TEH 235: ChatGPT Searches, Digital License Plates, and Social Media Trends

TEH Podcast

In This Episode: ChatGPT Searches, Digital License Plates, and Social Media Trends

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

• 0:45 GR: ChatGPT search engine.
  • 2:30 It’s like Perplexity
  • 2:50 Is this the end of Google?
  • 4:00 You can set ChatGPT as default search engine
  • 11:30 Leo: Perplexity search continues to impress me
• 12:00 GR: iPhone call recording
  • 15:00 Locating the other caller
• 25:00 GR: Vinyl license plates not allowed everywhere – What is a digital license plate?
  • Expensive digital screen!
  • 26:50 Theft prevention… plate changes to the word “stolen”
• 35:00 GR: Apple Vision Pro, sales slow
  • Apple announces visionOS 2 with 3D photo transformations and an ultrawide Mac display
• 40:00 LN: “Canon is releasing a new spatial lens for the EOS R7” – reminds me of something (Star Trek)
• 43:40 GR: AI Prime video recap
  • Finding Kelsie Grammer
• 49:00 LN: One More Year (for $30).
  • 51:00 Hardware requirements for Windows 11
  • Conspiracy theories
• 53:00 GR: Social media stuff. Bluesky gets 1 million new subs, but Threads adds a million per day.
  • Seeing a lot more engagement on both, but mostly Threads.
  • Bio pages
  • https://askleo.com/link-in-bio/
  • https://macmost.com/social

Ain’t it Cool

• 58:00 LN: Star Trek Prodigy, Netflix (yeah, I’m into escapism these days). Umbrella Academy too.
• 1:00:00 GR: Neal Stephenson’s Polostan, Bomb Light Cycle

BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion

• 1:03:20 LN: Going Passwordless Without Going Passwordless
• 1:04:13 GR: How To Record Calls On an iPhone

Transcript

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