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Happy Lunar New Year: Year of the Water Rabbit
In this podcast, Jon Westfall and I discuss:

• Jon’s new BattlingPickle’s PsychOut Discord Server now in Beta… Come join and talk about psychology, technology, intersection of all of that.
• High school’s lights can’t be turned off because of a software failure
• New podcasts creation down
• GNU Octave scientific programming language
• Apple Lisa source code released
• CNET pausing AI article generation
• The Three Body Problem novel by Liu Cixin, which won the 2015 Hugo award for best novel, has been adapted as a TV series. The first episode is available for free on YouTube. The first 10 episodes of the 30 episode series are available on the Viki.com streaming service.

  YouTube

  Viki.com

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Jon Westfall and I briefly discuss my ongoing search for deciding how Apple’s Freeform fits into my note taking efforts. We also discuss Jon’s experience after upgrading from the first to second generation Apple AirPods Pro. However, we spend most of the podcast discussing the recent emergence of end-user accessible AI tools such as ChatGPT. In particular, we discuss Jon’s view of its impact in higher eduction. Note: Jon is an Associate Professor of Psychology.

• GPTZero: A college student created an app that can tell whether AI wrote an essay
• Microsoft Designer
• Canva Magic Write 25 queries in a lifetime for free users. 75 queries per month for paid users
• Canva Text to Image

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In this podcast, Jon Westfall and I discuss:

• Testing a $30 “VIMVIP USB Microphone, Microphone for Computer USB Mic for PC Desktop Laptop Condenser Microphone to Recording Podcast Gaming Streaming YouTube” that I bought back in Sept. 2020 to use in my office at work.
• Reinventing the 2008 Pulse LiveScribe smartpen in 2022. Excellent balanced review:
  LAMY Safari Smart Pen – Neolab NWP-F80 Review
• A recurring topic for this podcast is the shutting down of services over time: SPOT, GPRS, Blackberry, and, last week, Verizon’s 3G shutdown following the earlier 3G shutdown for AT&T and T-Mobile.
  Hundreds Of Honolulu Parking Meters Disabled By Verizon 3G Shutdown
• Operator and Directory Assistance won’t be available on AT&T PhoneS(formerly U-verse® Voice) starting on or after January 1, 2023
• CES 2023:
  Vaporware
  Withings U-Scan Will be available in Europe but not in the US until it gets approval as a health device
  Samsung Flex Hybrid Tablet
• Apple VR/AR headset rumors abound. Are we at all interested? Latest is that we’d see an announcement in mid-spring (pre-WWDC) and ship in the fall.

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In this podcast, Jon Westfall and I recorded the first few minutes of the session using Cleanfeed.net and then switched to Microsoft Teams for an A-B audio comparison.

• Cleanfeed: Live hi-def audio
  Cleanfeed wins Emmy Award
• The Verge: Farewell to 3G
• Jon’s reliving game nostalgia with Project Ouroboros – run your own City of Heroes server
• Jon’s other blast from the past: Shareware Discovery on Archive.org
  Software written in 1999-2000 using Borland Delphi 4 for Windows 98

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
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Frequent podcast guest panelist Paul Lawler joins me for MobileViews Podcast 438 Hawaii Techies Edition #6. Our wide ranging discussion includes:

• Dark Sky shuts down on Dec. 31
  Slate: The World’s Best Terrible Weather App
• Jurassic Tech: Found my old orange colored 4GB Eye-Fi WiFi card (2006)
• Digital coffee scale
• Digital food scale
• Traeger grill
• Synology NAS
• Matter (IoT)
• 2022 favorites gadgets
• Farewell to Slingbox

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In this podcast Jon Westfall and I discuss:

• Jon’s stymied winter holiday travel plans (like millions of other people in the US)
  Late December 2022 North American winter storm
• Nomatic collapsible bags
• Jon’s comments about the current state of technology based on a recent visit to Disneyworld
• Apple’s new Freeform collaboration app

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