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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
Available via Google Music Podcasts and Apple iTunes.
This is my first retirement podcast! It is also the first time I’ve originated a Zoom call to record a podcast. And, I learned, Zoom asks you to update itself if it finds itself installed on an M1-based Mac. It is also the first podcast recorded on a Mac running MacOS 13.x. Audio software tends to get fussy when Apple updates MacOS, so I still haven’t updated my “production” Mac used for every podcast in the past couple of years. Rogue Amoeba Audio Hijack Pro only recently was updated to support MacOS 13.1. And, it requires reducing security in MacOS to be used. I also learned that its recommended workflow for recording a podcast using Zoom is rubbish. Using Rogue Amoeba’s recommended template results in an echo of the person running Audio Hijack. Removing that part of the workflow removes that problem.
Audio Hijack Pro 4 workflow to use with Zoom for recording podcasts
