MobileViews.com Podcast

MobileViews Podcast 446: Guest Don Sorcinelli; Will Apple’s Siri get AI-smart too?

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.

MobileViews Podcast 445: Guest Kiman Wong - Hawaii Broadband History

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.

MobileViews mini-podcast 34: Test of audio recorded outdoors with Adobe Podcast beta

Todd recorded one minute of audio outdoors and provides an A-B comparison of the original audio recording with a version processed by Adobe Podcast beta.

MobileViews Podcast 444: Valentine’s Day tech?

Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss:

• Todd's first attempt to use Adobe Podcast beta to enhance audio for a podcast
• Looking forward to Microsoft Bing powered by GPT?
• MacWhisper (Whisper Transcription in the US) uses OpenAI to transcribe audio files
• Valentine's Day tech?

MobileViews mini-podcast 33: Testing Adobe Podcast beta - noise reduction & speech enhancement A/B comparison

Todd Ogasawara tests the Adobe Podcast beta which claims to reduce noise and enhance speech. You can hear Todd's initial impressions, a caveat on his impressions, and then short (10 seconds each) original podcast audio and Adobe Podcast beta processed snippets of both Todd and co-host Jon Westfall speaking in MobileViews Podcast 440 recorded a few weeks ago.

MobileViews Podcast 443:Guest Jason Dunn

Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall are joined by Jason Dunn for this podcast. They discuss:

• Intel's horrible 2022
• Todd finally is making peace with Microsoft OneNote and To-Do
• Apple's Freeform in comparison with Microsoft Teams and a related discussion of the Electron framework
• Jason's experiences with electric vehicles, solar panels, and battery technology
• Letting go of old but still functional gadgets
• ChatGPT haiku :-)

MobileViews Podcast 442: Lunar Year -Year of the Water Rabbit

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

MobileViews Podcast 441: Don’t press the academic panic button because of ChatGPT & other enduser AI tools

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

MobileViews Podcast 440: CES 2003; reinventing old tech; losing old tech

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

MobileViews Podcast 439: Testing Cleanfeed for podcasting; the end of 3G; City of Heroes redux

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