 to January 2024… anniversary. 18:00 LN: AI – chips and processing vs. server farms, privacy concerns. 24:00 Creative AI generating ideas. 26:00 Writing sales copy. 31:00 AI is a good brainstorming tool 33:00 GR: Gun detection. AI used to try to stop mass shootings. Tracking false alerts Ain’t it Cool 39:00 GR: Starter Villain 41:00 LN: Our Flag Means Death on Max – Stupid, silly, but fun comedy with Rhys Darby, Kiwi comedian you’ve probably seen, and Taika Waititi, actor and director you’ve almost certainly seen. BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 49:30 LN: Why Are There So Many Files? 50:30 GR: Is It Time To Update Your MacBook Pro Or iMac?
Oct 24, 2023 · 52 min
TEH 207: The gang is back! Residential cruise ships. All those cables. And More AI.
In This Episode: The gang is back! Residential cruise ships. All those cables. And More AI. This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. Our guests are … Kay Savetz and Randy Cassingham, OG hosts of the TEH Podcast. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 00:25 Today we are joined by the original, cohosts of the TEH podcast. 01:01 Kay Savetz is Working with the internet archive and creating a massive library of books, magazines, newsletters, and podcasts. 03:25 Kay owns a bunch of websites. One of them is faxzero.com, which lets people send faxes online. 06:01 Randy is busy living everywhere… specifically moving to a residential cruise ship which slowly goes around the world. He’ll be blogging on ResidentialCruising.com 11:42 Items on history of the space station. 13:17 One requirement for a residential cruise ship is good Internet. Starlink 15:35 The, company is going be running itself from the ship. 16:43 As one of the oldest email publishers, since 1994, I’ve always been saying that I can live anywhere where I have an Internet connection. 18:56 This is True will continue from the ship. 19:24 Gary Iphone cables go to USB C. New Apple Pencil. 26:56 Looking ahead, what’s next? Is there a USB D coming down the pike? Cable speeds. Distance. MagSafe chargers. 33:41 Iphone on a tripod. Magnetic holders. 35:14 Leo. AI, chat GPT. Images. 36:30 Kay – I’ve been using AI for coding. Helped fix margins. Computers are now programming computers. 38:55 Randy – Python has the ability to to import libraries. 47:57 – Will AI be solving CAPTCHAS or will we finally getting rid of CAPTCHAS? 49:38 AI generated image (See below) BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion Reminders of where people can find our hosts 50:41 Randy – Thisistrue.com, and now ResidentialCruising.com. 50:47 Kay FreePrintable.net, FaxZero.com, archive.org, Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications. 51:02 Gary macmost.com 51:07 Leo askleo.com That DALL-E photo The original prompt: “Two professors arguing in front of a lecture hall full of college students. Pixar style. –ar 19:10” Automatically expanded to: “Photo of two professors, one male with a beard and the other female with glasses, having a passionate discussion at the front of a large lecture hall. Behind them, a diverse group of college students watch with a mix of amusement and surprise. The atmosphere is light-hearted, resembling the animation style of popular animated movies.” The result: DALL-E generated image. Click for larger image.
Oct 18, 2023 · 57 min
TEH 206: AI is smart and dumb. Robots can be cute. And Passkeys.
In This Episode: AI is smart and dumb. Robots can be cute. And Pass keys. This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 2:00 How’s about collecting data for vaccine reactions, and sore arms. 5:00 GR: AI mishap when trying to summarize the last episode. It’s scary better and scary worse. 9:15 You could have a podcast with ChatGPT. GR: What The If (He’s been doing some of his podcasts where he interviews fictional and historical people using ChatGPT and ElevenLabs) 12:30 LN: A video I shared with my patrons. Made exclusively with TEH listeners: Updating an article. It’s me using AI in a few ways to refresh an older article. 15:00 Using it for images. 17:00 GR: Adobe conference. 19:50 LN: Cast Magic. Makes transcripts, bullet points, summary. 20:30 GR: Disney Robot. Cute adorable robots. Emotive robots. 22:00 GR: Also – Diplomacy Robots. https://www.wired.com/story/ai-diplomacy-robots/ Very nice robots who use diplomacy. Like ChatGTP is overly nice. More plausible future than futuristic sci-fi. 26:00 Questionable Content. 27:00 Disney robot walks through through the woods. 31:00 LN: Battery technology and the future. 34:00 Starlink enabling LTE mobile phones from satellite. 35:15 LN: Passkeys & Google: https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/passkeys-default-google-accounts/ Will the future be passwordless? 41:00 What Is a Passkey? Leo’s recent article. 41:30 GR: (Something other than computers) NASA’s Oxygen-Generating Experiment MOXIE Completes Mars Mission 44:00 Mars is a planet inhabited only by robots. 45:45 Tie it all together with happy building robots. Ain’t it Cool 48:30 GR: Futurama is back 👍🏻 51:30 LN: The Tudors on Prime (& Wikipedia) BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 53:00 LN: How Should I Keep Recovery Codes Secure? 54:30 GR: Mac Quick Start Guide for New Users – Mac Tutorial for Beginners Additional links Castmagic transcript and AI-generated content based on this episode. (Unedited, so you can see exactly how accurate, or not, it might be.)
Oct 11, 2023 · 1 hr 3 min
TEH 205: Hyper-Personalization. Air tag tracking. Zoom’s AI Assistant.
In This Episode: Hyper-Personalization. Air tag tracking. Zoom’s AI Assistant. This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Summary: Leo and Gary talk about the concept of hyper personalization and its impact on technology, as well as the challenges of adding options and settings in software design. They briefly mention the idea of using an air tag for tracking a vehicle. They also discuss the use of AI companion for generating meeting transcripts and the ability to have voice conversations with Chat GPT. Top Stories 1:00 The Hyper-Personalization of Everything I get questions about Mac stuff that relates to this all the time. Why doesn’t Apple add MY feature? Why can’t I customize this? Why is this a new feature in macOS because I don’t need it. 3:50 Stickers 6:40 LN – Why ask why? 9:50 How software is made 13:15 Old saying: every setting in software is a design choice that a developer avoided 16:00 LN – An AirTag scenario. (Vehicle tracking) 17:50 GR – Issues with tracking stolen vehicles. 21:20 Range and signal. The thief’s phone may ping. The thief’s phone may snitch. 25:30 Dogs. 28:30 GR: Started Zoom years ago. Zoom’s AI Assistant. Catch me up. Have I been mentioned? 33:50 LN: Krisp’s transcription assistant. 37:20 GR: Used Krisp, left it, now using Crystal Sound instead. 48:20 GR: Chat GPT App’s voice mode. 52:00 Video thumbnails Ain’t it Cool 55:00 LN: Guardians of the Galaxy – GotG3 56:00 GR: The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 57:40 LN: Should I Turn My Computer Off at Night? 59:10 GR: How To Create and Use Safari Web Apps On Your Mac Additional Zoom-created transcript – verbatim, so we’re not responsible for any errors, but an interesting exercise. Castmagic-created transcript – generated using a different tool, for comparison.
Sep 27, 2023 · 53 min
TEH 204: Encryption back doors, iPhone annoyances, Car play and cameras
In This Episode: Encryption back doors, iPhone annoyances, Car play and cameras This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 1:00 LN: Encryption Back-doors – “Meredith Whittaker reaffirms that Signal would leave UK if forced by privacy bill” 2:30 How encryption works 4:00 Backdoor leaks 6:00 GR: What they are trying to do 10:00 Evil monitoring 14:00 GR: Apple too: Apple threatens to kill iMessage & FaceTime in UK if controversial law passes 16:00 GR: What I hate about my iPhone 15 Pro Max 18:20 “Always on” is a lie 22:00 LN: Android has Always On in an app 23:30 GR: “Action button” requires press-and-hold-a-bit 26:30 GR: Wired CarPlay doesn’t work 28:00 Car plugins 38:00 Playing with the camera Ain’t it Cool 42:00 LN: Sex Education (Netflix), 42:00 Wheel of Time (Amazon) 44:00 GR: Over the Edge of the World: Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe 48:00 Dates when you go around the world BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 50:00 LN: What Is and Is Not Spam 51:20 GR: My Sonoma course (coupon code “solano” for 40% off)
Sep 13, 2023 · 1 hr 1 min
TEH 203: Apple announcements. Is computer sharing back? AI’s news for today.
In This Episode: Apple announcements. Is computer sharing back? AI’s news for today. This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories GR: Apple new stuff (iPhone 15, Apple Watch) 2:00 Prices didn’t go up 4:10 Apple watch detects finger tapping 7:00 Carbon neutral 8:40 iPhone 15 13:40 Camera zoom 15:00 Upgrade? 19:20 Emergency contact to satellite. Adding roadside assistance with AAA 20:40 USBC connectors, new processor, data storage 34:40 LN: What us the first computer you used? 37:00 Going back to sharing. You can rent a computer in the cloud. 39:00 Baldur’s gate, game sharing. Going full circle. Electric cars 49:00 LN: Asking AI about today’s news Ain’t it Cool 51:30 LN: Ancillary Justice – Ann Leckie – warming up to it. 53:50 GR: The After Party (Apple TV, two seasons) BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 59:20 LN: What Should I Do If I Lose Access to My Password Vault? 1:00:15 GR: Why You Should Consider an Online Backup
Sep 6, 2023 · 1 hr 7 min
TEH 202: Burning man mud, so much social media, new iPhone?
In This Episode: Burning man mud, so much social media, new iPhone? This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 3:00 GR: 3D without glasses or goggles Layers of pixels that see your eyes. 6:00 TVs use too much power, TVs as monitors 12:00 coding for eyeballs 19:00 LN: Mastodon (my own social.askleo.com) Threads social media 24:00 Mad at Twitter, worried about Threads 27:00 TikTok and tracking 30:00 What Facebook knows about you 34:00 Usenet is back? 38:00 Community online. Topic based. 40:50 GR: iPhone 15? Goodbye lightening port 44:00 Zooming 47:00 What else can we do on a phone? Ain’t it Cool 55:00 LN: The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives – – They still exist! 58:00 GR: Station Eleven (Book) BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 1:01:00 LN: What’s the Point of “Mark as Spam”? – 1:04:20 GR: How To Create Video Travel Maps With Keynote
Aug 30, 2023 · 1 hr 23 min
TEH 201: Privacy and Paranoia
In This Episode: Privacy and Paranoia This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 0:51 LN: PNW Corgi Picnic Photos 1:50 GR: Trip to Spain. 4:10 Using a VPN is getting worse. 8:00 Google doesn’t like VPN. Searches are constantly captcha’d. Logging in to services hits you with a lot of “prove you are you,” or log in again, etc. The problem is sites know if the IP address is a VPN. 17:00 Telling your credit card you are traveling. 28:30 GR & LN: Are passphrases good or bad? XKCD Password Strength 1:05:00 LN: – AARP recommendation Ain’t it Cool 1:08:00 LN: Hacking Humans podcast LN: Dead Still – “postmortem photography” 1:10:30 GR: Baldur’s Gate 3 on GeForceNow BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 1:18:00 LN: What Information Should I Provide When Asking for Help? 1:18:40 GR: What To Do And What Not To Do If You Find a Lost iPhone
Aug 9, 2023 · 57 min
TEH 200: Two Hundred Episodes, Listening to your keyboard? Facial Recognition, Vocabulary Helps.
In This Episode: Two Hundred Episodes, Listening to your keyboard? Facial Recognition, Vocabulary Helps. This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 1:00 Episode numer 200! Episode 1 was Nov 2017 and it was titled: “For One Welcome Our New A.I. Overlords.” Now almost 6 years later, LLMs are “AI” and the concern is more about misinformation, stealing content, and people losing jobs. What changed? 5:30 Another headline was: And are there too many streaming services? 7:40 LN: 20 years! 8/10/2003 – There was a bug in IE 6! 10:00 Changes in Google 11:30 GR – #1 was iPods in schools 15:30 GR – A new way to steal passwords. 18:20 So so unlikely. Spy movie stuff. The paranoid will love this! 19:30 Two-factor and password managers thwart this. 20:20 But, interestingly, it does make a good case AGAINST pass phrases. 23:00 LN: Facial Recognition: Pro and Con Easy access at the airport: big pro (for me) Big con: Woman sues Detroit after facial recognition mistakes her for crime suspect Old white guys… 29:40 Medical use 30:20 LN – Grammar tools: Pro and Con Google Search can now critique your grammar and how I use it 33:40 GR – (Aside) How is it that so many reddit posts have bad grammar and even spelling? Even right in the title. Are that many people simply turning off these features? Vocabulary helps Ain’t it Cool 43:50 LN – More therapy: (YouTube Shredder) 47:50 GR Oppenheimer. Forget IMAX Laser. Saw it in 35mm baby! 53:30 (What, no Barbie? 🙂 ) BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 54:20 LN – 8/10: What I’ve Learned Answering Questions for 20 Years 55:10 GR – Get Creative With Numbers Spreadsheets
Aug 2, 2023 · 1 hr 2 min
TEH 199: Apple Pay, Threads, X, Writer’s Strike, Cheap VOIP
In This Episode: This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 1:00 GR: 3000 episodes! 3:00 Power of persistence 3:40 LN: Travel payments in Europe were awesome. From Netherlands rail, to food, to everything. It’s getting better here, but oh so slowly. 5:00 GR: US not so much. Using Apple Pay for security: Prevent credit card skimming. 9:00 Apple Pay for “seniors.” 12:00 Remember cash? 12:50 LN: (followup) Still waiting for Threads on the desktop. I keep thinking I’ll post, and then … ugh. Still posting on Mastodon… Facebook. 14:50 GR: Trying to make Threads work. Feels like the last one. 25:00 GR: Thoughts on ‘X’? The everything app. GR: Read about that in an Elon Musk bio from years ago. 29:00 Taking the Twitter handle X. X Corp. 33:00 People are still posting to Twitter! 37:00 GR: Hate content on the rise. Musk sues researchers 42:00 GR: How the Hollywood strikes affect creators/influencers? 47:00 The ones who don’t understand. 51:00 Writers’ strike and reality TV. 52:00 GR: VOIP follow-up. It has a cost about $3/month to have what feels like a real land line Ain’t it Cool 55:00 LN: Therapy: Hydraulic Press Channel 58:00 LN: Podcast: No Stupid Questions (Angela Duckworth – author of Grit) 58:50 GR: Jungle by Yossi Ghinsberg BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 1:01:00 LN: How Can Four Random Words Possibly Be More Secure Than 16 Random Characters? 1:02:00 GR: Episode 3000:
Jul 12, 2023 · 1 hr 6 min
TEH 198: Threads launch. How they all integrate. Who is going to win?
In This Episode: Threads launch. How they all integrate. Who is going to win? This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories GR – Threads. 4:00 Launched with enough resources They got 100M users right away 7:30 GR – Transfers easily from Instagram 9:00 Sorting out followers and following 13:00 GR – So much sponsored stuff 24:00 Privacy concerns. Overblown? 30:00 Gary’s take: Importance of Twitter-like services very overestimated. 33:00 LN: Utility, however, is high if done right. 37:00 GR – Redit 42:00 GR – ActivityPub. 53:00 LN – Can it be on a desktop? GR: And iPad. But this is Instagram, so probably NEVER. Tricks to type Ain’t it Cool 59:00 LN – Happy Valley (Brit, Acorn TV) – Little “happy” about it. 1:00:00 GR – Silo (Apple TV+) BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 1:02:00 LN – If I Leave a Service Like LastPass, Does My Data Remain Online? 1:03:00 GR – 8 Ways To Make Text Stand Out in Mac Notes
Jun 28, 2023 · 58 min
TEH 197: Game controllers, Retro games, Electric vehicles unite, Big disks
In This Episode: Game controllers, Retro games, Electric vehicles unite, Big disks This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 1:00 Travel. Services nearby. 3:00 GR: AI, the “new” Beatles song, Apple Music Sing. How people are misinterpreting this as “AI singing as John Lennon” when it is actually “AI acting as a sound engineer separating the voice from a recording.” 8:00 Mistakes in reporting about AI. Be skeptical. 13:00 LN: Game Controllers and submarines 18:00 GR: New games for old systems: Mr Run and Jump Atari just announced the first new Atari 2600 game in more than 30 years 21:50 For reasons no one can fathom, McDonald’s has released a new Game Boy Color game 23:00 Nox Archaist: 24:50 Super Mario Bros. Wonder 26:20 Adventure: The Atari 2600 at the Dawn of Console Gaming (Book) 32:20 LN: I would not have predicted this, but I think it’s bigger than most people realize. Electric vehicles unite. ChargePoint joins Tesla’s NACS, will offer connector on new and existing stations North American Charging Standard 37:00 Charge in the garage 38:00 LN: This might just be an old man moment, but “WD Blue 8TB HDD Review: A Balanced, Entry-Level Hard Drive” 8TB is entry level? 41:00 18 TB – 22TB drives now. 44:00 Backup realities Ain’t it Cool 46:00 LN: Youtube channel – There I Ruined It – Elvis singing “Baby Got Back”. Party in the USSR, Nickleback + Ray Charles — mashup, many others. 48:50 GR: Black Mirror, new season BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 53:30 LN: Should I Buy a New Computer to Fix Malware? 54:20 GR: Will Apple Ever Make a 27-inch iMac Again?
Jun 14, 2023 · 54 min
TEH 196: Reddit again. Voice assistants. Energy from air and flying cars.
In This Episode: This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 0:40 LN: More Reddit. Harvesting content and losing advertising. 3:00 GR: Why Reddit has to charge for API 7:15 Google also scrapes sites 11:00 What’s the strategy. Is it all advertising revenue? Or, is it just that third-party apps don’t show Reddit ads, so it is server use without any revenue generated by Reddit? 13:00 LN: One person’s conspiracy theory 17:30 LN: Cortana going away What makes a voice assistant successful, anyway? 25:00 Will it turn into Bing? 30:00 GR: Making stuff up… or is it true? GR: Scientists find way to make energy from air using nearly any material. This seems like too-good-to-be-true stuff to me. Clean electricity from air? 39:00 Why aren’t there flying cars? And drones. Ain’t it Cool 46:00 GR: Renfield. Funny vampire. 49:00 LN: What’s Our Problem? – A Self-help Book for Societies – Tim Urban BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 50:50 LN: The Problem With OneDrive Backup 52:20 GR: XClipTools: Using the Calculator Functions Leo and Gary in Denver
Jun 7, 2023 · 54 min
TEH 195: Apple goggles, Sonoma, and more announced. Reddit protests
In This Episode: Apple goggles, Sonoma and more announced. Reddit protests This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 1:00 GR: Apple announcements. Apple Vision Pro. VR goggles 13:00 Creativity for the future. What it takes to develop. 14:15 3-D movies 15:20 No nausea 18:00 You’re wearing a desktop computer 23:00 Spatial computing 24:45 Working horizontally LN: Article – My sick, unexplainable desire to buy a face computer 27:00 Sonoma, and other new features 32:00 GR: Reddit API crisis 40:00 Has Twitter shut off? 47:50 Subreddit protests Ain’t it Cool 48:30 LN: FUBAR on Netflix 50:20 GR: Skeletons on the Zahara BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 52:50 LN: Can I Use a Charger With the Same Voltage but Different Amperage Rating? 52:15 GR: A Quick Early Look At macOS Sonoma
May 31, 2023 · 1 hr 8 min
TEH 194: Airships, Mac rumors, Generative Fill, Trouble with clocks that have little birds.
In This Episode: Airships, Mac rumors, Generative Fill, Trouble with clocks that have little birds. This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 0:00 GR: “Sergey Brin Has a Secret Plan to Put Airships Back in the Skies” 4:50 Cargo transportation 7:00 Disaster relief 9:00 They use helium 10:00 Weather 11:40 Difference from Blimps 13:00 A low flying, slower airplane 15:20 Time frame 18:45 GR: Apple announcements. Rumors: MacbookAir with larger screen. New Macbook Pro. Developer versions of new operating system 21:00 Finally VR Headset… maybe 24:00 iPhone and iPad aps 28:10 LN: Adobe Firefly and Photoshop’s “Generative Fill” Lots of good YouTube demos 30:10 The magic is in understanding what to ask for 33:00 Generative fill TEH demo (See images below.) 38:00 GR Using it on Firefly and trouble with little birds 50:00 GR: Speak to AI game characters Ain’t it Cool 54:00 LN: Guilty pleasures category: “The Great” on Hulu – “An occasionally true story”, “Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story” on Netflix 56:00 GR: Would I Lie To You (BBC Series, Britbox/YouTube) BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 1:02:00 LN: Can I Still Use LastPass Safely? 1:03:55 GR: Why Mac and iPad “Deals” Aren’t Always Good Images The basic TEH logo, unaltered, 1200×630: Click for larger image. The image expanded to 1920×1080 using Photoshop’s “Generative Fill”. The added area (outside of the green outline) was synthesized by Photoshop, and extends the theme of the background quite nicely. Click for larger image. Since it came up in discussion, here’s the original stock photo used to generate the logo: via Adobe Stock. Click for larger image. Placing that over the Generative Fill created image shows that the original stock photo added nothing that wasn’t already in the logo: Click for larger image. Also mentioned in this episode: Steampunk Cuckcoo Clocks”. “Steampunk Cuckoo Clock” via MidJourney. Click for larger image.