{"id":4070,"date":"2021-03-07T12:45:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T22:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=4070"},"modified":"2021-03-07T12:45:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T22:45:07","slug":"mobileviews-podcast-354-catching-up-w-tech-expert-eric-hicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/07\/mobileviews-podcast-354-catching-up-w-tech-expert-eric-hicks\/","title":{"rendered":"MobileViews Podcast 354: Catching up w\/tech expert Eric Hicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MobileViews Podcast 354:Guest tech expert Eric Hicks\" height=\"122\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none;\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/b7dbu-fce94b?from=pb6admin&#038;download=1&#038;version=1&#038;auto=0&#038;share=1&#038;download=1&#038;rtl=0&#038;fonts=Helvetica&#038;skin=1&#038;pfauth=&#038;btn-skin=107\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MobileViews-354-EricHicks-JonWestfall-300x140.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"140\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4071\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MobileViews-354-EricHicks-JonWestfall-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MobileViews-354-EricHicks-JonWestfall-1024x478.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MobileViews-354-EricHicks-JonWestfall-768x358.png 768w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MobileViews-354-EricHicks-JonWestfall-1536x717.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MobileViews-354-EricHicks-JonWestfall-2048x956.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nJon Westfall and I are joined by our old friend and tech expert Eric Hicks for this podcast. We had a few small discussion topics prior to our catching-up conversation with Eric.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>More about syncing iPhone photos with OneDrive.<br \/>\nOneDrive&#8217;s photo features are really few\/weak compared to the &#8220;old&#8221; Google Photos.. It auto-creates day-albums and has a &#8220;On This Day&#8221; feature. But, that is about it. It also seems like it doesn&#8217;t sync photos from the iOS device to OneDrive unless the OneDrive app is in the foreground.<br \/>\nIn Mid-December 2020, it gained the ability to <a href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/t5\/microsoft-onedrive-blog\/live-photos-come-to-onedrive\/ba-p\/1953452\">iOS Live Photos<\/a> &#8211; which are small MOV files<br \/>\nThat said, Google Photos has removed a lot of its interesting features over the past year. And, new features are reserved for Pixel owners or require additional fees: <a href=\"https:\/\/one.google.com\/benefits\/06e391d6362f57000dbd153d2bfb0507\">Google One benefits for Google Photos<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Jon moved a few albums from Google Photos to iCloud, and will continue forward with just iCloud &#038; Local NAS<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/pixel\/march-2021-feature-drop\/\">From the seas, to more ZZZs: Your new Pixel features<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/recorder.google.com\/\">Google Recorder<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Available via <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/music\/listen?u=0&#038;gclid=COid8dLi6s0CFQrQfgodJ_8CsA&#038;gclsrc=ds#\/ps\/Ioaoswyblmdonyb42jg6stsl6om\">Google Music Podcasts<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/mobileviews.com-podcast\/id301171904?mt=2\">Apple iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Westfall and I are joined by our old friend and tech expert Eric Hicks for this podcast. We had a few small discussion topics prior to our catching-up conversation with Eric. More about syncing iPhone photos with OneDrive. OneDrive&#8217;s photo features are really few\/weak compared to the &#8220;old&#8221; Google Photos.. It auto-creates day-albums and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-13E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4072,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070\/revisions\/4072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}