Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall are joined by guest panelist Sven Johannsen. They discuss: Google Pixel Buds Pro; hating the new Google News UI; iPadOS 16 windowing; dev choices rant

Todd Ogasawara, Dr. Jon Westfall (a university professor), and Don Sorcinelli (father of a incoming college freshman) discuss back to school technology.

Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss:

Revisiting the STADOR K23 Bluetooth wireless earbuds as a podcasting microphone

Fedora Linux will work on Raspberry Pi 4

Lenovo Chromebook Duet 5

Linus Tech Tips Backpack

Disconnected in a connected world

I tested five (5) microphones for this mini-podcast. However, you will only hear 4 tests because the K23 Bluetooth earbuds was able to play sounds but was not able to record audio although it showed up as a microphone option. The four microphones tested are:

Blue Yeti Nano (the microphone used for recent podcast recordings. It replaced a full-sized Blue Yeti)

Macbook Air 202 M1 built-in microphone

Logitech Webcam C925e

AirPods Pro

This week I'm joined by long-time friend Sterling Yee who, as a member of the American Lung Association national board, had a meeting at and a tour of the Tesla factory in Fremont, CA. Sterling describes his impressions and experiences from that visit in this podcast.

In this podcast Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss

295 Macs and PCs certified to run Google's ChromeOS Flex

Nobody wants to be in the office on Fridays (shocking! :-)

Amazon Recycling Program Recycle small consumer electronics for free

The subscription-izaton of iPhone/iPad apps

In this podcast Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss

- The new Netflix immersive audio feature. This is different from Apple's Spatial Audio

- The dumbing of UI/UX design

In remembrance of Jon's Mom.

Todd Ogasawara is joined by guest co-host Dr. Kent "Kim" Bridges for Hawaii Techies Edition #3. We reflect on our long time (40+ years) intertwining of friendship and technology starting with the original IBM PC and continuing to the present. On the way to the present, Kim relates using an early GPS device to avoid being lost at sea in a storm in between atolls in the Marshall Islands, the convergence of word processors, scanning his entire academic library (books and papers), and the overall journey from analog to digital.

Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss Jon's "Great Duplication Hunt" project that he worked on for the past two years. They discussed backup and deduplication in the the modern era. Jon also raised the question: When do you upgrade displays? Especially since displays tend to be one of the more stable and dependable accessories that last many many years.