TEH Podcast

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March 17, 2022TEH 158: New Macs from Apple, Transcriptions and Computer Voices
In This Episode: New Macs from Apple, Transcriptions and Computer Voices

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: Thoughts on the Mac Studio and Studio Display
1:04 The new Mac: Mac Studio
2:12 Does this replace the 27-inch iMac? Yes, and more. A re-alignment.
3:00 Back to one size iMac
3:39 What is the Studio Display? Max or Ultra.
4:05 I called it on “Ultra” and that there would be a 2xM1 config
7:00 New screen: Studio display
11:00 GR: What I’m getting…
12:00 Cameras and microphones
25:20 GR: New phrase, “There is always going to be room for indecision.”
27:40 LN: How I make transcripts. (Duct tape and baling wire.)
28:25 Fav hack: Record on Pixel phone which automatically transcribes
29:50 Happy Scribe for subtitles and accurate transcriptions
31:15 Youtube automatic transcriptions
35:00 Amazon services
41:00 Transcription of this podcast by Happy Scribe vs. Pixel phone
RAW, unedited, transcription results in text files: HappyScribe (happyscribe.com) and Google Recorder (recorder.google.com). (HappyScribe wins. )
42:15 Other options and text to speech
Ain’t it Cool
46:35 LN: Ain’t it confusing: Raised by Wolves??
49:00 LN: Everything I Know About Life I Learned from Powerpoint – Russell Davies
52:05 GR: If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? By Alan Alda
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
58:38 LN: Can I Rely on My Cloud Service’s Backups?
59:21 GR: Using Universal Control Across Macs and iPads
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1h 4min
March 02, 2022TEH 157: Ukrain tech, live streaming, financial issues, coders and Social Media.
In This Episode: Ukraine tech, live streaming, financial issues, coders and Social Media.

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
Ukraine.
1:00 Maybe a positive spin is the use of social media as a force for good, as opposed to previous examples.
3:23 A war of tech as much as guns.
3:43 Yes, tech more involved because Ukraine is a modern nation being invaded by another modern nation.
People broadcasting with easily available technology
7:00 Starlink being deployed/available there.
9:40 Ukraine technical community: coders, programmers
11:40 Sanctions
FB censoring Russia.
Netflix refuses to carry state TV.
Twitter labels Russian news sources.
Apple stops sales and ApplePay.
TikTok live streamers.
No batman
DirectTV (they just turned off RT in the USA)
11:40 SWIFT, transfering money issues
17:20 Money coming out. Crypto currency issues
18:30 Thought provoking issues with crypto
20:15 Difference between Kiev and Kyiv.
21:10 New cold war?
Air space closed
Who all is involved
26:12 The Teenager Who Tracks Elon Musk’s Plane Has a New Obsession: Monitoring Russian Oligarchs, Vladimir Putin…
28:00 Good vetted sources
Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, BBC World News
31:00 Donations
Ain’t it Cool
31:40 LN: Sorta-cool: Finished “Termination Shock”
Good read, rambling stories, interesting future tech
41:45 LN New office.
44:17 GR: Planetwalker: 22 Years of Walking. 17 Years of Silence. by John Francis
Learn by listening
Walking slows things down so you can experience and learn
What you could be missing on the path not taken
Sticking to principles and having conviction can help you accomplish goals
Friendliness and generosity are all around us
Walk the earth … my 17-year vow of silenceTEDFeb 15, 2008
Not all news is bad, Herioc Stories
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
55:55 LN: Just What Is a Backup, Anyway?
54:36 GR: Learn About Mac Image File Formats
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56min
February 16, 2022TEH 156: Music and MP3s. Lost iPhones. Recording software adventures.
In This Episode: Music and MP3s. Lost iPhones. Recording software adventures.

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
1:07 LN: Yet Another streaming alternative, with a twist. (Plex)
3:36 Integrates with Tidal
5:00 Playing MP3s
10:15 How musicians get money
23:46 GR: AppleCare+ with Theft and Loss. Recent iPhone experience
28:00 Find a phone was weird
37:00 Lost mode
42:40 LN: Been playing with recording software
43:58 Techsmith makes SnagIt for cool snips, and now records video
46:00 OBS video recording
47:00 DaVinci Resolve
49:00 How to fake multi-cam in Windows
51:00 GR: DaVinci Resolve is also on Mac
53:00 Markup
55:00 Screenflow
Ain’t it Cool
55:30 LN: Raised by Wolves (mentioned last week) and Peacemaker – opposite ends of the HBOMax spectrum.
Peacemaker opening credits – Gotta watch
59:25 GR: Archive 81 (Netflix)
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
1:00:50 LN: Am I Safe?
1:01:40 GR: Getting To Know the Mac Keyboard
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1h 5min
February 09, 2022TEH 155: Ranting on spam, Return to Streaming Music, and NFTs
In This Episode: Ranting on spam, Return to Streaming Music, and NFTs

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
0:57 GR: Predictions playing out (love statistics).
5:15 LN: I need to rant a little (re spam). SO MANY problems with respect to email all boil down to spam and, more correctly, efforts to mitigate spam.
Moving from server to server.
10:20 IMAGINE THE COST (and frustration!) of spam to everyone!
16:12 What it would take to control it.
20:00 Charge for emails?
23:10 What domain owners can do.
26:00 Google Apps/Workspace going pay-only
31:00 one domain serviced by protonmail.com
32:45 LN: Re: Spotify.
YouTube Music turned out to be a surprise contender for me. (incl w/ YouTube Premium)
34:50 Family plan
39:40 GR: The ap, how ads work… creators still get paid. Premium better than adblocker.
42:37 GR: Follow-Up on NFTs (‘NFTs are a scam,’ says indie game store Itch.io.)
Read on The Verge or The Atlantic
45:15: Buying stuff in a game.
49:00 LN: Like collecting Beanie Babies
51:00 Explain it like I’m five… Not!
51:39 LN: Winter Olympics
52:00 Peacock
55: 20 Lag and camera angles, different focus
57:00 Streaming confusion creating reduced audience
59:40 GR: Streaming differences create “spoilers.” Movies, TV series, Olympics… Superbowl
Ain’t it Cool
1:04:10 LN: Reading: “Termination Shock” by Neal Stephenson
1:06:06 TV: Reacher & Raised by Wolves.
1:07:40 GR: TV Time loop series: Reset (Search “Reset YoYo” on YouTube)
1:12:02 Apple TV+: movie CODA gets Oscar nomination
Don’t Look Up: Netflix gets Oscar nomination.
1:12:40 LN: Amazon Oscar nominations. Being the Ricardos.
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
1:14:39 LN: Someone Is in My Computer, Controlling it. What Can I Do?
1:15:30 GR: 25 Tips For Using Notes On a Mac
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1h 17min
February 02, 2022TEH 154: Spotify tech. Can we balance stories? Censorship, audio quality and payment. Wordle Shoulda’s.
In This Episode: Spotify tech. Can we balance stories? Censorship, audio quality and payment. Wordle Shoulda’s.

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
0:17 GR: The Spotify thing… Neil Young vs. Spotify.
3:31 What makes this different: Exclusivity, subscription model,
6:27 Their business model makes it different than Apple Podcasts. Podcasters not tied to each other.
13:00 Censorship misunderstandings.
14:00 Creating balanced stories, can’t balance falsehood with truth.
20:15 LN: It’s bigger than vaccines
21:50 Audio quality (compression) lowers quality of audio. Neil Young on the quality.
25:20 Alternatives: Amazon Music Unlimited, but Spotify’s selection is huge. Apple?
26:40 Brene Brown: Pausing podcasts – Spotify response, moderation rules.
29:30 TEH podcast is in numerous places.
30:16 LN: Sony picks up Bungie. Gaming is important.
32:20 Metaverse… immersive with VR goggles.
33:00 GR: Wordle! Shoulda been me… web based games suddenly come back.
37:00 The keyboard
38:00 How it accidentally(?) positioned itself for virality. (And the New York Times, apparently.)
39:00 Ease of sharing (competitive)
Wordle 227 3/6 (Boxes are characters in a string of text)
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41:00 Do a Google search for Wordle… not in app store, be careful.
42:00 Wordle anger from the non-Wordles.
43:00 ONE WORD – ‘initially’ – is pissing people off.
The New York Times Buys Wordle – Will NYT put it behind a paywall?
44:56 One word a day… how to monitize it.
46:00 GR: How to cheat… but why?
Ain’t it Cool
47:55 LN: Bobba Fett.
49:14 LN: (And, for the geeks, Windows has it’s own SSH server – from Microsoft, no less.)
51:00 GR: “Termination Shock” by Neal Stephenson. (Why wasn’t I targeted?)
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
54:34 LN: How Do I Turn Off BitLocker on a Drive? Surprise encryption!
56:10 GR: How To Troubleshoot iPhone Auto-Correct Problems
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58min
January 20, 2022TEH 153: Addictive lights, Alexa and Siri battles, Falling planes, Blizzard and Metaverse
In This Episode: Addictive lights, Alexa and Siri battles, falling planes, Blizzard and Metaverse

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: How I accidentally took big steps toward a “smart home.”
3:00 Bedsite clock that turns things on
6:55 It’s addictive… lightbulbs and more
7:50 LN: X10 lighting… to wifi aps… to Echo… to everything
13:00 GR: Blink cameras, Alexa and Siri battles
14:00 Trigger phrases to keep the conversation going
15:00 GR: 5G around Airports. Lots of clickbait and misleading headlines.
Planes aren’t falling out of the sky… commisions fight
17:50 5G frequency bands and landing altimeters
22:25 Clickbait headlines… it’s not phones
Good tech summary on The Verge
29:55 LN: Microsoft + Blizzard, working environment woes
32:00 (GR: Maybe the parental oversight the company needs?)
33:00 Big companies
33:29 is it a Metaverse thing?
40:33 Remember Yahoo groups?
42:20 LN: groups.io
Ain’t it Cool
44:00 LN: My 75” Samsung 4KHD, and what I watched first (ish).
Encanto and (46:00) Don’t look Up
49:48 GR: Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea
51:57 LN: Book: This is How They Tell Me the World Ends
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
53:18 GR: Using Terminal to Find Large Files and Folders
55:03 LN: Windows File Explorer Settings: the Setting You Should Change Right Now
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57min
January 05, 2022TEH 152: Fires, TV dilemma, Y2K again, Launching Games, Covid app fails.
In This Episode: Fires, TV dilemma, Y2K again, Launching Games, Covid app fails.

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
0:20 GR: Colorado is on fire (and not in a good way)
5:55 LN: update on my TV repair dilemma (repair or replace?)
11:22 GR: Recycling TVs
13:50 High tech recycling
18:23 LN: Y2K22?? (Date roll over bug)
2201010001 > 2,147,483,647
(signed long -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647) 32-bit number
Y2K22 bug stops Exchange mail delivery: Antimalware engine stumbles on 2022
23:25 LN: NFT follow up – OpenSea freezes $2.2M of stolen Bored Apes
28:03 CES 2022 Consumer Technology Association… not much happening
31:00 Halo Infinite and launching games
35:00 GR: Underwhelmed by Mobile phone covid exposure notifications.
Such a great idea that failed?
46:00 LN: Testing stories and biological bugs
55:30 GR: “Don’t Look Up” on Netflix. Anti-science anxiety.
Ain’t it Cool
1:02:40 LN: Wheel of Time, Witcher Season 2, Lost in Space, Another Life, The Sinner Season 2
1:06:30 GR: Call My Agent on Netflix
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
1:07:37 LN: I Know My Password Is Right, But I Can’t Sign In. What Do I Do?
1:09:32 GR: What’s To Come From Apple in 2022?
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1h 11min
December 30, 2021TEH 151: Is NFT an opportunity or a scam? From Magic public keys to digital Beanie Babies.
In This Episode: Is NFT an opportunity or a scam? From Magic public keys to digital Beanie Babies.

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
NFTs (Non Fungible Tokins)
Disclaimer!
4:51 LN – Let’s start with tech background of Public key cryptography
5:41 Algorithmic cryptography (i.e. rot13)
7:29 Symmetric cryptography (i.e. password)
8:04 Asymmetric cryptography (aka public key)
11:20 Block chain and “Ledger”
12:19 How it’s both public and secure
13:00 Decentralization makes it more secure
14:42 Quick overview
15:31 Why a “block chain”
16:15 … And then NFTs – Define fungible for the umpteenth time (replaceable)
18:30 What’s inside the NFT?
20:30 GR – Doesn’t necessarily include ownership
22:00 How it applies to ownership
Does owning an NFT give you the copyright on a piece of art? Probably not. Probably most buyers think it does.
No, NFTs aren’t copyrights
24:00 How it relates to governments
26:50 1% of the NFT crowd understands it, 99% pretend they do
27:00 Mushy copyrights
29:20 People don’t look at the details
31:15 NFT art isn’t like a painting or a baseball card because those things have a real value association and you actually own the item, not a “certificate” associated with the item.
32:50 NFTs have some real potential in being a decentralized system of who owns what. But if major governments collapse, then who cares?
33:15 Scarcity creates value… but digital can be copied
35:55 Compare to physical property
38:50 The technology has potential
40:50 GR – NFT scam alert. Particularly in games.
47:00 Are NFTs scams? Definitely, no. But there are a lot of scams using NFTs or the NFT name.
48:38 NFT tickets to events. What’s wrong with just tickets? This makes it more difficult.
51:00 GR – Or, maybe this is actually a redistribution of wealth so let’s hush up.
52:30 Acknowledge: By talking about it now, we may look like fools later on. That fact makes me not want to talk about it… But what if that is happening to everyone else too, so no one’s talking about it?
55:28 We know just enough to be worried…
57:00 Tim Ferris: “NFTs make Crypto(currencies) look like treasury bonds”
1:00:00 Etherium Block chains and NFTs creating a revenue stream for creators
1:02:10 DAOs: Why can’t a DAO exist without a blockchain? Why voting?
1:04:10 Early days… lots to be seen. Compare to Ponzi scheme
Ain’t it Cool
1:12:10 Where is Web telescope (Fun tech!)
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
LN: Why Is “Back Up First” Your Recommendation for Everything? https://askleo.com/33048
GR: 20 Ways To Free Up Disk Space On Your Mac
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1h 19min
December 15, 2021TEH 150: Unmagic numbers, Televisions, Universal controls, Unused innovations, Elon love/hate
In This Episode: Unmagic numbers, Televisions, Universal controls, Unused innovations, Elon love/hate

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 The unmagic of numbers and production details
3:38 LN – My television dilemma
4:24 How modern TVs die… capacitors!
6:06 Upgrade? Is 4k worth it?
7:48 GR – From astronomically expensive to just expensive
10:05 A lot of 4k available
10:51 The delimma of recycling
14:00 But if 8k comes?
15:08 LN – All the different resolutions.
GR – 4k will be noticable
23:57 Audio types
31:00 Fix and repurpose
31:48 LN – Death of universal remote control
32:29 GR – Universal Control (Mac feature) delayed until spring.
33:30 My take… not that useful
37:00 Drag and drop, can already be done
39:00 keyboard for iPad?
44:40 GR – Elon Musk, Time’s Man of the Year
47:28 LN – the anti-Elon movement
49:40 Other Times Heroes
Ain’t it Cool
52:56 LN – The Expanse Season 6 – Love the vibe
53:12 GR – The Terror
55:20 and.. Hanna, and The Great
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
56:18 LN – Why Is My OneDrive Full?
59:55 GR – What’s New in macOS Monterey 12.1
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1h 1min
December 08, 2021TEH 149: Painting Windows, Get a job hackers! AWS outage, Security camera tech
In This Episode: Painting Windows, Get a job hackers! AWS outage, Security camera 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
2:25 LN – Correction… Windows 11 not fixed by updates. Video card update did it.
5:28 LN – How I spent my Monday evening. (Fixing a hacked site.)
A couple of takeaways for non-techies.
Keep plugins up to date
Use two-factor authentication, especially on WordPress sites.
16:34 GR – Get a job hackers…
Why do they do this?
21:05 – Pre-hackers, 1996
28:08 LN – AWS outtage, domino effect
30:35 Even internet of things! (bedroom lights, doorbells)
33:13 GR – Blink Cameras, Security trial
42:49 LN – Ring (who’s peeing?)
48:30 LN – Weather station has been interesting
Ain’t it Cool
49:25 LN – Cowboy Bebop (Corgies) Live action on Netflix
54:05 GR – Get Back
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
1:02:06 LN – Should I Repair or Replace My Computer?
1:02:49 GR – 200 Mac Tips and Tricks
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1h 6min

FAQs about TEH Podcast:

How many episodes does TEH Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 259 episodes available.