In this podcast Jon Westfall and I discuss: Crowdstrike/Microsoft outage Battlestar Galactica (2004) reboot may have gotten it right ;-) The role of the European Commission 2009 Microsoft agreement Celebrating legacy tech: Long point pencil sharpener Pet tech Enabot Ebo Air robot Weok Heartbeat Dog Toy ..read more

In this podcast Jon Westfall and I discuss: Todd's Surface Pro 11 Copilot + PC impressions after using it for 10 days: Costco bundle bonus SSD size; Paint Cocreator; App compatibility Do you focus modes/apps? Home automation use? What new programming language do you want to learn next ..read more

In this podcast Jon Westfall and I discuss: Copilot + PC reduced AI focus ChatGPT for Mac app Google One VPN is gone. Welcome to the lesser VPN by Google June Pixel Feature drop finally appeared on June 25. The 13 month old Pixel 7a doesn't get any of the new interesting features Aug. 13 Google Hardware Event (surprise!) Google Workspace Labs Gemini AI features to try/test Google Vid is not what I thought it would be Jon: Why is mobile device contactless payment apparently not often used in the US despite POS availability ..read more

Jon Westfall and I are joined by guest panelist Sven Johannsen who gives his first impressions of the new Microsoft Surface Pro Copilot + PC (Snapdragon X Elite). There's also a video segment of this portion of the podcast on YouTube. We also discussed the 50% sale of Affinity's suite of graphics products which (somewhat) competes with Adobe's products, the passing of VPN by Google One, and Jon's continuing experience with the new Magic Keyboad for the M4 based iPad Pro.  ..read more

In this podcast, Jon Westfall and I discuss: My recent visit to the HTDC Entrepreneur's Sandbox, courtesy of Cindy Matsuki, to continue testing an Insta360 X4 camera Testing the AISpeech 4K webcam, and its microphone, for this podcast Microsoft switching gears for the Copilot + PC by making the new Recall feature opt-in Pre-WWDC discussion Jon's rant: Sonos Todd's rant/concern: The "AI Divide ..read more

In this podcast, Jon Westfall and I catch up on announcements from the recent Apple, Google, and Microsoft events. We also discuss: The announcement of the Acer SpatialLabs Eyes stereo camera First AI hallucinations. Now, AI Ghost Voices? Looking forward to Apple WWDC next week Jon's recent Apple Store repair adventure Jon's rant: Why is Apple & Google Maps' GPS routing still so bad (compared to the Google owned Waze maps ..read more

I'm joined by Steven Hughes, Sven Johannsen, and Don Sorcinelli for this podcast. We mostly discuss a single topic: The recently announced Microsoft Copilot + PC concept. We also briefly discussed Windows AutoPilot V2 and .NET/Developer announcements ..read more

Jon Westfall and I are joined by frequent guest panelists Sven Johannsen and Don Sorcinelli for this podcast. We discuss: Todd's 7th areawide power outage in 2024 Insta360 X4 360-degree camera initial thoughts Initial impressions of new Apple gear after less than a week of use: M4 iPad Pro, Apple Pencil Pro, Magic Keyboard Apple announced eye tracking accessibility feature OpenAI ChatGPT 4o ..read more

Jon Westfall and I are joined by Sven Johannsen for this post-May Apple 7 product announcements discussion. SimCity inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame Email from Google saying Find My Device network will be fully launched on May 13 Products that we hoped Apple would announce but did not: iPad Mini, iPad speaker dock (similar to Pixel Tablet dock), AirPods Pro 3 with more biometrics, Colorimeter built into the new Apple Pencil Pro Apple surprises: iPad Pro lost the wide angle camera lens, the iPad Pro is too thin - would have preferrred large battery with longer battery life Thing ..read more

Jon Westfall and I are joined by Don Sorcinelli for this podcast. We discuss: The BASIC programming language is 60 years old Randy Travis has a new song that used AI to create his singing voice Reviews of the Humane AI Pin and Rabbit AI hardware are coming in and the reviews are not good Microsoft's Edge browser has an integrated speed test tool that uses Ookla's Speedtest engine ..read more