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MobileViews Editor Todd Ogasawara discusses mobile technology hardware and software
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Sunday Mar 31, 2024
Sunday Mar 31, 2024
In this podcast Jon Westfall and I discuss:
- The upcoming solar eclipse on April 8
- Gmail's 20th birthday
- So long to Google Podcast
- Canva buying Affinity
- Discussion: What is the appropriate age for kids to have access to technology/gadgets/screens?
Saturday Mar 30, 2024
Saturday Mar 30, 2024
In this mini-podcast I'm joined by frequent guest co-host Paul Lawler. We recorded this in-person in a busy restaurant named "Loco Moco" while eating lunch to test the Maono wireless lavalier microphone pair with a USB-C receiver. This mic set has built-in noise reduction which I augmented by post-processing it using Adobe Podcast Enhance set at 50% enhancement. Also included/spliced in are a few seconds of raw audio from a standalone voice recorder to give an idea of the ambient noise level in the restaurant during the podcasting session.
Paul (an avid amateur astronomer) provides information about the upcoming total eclipse on April 8, 2024 and the unfortunate news that we, in Hawaii, will not see much of this eclipse (17% obscuration). We also discuss some of his recent 3D printing efforts. One of his projects, an old style UK Police Box, bears a strong resemblance to an important object in one of our mutual favorite TV series: the BBC's Doctor Who.
Sunday Mar 24, 2024
Sunday Mar 24, 2024
Is this podcast John Westfall and I discuss:
- Waiting for Adobe Podcast Studio beta to stabilize. Looking at other cloud-based podcast recording services: Descript/SquadCast, Riverside.fm, Spotify for Podcasters (formerly Anchor.fm)
- Google Podcast service & app EOL soon: April 4
- Thermal printer for 8.5x11-inch pages
- US DOJ vs. Apple.- iPhone monopoly?
- Our insider view of the rise and fall of Windows Mobile/Windows Phone
- What now X/Twitter?
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
In this podcast Jon Westfall and I discuss:
- Adobe Podcast Studio beta adventures in podcast 501
- Still no new iPad models!
- Discipline specific Microsoft Copilot services
- Another Google service bites the dust on March 24: Google Keen
- Thermal vs. ink printers
- What makes it worth upgrading your “core” tech products?
Friday Mar 15, 2024
Friday Mar 15, 2024
This podcast's discussion may sound a bit unusual. There's a reason for that. We've been using Adobe Podcast Studio "beta" since late last summer. In general, it has worked pretty well although we've encountered a few bugs along the way. However, we ran into a really unusual error recording this podcast. The panel consisted of me (Todd Ogasawara), co-host Dr. Jon Westfall, and guest panelists Frank McPherson and Don Sorcinelli. However, for some as yet unknown reason, Don's audio track was not uploaded. Fortunately, Adobe let me know about an undocumented debugging tool that let met salvage the remaining tracks. I brought these tracks into Audacity and deleted the silent sections which should have contained Don's contribution to the discussion.
With that explanation out of the way, this is what we discussed in this podcast.
- Daylight Savings
- Frank's Android phone experiences since the G1 was released in October 2008
- Advice for young aspiring technologiists
- New MacBooks but no new iPads (yet)?
- iOS 17.4's podcast transcription
- Todd's recent fav gadget: A smart air compressor/tire inflator
- DisplayLink drivers
- Jon started using AI to illustrate his years of "Bad Joke Saturdays" jokes
Monday Feb 26, 2024
Monday Feb 26, 2024
Jon Westfall and I are joined by Jack Cook and Don Sorcinelli for this podcast. In it, we discuss:
- Windows 11 updates may not need reboots after an update. Unfortunately, this is something i heard at the 1999 Microsoft Professional Developers' Conference (PDC) from the Windows 2000 team. 25 years later, I'm still waiting.
- Microsoft Copilot in Onenote?
- MIcrossoft Copilot Notebook (a sandbox for Copilot)
- Jon paid for Copilot Professional for his personal account and finds it impressive - so far
- Google explains why Chromebook keyboards have lowercase letters on their keyboards
- Google is denying rumors that Gmail will be shut down later this year. It is easy to understand why people believe this rumor since the company has discontinued so many of its services over the years
Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
In this podcast Todd Ogasawara is joined by special guest Edwin Margulies, CEO of Thrio (which was recently acquired by Nextiva). They discuss:
- The acquisition of Thrio (Contact Center as a Service) by Nextiva (Cloud Communications and customer experience management)
- Reflecting on the past 30 years of the journey from Computer Telephony to Cloud-based Unified Communications.
- The role Artificial Intelligence (AI) has played in large scale communications systems over the decades, its current and future roles.
Monday Feb 12, 2024
Monday Feb 12, 2024
In this podcast, Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss:
- Google Gemini
- MSFT PC Manager?
- Apple Vision Pro
- Use AI to create products to sell
Saturday Jan 20, 2024
Saturday Jan 20, 2024
In this mini-podcast, guest co-host Jared Kuroiwa and I bought lunch from Drip Studio HNL. in downtown Honolulu.
Jared demoed what seemed like every augmented, virtual, and audio smart glasses except the Apple Vision Pro. We discussed the pros and cons of these much more affordable smart glasses (compared to the Vision Pro).
We also discussed some of the announcements from CES 2024.
Sunday Jan 07, 2024
Sunday Jan 07, 2024
Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall are joined by frequent guest panelist Sven Johannsen for this podcast. They discuss whether consumers (like them) will pay for "pro" LLM/GenAI tools. They also discuss the Zeiss Holocam that turns any glass window into a camera. Sven highlighted a report about Calendar Spam. They spend most of the rest of the podcast discussing water bottles and bags for techies.