TEH Podcast

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How many episodes does TEH Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 259 episodes available.

TEH Podcast episodes:

May 21, 2020TEH 099: PTSD from yuck, no headphone jacks, techie camera adjustments, empty airports
In This Episode: PTSD from internet sludge, Why are they taking away headphone jacks? Techie adjustments to cameras and what about airports these days!

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.)
Show Notes & Links
Gary: Internet sludge is so bad moderators got a thousand bucks.
Leo: Got a new phone… battery life was the final straw. It’s faster and better all around.
Ain’t it Cool
Leo: Facial recognition is kind-of cool on new phone.
Leo: Using a Cam Link for recording.
Gary: Looking for an exact lens for Sony camera. It works!
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
Leo: Can My Workplace See What Else I Do When I Work from Home?
Gary: How To Use Mac Photos Without Spending Any Time Organizing Anything
...more
1h 2min
May 13, 2020TEH 098: Wrong food, space docking, radio email, crazy emojis, and more…
In This Episode: Getting the wrong food in every possible way, Docking in space, Email by radio, and why wrong things don’t get fixed.

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.)
Show Notes & Links
Leo: Did our first “pick up” last week… you probably didn’t notice.
Gary: Why are food delivery services so bad? (Restaurant delivery, grocery delivery)
Orders are often wrong: Cancelled orders: Misleading info: Bad menus and customization. How much is it costing the restaurant?
Mistakes by delivery drivers are costing customers, drivers and restaurant owners.
Why are supermarket ordering sites so bad? Why can you not get items you know are there? Accountability is also an issue — who is to blame? And th environmental impact.
Ain’t it Cool
Leo: Ham Radio tech: Email over radio.
Space X docking simulator Game. Nice implementation… and how hard it is to dock in space.
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
Why Didn’t Windows Fix My Pet Peeve?
Tips to Make Messaging Fun
...more
1h 1min
May 06, 2020TEH 097: Wi-Fi extenders, playing games and movies, setting up your video field, editing and more
In This Episode: Extend your WIFI to the yard, play games and meet with friends, what’s going to happen with movies, setting up those cameras, and how increased bandwidth makes our lives easier.

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.
Our guest is Kay Savetz of FreePrintable.net
(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)
Show Notes & Links
Gary: Adventures in Home Wi-Fi… cheap extenders do help!
Leo: Streaming theatrical releases is hitting contractual issues. Will everything change in the future?
Big film festivals streaming online.
Ain’t it Cool
Leo: Watched The Rise of Skywalker
A course for teachers making courses: The Mechanics of Teaching Online
Gary: Needed a break from TV and found it with an Xbox game : Control
Kay: A different kind of game. Game night with your friends and family online: Jackbox
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
Leo: Reflections on communication — The Most Important Skill
Gary: How to Create the Color Splash Effect on a Mac
Kay: Printable 1 page bios of heros, past and present, all around the globe HeroPrintables.com
...more
53min
April 29, 2020TEH 096: To trace or not to trace? Bad dreams, online security and Spotlight.
In This Episode: Contact tracing with privacy, replacing a Macbook with Google, domain controversy, online safety, and more…

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.)
Show Notes & Links
Gary: How Contact Tracing came together with Apple and Google. Is it private?
Why the NHS said no to Apple and Google’s plan
Are Americans willing and able to do it?
What happens when it works? How will antibodies affect society?
Leo: Dreaming about being locked out of accounts. How can you be secure and yet able to access important accounts?
Speaking of which… replacing my wife’s Macbook. Understanding what you are going to do with a computer is key.
Ain’t it Cool
Leo: I bought my wife a ChromeBook (PixelBook Go) 8GB, 64GB, M3
Gary: Getting in trouble with domains and protests.
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
Leo: Can Video Chat Be Intercepted and Recorded? There’s a surprising answer.
Gary: Tips and Tricks For Using Mac Spotlight
...more
1h 5min
April 23, 2020TEH 095: Poop, tracing protest domains, space launches, and video fatigue
In This Episode: Can poop save us? Are we tired of looking at ourselves and should we be tracing protest domains? — what it all means for information trust.

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.)
Show Notes & Links
Gary: Examining Poop. Can it help in tracking Coronavirus?
Massachusetts Sewage
Paris Sewage
Survellience Biobot
Leo: Why we’re getting Zoom Fatigue – Once a novelty, now a chore? Several specific reasons video/audio conferencing might be more stressful than you think.
Maybe we don’t need video on everything!
Gary: Tracking domain registrations to follow the origins of state protests.
New privacy rules for domains, how it’s changing.
Possibly Off Topic, But Cool
Leo: Are E-readers also experiencing a surge?
In the Netherlands (from a “talk” with my cousin) they are using Kobo.
Gary: SpaceX is finally launching people… next month. First time people are launched from the United States since 2011!
Chris Hadfield: Astronaut and Author.
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
Leo: How Does a VPN Protect Me?
Gary: iPhone SE – Apple’s new base level phone is future protected.
...more
1h
April 15, 2020TEH 094: Social Zoom, location tracking, long distance sandwiches, and hopeful graphiti
In This Episode: Tracking viral infections on cell phones, baseball game games, spelling sports, great binge shows, and homeless in a pandemic.

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.
Our guests are …
Kay Savetz, the man behind freeprintable.net and faxzero.com.
Ken Gagne, Technical Account Manager at Automattic works and man about the world.
Games: Jackbox
Cards Against Humanity: Family Edition
(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)
Show Notes & Links
Ken: Contract Tracing can help us trace who we’ve been in contact with during a pandemic.
Admittedly not a perfect system, but an attempt to use phones to trace infection rates.
Apple and Google are collaborating on the tech.
Gary: Sports.
ESPN is reduced to running Spelling Bees.
Baseball teams are playing Play Station games for their fans.
Baseball, for real… Chinese Professional Baseball League Becomes first to play ball in 2020… real games with nobody in the stands.
Streaming Chinese Baseball
It’s odd to watch it with no audience, some shows are adding sound effects.
Saturday Night Live pulls off a social distance episode.
Leo: – How Steak-umm Became The Tweeting Voice Of Reason in a Pandemic – examples of how social media and positions of ~power can meet and help.
Great quote: “Communicators aren’t experts, and experts aren’t communicators”
Possibly Off Topic, But Cool
Leo: Good Graffiti? Street artists are painting hopeful art on boarded up businesses!
Online list of local restaurants with gift cards
Even Andrew Lloyd Webber is making YouTube productions free: Jesus Christ Superstar
Gary: Westworld… Season 3 is great science fiction.
Ken: Watching anything Star Trek, Thumbs up on Picard, The Good Place, Timeless, The Flash… and more.
Kay: Saving old software:
Saved from the dust… Bankster for the Atari 800
Checkers for the Atari VCS
Ken: Wrapping up my Apple II blog – Ten years blogging about a computer that has not been manufactured since 1993, finally said everything that needs to be said.
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
Leo: Refreshing Windows 10 Without a Re-install or Reset – an Ask Leo! Live event
Gary: The Obvious Mac Keyboard Shortcut that You May Not be Using
Kay: Printable Board Games and Printable Rulers
Ken: And then a new blog… Road Bits
...more
1h 8min
April 08, 2020TEH 093: The Masked Bandit Version (and low-tech howling)
In This Episode: The tech world quickly upgrades to online ordering for pickup, free education and every kind of human connection. We now have talk shows without audiences to neighborhood howling.

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.)
Show Notes & Links
Leo: Be sure to support your local eateries and small businesses as they adjust to our new normal. How tech is helping out:
Leo’s friend’s local beer bar and tap room quickly added a WordPress plugin to their website allowing them to pivot and take orders online.
Pizza is your friend in the world of crises… now with touchless delivery.
Gary: Everyone is podcasting. We can learn a lot tech-wise by watching the “Professionals” stream on their cell phones.
Everyone is using basically the same tech. The difference is in the content.
Leo: It’s like golden age of podcasting and live streaming. Everyone is podcasting including my bloodbank.
Leo: There is so much free education available now. … if you do have free time!
Gary: Denver local library giving free courses on Udemy.
Leo: Zoom is turning their focus towards security — will they sacrifice ease of use?
Zoom chief Eric Yuan says he was not prepared for flood of security and privacy complaints –
Gary: Spammers are phishing Zoom downloads, people aren’t creating passwords and then getting hacked. But true security comes down to how honestly a business faces it and how quickly they patch things (Zoom has been honest and fast with patches).
Zoom CEO: ‘I Really Messed Up’ on Security as Coronavirus Drove Video Tool’s Appeal
Possibly Off Topic, But Cool
Gary: In the Pandemic Stay-at-home world people are communicating. Some neighborhoods are clapping to thank health care workers (usually close to hospitals so the staff can hear). And now evening Howling is a stay-at-home coping mechanism. You can sit on your porch, in your backyard, and people and dogs start howling at 8:00 pm.
Leo: Kay sent Marco Polo (video sharing ap) proof that howling is happening in Portland.
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
How Can a PIN Be as Secure as a Password?
Using the New Drop Caps Feature Of Mac Pages
...more
51min
April 01, 2020TEH 092: Entertainment, home connection, and changing tech (what happened to Skype?)
In This Episode: We talk about changing names, sharing on a Mac (or is that Sharon?), connection software, digital sharing in a time of quarantine, and copyright issues that arise.

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.
Our guest is … Kay! Who treats us to the technicalities of name change (remember Kevin?)
(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)
Show Notes & Links
Leo: The revolution was supposed to be Skyped!
Why are we all Zooming and not Skyping?
Team Viewer Executable helps tech support connect
HouseParty http://houseparty.com – Multi-person video conversations.
Marco Polo https://www.marcopolo.me – a fun, private way to email videos.
CU-SeeMe – Internet videoconferencing client
Gary: Archive.org’s National Emergency Library has changed policies
Is it a great resource for everyone during this time of crisis, or blatant copyright violation that steals from writers at a time when they need it most.
Read about the controversy.
Possibly Off Topic, But Cool
Leo: Blue Skies from Picard
Gary: Dispatches From Elsewhere on AMC (the old home town Philidalphia)
Kay: Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
Leo: How Do YOU Back Up, Leo?
Gary: Creating Simple Database Lists In Mac Numbers Calculations not required
Kay: Final Directive: Get Your Life (and Death) in Order – Death Planner
...more
50min
March 25, 2020TEH 091: Furniture stores make masks, sharing with kids, and a break for new computers!
In This Episode: Incredible local support in time of crises, broken dryers, and a short break from the end of the world to look at new computers!

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.)
Show Notes & Links
Leo: Technology is helping people come together
Local furniture store making masks
Tesla steps up with ventilators
News from Bleeping Computer: TeamViewer Stops Commercial Use Checks in Coronavirus-Affected Regions
Internet continues to work!
Gary: Connecting with kids: Zoom for story book reading.
Let’s look at new Apple computers so we’re not always talking about the end of the world.
New MacBook Air and iPad Pro!
Ain’t It Cool!
Leo: It’s cool that I can purchase parts for my dryer and get them delivered.
Gary: Mobilizing for “war.” PAPRs built with parts from F-150 truck cooled seating.
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
Leo: How Much Can I Trust Information on the Internet?
Gary: Reading books to kids online using Mac Messages
...more
54min
March 18, 2020TEH 090: Technology and Social Distancing with Pizza Delivery
In This Episode: Helping local businesses by frequenting restaurant takeout. How technology is keeping people in touch – with a thanks for recent increases in bandwidth! Teaching aids, good flix, and let yourself be seen.

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.)
Show Notes & Links
Leo: Seeing LOTS of people reaching out / offering for connection online. GREAT use of technology and it’s working. (WoW as a joke, Discord and Twitch for reals)
Discord for your classroom
Gary: Gary’s test of Zoom?
Music artists are streaming live performances all the time now.
Life outside this world
Gary looking at test numbers, with some ideas about levels of screening.
Randy’s EMS chart of symptoms (below)
Possibly Off Topic, But Cool
Leo: Movies being brought in early for at-home entertainment.
Altered Carbon Season 2
Gary: Black Magic Design RX580 Review
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
Leo: Let Yourself be Seen and Heard
Gary: Video Chat and stay in Touch With Others Apple and Cross Platform
...more
1h 6min

FAQs about TEH Podcast:

How many episodes does TEH Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 259 episodes available.