Author: todd

In this podcast Jon Westfall and I discuss:

1. Get ready to flex this summer: ChromeOS Flex is now ready to scale broadly to PCs and Macs

   295 certified devices

2. Nobody wants to be in the office on Fridays …or any other day
3. Amazon Recycling Program
   Recycle small consumer electronics for free
4. The subscription-izaton of iPhone/iPad apps
   Thanks to subscriptions, iPhone apps finally made more money than games
   Discussion question: What are we willing to pay subscription for versus what aren’t we. In other words, what features make it worth it versus which do not?
   Do we buy the argument that our subscription isn’t for specific features, but for “maintenance”?

   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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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).

1. Sony Alpha 1 Mirrorless camera
   50 megapixel
   Bird eye focus

BOOX Nova Air C Color e-ink Android tablet

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For this podcast I’m joined by guest co-hosts Paul Lawler and Ryan Ozawa for Hawaii Techies Edition #2. We discuss topics ranging from crypto-currency, to the pros and cons of the Apple AirPods Max to the Unisteller Smart Telescope and more.

1. Ryan Ozawa Hawaii Bulletin
2. Ryan Ozawa Decrypt.co
3. Nikon Coolpix P1000
4. eV Scope2 Unistellar Smart Telescope

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