TEH Podcast

Eclipse, Pay with palm, Discord chatting, Pins that are not quite Star Trek.

Saved by a Car app. Four hour work week? Apple Vision Pro still great!

AI everywhere. Sideways Moon Landing. Computer Screens that wrap, see through, and more.

Meeting photos. Is the future finally here? All the Tech that works.

Apple Vision Pro. Apple Vision Pro and Apple Vision Pro.

Apple Protection and Vision Pro, AI is faking it. And yes, Taylor Swift.

Apple woes, Vision Pro, Netflix History. Sorting data with ChatGPT.

SSD life, Server issues, AI copyright, Finding People

Tech divide, new and old. Practical AI. Search engines. Future of programming.

AI poisoning, YouTube privacy consequences, Vigilante apps, The Beatles

Apple Computer models. Local AI vs. Cloud Servers. Creative ChatPT and surveillance.

In This Episode: The gang is back! Residential cruise ships. All those cables. And More AI.



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 and Randy Cassingham, OG hosts of the TEH Podcast.

(You'll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)
Top Stories

00:25 Today we are joined by the original, cohosts of the TEH podcast.
 01:01 Kay Savetz is Working with the internet archive and creating a massive library of books, magazines, newsletters, and podcasts.

 03:25 Kay owns a bunch of websites. One of them is faxzero.com, which lets people send faxes online.


 06:01 Randy is busy living everywhere... specifically moving to a residential cruise ship which slowly goes around the world. He'll be blogging on ResidentialCruising.com

 11:42 Items on history of the space station.
 13:17 One requirement for a residential cruise ship is good Internet. Starlink
 15:35 The, company is going be running itself from the ship.
 16:43 As one of the oldest email publishers, since 1994, I've always been saying that I can live anywhere where I have an Internet connection.
 18:56 This is True will continue from the ship.


19:24 Gary

Iphone cables go to USB C. New Apple Pencil.
26:56 Looking ahead, what's next? Is there a USB D coming down the pike? Cable speeds. Distance. MagSafe chargers.
33:41 Iphone on a tripod. Magnetic holders.


35:14 Leo.

AI, chat GPT. Images.


 36:30 Kay - I've been using AI for coding. Helped fix margins. Computers are now programming computers.
38:55 Randy - Python has the ability to to import libraries.
47:57 - Will AI be solving CAPTCHAS or will we finally getting rid of CAPTCHAS?
49:38 AI generated image (See below)

BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion

Reminders of where people can find our hosts
50:41 Randy - Thisistrue.com, and now ResidentialCruising.com.
50:47 Kay FreePrintable.net, FaxZero.com, archive.org, Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications.
51:02 Gary macmost.com
51:07 Leo askleo.com

That DALL-E photo

The original prompt: "Two professors arguing in front of a lecture hall full of college students. Pixar style. --ar 19:10"
Automatically expanded to: "Photo of two professors, one male with a beard and the other female with glasses, having a passionate discussion at the front of a large lecture hall. Behind them, a diverse group of college students watch with a mix of amusement and surprise. The atmosphere is light-hearted, resembling the animation style of popular animated movies."
The result:

DALL-E generated image. Click for larger image.

AI is smart and dumb. Robots can be cute. And Pass keys.

Leo and Gary talk about the concept of hyper personalization and its impact on technology, as well as the challenges of adding options and settings in software design. They briefly mention the idea of using an air tag for tracking a vehicle. They also discuss the use of AI companion for generating meeting transcripts and the ability to have voice conversations with Chat GPT.

Encryption back doors, iPhone annoyances, Car play and cameras

Apple announcements. Is computer sharing back? AI's news for today.

Burning man mud, so much social media, new iPhone?

Privacy and Paranoia

Two Hundred Episodes, Listening to your keyboard? Facial Recognition, Vocabulary Helps.

Apple Pay, Threads, X, Writer's Strike, Cheap VOIP

Threads launch. How they all integrate. Who is going to win?

Game controllers, Retro games, Electric vehicles unite, Big disks

In This Episode:



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

0:40 LN: More Reddit. Harvesting content and losing advertising.

3:00 GR: Why Reddit has to charge for API
7:15 Google also scrapes sites
11:00 What's the strategy. Is it all advertising revenue?

Or, is it just that third-party apps don’t show Reddit ads, so it is server use without any revenue generated by Reddit?


13:00 LN: One person’s conspiracy theory


17:30 LN: Cortana going away

What makes a voice assistant successful, anyway?
25:00 Will it turn into Bing?


30:00 GR: Making stuff up... or is it true?

GR: Scientists find way to make energy from air using nearly any material. This seems like too-good-to-be-true stuff to me.
Clean electricity from air?
39:00 Why aren't there flying cars? And drones.



Ain't it Cool

46:00 GR: Renfield. Funny vampire.
49:00 LN: What's Our Problem? - A Self-help Book for Societies - Tim Urban

BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion

50:50 LN: The Problem With OneDrive Backup
52:20 GR: XClipTools: Using the Calculator Functions

Leo and Gary in Denver

Apple goggles, Sonoma and more announced. Reddit protests

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

Apple voice simulation. Passwords in the future. Fake explosions and ordering a hamburger.

Where does the light switch signal go? More AI. Secure passwords... again.

Smart homes, Blocking Utah, AirTags, Anniversary and picking locks.

Zippy internet. ChatGPT can’t do math? Authenticators, and broken school laptops.

Internet Woes, Social Media what now? and Planetary Slingshots

Virtual Machines, Complaining about complaining, the Future & Buffy.

Pretend voices for good or evil. VOIP can do anything.

Why Free software. Watch-And-Grab iPhone Theft.

AI and jobs... Can everything get better?

New search - Is AI a smart Bard or stealing content?

Is History Old? Being Platform Agnostic, How AI Gets smart

Programming again. Mac touch screen and Virtual Reality. Security and You.

Lastpass again. CES not so much. Future of Search.

Predictions for 2023

Recap of 2022, Wordle, Shorts, Starlink, Social Media, Space & Security

Software changes, A.I. with no humor. Subscriptions good or bad?

A.I. gives answers, Google scrolling, online support

Updates good and bad, social media gone bad, and those tips

What's with the plugs? Video software.

Twitter, more Twitter and Apple Updates

Travel and Travel Tech

iPhones and satellites, cameras, Alexa poop, Speech to text and translations

TikTok success, troll comments, Bootcamp and AI Artists

LastPass headlines, Phishing, Credit Cards, Windows on a Mac

Accessing accounts while traveling, encryption, and vulnerabilities.

Travel Tech in the EU

Period apps, Complexity of Tech, Is Musk a Twit?

AI. Is it alive?

Telegram. New Mac upgrades, All the new features.

Tech camping, Insecure Apps, Wiki News

TEH 163: New social media? Traveling tech disasters. Check your Two Factor.

Twitter take over

Solving privacy, Space Station Angles

Ukraine tech, new iPad, new Mac, RAM, Disk sizes and useful aps.

SSDs, Ukraine's internet, Podcasts come into their own, streaming movies, Kaspersky, and Transcriptions.

New Macs from Apple, Transcriptions and Computer Voices.

Ukrain tech, live streaming, financial issues, coders and Social Media.

Music and MP3s. Lost iPhones. Recording software adventures.

Ranting on spam, Return to Streaming Music, and NFTs

Spotify tech. Can we balance stories? Censorship, audio quality and payment. Wordle Shoulda's.

Addictive lights, Alexa and Siri battles, falling planes, Blizzard and Metaverse

Fires, TV dilemma, Y2K again, Launching Games, Covid app fails

Is NFT an opportunity or a scam? From Magic public keys to digital Beanie Babies.

Unmagic numbers, televisions, Universal controls, Unused innovations, Elon love/hate

Painting Windows, Get a job hackers! AWS outage, Security camera tech

Updates on updates, Imagining virtual reality, Science and journalism

Tech updates continue, weird conferences and Metaverse games

New Apple OS, Broken computers, Smaller Wallets, Two factor authentication... believe the smart people.

From new Apple announcements to things that just don't work.

Upgrade to Win 11? Yes? No?

Apple's new geekiness, Windows TPM, advances in security

How do we produce so much content? (the secrets)

Backups, archives and possibly Pluto

From beds to routers (with ransom attacks in between)

Summer travels, tech in the Olympics, Apple controvercy and Windows 365

Summer musings, Space and Algorithms

Not going away...

Free? Why and why not?

Updates and bugs are more complicated than you think

What do we really own? Has tech changed it?

Ransomware, Pipelines and Tech

What about those software subscriptions? How they do good, how they drive us crazy.

What's new with Apple... chips, screens, trackers.

When spammers are out phishing, they are phishing for you!

Dealing with change and making it an adventure.

Bitcoins - Enthusuastic Tech Take on Crypto Currency

How (and why) a bookstore took down a controversial website.

Gary's Origin Story

Leo's Origin Story: from Geeky to Microsoft to Ask Leo!

The Practical Guide To VPNs: What is it? Should you? Shouldn't you? What else you can do.

Cool future gadgets out now at CES, good reading and board games.

Forgot space! Big hack. Taking the supply chain for granted. RIP to Flash. How many websites are enough? Karate and Roku.

How well tech worked in 2020 (despite), Tech infrastructure got here just in time. Vaccine technology meets the times. Data measures truth. Science is trending. Giving and gargoles. Computing chip revolution. Predictions for 2021.

Apple delivers quickly, happy battery life, Google's memory glitch, privacy panic, security vs. privacy, free pdf and recording tips.