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TEH

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Oct 26, 2022 · 49 min
TEH 173: Travel and Travel Tech
In This Episode: Travel and Travel Tech 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 Long time no see 0:30 Covid and sort throats 3:00 LN & GR: Travels 3:50 GR: Iceland. Aurora 6:44 Travel drone, poor video quality 10:00 GR: Digital payments 10:55 Iceland has unlimited energy 13:00 LN: The Netherlands Air fares are weird. Why? Tall people. 15:00 Staffing issues 17:50 Ease of digital payments 19:00 Public Transportation 20:00 Transport app, and bikes 22:00 Location sharing & Google maps made life easy 23:00 Connectivity, Proton VPN Ditto for Iceland. Good service 25:10 LN: Traveling light. 30:00 Fun in security 38:00 Flight radar. Watch yourself fly. Ain’t it Cool 38:50 LN: Spotify Weekly Charts – International. Top music in other countries 41:30 GR: Icelandic Punk Museum Apple Music 45:00 LN: Museum Speelklok! museum of music boxes in Utrecht BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 48:00 LN: Why Ask Why? 48:45 GR: What’s New In macOS Ventura
Sep 14, 2022 · 55 min
TEH 172: iPhones and satellites, cameras, Alexa poop, Speech to text and translations
In This Episode: iPhones and satellites, cameras, Alexa poop, Speech to text and translations 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 1:22 GR: New iPhone stuff 3:00 iPhone 14 can contact satellites: emergency use 4:15 Must point at satellite, and shows you where the satellite is! 5:40 How it compresses data 7:55 Will be activated in November 8:40 LN: Experience with regular satellite phones 10:15 Free for two years with iPhone 14 11:00 Interfaces with 911 14:25 Always-on display 16:15 48 MP camera features 19:10 Car crash detection 23:00 The Dynamic Island 29:00 Should you get one? 30:00 AirPods pro 32:00 LN: In the “I’m glad I don’t have kids” department: Alexa and “poop”! Kids Yell “Poop” At Alexa, And These Musicians Profit 37:40 LN: what I’m doing w/ my carpal tunnel. Speech to text is pretty amazing. 42:50 30 years ago worked on beginning 44:50 Entrapped – Original language with subtitles. Issues with English dubbed films. 44:00 The global streaming boom is creating a severe translator shortage Lost in translation: The global streaming boom is creating a severe translator shortage Ain’t it Cool 51:50 GR: The new “A League Of Their Own: on Amazon Prime LN: More “nordic noir” – Entrapped, on Netflix BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 53:00 LN: What’s the Best Password Manager in 2022? 54:10 GR: What’s New In iOS 16
Sep 7, 2022 · 1 hr 11 min
TEH 171: TikTok Success, Troll Comments, Bootcamp and AI Artists
In This Episode: TikTok success, troll comments, Bootcamp and AI Artists 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 3:57 GR: TikTok success! 5:15 and trolls 7:10 Why comment, and what’s a tribe? 14:30 GR: Digital signatures 18:30 LN: Adobe & signatures… and Apple Preview 22:55 LN: Bootcamp for Windows. Running Windows on a Mac Question: “Particularly interested in your comments about running Windows in BootCamp. I have been doing just that for several years now. Currently I am using the last edition MacBookAir with an Intel processor and am currently running Ventura beta on the Mac side and very successfully running Windows 11 in BootCamp. Both run flawlessly.” A Mac makes a good Windows machine 27:00 End of support for old machines? 29:45 Updates to Bootcamp 30:50 GR: Apple 4K screen and, 1440 screens, and why some screens have problems 40:10 LN: Scaling in Windows 45:00 LN: AI and images. At a state fair. AI Images Won 48:00 GR: AI “art” generation is more like machine learning 54:00 LN: Dog shows, and how we compare things Ain’t it Cool 1:02:00 LN: She-Hulk 1:05:00 LOTR The Rings of Power … Pre Ain’t it Cool 1:08:21 GR: Paper Girls BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 1:10:35 LN: What You Need To Do About the LastPass Hack 1:11:05 GR: The Problem With Using 1440 Screens With a Mac + Adobe Reader
Aug 31, 2022 · 55 min
TEH 170: LastPass headlines, Phishing, Credit Cards, Windows on a Mac
In This Episode: LastPass headlines, Phishing, Credit Cards, Windows on a Mac 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 0:30 LN: Lastpass hack & headlines. 2:25 Trade secrets stolen, no user data. 4:00 Data is encrypted, zero knowledge of passwords. 5:00 If you want to change? 7:20 What’s the risk of someone getting the source code? 8:44 GR: Phishing – Don’t think you’re immune. 12:00 LN: Smishing 14:44 LN: What about the developer? 16:00 Transparency 17:00 GR: Credit Card data breachs 24:15 LN: Why so long between detection and reporting of breaches? 27:30 GR: I installed … Windows! (first time in a long time) 29:00 Time strategy games – Age of Empires 32:00 Improvements in Windows 36:00 It’s easy to undo the install in Bootcamp on a Mac. 38:00 LN: Windows/Mac compatibility… or Linux? Ain’t it Cool 45:00 GR: For All Mankind Season 3 – They go to Mars. 49:00 LN: House of the Dragon – There are dragons! BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 50:30 LN: The #1 Reason Your Computer is Slow 51:18 GR: Think You Have Duplicate Files Or Photos? Maybe Not.
Aug 24, 2022 · 1 hr 9 min
TEH 169: Accessing accounts while traveling, encryption, and vulnerabilities.
In This Episode: Accessing accounts while traveling, encryption, and vulnerabilities. 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: Another travel related thought exercise: you’re in another country, and you lose everything – phone, wallet, laptop, etc.. How do you prepare? 2:19 GR: Two Factor issues. 4:48 Connect with computers at home. Trust another person. 5:40 LN: Essential email accounts. 7:40 LN: Authy Two Factor. 10:57 GR: What if I can’t rejoin the internet world? 12:00 GR: It’s similar to getting connected when setting up a new computer. 20:00 LN: Backing up password vault. 24:50 GR: Services with no customer support 26:00 LN: Protonmail experience. And Fastmail. 29:00 LN: What “end to end” encryption means. Some people don’t really get why it matters. In light of this article: This Is the Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion (I’ve got an article in pipeline for early september) 35:15 Art and detail of encryption. 40:30 Government back door? Levels of intrusion. 45:00 It is a non-issue if end-to-end encryption is used. 49:00 Social ramifications are huge 52:00 LN: Headlines overstating things. For example: yet another Mac/Zoom vulnerability where the headlines are way scarier than they should be. Most vulnerability reports these days are ‘gated’ by phishing, so it’s in our control. Or is that “bad” news? 56:00 GR: Or, gated by “physical access.” 1:00:40 LN: Ransomware Ain’t it Cool 1:02:00 LN: (rerun) Internet radio (Radio Garden), esp with upcoming travel (I’ve been using TuneIn) 1:05:00 GR: Embassytown by China Miéville BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 1:07:15 LN: What’s a Screenshot, and How Do I Take One? 1:07:48 GR: 5 Reasons Finder List View Is The Best
Aug 10, 2022 · 52 min
TEH 168: Travel Tech in the EU
In This Episode: Travel Tech in the EU 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: Tech Travel Report 1:15 Locations in Europe 1:40 Restaurant order and payments 2:00 Mobile Phone payments (Apple Pay) everywhere 4:00 No cash 6:40 LN: Preparing for Netherlands trip 9:45 GR: Apps for Taxis 16:12 LN: Public transportation overseas 24:00 Driving 26:oo GR: Internet connections, Still VPN issues, even in 2022 31:00 GR: AirTags to the rescue 36:00 GR: TikTok tracking… interesting 39:50 Which phone to bring 41:13 LN: Changing planes and bags Ain’t it Cool 45:50 LN: 19th Anniversary of Ask Leo! 46:00 WestWorld: baffling, but fascinating at the same time. 19 years anniversary. 47:40 GR: Real Movie: Vengeance BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 49:50 LN: 6 Reasons There Are Still So Many Security Breaches 50:20 GR: Using A Shortcut To Get Your Mac Ready For a Presentation
Jul 13, 2022 · 58 min
TEH 167: Period apps, Complexity of Tech, Is Musk a Twit?
In This Episode: Period apps, Complexity of Tech, Is Musk a Twit? 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 1:29 LN: Have you installed (or uninstalled) your period tracking app yet? 4:00 GR: Reporting for transgender and bathroom use. 5:00 LN: How tech touches and is affected by EVERYTHING, even things you might not expect like Roe v Wade decisions. 6:00 GR: Differences in tech since the 70’s. 11:00 LN: James Webb telescope. https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/ Space is full! Miracle of human engineering 15:45 LN: Internet outage, Rogers, in Canada was a big deal. Shows how easily things can go wrong. Bleeping Computer Article 19:00 GR: Getting connection help. 21:16 GR: The Fall of Elon Musk. Depp/Heard trial, how likable is he? Controversy around Twitter, tech and politics. 25:00 Technological leaps, Tesla, Starlink, good/bad and jerkiness. 28:50 GR: What Twitter can be now. Can the geeks run it? Elon top tweets… LOL 33:45 Micro blogging, un-mention Who will lead? Ain’t it Cool 43:44 LN: “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds”, and “Stranger Things.” Reading: No Time to Spare – Ursula K. Le Guin Parable of the Sower – Octavia Butler 45:55 GR: Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan (1959 ) 47:50 Best Short Story in 7 paragraphs. The Sirens of Titans (1959) BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 52:30 LN: I Can’t See the Top of a Window, so I Can’t Minimize, Maximize, or Close. What Can I Do? 53:44 GR: Which Desktop Mac Should You Buy? (Summer 2022) Which MacBook Should You Buy? (Summer 2022)
Jun 22, 2022 · 54 min
TEH 166: AI. Is it alive?
In This Episode: AI. Is it alive? 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 Is AI Sentient? 1:30 A character? A priest? An engineer? 6:23 Looking at LaMDA 8:30 Is there a wrong direction for Artificial Intelligence? 9:30 What does sentient mean? 10:14 Fiction is examining this 12:20 ELIZA 14:00 Who decides if a machine is sentient? 17:00 Who decides what goes in? 16:10 The ethical use of AI 20:40 DALL-E and Corgies 22:00 Games with AI 23:30 Is there an off switch? 30:50 The amount of data 33:30 Smart cars? 43:00 We can’t define it Articles Is LaMDA Sentient? — an Interview – The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life You’re Afraid of AI For All the Wrong Reasons Google’s AI Isn’t Sentient, But It Is Biased and Terrible ELIZA: a very basic Rogerian psychotherapist chatbot Three Laws of Robotics Microsoft’s framework for building AI systems responsibly Ain’t it Cool 45:20 GR: Aurora (Book) Kim Stanley Robinson 48:40 LN: Building a Second Brain – Tiago Forte (ebook). Started the last season of Vikings on Amazon Prime. BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 50:40 LN: If Someone Hacks My Gmail, Can They Hack My Other Accounts? 51:30 GR: How Time Machine Backups Work When using iCloud
Jun 9, 2022 · 49 min
TEH 165: Telegram. New Mac upgrades, All the new features.
In This Episode: Telegram. New Mac upgrades, All the new features. 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 1:23 LN: Telegram. 3:00 Started in Russia, but no more. FAQ 4:00 Introducing a Premium program Independant, secure, open source 4:50: Apparently in heavy use in Ukraine, which is what got my attention 6:00: Ask Leo! on Telegram. 8:00 GR: Apple Stuff. Ventura. 9:45 Support for passkeys 11:20 New hardware. Chips M1 and M2, Pro, Ultra 14:15 Unified Memory Bandwidth Understanding the diff between M1, M2 and M1 Pro/Max/Ultra 20:30 Sizes 24:00 Sort of like a dock. 32:50 iPhone camera for webcam 36:30 Preferences will be Settings 37:00 Clocks and Weather 41:00 Photo features 44:12 Confusion for what’s new Ventura will be out in the fall Ain’t it Cool 45:00 GR: The Tourist on Amazon Prime 45:57 LN: The Orville on Hulu (Honorable Mention: Stranger Things on Netflix) BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 48:10 LN: What Happens at Windows 10 End of Support? 48:43 GR: A Look At the new macOS Ventura System Preferences Redesign
May 25, 2022 · 59 min
TEH 164: Tech camping, Insecure Apps, Wiki News
In This Episode: Tech camping, Insecure Apps, Wiki News 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 1:20 GR: Starlink signals near Canyonlands 3:46 Low earth, good speeds 6:20 LN: Coming changes for Google “less secure” apps accessing Gmail. 7:50 From App passwords to Open Authorization 8:40 Wikipedia Article 10:10 Google: Less secure apps & your Google Account 11:10 Google taking away Less Secure App option 14:00 What to do & a work around 18:10 GR: Tech support and email issues 23:15 GR: Technology and backpacking: Apple phone and Apple Watch 24:20 GPS works great 27:00 Camera, books. So much 28:00 Used little battery, but still had some charging issues. 32:00 What about solar? 36:30 GR: Why Wikipedia is my primary news source. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/20/tech/wikipedia-editors-breaking-news/index.html 41:52 Wiki news – https://www.wikinews.org/ 47:50 What about pay and jobs? Ain’t it Cool 52:00 LN: Star Trek, Strange New Worlds, Dune Universe – Butlerian Jihad 53:10 GR: Revenger book series by Alastair Reynolds. https://www.goodreads.com/series/209807-revenger BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 56:50 LN: What Are “Less Secure Apps” and Why is My Gmail Not Working? 57:23 GR: Using the Mac Dock With Only Your Keyboard
May 4, 2022 · 1 hr 12 min
TEH 163: New social media? Traveling tech disasters. Check your Two Factor.
In This Episode: TEH 163: New social media? Traveling tech disasters. Check your Two Factor. 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 0:20 LN: Twitter alternatives? Playing around.. 1:15 https://bitclout.com – Twitter on the block chain 1:56 Crypto Bros… What? 3:56 https://mewe.com, alternative to Facbook 4:21 https://wt.social, a wiki Twitter 5:40 http://mastodon.social, has a sense of location 8:33 https://counter.social, so far feels friendly. Gets a nod Only Sky Article 16:00 Scary ones 18:16 Why it doesn’t matter 22:51 Discord – http://discord.com, focusing on groups 27:17 Slack – https://slack.com 30:06 LN: What I like about Twitter and Facebook 31:00 GR: What about TikTok? 36:50 Instagram, difficulties 38:00 Linkedin, do we need resumes? 45:00 Remember MySpace? And Skype. 46:00 Facebook messenger audio 47:20 LN: My Wi-Fi / internet sucked while traveling. Testing an extender. 51:27 LN: My phone died while I was traveling. What that meant for my Two Factor Authentication. 56:30 Banking 59:23 GR: iPad has a double authentication, and password vault authentication Ain’t it Cool 1:01:50 LN: Enjoying Picard, looking forward to Strange New Worlds 1:03:27 GR: Empire of the Summer Moon (Book) by S.C. Gwynne BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 1:07:31 LN: I Think I’ve Been Phished. Now What? 1:08:08 GR: Test Your Network Speed On a Mac
Apr 27, 2022 · 56 min
TEH 162: Twitter take over
In This Episode: Twitter take over 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 & GR: Car maker and model rocket enthusiast buys Twitter. 3:11 Edit button 5:10 Notification intricacies 6:00 New infrastructure 6:20 Long-Form Tweets? 8:00 TikTok following suit? 10:00 Defeat the spam bots? Possible, but expensive. 15:00 No board of directors 16:20 Getting rid of ads? Subscriptions? 21:00 Maybe we won’t know? 21:30 Free speech? 24:00 Appeals? 29:30 Open source algorithm? 31:45 Over promising? 32:15 Authenticating all real humans 36:00 Anonymous needs 42:00 Will it need more people? 48:45 Alternatives Ain’t it Cool 49:50 LN: Vikings (on Amazon Prime), Vikings: Valhalla (on Netflix) 52:30 GR: Imposters on Netflix BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 54:00 LN: You Are Not Too Old for Technology 54:40 GR: 7 Mac Keyboard Shortcuts To Forget and What To Use Instead
Apr 13, 2022 · 56 min
TEH 161: Solving privacy, Space Station Angles
In This Episode: Solving privacy, Space Station Angles 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 1:07 GR: John Oliver’s Privacy Episode 2:22 Why creating fear in those that don’t know much about privacy isn’t the way to get things right 6:15 I get nervous when government regulators get involved. 8:10 Take for instance EU cookie regulation. 10:50 They have no idea what they’ve done. 13:00 Targeted advertising. 17:00 It’s been going on a long time. 18:10 LN: How does it hurt you? 21:10 GR: Take care of your privacy on your own. 33:00 Economics of ads 38:00 Content targeting 40:30 GR: Crowded Space Station? Future Axiom Space plans for ISS future 44:15 Detachable modules 46:00 Space Balloons Ain’t it Cool 47:50 LN: ClickBait, Netflix. It’s a Murder/mystery Different focus each episode, nice twist. 50:30 GR: Tales From the Loop BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 53:00 LN: How Was My Bank Account Hacked When I Did Everything Right? 53:36 GR: Making It Easier To Drag And Drop On a Mac
Apr 6, 2022 · 1 hr 9 min
TEH 160: Ukraine tech, new iPad, new Mac, RAM, Disk sizes and useful aps.
In This Episode: Ukraine tech, new iPad, new Mac, RAM, Disk sizes and useful aps. 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 0:12 GR: As if in an answer to a question I asked last week: The drone operators who halted Russian convoy headed for Kyiv Started by young university-educated Ukrainians who had been part of the 2014 Maidan uprising and volunteered to use their technical skills in the resistance against the first Russian invasion 4:45 The Russians can latch on to the drone’s electronic signature and quickly strike with mortars, so the Aerorozvidka teams have to “launch and run”. 5:30 Jamming… back and forth. The unit is also looking at ways to overcome Russian jamming, part of the electronic warfare being waged in Ukraine in parallel to the bombs, shells and missiles. At present, Aerorozvidka typically waits for the Russians turn off their jamming equipment to launch their own drones, and then it sends up its machines at the same time. The unit then concentrates its firepower on the electronic warfare vehicles. 6:30 Defense and offence. Making warfare harder. Size and sophistication makes a difference. Some of the advanced modems and thermal-imaging cameras made in the US and Canada are subject to export controls, so they have resorted to crowdfunding and asking a global network of friends and supporters to find them on eBay or other websites. 9:05 LN: I got an iPad. (Pro, 11”, 256GB). What are the top things I, never having used an iPad or iPhone, should know or do? 11:09 GR: Trackpad, 12:52 Apple pencil 13:09 Apps better on larger sceen: Tiktok, web, reading 14:46 Creativity tools, news, games, photo editing. 16:40 Movies 17:10 Instagram weirdness 20:10 LN: Limitations on uploading images 23:00 Taking pictures on an iPad, pencils 26:00 LN: Clever media games 27:25 Screen sharing, built in Google Chrome ap. 30:15 Airline aps for movies. 31:40 GR: New Mac Studio. Display. High resolution Crisp=small. Microphones and speakers. Camera. 36:00 The computer itself 41:00 Editing and exporting videos 44:00 Thunderbolt cables for transfering data 45:00 GR: Is 8 GB RAM too little for a Mac in 2022? Not necessarily 48:00 LN: Future needs? 54:00 Is it your main machine? Ain’t it Cool 56:12 LN: Dune 1:01:30 Picard 1:02:10 GR: Our Flag Means Death, on HBO 1:05:40 The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 1:06:44 LN: How Safe is Kaspersky Internet Security? 1:07:15 GR: Find Out Which Of Your iPhone Apps Use More Battery
Mar 30, 2022 · 1 hr 3 min
TEH 159: SSDs, Ukraine’s internet, Podcasts come into their own, streaming, Kaspersky, and Transcriptions.
In This Episode: SSDs, Ukraine’s internet, Podcasts come into their own, streaming movies, Kaspersky, and Transcriptions. 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 0:30 LN broken laptop. Dead SSD and how I fixed it. 3:00 Frame.work. Laptops with replaceable components. It’s meant to repair. 6:50 LN: “How Ukraine’s Internet is still working despite Russian bombs and cyberattacks” – Digital information is still coming out after a month of bombing. Russia relies on the internet too. Ukraine understands how important connectivity is. Starlink satellites. 9:15 The internet was designed for rerouting and resiliency. 9:54 Why we don’t hear about Starlink. 11:00 Ukraine has been deeply invested in technology. 13:13 GR Podcasts covering news are coming into their own with the war. Ukraine Podcasts. 18:00 Journalism and podcasting 22:00 GR CODA produced by Apple: best picture at Oscars. 24:30 Why is Apple doing this? 30:00 Is the future of movies in streaming only? 31:00 Spiderman also now the #6 highest grossing film. So future uncertain. 42:25 … And Kaspersky. FCC adds Kaspersky to its list of national security threats How Safe is Kaspersky Internet Security? (Ask Leo! article) 45:00 LN Recommendations 49:27 GR Otter.ai vs HappyScribe for transcriptions and subttles. Ain’t it Cool 53:00 LN HALO on Paramount+ 55:00 Character challenge! 57:53 GR The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 59:30 LN How Do I Downgrade Windows 11 to Windows 10? 1:01:08 GR 5 Reasons Why Keeping Your Passwords In Notes or a Document Is a Bad Idea
Mar 17, 2022 · 1 hr 3 min
TEH 158: New Macs from Apple, Transcriptions and Computer Voices
In This Episode: New Macs from Apple, Transcriptions and Computer Voices 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: Thoughts on the Mac Studio and Studio Display 1:04 The new Mac: Mac Studio 2:12 Does this replace the 27-inch iMac? Yes, and more. A re-alignment. 3:00 Back to one size iMac 3:39 What is the Studio Display? Max or Ultra. 4:05 I called it on “Ultra” and that there would be a 2xM1 config 7:00 New screen: Studio display 11:00 GR: What I’m getting… 12:00 Cameras and microphones 25:20 GR: New phrase, “There is always going to be room for indecision.” 27:40 LN: How I make transcripts. (Duct tape and baling wire.) 28:25 Fav hack: Record on Pixel phone which automatically transcribes 29:50 Happy Scribe for subtitles and accurate transcriptions 31:15 Youtube automatic transcriptions 35:00 Amazon services 41:00 Transcription of this podcast by Happy Scribe vs. Pixel phone RAW, unedited, transcription results in text files: HappyScribe (happyscribe.com) and Google Recorder (recorder.google.com). (HappyScribe wins. ) 42:15 Other options and text to speech Ain’t it Cool 46:35 LN: Ain’t it confusing: Raised by Wolves?? 49:00 LN: Everything I Know About Life I Learned from Powerpoint – Russell Davies 52:05 GR: If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? By Alan Alda BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 58:38 LN: Can I Rely on My Cloud Service’s Backups? 59:21 GR: Using Universal Control Across Macs and iPads
Mar 2, 2022 · 55 min
TEH 157: Ukrain tech, live streaming, financial issues, coders and Social Media.
In This Episode: Ukraine tech, live streaming, financial issues, coders and Social Media. 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 Ukraine. 1:00 Maybe a positive spin is the use of social media as a force for good, as opposed to previous examples. 3:23 A war of tech as much as guns. 3:43 Yes, tech more involved because Ukraine is a modern nation being invaded by another modern nation. People broadcasting with easily available technology 7:00 Starlink being deployed/available there. 9:40 Ukraine technical community: coders, programmers 11:40 Sanctions FB censoring Russia. Netflix refuses to carry state TV. Twitter labels Russian news sources. Apple stops sales and ApplePay. TikTok live streamers. No batman DirectTV (they just turned off RT in the USA) 11:40 SWIFT, transfering money issues 17:20 Money coming out. Crypto currency issues 18:30 Thought provoking issues with crypto 20:15 Difference between Kiev and Kyiv. 21:10 New cold war? Air space closed Who all is involved 26:12 The Teenager Who Tracks Elon Musk’s Plane Has a New Obsession: Monitoring Russian Oligarchs, Vladimir Putin… 28:00 Good vetted sources Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, BBC World News 31:00 Donations Ain’t it Cool 31:40 LN: Sorta-cool: Finished “Termination Shock” Good read, rambling stories, interesting future tech 41:45 LN New office. 44:17 GR: Planetwalker: 22 Years of Walking. 17 Years of Silence. by John Francis Learn by listening Walking slows things down so you can experience and learn What you could be missing on the path not taken Sticking to principles and having conviction can help you accomplish goals Friendliness and generosity are all around us Walk the earth … my 17-year vow of silenceTEDFeb 15, 2008 Not all news is bad, Herioc Stories BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 55:55 LN: Just What Is a Backup, Anyway? 54:36 GR: Learn About Mac Image File Formats
Feb 16, 2022 · 1 hr 4 min
TEH 156: Music and MP3s. Lost iPhones. Recording software adventures.
In This Episode: Music and MP3s. Lost iPhones. Recording software adventures. 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 1:07 LN: Yet Another streaming alternative, with a twist. (Plex) 3:36 Integrates with Tidal 5:00 Playing MP3s 10:15 How musicians get money 23:46 GR: AppleCare+ with Theft and Loss. Recent iPhone experience 28:00 Find a phone was weird 37:00 Lost mode 42:40 LN: Been playing with recording software 43:58 Techsmith makes SnagIt for cool snips, and now records video 46:00 OBS video recording 47:00 DaVinci Resolve 49:00 How to fake multi-cam in Windows 51:00 GR: DaVinci Resolve is also on Mac 53:00 Markup 55:00 Screenflow Ain’t it Cool 55:30 LN: Raised by Wolves (mentioned last week) and Peacemaker – opposite ends of the HBOMax spectrum. Peacemaker opening credits – Gotta watch 59:25 GR: Archive 81 (Netflix) BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 1:00:50 LN: Am I Safe? 1:01:40 GR: Getting To Know the Mac Keyboard
Feb 9, 2022 · 1 hr 16 min
TEH 155: Ranting on spam, Return to Streaming Music, and NFTs
In This Episode: Ranting on spam, Return to Streaming Music, and NFTs 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 0:57 GR: Predictions playing out (love statistics). 5:15 LN: I need to rant a little (re spam). SO MANY problems with respect to email all boil down to spam and, more correctly, efforts to mitigate spam. Moving from server to server. 10:20 IMAGINE THE COST (and frustration!) of spam to everyone! 16:12 What it would take to control it. 20:00 Charge for emails? 23:10 What domain owners can do. 26:00 Google Apps/Workspace going pay-only 31:00 one domain serviced by protonmail.com 32:45 LN: Re: Spotify. YouTube Music turned out to be a surprise contender for me. (incl w/ YouTube Premium) 34:50 Family plan 39:40 GR: The ap, how ads work… creators still get paid. Premium better than adblocker. 42:37 GR: Follow-Up on NFTs (‘NFTs are a scam,’ says indie game store Itch.io.) Read on The Verge or The Atlantic 45:15: Buying stuff in a game. 49:00 LN: Like collecting Beanie Babies 51:00 Explain it like I’m five… Not! 51:39 LN: Winter Olympics 52:00 Peacock 55: 20 Lag and camera angles, different focus 57:00 Streaming confusion creating reduced audience 59:40 GR: Streaming differences create “spoilers.” Movies, TV series, Olympics… Superbowl Ain’t it Cool 1:04:10 LN: Reading: “Termination Shock” by Neal Stephenson 1:06:06 TV: Reacher & Raised by Wolves. 1:07:40 GR: TV Time loop series: Reset (Search “Reset YoYo” on YouTube) 1:12:02 Apple TV+: movie CODA gets Oscar nomination Don’t Look Up: Netflix gets Oscar nomination. 1:12:40 LN: Amazon Oscar nominations. Being the Ricardos. BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 1:14:39 LN: Someone Is in My Computer, Controlling it. What Can I Do? 1:15:30 GR: 25 Tips For Using Notes On a Mac
Feb 2, 2022 · 57 min
TEH 154: Spotify tech. Can we balance stories? Censorship, audio quality and payment. Wordle Shoulda’s.
In This Episode: Spotify tech. Can we balance stories? Censorship, audio quality and payment. Wordle Shoulda’s. 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 0:17 GR: The Spotify thing… Neil Young vs. Spotify. 3:31 What makes this different: Exclusivity, subscription model, 6:27 Their business model makes it different than Apple Podcasts. Podcasters not tied to each other. 13:00 Censorship misunderstandings. 14:00 Creating balanced stories, can’t balance falsehood with truth. 20:15 LN: It’s bigger than vaccines 21:50 Audio quality (compression) lowers quality of audio. Neil Young on the quality. 25:20 Alternatives: Amazon Music Unlimited, but Spotify’s selection is huge. Apple? 26:40 Brene Brown: Pausing podcasts – Spotify response, moderation rules. 29:30 TEH podcast is in numerous places. 30:16 LN: Sony picks up Bungie. Gaming is important. 32:20 Metaverse… immersive with VR goggles. 33:00 GR: Wordle! Shoulda been me… web based games suddenly come back. 37:00 The keyboard 38:00 How it accidentally(?) positioned itself for virality. (And the New York Times, apparently.) 39:00 Ease of sharing (competitive) Wordle 227 3/6 (Boxes are characters in a string of text) ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟨🟨🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 41:00 Do a Google search for Wordle… not in app store, be careful. 42:00 Wordle anger from the non-Wordles. 43:00 ONE WORD – ‘initially’ – is pissing people off. The New York Times Buys Wordle – Will NYT put it behind a paywall? 44:56 One word a day… how to monitize it. 46:00 GR: How to cheat… but why? Ain’t it Cool 47:55 LN: Bobba Fett. 49:14 LN: (And, for the geeks, Windows has it’s own SSH server – from Microsoft, no less.) 51:00 GR: “Termination Shock” by Neal Stephenson. (Why wasn’t I targeted?) BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 54:34 LN: How Do I Turn Off BitLocker on a Drive? Surprise encryption! 56:10 GR: How To Troubleshoot iPhone Auto-Correct Problems