MobileViews.com Podcast

Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall are joined by frequent guest panelist Sven Johannsen. They discuss:

• How to turn on Scribble (handwriting recognition) in OneNote for iPadOS — for those without superhuman vision
• Anker 535 Power Bank product recall
• BGR: Apple won’t let you install iOS developer betas anymore unless you pay $99
• ShiftCam SnapGrip camera grip for the iPhone
• T-Mobile 5G Home Internet & OOMA (home VoIP)
• Starbucks rewards program changes!

Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall are joined by frequent guest panelist Don Sorcinelli. They discuss Microsoft's intent to include ChatGPT-like AI in its Office suite, Google Bard's pre-launch misfire, and wonder if Apple's Siri is going to get some AI "smartness" to compete with Microsoft and Google.

They also discuss Jon appreciating Apple's easy-to-replace AirTag battery, changes in our Every Day Carry (EDC) items, and Don's experience with Rocketbook and the Microsoft Windows and Office Insider programs.

Note: Todd used Adobe Podcast beta to post-process the audio for this podcast.

In this MobileViews Podcast Hawaii Techies edition, Todd Ogasawara is joined by special guest co-host Kiman Wong. They have a discussion spanning from the 1980s to the present. Kiman has a great perspective of this development over time. At one point in his career, he was the GM for the Time Warner Oceanic Hawaii Roadrunnder (cable modem) service.

Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss:

• Jon's new PsychOut Discord server focusing on psychology, technology, and their intersection
• A high school with lights that can't be turned off because of software failure
• The decline of newly created podcasts series
• GNU Octave: A scientific programming language compatible with Matlab scripts
• Apple's 1980s Lisa computer's OS source code released as Open Source
• A TV series based on the 2015 Hugo award winning novel The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin. The first episode is available for free viewing on YouTube. The series is viewable (in the US) on the Viki.com streaming service

Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss:

• Developing a notion of how Apple's Freeform app fits into the note taking world
• The emergence of end-user accessible AI tools
  • Jon's view of tools like ChatGPT in higher education.
• Jon's overview of Apple's AirPods Pro 2nd generation

In this podcast, Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss:

• Todd temporarily switching to a low-cost ($30) USB condenser microphone
• LAMY Safari smart pen reinventing the Pulse Livescribe (released in 2008)
• Honolulu's credit card based parking meters shutdown because Verizon turned off its 3G wireless network
• AT&T turned off 411 operator service for its PhoneS landline phone customers
• CES: WIthings U-Scan - urine analyzer
• CES: Samsung Flex Hybrid Tablet
• Apple VR/AR rumors

In this podcast Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall recorded the first few minutes of the session using Cleanfeed.net and then switched to Microsoft Teams for an A-B audio comparison.

They also discuss:

• The last 3G network in the US (Verizon's) is turned off
• Ourodev.com: Install your own City of Heroes server
• Jon's 22 year old shareware is still available on Archive.org

Todd Ogasawara is joined by frequent guest Paul Lawler. We discuss a few our favorite 2022 gadgets and services from a digital coffee scale to a Synology NAS. We bid farewell Dark Sky and Slingbox. And, I take a brief Jurassic Tech side trail after finding an old Eye-Fi WiFi-enabled 4GB SD card from around 2006 for digital cameras.

Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss:

• Jon's stymied winter holiday travel plans (like millions of other people in the US)
• Jon's comments about the current state of technology based on a recent visit to Disneyworld
• Apple's new Freeform collaboration app

Guest co-host/guest panelist: Ryan Ozawa

• Moving from Meta Bulletin to Substack
• Hawaii in-person tech events
• Twitter alternatives
  • Mastadon
  • Post
• Arc browser