I noted the low audio volume and muffled sound quality of the ABSGEEGA wireless lav in mini-podcast 35. In this podcast, I used the Just Record This app to record the audio on an iPad mini 6 (instead of an iPhone) to test the app's transcription feature. I used Audacity to try to deal with the audio recording issues to process this podcast. There is, however, a short 5 second segment at about the 10 second mark of the podcast that let's you hear unprocessed recording. The volume is so low that it might seem like silence. I also recorded about 30 seconds of audio using the iPad's built-in mic for the last part of this mini-podcast.

This is a brief (few minutes) outdoor test recording using the low-cost ABSGEEGA wireless lav microphone for Android and iPhone. The first few minutes of this podcast was recorded using the lav. The final minute was recorded using the iPhone 14 Pro's built-in mic for comparison purposes

In this podcast, Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss Google Drive's new maximum file limit; Google's planned update for Bard; the upcoming free ebook collecting Steve Job's notes, drafts, letters, speeches, etc.; the Raspberry Pi 4 based CrowPi2 ready-for-experiements laptop; 3-in-10 US adults are online constantly according to Pew Research; Jon's Bing Creator image creating tests.

In this podcast Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss The Toonsquid animation app for the iPad, Google Bard, Microsoft Bing Create, Microsoft Loop, and Google Flutter.

Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss:

Google Photos Magic Eraser;

Exynos Android phone chipset vulnerability;

YouTube Studio for podcasts;

Bing Copilot;

ViperGPT;

Jon's ultimate travel bags picks

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.

The also briefly discuss Microsoft Lists becoming available for consumer Office 365 subscribers and the announcement of Google VPN becoming available for all levels of Google One subscribers (vs. its current availability for only the Google One 2TB tier).

Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall are joined by Steven Hughes, Sven Johannsen, and Don Sorcinelli for this podcast. In addition to discussion of technology certifications, they also discuss iMessage for Windows 11, Google Photos Magic Erase for Google One subscribers, Non-Tesla charging app, low-cost PineTab2 Linx tablet, Cana One molecular beverage printer, and the Satechi Readmate (magnifying glass tool).

Todd Ogasawara's Hawaii Techies edition guest co-host is Philip Mow. For this third in the series of discussions of the development of Internet access and broadband in Hawaii, Philip brings historical perspective from both his experience in at GTE Hawaiian Tel and HEI/Hawaiian Electric through the decades up to his retirement 7 years ago.

In this Hawaii Techies edition of the MobileViews Podcast, Todd Ogasawara and guest Sterling Yee discuss Sterling's experiences at Hawaiian Electric Industries (parent company to the electric companies for Honolulu, Hawaii (island), and Maui Counties as well as American Savings Bank) in the firm's early days of Internet access and the move from analog modems to broadband.

Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall are joined by frequent guest panelist Sven Johannsen. They discuss:

How to turn on Scribble (handwriting recognition) in OneNote for iPadOS — for those without superhuman vision

Anker 535 Power Bank product recall

BGR: Apple won’t let you install iOS developer betas anymore unless you pay $99

ShiftCam SnapGrip camera grip for the iPhone

T-Mobile 5G Home Internet & OOMA (home VoIP)

Starbucks rewards program changes!