May 31, 2023

TEH 194: Airships, Mac rumors, Generative Fill, Trouble with clocks that have little birds.

1 hour 8 minutes

In This Episode: Airships, Mac rumors, Generative Fill, Trouble with clocks that have little birds.

This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.

(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)

Top Stories

0:00 GR: “Sergey Brin Has a Secret Plan to Put Airships Back in the Skies”

4:50 Cargo transportation

7:00 Disaster relief

9:00 They use helium

10:00 Weather

11:40 Difference from Blimps

13:00 A low flying, slower airplane

15:20 Time frame

18:45 GR: Apple announcements.

Rumors: MacbookAir with larger screen. New Macbook Pro.

Developer versions of new operating system

21:00 Finally VR Headset… maybe

24:00 iPhone and iPad aps

28:10 LN: Adobe Firefly and Photoshop’s “Generative Fill”

Lots of good YouTube demos

30:10 The magic is in understanding what to ask for

33:00 Generative fill

TEH demo (See images below.)

38:00 GR Using it on Firefly and trouble with little birds

50:00 GR: Speak to AI game characters

Ain’t it Cool

54:00 LN: Guilty pleasures category: “The Great” on Hulu – “An occasionally true story”, “Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story” on Netflix

56:00 GR: Would I Lie To You (BBC Series, Britbox/YouTube)

BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion

1:02:00 LN: Can I Still Use LastPass Safely?

1:03:55 GR: Why Mac and iPad “Deals” Aren’t Always Good

Images

The basic TEH logo, unaltered, 1200×630:

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The image expanded to 1920×1080 using Photoshop’s “Generative Fill”. The added area (outside of the green outline) was synthesized by Photoshop, and extends the theme of the background quite nicely.

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Since it came up in discussion, here’s the original stock photo used to generate the logo:

via Adobe Stock. Click for larger image.

Placing that over the Generative Fill created image shows that the original stock photo added nothing that wasn’t already in the logo:

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Also mentioned in this episode: Steampunk Cuckcoo Clocks”.

“Steampunk Cuckoo Clock” via MidJourney. Click for larger image.

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