TEH Podcast

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TEH Podcast episodes:

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
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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
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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
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1h 6min
March 11, 2020TEH 089: Blood and browsing connections. Tinder tells us what it’s like in China
In This Episode: A health crises we can fix, how technology opens up a window into life with the Corona virus, and contemplating how much dirty stuff we touch.

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: Connectivity is awesome when you suddenly need to work at home … BUT … will current systems handle the load?
Leo tries a new webinar tool.
Here is the video Leo is talking about: Webinar Replay: Backing Up in Windows 10 and Ask Leo! Anything
Gary: Tinder and TikTok have become vital news services about life with Coronavirus in China
Tinder Has Become A News Service About Coronavirus, Which Is Not What God Intended – Buzzfeed
Possibly Off Topic, But Cool
Leo: Stuff You Should Know podcast features geeky news for those who dabble in everything.
Face touching with Weird Al
Phone Soap
Gary: Charging my MacBook Pro with an iPhone Charger, takes a while…
and what’s on that pen?
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
Leo: My Most Important Articles
Gary: HTML5 games staying alive for Jig Saw Puzzles
Get ad free games with Patreon
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52min
March 04, 2020TEH 088: Real Viruses and How Old Games Die
In This Episode: Leo speaks from the epicenter of the Corona virus outbreak and Gary tries to figure out how to archive old games that won’t play without flash… and finally, bye bye Mr. Robot.

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
Coronavirus -> Be Skeptical
Scammers and the coronavirus
19 Criminal scams
Wikipedia Chart
YubiKey w/ Google & Lastpass (& more w/ NFC)
Get a YubiKey
Gary contemplates the end of flash
Check out Gary’s site for some of his games
Possibly Off Topic, But Cool
Gary: Server issues and a surprising fix.
Leo: Why I miss Mr. Robot. (“That’s not how it works!”)
Tracing phones… vampires, passwords… and eeeek!
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
Leo: My new machine is awesome
Designing my new desktop, awesome processor, what kind of machine gets Leo excited!
Gary: Create Beautiful Photo Slideshows In Mac Keynote
See cool videos about Mac stuff!
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1h 1min
February 27, 2020TEH 087: Regulated chargers, microphones, and installs as easy as Apple
In This Episode: Scrutinizing the security of submit buttons, what Europe is doing about charging, and Win10 installs are getting as easy as Apple.

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
“Ask Gary” Is there a way to tell if a “Submit” button goes to an https secure connection before you click it?
How can an https website still not be secure?
Gary: The EU’s decision to force phone makers to use the same “charger.” How this affects Apple users.
EU Charging Standard proposals – Article on MacRumors.
Leo’s workaround – a multi-cord.
Leo: Installing Windows 10 is easier than ever, and getting easier. Are they catching up with Mac?
Possibly Off Topic, But Cool
Gary: Fighting with microphones and different sounds when recording.
Leo: shares the Rode Wireless Go
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
Leo: Results of a year long laptop experiment – And getting a new machine.
Gary: Mastering Your Mac’s Word Processing App – New Course. Use the coupon code ernest
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1h 3min
February 19, 2020TEH 086 – Huge drives, Bibles and Who’s Watching?
In This Episode: Using software to transcribe audios and look at photos; what might be coming out of your doorbell — and how many Bibles are in “huge”?

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
In the warmup, we talk about how far in advance we work on articles and content, and the usefulness of showing production notes to the dogs.
Top Stories
Leo: Using Youtube for transcriptions. It’s a little convoluted, but works!
Gary: The juxtaposition of crime and privacy in identifying the content of images – How “hashes” are used to find bad content, and who might be looking at your email.
Possibly Off Topic, But Cool
Leo: Digital Planet podcast from the BBC. Example: last week they discussed repairing Voyager 2.
Gary: You can get 16TB drives! They’ve gotten so big it’s amazing and even data hogs don’t need that much.
(That’s greater than 3 million Bibles)
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
Leo: How do I backup my computer?
Gary: New Course on Mac Pages (Word Processor)
...more
1h 1min
February 13, 2020TEH 085: Politics, Privacy, Podcasts, and a Mythic Quest
In This Episode: How social media is managing miss-information online during an election year, managing the privacy of your credit card number, easy listening to podcasts, ways to watch ApppleTV 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: YouTube and Twitter are monitoring content more closely with election coming up. They are all doing it differently!
How YouTube supports elections – YouTube’s blog
Youtube will police videos more closely – Wired
Twitter’s approach to synthetic and manipulated media – Twitter’s blog
Leo: Privacy.com and how you can use it for safe purchases and gifts.
Possibly Off Topic, But Cool
Leo: PocketCasts
Gary: Mythic Quest
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
Leo: Diagnose Web Pages With Inspect – Use it to understand why pages are displaying the way they are.
Gary: Numbers Experiment: Flowsheets (via Gary’s Patreon)
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1h 4min
February 07, 2020TEH 084: Caucus Ruckus
In This Episode: New computer and the fateful Iowa Caucus app!

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: New machine: Puget Systems (The new machine’s configuration.)
Leo’s New System’s thermal image
Gary: Iowa Caucus app…
New York Times
The Verge
Topical XKCD comic
Possibly Off Topic, But Cool
Leo: “Celestron Elements ThermoCharge, 2-in-1 Device”
Gary: Academy awards predictions? Or, maybe who is deserving?
The list via IMDB
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
Leo: What Security Software Do You Recommend?
Gary: 10 Mac Shortcuts I Use Every Day
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1h 5min
January 31, 2020TEH 083: Back and Better Than Ever — Edge?
In This Episode: We’re back, just a little tweaked. Something’s clearly frozen over because Edge is good now. Apple’s privacy push is actually working. 1960s Lunar Orbiter images, saved from loss, are amazing. Plus: Picard, The Innovators, and retirement accounts for kids.

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 Randy Cassingham, founder of This is True.
(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)
Show Notes & Links
Get the latest version of Microsoft Edge here.
News reports on Apple’s privacy features: Apple’s new privacy features have further rattled the location-based ad market (via Digiday), and Amazon Turns Up The Volume On TV Ads; How Apple ITP Shuts Down Tracking (via Ad Exchanger)
AmIUnique? (Quite possibly!)
Possibly Off Topic, But Cool
The This is True podcast, Episode 059: Rescuing History (with more links and PICTURES!)
Star Trek: Picard
The Innovators by Walter Isaacson
Heroic Stories and Not All News Is Bad (mentioned in the introduction)
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
Leo: Is a Microsoft Office Subscription Worth It? (Spoiler: for almost everyone the answer is yes.)
Gary: 13 Alternate Ways To Use Emoji On Your Mac
Randy: Podcast 059: Rescuing History – A wild story of several civilians who rescued a piece of history — a little-known account from the sidelines in the race to the moon.
And a shout-out to The Smashing Security Podcast — informative and fun.
The TEH Podcast is sponsored by Ask Leo!, Mac Most, This Is True, and Free Printables.
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1h 6min

FAQs about TEH Podcast:

How many episodes does TEH Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 272 episodes available.