MobileViews.com Podcast

MobileViews Podcast 466: Podcast meeting alternatives to Microsoft Teams?

In this podcast Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss their test switch from Microsoft Teams to Apple FaceTime to record this podcast (also why we couldn't use Google Meet); the Writers Guild of America's AI-related concerns; Stability AI's Clipdrop Stable Doodle free AI-doodle web app; waiting for Google's NotebookLM; the Phomemo thermal printer

MobileViews Podcast 465: Rayban Stories glasses revisited; $23 Mesh extender; Meta Threads, Jon’s Canva adventures

Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss:

• Replacing Microsoft Teams as this podcast's venue?
• Apple Vision Pro appointment-only purchase process in 2024
• Amazon Echo Dot for $23 as an Eero Mesh WiFi component
• Meta Threads launch
• Jon's Rayban Stories bluetooth camera glasses (powered by Meta software)
• Jon's logo creation adventure using Microsoft Image Creator and Canva

MobileViews Podcast 464: Guest co-host Jared Kuroiwa; VR/AR glasses; Meta Threads

Todd Ogasawara is joined by guest co-host Jared Kuroiwa. They discuss AR/VR glasses in context of Apple's Vision Pro announcement and Jared's purchase and use (both work and personal) of Meta Quest 2, Xreal Air, and Rokid Max glasses.

 

They also briefly discuss the earlier than expected release of Meta's Threads micro-blogging service/app.

MobileViews Podcast 463: Google Pixel Tablet & post-WWDC discussion with Steve Hughes, Sven Johannsen, and Don Sorcinelli

Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall are joined by Steve Hughes, Sven Johannsen, and Don Sorcinelli to discuss the recently launched Google Pixel Tablet and a roundup of thoughts about the 2023 Apple World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) product announcements.

MobileViews Podcast 462: Google shutting down more services

Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss:

• Todd's Samsung Chromebook Plus' ChromeOS supports ends, as scheduled long ago, in August 2023
• Google shutting down its Album Archive on July 19, 2023
• Google shutting down Google Domains in September 2023 and selling its assets to SquareSpace
• Jon's spring/summer beach tech
• Jon's interesting donut shop find

MobileViews Podcast 461

In this podcast Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss the Google Pixel 7a running hot; iOS 17 smart display rumor; Windows 11 getting cloud backup.

MobileViews mini-podcast 37 part B: Wireless lavalier mic outdoor recording test with Paul Lawler

In this podcast Todd Ogasawara and Paul Lawler recorded a podcast outdoors using a pair of wireless lav microphones connected to a Google Pixel 7a Android smartphone and Google's Recorder app. This very brief (just over a minute) mini-podcast was recorded while walking outdoors. In Part A, both Todd and Paul were sitting outdoors.

MobileViews mini-podcast 37 part A: Wireless lavalier mic outdoor recording test with Paul Lawler

In this podcast Todd Ogasawara and Paul Lawler recorded a podcast outdoors using a pair of wireless lav microphones connected to a Google Pixel 7a Android smartphone and Google's Recorder app. The only audio post processing modifications made to this recording are:

• Auto-reduced silences
• Slightly decreased bass and increased treble to reduce muffled audio

Note: In part B of this podcast (separate audio), no post-processing was performed to allow the listener to hear the raw audio recording.

MobileViews Podcast 460: Are ChatGPT’s mobile security ideas any good? Revisiting ABSGEEGA lav mic & Google-y things

Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss ChatGPT's mobile security recommendations (what did it miss?). They also revisit some a few recent podcast topics: The ABSGEEGA wireless lav mic; Google Pixel Tablet; new Echo Show 5 and Echo Pop; Pixel 7a.

Mobileviews Podcast 459: Google I/O discussion with Sven Johannsen & Don Sorcinelli

Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall  are joined by frequent guest panelists Sven Johannsen and Don Sorcnelli to discuss announcements from last weeks Google I/O.