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Jon Westfall and I are joined by frequent guest panelists Steven Hughes and Sven Johannsen for this podcast. We discuss:

• FEMA’s Hawaii rumor response and frequently asked questions
• Why Todd didn’t turn to X (Twitter) for first hand information after hearing about the Lahaina, Maui wildfires
• Why Canadians can’t turn to Facebook for news during its current wildfires emergencies
• CBS reported Microsoft pulled an AI-generated article that recommended tourists visit the Ottawa Food Bank for … food
• Haystack News
• Apple Batterygate settlement money going out soon
• Sven’s Google Pixel Fold experience … so far

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Ooma Telo Air 2

• Ooma VoIP for home phones
• Why use a ChatGPT app instead of Bing Copilot? ChatGPT for Android
• Copilot for Power Automate
• Google’s Android Developers Blog, July 25: Introducing a new Play Store for large screens
• July 27 Google Blog: 6 creativity apps for Android tablets
• After being available for nearly a year, is Apple’s Freeform still a solution in search of a problem?
• Concepts app for Android tablets

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In this podcast, Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss:

• “Wonky” Microsoft Teams (consumer). Should we switch to Google Meet?
• Jon’s Rayban Stories cam-glasses
• Apple Vision Pro appointment-only purchase process
• Todd bought an Amazon Echo Dot (with Bluetooth lightbulb) for $23 (Prime Day preview sale) because the Dot is an Eero WiFi mesh device
• The launch of Meta Threads
• Jon’s logo design adventures using Microsoft Image Creator and Canva

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Jon Westfall and I were joined by Steve Hughes, Sven Johannsen, and Don Sorcinelli for this podcast. We discussed the recently launched Google Pixel Tablet and the recent Apple WWDC product announcements.

1. Every Mastodon User Has an RSS Feed
2. Google Pixel Tablet
   Penoval USI 2.0 stylus
   HiPaint for Android
3. WWDC 2023
   WWDC23 highlights
4. Vision Pro, $3499
5. iOS 17
6. New health related features/support
7. macOS Sonomo
8. 15-inch MacBook Air
9. Mac Studio & Mac Pro

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CrowPi2 laptop

In this podcast, Jon Westfall and I discuss:

• Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, locking out some users
  Maximum 5,000,000 files in Google Drive
• Google updates Bard to better answer math and logic questions, coding coming soon
  Currently, Bard cannot help with coding questions
• Make Something Wonderful,’ which will be available free online, is an intimate view of the Apple co-founder
  …a small group of his family, friends and former colleagues have collected it into “Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in his own words,” available free to the public online starting on April 11. Somewhere between a posthumous memoir and a scrapbook album, it is told through notes and drafts Jobs emailed to himself, excerpts of letters and speeches, oral histories and interviews, photos and mementos.
• CrowPi2
  Remember the CrowPi that Jon convinced me to buy back in late 2019? Meet the CrowPi2 laptop
• Pew Research: About three-in-ten U.S. adults say they are ‘almost constantly’ online

  Overall, 85% of Americans say they go online on a daily basis. That figure includes the 31% who report going online almost constantly, as well as 48% who say they go online several times a day and 6% who go online about once a day. Some 8% go online several times a week or less often, while 7% of adults say they do not use the internet at all.

• Jon’s continuing experiments with Bing Creator image creation

Bing Creator: Squirrel & man discussing politics

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Todd Ogasawara is joined by guest co-host Paul Lawler for this podcast. They spend most of the podcast discussion their years of use of the Amazon Echo and other audio assistants.

• Microsoft Lists Preview for Office 365 consumer accounts available now. Power Automate too.
• Google VPN rolling out to all Google One tiers
  Currently only included with Google One 1TB tier

  Starting today, and rolling out over the next few weeks, we’re expanding VPN access to all Google One plans, including the Basic plan that starts at $1.99/mo. The VPN will be available in 22 countries across Android, iOS, Windows and Mac devices. You can also share the VPN with up to five others if they’re on your Google One plan.

• Star Trek discussion interlude: Star Trek(s) Discovery, Strange New Worlds, Picard, Lower Deck

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