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Meta AI chatbot in Messenger

In this podcast I spent the first 4 minutes solo explaining how the first 9 minutes of the podcast audio was lost while using Adobe Podcast Studio beta (emphasis on “beta”) and briefly summarizing the discussion Jon and I had about Google sunsetting its podcast app in 2024 and a side discussion about NPR’s odd regional subscription pricing.
For the remainder of the podcast, Jon Westfall and I discuss the Meta (Facebook’s parent company) AI chatbot, MacOS Sonoma’s features of interest to us, an Adaptive Audio oddity when using the AirPods Pro 2nd generation earbuds, and the new Withings Body Scan Scale.

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In this podcast, Jon Westfall and I mostly focus on recent AI announcements from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.

• The Verge: All the biggest announcements from Amazon’s September 2023 product launch event
• ZDNET: Can Microsoft recover from the collapse of its Surface business?
• Microsoft’s former Surface chief Panos Panay is reportedly heading to Amazon
• Everything Microsoft unveiled at its Surface and AI event this week
• Announcing Microsoft Copilot, your everyday AI companion
• Microsoft Bing Blogs: A new wave of innovation in Bing Chat and SwiftKey
• Google Blog: Bard can now connect to your Google apps and services
• Jon will be participating in an AI panel this week at work, what should his talking points be?

Available via Google Music Podcasts and Apple iTunes.

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Adobe Podcast Studio – beta

Steve Hughes joins Jon Westfall and me for this podcast. We discuss Apple’s recent iPhone 15 and Apple Watch 9 announcements.

• Support 20W fast charging but when will 35W and 45W be coming iphone16 and 17, USB3 10GB/s data xfr on Pro only 15 is at old iphone speed and included USB-C cable only supports slow data (old lightning speed) for all phones
• Reverse charging: You can charge an Apple Watch or a set of 2nd-gen AirPods Pro by plugging them into your phone.
• The 2023 AirPods Pro 2 may be different from the 2022 Pro 2: Ultra-low latency, increased dust resistance
• iPhone 15 Pro programmable action button
• Precision FindMy in phones and new watches – Ultra Wideband
• New Portrait photography feature to adjust subject focus not exclusive to iPhone 15

Available via Google Music Podcasts and Apple iTunes.

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Adobe Podcast Studio beta

This is a meta-topic podcast. In it Jon Westfall and I discuss using Adobe Podcast Studio beta to create this podcast (instead of the usual combination of Microsoft Teams and Rogue Amoeba Audio Hijack). For the past few months Todd has been using Adobe Podcast Enhance to “clean up” podcast audio. Studio appears to have the option to have Enhance perform this process during or shortly after completing a podcast recording session.

They also discuss the upcoming (Sept. 12) Apple Wonderlust product announcement event and the near future (Oct. 4) Google Pixel devices announcement event.

Available via Google Music Podcasts and Apple iTunes.

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Todd Ogasawara (left) and Phil Mow (right)

Cali-crunch Poke

Miso Salmon

To kick off the Mobile Food Views podcast, Todd Ogasawara is joined by Philip Mow to talk about Poke (seasoned diced raw fish) in Hawaii. We ventured to Hanapa’a Market in East Honolulu where Todd had the Cali-Crunch and Phil had the special-of-the day – a miso salmon.

Sidenote: Shoutout to Absgeega. We tested the K61 wireless lavalier microphones for USB-A, USB-C, and Lightning devices. This is the first two-person podcast recording field test for it. The initial solo test recording is found in mini-podcast 38 on July 21. We recorded this podcast outdoors on a relatively breezy day.

Adobe recently reduced the amount of time the Adobe Podcast Enhance service will process from 60 to 30 minutes. Since this particular session as less than 30 minutes, I used it to post-process the audio.

In addition to our poke discussion, we also spent a few minutes reminiscing about working with mainframes in the “good ol’ days”.

Poke references

• Hawaii Magazine: How the Hawaiian Poke Bowl Became the World’s New Fast Food (2017)
• Britannica: poke

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Available via Google Music Podcasts and Apple iTunes.

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Jon Westfall and I are joined by Jack Cook for this podcast. We discuss:

• Meta Threads finally has a web UI
• Notion AI
• Foundry tech magazines (Macworld, PCWorld, Tech Advisor, and TechHive archive as knowledge source for an AI chatbot
• Python =PY() coming to Excel
• WordPress 100-year $38K domain/site
• Fried chicken (???)

Available via Google Music Podcasts and Apple iTunes.

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