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MobileViews Editor Todd Ogasawara discusses mobile technology hardware and software
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Sunday May 12, 2024
Sunday May 12, 2024
Jon Westfall and I are joined by Sven Johannsen for this post-May Apple 7 product announcements discussion.
- SimCity inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame
- Email from Google saying Find My Device network will be fully launched on May 13
- Products that we hoped Apple would announce but did not: iPad Mini, iPad speaker dock (similar to Pixel Tablet dock), AirPods Pro 3 with more biometrics, Colorimeter built into the new Apple Pencil Pro
- Apple surprises: iPad Pro lost the wide angle camera lens, the iPad Pro is too thin - would have preferrred large battery with longer battery life
- Things we're looking forward to at the June Apple WWDC event: A "smarter" Siri; iPad OS 18 gaining a "real" file system
- Google I/O will be on May 14. No new hardware products expected (or already announced). So, will this be an all-AI/only-AI event?
- Sven's new gadgets: OSMO Pocket 3 Desktop Stand, Pocket 3 Microphone Stick; Belkin iPhone MagSafe Mounts for MacBooks, Desktop/Displays, and Apple TV 4K; USB Conference Speakerphone
Sunday May 05, 2024
Sunday May 05, 2024
Jon Westfall and I are joined by Don Sorcinelli for this podcast. We discuss:
- The BASIC programming language is 60 years old
- Randy Travis has a new song that used AI to create his singing voice
- Reviews of the Humane AI Pin and Rabbit AI hardware are coming in and the reviews are not good
- Microsoft's Edge browser has an integrated speed test tool that uses Ookla's Speedtest engine
Sunday Apr 28, 2024
Sunday Apr 28, 2024
In this podcast, Jon Westfall and I discuss:
- Google Meet recording mode works when using a Chromebook
- The wild world of researching which vlogging/action camera to buy
- Open ear earbuds: Rethinking what I want from noise cancellation
- Apple's May 7 "Let Loose" event
- Monarch Money
- Products/servers that were not on our radar but turned out to be useful/satisfying
- Recent product misses
Sunday Apr 21, 2024
Sunday Apr 21, 2024
Jon Westfall and I are joined by frequent guest panelist Sven Johannsen for this podcast. We discussed:
- Using Google Meet to record a three-person podcast
- Upcoming changes to the Google One subscription package
- Google Magic Editor will be available to more Pixel devices soon
- The end of the line for the Z80 microprocessor: 1976 - 2024
- Discussion: The AI Divide?
- Sven's gadget picks:
- DJI OSMO Pocket 3 Combo
- MOVO Mic Handle
Sunday Apr 14, 2024
Sunday Apr 14, 2024
In this podcast Jon Westfall and I discuss:
- Day 430 since the release of the most recent iPad Pro model. Still no new iPads
- More on recording podcasts using Google Meet
- Google discontinuing Google One VPN service
- Google Photos AI tools will be available to more than Google Pixel uses and Google One subcribers
- Thoughts about the Google Pixel Tablet 9 months after its release
- Microsoft testing shows advertisements in the Windows 11 Start Menu
Sunday Apr 07, 2024
Sunday Apr 07, 2024
Jon Westfall and I recorded this podcast using Google Meet's recording feature for the first time. Although its audio quality is quite good, I post-processed the audio using Adobe Podcast Enhance.
In this podcast, we discuss:
- Gaining Google Meet recording feature after upgrading to the Google One 2TB subscription tier
- Thoughts about starting to publish short video podcast segments
- CMF by Nothing Watch Pro
- An Apple Robot???
- Beautiful.ai GenAI slide creator
- The upside of tech
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?
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