TEH Podcast

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TEH Podcast episodes:

November 09, 2022TEH 175: What’s with the plugs? Video software.
In This Episode: What’s with the plugs? Video software.

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
0:30 GR: Does it really matter if your iPhone has USB-C or not?
More and more wireless: charging, earphones, data, cloud, car.
Still needed for developers, “pro” uses
7:30 LN: More environmentally friendly to not include it?
8:00 Governments involved
10:00 Evolution of USB ports
13:00 Portless devices? Speed? Power?
16:00 5G
20:00 So many chargers
24:00 GR: (Idea) Which is better? Including a phone charger or not?
29:00 GR: Apple: iPhone Clean Energy Charging Feature
35:00 LN: Video editing
It’s why I got a Mac, years ago
The rise and fall of Camtasia
What I’m using now. Davinci Resolve
43:00 Different programs
47:00 TikToc training
Ain’t it Cool
50:00 GR: The Women Who Wrote the War
52:00 LN: The Expectation Effect – David Robson
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
54:30 LN: The One Thing Every Non-Technical Person Needs to Know
55: 00 GR: How To Use the New iCloud Shared Photo Library
...more
57min
November 02, 2022TEH 174: Twitter, more Twitter and Apple Updates
In This Episode: Twitter, more Twitter and Apple Updates

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
Twitter stuff. Is Twitter now owned by one of the people that is “the problem.” Does he listen to others?
News, fake news, monitoring…. problems.
GR: Apple new stuff. Resistance to change. I get asked “should I upgrade to Ventura” a lot. Why don’t people have a sense of adventure and wonder anymore? You can combine it with caution and security too. Do both!
LN: How increased security frustrated me 🙂
Ain’t it Cool
LN: Andor. Taking the time to tell a story.
GR: Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
LN: Should I Update to Windows 11?
Plus… Courses!
GR: My new course. The Guide to macOS Ventura
...more
1h 6min
October 26, 2022TEH 173: Travel and Travel Tech
In This Episode: Travel and Travel Tech

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 Long time no see
0:30 Covid and sort throats
3:00 LN & GR: Travels
3:50 GR: Iceland. Aurora
6:44 Travel drone, poor video quality
10:00 GR: Digital payments
10:55 Iceland has unlimited energy
13:00 LN: The Netherlands
Air fares are weird. Why? Tall people.
15:00 Staffing issues
17:50 Ease of digital payments
19:00 Public Transportation
20:00 Transport app, and bikes
22:00 Location sharing & Google maps made life easy
23:00 Connectivity, Proton VPN
Ditto for Iceland. Good service
25:10 LN: Traveling light.
30:00 Fun in security
38:00 Flight radar. Watch yourself fly.
Ain’t it Cool
38:50 LN: Spotify Weekly Charts – International. Top music in other countries
41:30 GR: Icelandic Punk Museum
Apple Music
45:00 LN: Museum Speelklok! museum of music boxes in Utrecht
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
48:00 LN: Why Ask Why?
48:45 GR: What’s New In macOS Ventura
...more
50min
September 14, 2022TEH 172: iPhones and satellites, cameras, Alexa poop, Speech to text and translations
In This Episode: iPhones and satellites, cameras, Alexa poop, Speech to text and translations

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
1:22 GR: New iPhone stuff
3:00 iPhone 14 can contact satellites: emergency use
4:15 Must point at satellite, and shows you where the satellite is!
5:40 How it compresses data
7:55 Will be activated in November
8:40 LN: Experience with regular satellite phones
10:15 Free for two years with iPhone 14
11:00 Interfaces with 911
14:25 Always-on display
16:15 48 MP camera features
19:10 Car crash detection
23:00 The Dynamic Island
29:00 Should you get one?
30:00 AirPods pro
32:00 LN: In the “I’m glad I don’t have kids” department: Alexa and “poop”!
Kids Yell “Poop” At Alexa, And These Musicians Profit
37:40 LN: what I’m doing w/ my carpal tunnel. Speech to text is pretty amazing.
42:50 30 years ago worked on beginning
44:50 Entrapped – Original language with subtitles. Issues with English dubbed films.
44:00 The global streaming boom is creating a severe translator shortage
Lost in translation: The global streaming boom is creating a severe translator shortage
Ain’t it Cool
51:50 GR: The new “A League Of Their Own: on Amazon Prime
LN: More “nordic noir” – Entrapped, on Netflix
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
53:00 LN: What’s the Best Password Manager in 2022?
54:10 GR: What’s New In iOS 16
...more
56min
September 07, 2022TEH 171: TikTok Success, Troll Comments, Bootcamp and AI Artists
In This Episode: TikTok success, troll comments, Bootcamp and AI Artists

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
3:57 GR: TikTok success!
5:15 and trolls
7:10 Why comment, and what’s a tribe?
14:30 GR: Digital signatures
18:30 LN: Adobe & signatures… and Apple Preview
22:55 LN: Bootcamp for Windows. Running Windows on a Mac
Question: “Particularly interested in your comments about running Windows in BootCamp. I have been doing just that for several years now. Currently I am using the last edition MacBookAir with an Intel processor and am currently running Ventura beta on the Mac side and very successfully running Windows 11 in BootCamp. Both run flawlessly.”
A Mac makes a good Windows machine
27:00 End of support for old machines?
29:45 Updates to Bootcamp
30:50 GR: Apple 4K screen and, 1440 screens, and why some screens have problems
40:10 LN: Scaling in Windows
45:00 LN: AI and images.
At a state fair. AI Images Won
48:00 GR: AI “art” generation is more like machine learning
54:00 LN: Dog shows, and how we compare things
Ain’t it Cool
1:02:00 LN: She-Hulk
1:05:00 LOTR The Rings of Power … Pre Ain’t it Cool
1:08:21 GR: Paper Girls
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
1:10:35 LN: What You Need To Do About the LastPass Hack
1:11:05 GR: The Problem With Using 1440 Screens With a Mac + Adobe Reader
...more
1h 12min
August 31, 2022TEH 170: LastPass headlines, Phishing, Credit Cards, Windows on a Mac
In This Episode: LastPass headlines, Phishing, Credit Cards, Windows on a Mac

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
0:30 LN: Lastpass hack & headlines.
2:25 Trade secrets stolen, no user data.
4:00 Data is encrypted, zero knowledge of passwords.
5:00 If you want to change?
7:20 What’s the risk of someone getting the source code?
8:44 GR: Phishing – Don’t think you’re immune.
12:00 LN: Smishing
14:44 LN: What about the developer?
16:00 Transparency
17:00 GR: Credit Card data breachs
24:15 LN: Why so long between detection and reporting of breaches?
27:30 GR: I installed … Windows! (first time in a long time)
29:00 Time strategy games – Age of Empires
32:00 Improvements in Windows
36:00 It’s easy to undo the install in Bootcamp on a Mac.
38:00 LN: Windows/Mac compatibility… or Linux?
Ain’t it Cool
45:00 GR: For All Mankind Season 3 – They go to Mars.
49:00 LN: House of the Dragon – There are dragons!
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
50:30 LN: The #1 Reason Your Computer is Slow
51:18 GR: Think You Have Duplicate Files Or Photos? Maybe Not.
...more
56min
August 24, 2022TEH 169: Accessing accounts while traveling, encryption, and vulnerabilities.
In This Episode: Accessing accounts while traveling, encryption, and vulnerabilities.

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 LN: Another travel related thought exercise: you’re in another country, and you lose everything – phone, wallet, laptop, etc.. How do you prepare?
2:19 GR: Two Factor issues.
4:48 Connect with computers at home. Trust another person.
5:40 LN: Essential email accounts.
7:40 LN: Authy Two Factor.
10:57 GR: What if I can’t rejoin the internet world?
12:00 GR: It’s similar to getting connected when setting up a new computer.
20:00 LN: Backing up password vault.
24:50 GR: Services with no customer support
26:00 LN: Protonmail experience. And Fastmail.
29:00 LN: What “end to end” encryption means. Some people don’t really get why it matters.
In light of this article: This Is the Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion (I’ve got an article in pipeline for early september)
35:15 Art and detail of encryption.
40:30 Government back door? Levels of intrusion.
45:00 It is a non-issue if end-to-end encryption is used.
49:00 Social ramifications are huge
52:00 LN: Headlines overstating things. For example: yet another Mac/Zoom vulnerability where the headlines are way scarier than they should be.
Most vulnerability reports these days are ‘gated’ by phishing, so it’s in our control. Or is that “bad” news?
56:00 GR: Or, gated by “physical access.”
1:00:40 LN: Ransomware
Ain’t it Cool
1:02:00 LN: (rerun) Internet radio (Radio Garden), esp with upcoming travel (I’ve been using TuneIn)
1:05:00 GR: Embassytown by China Miéville
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
1:07:15 LN: What’s a Screenshot, and How Do I Take One?
1:07:48 GR: 5 Reasons Finder List View Is The Best
...more
1h 10min
August 10, 2022TEH 168: Travel Tech in the EU
In This Episode: Travel Tech in the EU

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
GR: Tech Travel Report
1:15 Locations in Europe
1:40 Restaurant order and payments
2:00 Mobile Phone payments (Apple Pay) everywhere
4:00 No cash
6:40 LN: Preparing for Netherlands trip
9:45 GR: Apps for Taxis
16:12 LN: Public transportation overseas
24:00 Driving
26:oo GR: Internet connections, Still VPN issues, even in 2022
31:00 GR: AirTags to the rescue
36:00 GR: TikTok tracking… interesting
39:50 Which phone to bring
41:13 LN: Changing planes and bags
Ain’t it Cool
45:50 LN: 19th Anniversary of Ask Leo!
46:00 WestWorld: baffling, but fascinating at the same time. 19 years anniversary.
47:40 GR: Real Movie: Vengeance
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
49:50 LN: 6 Reasons There Are Still So Many Security Breaches
50:20 GR: Using A Shortcut To Get Your Mac Ready For a Presentation
...more
53min
July 13, 2022TEH 167: Period apps, Complexity of Tech, Is Musk a Twit?
In This Episode: Period apps, Complexity of Tech, Is Musk a Twit?

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
1:29 LN: Have you installed (or uninstalled) your period tracking app yet?
4:00 GR: Reporting for transgender and bathroom use.
5:00 LN: How tech touches and is affected by EVERYTHING, even things you might not expect like Roe v Wade decisions.
6:00 GR: Differences in tech since the 70’s.
11:00 LN: James Webb telescope. https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/
Space is full!
Miracle of human engineering
15:45 LN: Internet outage, Rogers, in Canada was a big deal. Shows how easily things can go wrong.
Bleeping Computer Article
19:00 GR: Getting connection help.
21:16 GR: The Fall of Elon Musk.
Depp/Heard trial, how likable is he?
Controversy around Twitter, tech and politics.
25:00 Technological leaps, Tesla, Starlink, good/bad and jerkiness.
28:50 GR: What Twitter can be now. Can the geeks run it?
Elon top tweets… LOL
33:45 Micro blogging, un-mention
Who will lead?
Ain’t it Cool
43:44 LN: “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds”, and “Stranger Things.”
Reading: No Time to Spare – Ursula K. Le Guin
Parable of the Sower – Octavia Butler
45:55 GR: Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan (1959 )
47:50 Best Short Story in 7 paragraphs.
The Sirens of Titans (1959)
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
52:30 LN: I Can’t See the Top of a Window, so I Can’t Minimize, Maximize, or Close. What Can I Do?
53:44 GR: Which Desktop Mac Should You Buy? (Summer 2022)
Which MacBook Should You Buy? (Summer 2022)
...more
59min
June 22, 2022TEH 166: AI. Is it alive?
In This Episode: AI. Is it alive?

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
Is AI Sentient?
1:30 A character? A priest? An engineer?
6:23 Looking at LaMDA
8:30 Is there a wrong direction for Artificial Intelligence?
9:30 What does sentient mean?
10:14 Fiction is examining this
12:20 ELIZA
14:00 Who decides if a machine is sentient?
17:00 Who decides what goes in?
16:10 The ethical use of AI
20:40 DALL-E and Corgies
22:00 Games with AI
23:30 Is there an off switch?
30:50 The amount of data
33:30 Smart cars?
43:00 We can’t define it
Articles
Is LaMDA Sentient? — an Interview –
The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
You’re Afraid of AI For All the Wrong Reasons
Google’s AI Isn’t Sentient, But It Is Biased and Terrible
ELIZA: a very basic Rogerian psychotherapist chatbot
Three Laws of Robotics
Microsoft’s framework for building AI systems responsibly
Ain’t it Cool
45:20 GR: Aurora (Book) Kim Stanley Robinson
48:40 LN: Building a Second Brain – Tiago Forte (ebook).
Started the last season of Vikings on Amazon Prime.
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
50:40 LN: If Someone Hacks My Gmail, Can They Hack My Other Accounts?
51:30 GR: How Time Machine Backups Work When using iCloud
...more
55min

FAQs about TEH Podcast:

How many episodes does TEH Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 266 episodes available.