Writer and Podcaster
Re-affirmed: Chat 10 Looks 3, Shameless, Squizz Shortcuts, Teacher’s Pet series’ Who The Hell Is Hamish?
New: Loose Units: The Podcast, Gertie’s Law, Parental As Anything (with Maggie Dent), Take 5, Unravel True Crime: Snowball
Undiscovered: We Fact Up, Love and Luck
— Read on www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/apple-s-best-of-list-reveals-undiscovered-gems-in-remarkable-year-20191202-p53g32.html
Turning them on and hearing audio, purely based on the vibrations against your bones, is a bizarre experience. At fifty per cent volume, I felt no noticeable vibrations against my skin and audio sounded clean, if a little flat.
Turning the volume up to 80 really helped improve the quality of audio for podcasts and music like pop and rock. Switching to bass heavy hip hop I could feel tiny little taps behind my ear, as the bands vibrated to create the effect. It wasn’t unpleasant, but it was still an odd sensation. Either way, bass heavy music sounded flat and hollow, but I really didn’t expect deep bass from these buds.
Read More at SMH: Bone conduction headphones make podcasts while biking a breeze
After a few weeks using Google’s latest Nest hardware, I’m happy to count myself as a novice. The Nest Wifi is just too easy to set up; after plugging the base station into an Ethernet port of the NBN supplied modem, and choosing a wireless name and password, it did the rest.
For at least two years now, my iPhone has insisted on autocorrecting Sydney to SYDNEY, every single time I type the word. After weeks of troubleshooting that included resetting the keyboard and uninstalling any transit apps I thought might be to blame, I realised the culprit.
For much of his career, John Safran has been obsessed with religion. For his latest work, a three-part podcast for Audible, Safran is tackling three stories of the occult, which he describes as “an alternative way to get shit done, if you’re not into mainstream religion”.
With the iPhone 11, these problems have been solved. I can take landscapes with HDR that include joggers or fast moving traffic in the foreground, and the image is captured perfectly. I’ve found myself only taking Portrait Mode images of our children — a four year old and a nine month old — and the camera always keeps up with their movements.
Source: Non-Pro iPhone 11 enough to provide a transformative camera experience
Angharad “Rad” Yeo hosts ABC TV’s Good Game: Spawn Point, and over the last few months she’s written, produced, edited and hosted a podcast all about video games, and how they reflect and inform our culture.
Read at SMH: Gaming reframes how we see bushfires, climate change
The much maligned butterfly keyboard has finally been replaced with a new and improved scissor mechanism. The keyboard is so much more comfortable to type on than the butterfly keyboards it replaces; keys have a satisfying bounce and 1mm of travel, and are far quieter.
Reliability and repairability have also been addressed; now if a crumb falls under a key, you can pop that single key off, instead of replacing the entire top cover of the keyboard; just like most other laptop keyboards on the market.
Read more at SMH: MacBook Pro 16″ fixes the keyboard and increases the screen size
So what exactly makes these headphones suitable for the gym? Well, after adjusting them to fit as you normally would you have one extra adjustment you can make before a workout; a clever little clip on the headband with two locked positions. The first position is for everyday wear, the second tightens the fit drastically, so the headphones lock in place during even the most strenuous workouts.
Read more at SMH: Backbeat Fit 6100 review: over ear headphones fit for a workout
Academic Scott Galloway and reporter Kara Swisher have made some accurate predictions about the future of tech and Silicon Valley unicorns.
Source: Pivot’s predictions of Silicon Valley’s shake-up is on the money
