I tested five (5) microphones for this mini-podcast. However, you will only hear 4 tests because the K23 Bluetooth earbuds was able to play sounds but was not able to record audio although it showed up as a microphone option. The four microphones tested are:
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In this podcast, I’m joined by long time friend Sterling Yee who, as a national board member of the American Lung Association, had the opportunity to meet at and get a tour of the Tesla factory in Fremont, CA.
Official Telsa: 90 second tour around the Tesla factory
We also discuss some recent and possible future Apple products as well as Sterling’s experience with a much less expensive and better fitting (compared to the Air Pods Pro) Skull Candy earbuds.
An extra-special thank you to Sterling who put up with a series of podcast session issues resulting from issues with Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Skype, Google Meet, and Apple Facetime. We finally were able to record this session using Zoom. Unfortunately, this limited our talk-time since I am too miserly to pay for a service I rarely use.
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In this podcast Jon Westfall and I discuss:
Note: I noted that I’m grandfathered into Notability’s pre-subscription plan and that I installed a new universal MacOS version of the app during the podcast. The screenshot above shows that the universal version of the app is nearly 4 times larger than the Intel-only version (746MB vs. 195.4MB)
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In this podcast Jon Westfall and I discuss:
In addition to Apple’s spatial audio
Thanks to some help from Sennheiser, Netflix is enabling standard two-channel speaker systems — like, say, your basic soundbar, headphones or even your TV’s built-in speakers — to produce spatial audio sound without the need for a surround system. Spatial audio adds extra immersion by creating a 3D sound space, making noises sound like they’re coming from above you as well as on the left and right.
The Dumbing Down of UX Designers
Is it worth having a list of MAC addresses and devices on your home network? With IOT, this is becoming kind of a nightmare! Also Asus Router oddities in features only in app not in web UI.
If you use the web UI, it assumes you are dumber than if you use an app???
Tangential: I bought a “swamp cooler” (evaporative) that doesn’t have an on/off switch on the device itself. On/off is only on its (easy to lose/break) remote control
…Dedicated to Jon’s Mom.
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This week I’m joined of long time friend and fellow tech enthusiast Dr. Kent “Kim” Bridges (retired Professor of Botany, U. of Hawaii Manoa). Kim and I have known each other for over 40 years. And, we spent the vast majority of that time learning about technology, using technology, and sharing knowledge about technology with each other and other people.In this podcast, we reflect on tech through the years. On the way to the present, Kim relates an unanticipated adventure in rough seas between the atolls of the Marshall Islands resolved by an early GPS device. We also discuss his experiences with transportation options from the early Segway and a series of Smart Cars, RAID NAS lessons, Surface Studio failure, and why hard problems are good problems.
As usual, when I speak with Kim, I learned new things during the podcast including Sony’s Eye AF which provides real-time eye auto-focus for improved portraits and animals (especially fast moving ones like birds).
BOOX Nova Air C Color e-ink Android tablet
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In this podcast Jon Westfall and I discuss:
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