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Jan 20, 2022 · 56 min
TEH 153: Addictive lights, Alexa and Siri battles, Falling planes, Blizzard and Metaverse
In This Episode: Addictive lights, Alexa and Siri battles, falling planes, Blizzard and Metaverse 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: How I accidentally took big steps toward a “smart home.” 3:00 Bedsite clock that turns things on 6:55 It’s addictive… lightbulbs and more 7:50 LN: X10 lighting… to wifi aps… to Echo… to everything 13:00 GR: Blink cameras, Alexa and Siri battles 14:00 Trigger phrases to keep the conversation going 15:00 GR: 5G around Airports. Lots of clickbait and misleading headlines. Planes aren’t falling out of the sky… commisions fight 17:50 5G frequency bands and landing altimeters 22:25 Clickbait headlines… it’s not phones Good tech summary on The Verge 29:55 LN: Microsoft + Blizzard, working environment woes 32:00 (GR: Maybe the parental oversight the company needs?) 33:00 Big companies 33:29 is it a Metaverse thing? 40:33 Remember Yahoo groups? 42:20 LN: groups.io Ain’t it Cool 44:00 LN: My 75” Samsung 4KHD, and what I watched first (ish). Encanto and (46:00) Don’t look Up 49:48 GR: Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea 51:57 LN: Book: This is How They Tell Me the World Ends BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 53:18 GR: Using Terminal to Find Large Files and Folders 55:03 LN: Windows File Explorer Settings: the Setting You Should Change Right Now
Jan 5, 2022 · 1 hr 10 min
TEH 152: Fires, TV dilemma, Y2K again, Launching Games, Covid app fails.
In This Episode: Fires, TV dilemma, Y2K again, Launching Games, Covid app fails. 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 GR: Colorado is on fire (and not in a good way) 5:55 LN: update on my TV repair dilemma (repair or replace?) 11:22 GR: Recycling TVs 13:50 High tech recycling 18:23 LN: Y2K22?? (Date roll over bug) 2201010001 > 2,147,483,647 (signed long -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647) 32-bit number Y2K22 bug stops Exchange mail delivery: Antimalware engine stumbles on 2022 23:25 LN: NFT follow up – OpenSea freezes $2.2M of stolen Bored Apes 28:03 CES 2022 Consumer Technology Association… not much happening 31:00 Halo Infinite and launching games 35:00 GR: Underwhelmed by Mobile phone covid exposure notifications. Such a great idea that failed? 46:00 LN: Testing stories and biological bugs 55:30 GR: “Don’t Look Up” on Netflix. Anti-science anxiety. Ain’t it Cool 1:02:40 LN: Wheel of Time, Witcher Season 2, Lost in Space, Another Life, The Sinner Season 2 1:06:30 GR: Call My Agent on Netflix BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 1:07:37 LN: I Know My Password Is Right, But I Can’t Sign In. What Do I Do? 1:09:32 GR: What’s To Come From Apple in 2022?
Dec 30, 2021 · 1 hr 18 min
TEH 151: Is NFT an opportunity or a scam? From Magic public keys to digital Beanie Babies.
In This Episode: Is NFT an opportunity or a scam? From Magic public keys to digital Beanie Babies. 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 NFTs (Non Fungible Tokins) Disclaimer! 4:51 LN – Let’s start with tech background of Public key cryptography 5:41 Algorithmic cryptography (i.e. rot13) 7:29 Symmetric cryptography (i.e. password) 8:04 Asymmetric cryptography (aka public key) 11:20 Block chain and “Ledger” 12:19 How it’s both public and secure 13:00 Decentralization makes it more secure 14:42 Quick overview 15:31 Why a “block chain” 16:15 … And then NFTs – Define fungible for the umpteenth time (replaceable) 18:30 What’s inside the NFT? 20:30 GR – Doesn’t necessarily include ownership 22:00 How it applies to ownership Does owning an NFT give you the copyright on a piece of art? Probably not. Probably most buyers think it does. No, NFTs aren’t copyrights 24:00 How it relates to governments 26:50 1% of the NFT crowd understands it, 99% pretend they do 27:00 Mushy copyrights 29:20 People don’t look at the details 31:15 NFT art isn’t like a painting or a baseball card because those things have a real value association and you actually own the item, not a “certificate” associated with the item. 32:50 NFTs have some real potential in being a decentralized system of who owns what. But if major governments collapse, then who cares? 33:15 Scarcity creates value… but digital can be copied 35:55 Compare to physical property 38:50 The technology has potential 40:50 GR – NFT scam alert. Particularly in games. 47:00 Are NFTs scams? Definitely, no. But there are a lot of scams using NFTs or the NFT name. 48:38 NFT tickets to events. What’s wrong with just tickets? This makes it more difficult. 51:00 GR – Or, maybe this is actually a redistribution of wealth so let’s hush up. 52:30 Acknowledge: By talking about it now, we may look like fools later on. That fact makes me not want to talk about it… But what if that is happening to everyone else too, so no one’s talking about it? 55:28 We know just enough to be worried… 57:00 Tim Ferris: “NFTs make Crypto(currencies) look like treasury bonds” 1:00:00 Etherium Block chains and NFTs creating a revenue stream for creators 1:02:10 DAOs: Why can’t a DAO exist without a blockchain? Why voting? 1:04:10 Early days… lots to be seen. Compare to Ponzi scheme Ain’t it Cool 1:12:10 Where is Web telescope (Fun tech!) BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion LN: Why Is “Back Up First” Your Recommendation for Everything? https://askleo.com/33048 GR: 20 Ways To Free Up Disk Space On Your Mac
Dec 15, 2021 · 1 hr
TEH 150: Unmagic numbers, Televisions, Universal controls, Unused innovations, Elon love/hate
In This Episode: Unmagic numbers, Televisions, Universal controls, Unused innovations, Elon love/hate 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 The unmagic of numbers and production details 3:38 LN – My television dilemma 4:24 How modern TVs die… capacitors! 6:06 Upgrade? Is 4k worth it? 7:48 GR – From astronomically expensive to just expensive 10:05 A lot of 4k available 10:51 The delimma of recycling 14:00 But if 8k comes? 15:08 LN – All the different resolutions. GR – 4k will be noticable 23:57 Audio types 31:00 Fix and repurpose 31:48 LN – Death of universal remote control 32:29 GR – Universal Control (Mac feature) delayed until spring. 33:30 My take… not that useful 37:00 Drag and drop, can already be done 39:00 keyboard for iPad? 44:40 GR – Elon Musk, Time’s Man of the Year 47:28 LN – the anti-Elon movement 49:40 Other Times Heroes Ain’t it Cool 52:56 LN – The Expanse Season 6 – Love the vibe 53:12 GR – The Terror 55:20 and.. Hanna, and The Great BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 56:18 LN – Why Is My OneDrive Full? 59:55 GR – What’s New in macOS Monterey 12.1
Dec 8, 2021 · 1 hr 5 min
TEH 149: Painting Windows, Get a job hackers! AWS outage, Security camera tech
In This Episode: Painting Windows, Get a job hackers! AWS outage, Security camera 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 2:25 LN – Correction… Windows 11 not fixed by updates. Video card update did it. 5:28 LN – How I spent my Monday evening. (Fixing a hacked site.) A couple of takeaways for non-techies. Keep plugins up to date Use two-factor authentication, especially on WordPress sites. 16:34 GR – Get a job hackers… Why do they do this? 21:05 – Pre-hackers, 1996 28:08 LN – AWS outtage, domino effect 30:35 Even internet of things! (bedroom lights, doorbells) 33:13 GR – Blink Cameras, Security trial 42:49 LN – Ring (who’s peeing?) 48:30 LN – Weather station has been interesting Ain’t it Cool 49:25 LN – Cowboy Bebop (Corgies) Live action on Netflix 54:05 GR – Get Back BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 1:02:06 LN – Should I Repair or Replace My Computer? 1:02:49 GR – 200 Mac Tips and Tricks
Dec 1, 2021 · 56 min
TEH 148: Updates on updates, Imagining virtual reality, Science and journalism
In This Episode: Updates on updates, Imagining virtual reality, Science and journalism 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: How many Corgi’s came to Thanksgiving… and puppies! 3:26 GR: News, variants, science and journalism 9:48 LN: Laptop update… working great, except bluetooth 13:31 GR: What could AR glasses be like? Apple is rumored to be working on this for 2022. Apple has a lot going on with mini-circuitry. Imagining posibilities: perscription glasses, watches, earbuds, notifications, directions, games. 27:45 Driving industries, 3-D image on computer screen. 34:10 A new level of security difficulties 34:46 LN: AWS Update… full disk. Progress in moving servers. 42:00 …and PHP updates, death of Flash. 44:08 LN: Win 11 Update. Not fully painting Start Menu resolved by 21H2 update. Always take updates! Update/Correction: I misspoke: My Windows 10 installs got the 21H2 update with no problem. Updating Windows 11 did not resolve my painting issue, but getting more up-to-date drivers directly from NVidia appears to have. -Leo Ain’t it Cool 46:25 LN: Start11, Start Menu Replacement & (Open Shell still works) 48:58 GR: Long Way Up (Electric motorcycles and trucks) BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 54:19 LN: Should I Repair or Replace My Computer? 54:40 GR: How To Take and Mark Up a Screenshot On a Mac 55:00 BONUS! Hell on $5 a Day – (Greg Bulmash )
Nov 17, 2021 · 50 min
TEH 147: Tech updates continue, weird conferences and Metaverse games
In This Episode: Tech updates continue, weird conferences and Metaverse games 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 0:13 LN: laptop update – New Frame.work Laptop 2:49 Modular connections 4:25 LN: Windows 11 update 5:03 Win11 Start menu issues, clearly a bug 6:28 Start menu repacement app 7:20 Stardock 7:50 OpenShell 9:18 GR: Went to a very very small conference: Whaaat!? (that was the name). It made me think of when people would build cool funny weird things on the web. Turns out they still do and not all of them were around when it happened the first time. 13:46 A CARNIVAL OF GAME-RELATED WEIRDNESS http://alienmelon.com https://brianmoore.com 15:10 https://itch.io – Find weird stuff 18:10 https://hamster.dance/hamsterdance/ (play audio below the image for the full effect) https://www.zombo.com/ (be sure to enable audio) https://youtu.be/EIyixC9NsLI (formerly a flash animation) 19:00 The metaverse. 19:50 It’s not new. Massively multi player games with VR goggles 21:20 Like World of Warcraft, but more 24:00 Second Life 26:10 Weird headset required 28:00 What will Facebook do? Who else is in the game? 31:00 Not Facebook please. 32:00 History of this concept 33:00 VR Goggles, augmented reality Ain’t it Cool 38:35 GR: The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, by Isabel Wilkerson 40:34 LN: Obsidian Note taking app BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 47:30 LN: How Does Facebook Track Me Even If I Don’t Have an Account? 49:09 GR: 10 Mac Tips From MacMost’s Patreon Supporters
Nov 3, 2021 · 1 hr 2 min
TEH 146: Believe the smart people, new OS, broken computers and smaller wallets
In This Episode: New Apple OS, Broken computers, Smaller Wallets, Two factor authentication… believe the smart 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 1:00 GR: macOS Monterey is out. It’s a light update. If a Mac works in Big Sur it should work in Monterey 2:00 LN: Windows 11 is the same. Fundamentally it’s working well. LN: Laptop saga continues 4:30 Troubleshooting steps: 6:36 Ran fine in BIOS. Ran on Linux. Maybe it was a Windows problem. 7:36 Did a full backup, installed Linux… then it failed again. Problem must be with hardware. 9:30 When is it best to get a new computer? Sometimes it’s the trouble involved in fixing, rather than if something is fixable or not. 11:30 Why I chose Windows machine again. Purchased from Framework -a laptop that is easily repairable and upgradable 16:30 GR: Digital IDs. Went to a low-tech Halloween event that used high-tech entry. Colorado’s secure ID app. 23:00 Features for bars and identification. 24:00 You can select to hide certain information 24:54 Extra security in the app. 27:28 Places it won’t work: TSA still doesn’t accept digital ID 30:01 LN: How will this play out long term? Wallets may get slimmer. 32:08 Global IDs might not be a good thing. But multiple IDs in one place on a phone could make life easier. 33:08 GR: iphone 13 has a small wallet that snaps on. To use it you have to get rid of so many cards. 36:00 Advantages of Venmo pay. Zellepay 38:37 GR: Two factor with Apple aps. How it is secure. 39:50 Most breakins are remote… another part of the world. Two factor can be easier and still secure. 42:50 Two factor feels like magic, but it’s really just tech. 45:00 Believe the smart people first. 46:50 Spy movie stuff. Breaking into accounts. Ain’t it Cool 52:21 GR: Saw a movie in a theater!!! Time to Die… thumbs up Tickets were all online, most people wearing masks. 54:53 LN: Squid Game on Netflix. 58:00 Non-English. Dubbing options. Tech in non-English movies are making them possible. BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion LN: Internet Safety: 7 Steps to Keeping Your Computer Safe on the Internet GR: Monterey Keyboard Shortcuts PDF
Oct 27, 2021 · 54 min
TEH 145: New Apple announcements to things that just don’t work.
In This Episode: From new Apple announcements to things that just don’t work. 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 2:13 GR: New Macbook Pro from Apple… yes, there’s a notch. Ports: Good news maybe? Bad news maybe? 8:20 Charging 13:57 Touchbar… gone. 17:00 Imagining keyboards 18:30 Sidecar 19:04 The notch. What it’s about. 25:02 Getting a new one? 28:00 Screen cleaning cloth controvercy. 31:20 LN: Continuing laptop saga. 32:35 Battery problems 36:13 Maybe it’s Windows… 37:38 Testing Ubuntu 40:00 Sometimes things don’t work Ain’t it Cool 42:40 LN: Foundation on Apple TV Dune… soon 48:15 GR: American Horror Story and “old-fashioned conspiracy theories.” BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 52:49 LN: If I Had to Do It Over… 53:39 GR: macOS Monterey Course Out Now!
Oct 13, 2021 · 58 min
TEH 144: Upgrade to Win 11? Yes? No?
In This Episode: Upgrade to Win 11? Yes? No? 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 0:15 Krisp and noise 3:21 A new Windows version… why people should/shouldn’t be excited? 4:56 Long and sordid story… starting with TPM 8:00 Virtual machines and TPM 13:20 Resetting turns into an upgrade 16:40 Win11 is prettier, taskbar different 20:18 Windows positioning options 27:10 Default browser (30:50 Firefox) 32:08 No need to update, but do it if you want 38:00 Update schedule 38:50 Microsoft apps from a Mac perspective An article (https://askleo.com/windows-11-first-impressions/ ) Ain’t it Cool LN: 46:00 Black Widow on Disney+ GR: 51:40 Squid Game BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 15:45 LN: Windows 11 First Impressions – https://askleo.com/137591 57:15 GR: The New Pivot Table Feature In Numbers
Sep 22, 2021 · 54 min
TEH 143: Apple’s new geekiness, Windows TPM, advances in security
In This Episode: Apple’s new geekiness, Windows TPM, advances in security 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 0:46 GR: Apple announcements 1:00 New phone, ipads, software 3:04 Recovery contact 4:38 New authentication 5:40 Thiefproof tracing 6:10 Image text selection 6:21 Visual lookup 8:40 Private relay 9:00 Hide my email (LN: not anonymous) 13:06 Voice memos (skip silence) 14:00 LN: Google voice to text 18:00 Phone features 20:15 Video focus 23:30 LN: Passwordless signin 25:50 Windows 11 TPM (Trusted Platform Module) 29:23 How I got mine working, why it’s so controversial, and a little about what it’s supposed to be. 30:00 Windows 11 release, Oracle vs. TPM 35:00 GR: The Mac equivalent is the T2 chip built into Macs. The T2 does a lot more than just TPM: listening, video compression. 39:00 Securuty issues? Ain’t it Cool 41:26 LN: Mundane coolness: I replaced the battery on my Dell XPS 15 laptop this morning. 45:00 Mac battery management 45:30 and Tesla 47:40 GR: Re-read Neuromancer BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 51:30 LN: 7 Signs of Phishing to Watch For 52:28 GR: 15 New Things To Try On Your iPhone With iOS 15 Outtake 52:54 Gary takes a pic of Leo’s image and image recognition nails it… Corgi!!!!
Sep 8, 2021 · 54 min
TEH 142: How do we produce so much content? (the secrets)
In This Episode: How do we produce so much content? (the secrets) 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 The amount of comments websites get… and Youtube 4:35 The amount of contect we have both produced… it’s crazy 5:52 More than the Simpsons… and Super Natural 7:36 The “secrets” to lots of content. How have we been able to do that when most people fail? 8:34 Deadline mentality 10:10 Commitments like a newsletter (book Indistractible) 16:30 Plan ahead for breaks… stay ahead of schedule 24:00 Assistants 28:06 Variety in topics, style, keeping up with Google, everything is changing. Learning is motivating 32:59 Good instead of perfect 35:25 Always optimizing… noticing what’s slowing me down 37:40 Eliminating what gets in the way 41:00 Just do something 42:55 Passion? Ain’t it Cool LN: 46:14 Stealing https://amzn.to/3kXbbsG (that’s Kay’s link for the 8TB SSD) GR: 48:09 Kingdom on Netflix BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion LN: 52:11 How Do Websites Keep Passwords Secure? GR: 52:57 The Secret History of Mac Keyboard Keys
Sep 2, 2021 · 1 hr 3 min
TEH 141: Backups, archives and possibly Pluto
In This Episode: Backups, archives and possibly Pluto 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 Leo is testing krisp.ai to help with background noise and echo as he moves offices during a remodel. Leo is also testing a video recording of this episode (which turned out good enough to share: https://youtu.be/40oCcDOmJmE) 9:05 A long term storage video of Leo’s blew up a couple of weeks ago –“What’s the Best Long Term Storage Media? Tips to Avoid Losing Data in Your Lifetime” 10:18 Backing up and archiving. The differences and the approach. 10:53 Gary on archiving… keeping up with the technology. 16:40 Leo on archiving… disaster recovery vs. long term storage. 32:15 The best long term storage is a process 35:00 Carve in stone on Pluto? 37:40 Go back with Leo to 5 years ago: “One of the reasons I think backups are SO important” 40:00 Will anyone care? 48:50 Not All News is Bad: “An 1870s marriage certificate was hidden behind a picture at a thrift store. Employees set out to find the couple’s family.” Ain’t it Cool LN: 51:00 GlobalGiving GR: 54:10 Coders by Clive Thompson BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion LN: 57:55 How Do I Determine a Shortlink’s Destination? GR: 59:00 Mac Key Bindings (Change your keys)
Aug 18, 2021 · 1 hr 3 min
TEH 140: From beds to routers (with ransom attacks in between)
In This Episode: From beds to routers (with ransom attacks in between) 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 2:30 Smart Beds! 12:00 Gaming your bed score… 18:08 Why an internet connection? 19:32 Ransom attack on beds? 20:56 Recent episode of Last Week Tonight (John Oliver) about ransomware https://youtu.be/WqD-ATqw3js (NSFW) 22:52 The internet of things 27:30 Botnets 41:45 Disater preparation Ain’t it Cool LN: 52:00My Life is Murder: Acorn TV GR: 54:50 New season of Leverage BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion LN: 1:00:00 How Long Will Windows 10 Be Supported? GR: 1:03:00 My free Mac Security course (again) 1:03:51
Aug 11, 2021 · 1 hr 7 min
TEH 139: Summer travels, tech in the Olympics, Apple controversy and Windows 365
In This Episode: Summer travels, tech in the Olympics, Apple controversy and Windows 365 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: Travels through heat and pandemic. Masks on roller coasters! App for vaccination records. LN: The Olympics? Streaming tech… stuck on 2020? Great coverage on streaming services… And yet: https://www.wsj.com/articles/nbc-draws-its-lowest-summer-olympics-ratings-ever-for-tokyo-games-11628547501?mod=hp_lead_pos11 GR: Love the Olympics (and Curling)… but missed it while traveling. GR: Apple controversy over crackdown on child pornography, and the tech behind it. LN: Windows 365? Desktops in the cloud. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-365 Ain’t it Cool LN: Fiction – The Murderbot Series on Kindle. Fun & light. GR: National WWII museum in New Orleans. Has some cool tech. BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion LN: How Do I Keep the Status Bar from Disappearing in Internet Explorer 6? https://askleo.com/1827 – What? Why? Because… GR: The Practical Guide To Mac Security
Jul 21, 2021 · 1 hr 7 min
TEH 138: Summer musings, Space and Algorithms
In This Episode: During a pause in our summer travels we muse about our adventures, going into space, disinformation algorithms and good vs. bad books. 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 Travel stories: Jersey boardwalks, Tesla drive to Colorado, TikTok on the road, summer smoke. LastPass… mild frustration. Masks and employees, issues around the pandemic. Space? Where does it start and why Branson and Bezos barely made it there. Planes: 6 to 8 miles NASA/FAA definition of space: 50 miles Air Sports Federation definition of space: 62 miles Richard Branson: 53 miles Blue Origin: 66.5 Miles Yuri Gagarin: 203 miles Alan Shepard (Mercury): 116 miles John Glenn: 162 miles ISS: 254 miles Hubble: 340 miles LEO: ~1200 miles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Earth_orbit Geostationary orbit: 22,236 miles Moon: 238,900 miles Elon’s Roadster… 2 orbits of sun 90 million miles: https://www.whereisroadster.com/charts/ Facebook “super spreaders” https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/16/tech/misinformation-covid-facebook-twitter-white-house/index.html Tech mechanisms to monitor information? Idea for how Facebook could change: Limit how many people you can follow and how many can follow you (massive shift) Ain’t it Cool LN: https://sgtpepperphotos.wordpress.com/2017/04/22/16/ “A project to locate the source images used on the cover of The Beatles’ 1967 album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” (via ResearchBuzz) GR: Two Books in contrast: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9013.The_Long_Walk vs https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25111328-438-days BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion LN: Did Microsoft Lie? https://askleo.com/134705 GR: https://macmost.com/how-to-fix-these-10-mac-finder-annoyances.html
Jul 13, 2021 · 1 min
Not going away…
No, we haven’t gone away everyone. Leo Notenboom here for the TEH podcast. We’ve skipped a few episodes this month and it’s because honestly, it’s been a pretty busy month for both Gary and myself. We certainly do hope to get back to recording episodes on a regular or at least semi regular basis pretty soon. But I just wanted to drop this in and let you all know that we’re still here. We don’t plan to go anywhere, it’s just been, you know, one of those summers. In fact, I’m actually recording this in a hotel room as I speak. So stay tuned for another TEH podcast com. We will be having new episodes at some point in the upcoming weeks. While you’re here you can always go visit the back issues. We’ve got 100 and some odd back episodes of the TEH podcast. And of course you’ll find me out at askleo.com and Gary at macmost.com. Thanks for being here.
Jun 23, 2021 · 1 hr 6 min
TEH 137: Free? Why and why not?
In This Episode: Free? Why and why not? 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 Rant on character encoding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_non-joiner It survives running through Notepad! Free software Why it exists? Data collection, Open source, ad based, support, restrictions, sequels, free as an investment, free taster, free versions, What it takes to produce free software. Free can be misleading, or come with an honest upgrade. Have We Have Reached the End of Free? Understand the cost of free. Ain’t it Cool LN: Vacation… Seeing people was awesome. GR: Book: Bomber Mafia BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion LN: Should I Just Hire a Hacker to Recover My Account? GR: How To Type Special Alternative Character Glyphs On Your Mac
Jun 9, 2021 · 56 min
TEH 136: Updates and bugs are more complicated than you think
In This Episode: Updates and bugs are more complicated than you think 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 Figuring out audio, recording, and privacy Apple announcement on privacy Tons of software updates; macros, shortcuts, notes, maps, Facetime, Safari, tab groups Why do companies move forward when there are still bugs in the old ones? Impossible to test all scenarios. Real peope are the best testers Operating systems are way too complex to be bug-free LN: Why Didn’t Microsoft Fix the Bug I Care About? Ain’t it Cool LN: Sweet Tooth GR: Alice In Borderland BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion LN: 7 Takeaways GR: 15 New Features Coming To macOS Monterey
Jun 3, 2021 · 1 hr 2 min
TEH 135: What do we really own? Has tech changed it?
In This Episode: What do we really own? Has tech changed it? 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 You Don’t Own What You Think You Own. Music. You can’t play it in public, can’t record your own version. Copyright means you get the rights to do different things. Software. You can only run it on a certain number of machines, can’t sell copies, can’t make your own version. Book. You “own” the book. You can give it away, but can’t copy it, or take the text as your own. Kindle. Tied to your Amazon account, you can’t give it away. CDs and DVDs. You used to be able to copy them easily, but it wasn’t legal. Buy a computer. You can’t produce your own copy of the chips or design, or software. Patents. Trying to find examples of what you do own: Land? Nope You just own the deed with covenants. Food? Nope. (Ask Monsanto). Water? Nope again, because there are water rights. Do we have a right to repair the things we “own”? (https://www.repair.org/ & https://securepairs.org/) and of all things, John Deere. Ain’t it Cool LN: Shadow and Bone, Netflix. (Guilty Pleasure: Lucifer) GR: Project Hail Mary BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion LN: Updated Internet Safety Book (free edition also updated) GR: How To Pick an External Display For Your Mac