Tech News and Commentary
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Our guest this show:
Kevin O’Neil, Senior Business Leader, Renewable Fuels at Honeywell
Don in LaBelle, Florida asked: "Chris mentioned that he's on a diet. I was wondering if he's using any digital apps or devices to help him with his diet, or if he has any recommendations for people who might want to do likewise."
Chris answered: "Well, Don, as weve mentioned earlier, Ive started using the Dexcom G6 system. That was originally meant to help me keep an eye on my glucose levels - and not eat the tons of carbs that I had been. But a nice side effect of better glucose levels is weight loss. So, in a way, you could say that the Dexcom has helped a lot in my weight loss.
Another piece of tech Ive been using is a scale from FitIndex. These things are like $20 on Amazon, but they have Bluetooth and connect to a smartphone app to help you keep track of your weight loss, body mass index, body fat percentage and even things like muscle and bone mass.
The app I think I use the most, though is Runkeeper. I love this app. My exercise of choice is power walking. (I dont run and I dont really understand people who actually enjoy running for fun.) It tracks your runs (or in my case, walks) and gives you insights such as pace, average speed and will even interrupt your music if you want, as youre exercising, to let you know when youve hit each mile, half-mile, or whatever else you set."
Joe in Hazleton, Pennsylvania asked: "I'd like to copy just part of an e-mail into a folder. How can I do that. And the other question is... Is it possible to totally delete yourself from the Internet as if you've never been there, and go back to an analog world? I don't think you can. It's just a curiosity question. Should promote some interesting conversation."
Joe, when it comes to storing just part of the email, the only real option you have is to paste the part you want into a different document and save that document in the folder. Theres no out of the box option to save a part of an email.
macOS does allow you to drag a partial clipping to a folder, which is useful when you want to save something partial to copy and paste later, but it wouldnt be a great choice for long term storage either.
When it comes to being off the internet, no realistically you cant remove yourself from the internet. Not only is it unavoidable in day to day life these days, but you will also be added to the internet by others, whether it be by people on social media, or by the governments voter registration records, or real estate records, or by private companies that will try to sell your profile to others for sales purposes, or in a thousand other ways.
Theres not a lot you can do in the modern world to get away from it, you can just minimize how much it intrudes into your life.
Joe in Berkley, Michigan asked: "I have an Apple iPhone 11 Pro max and I'm trying to access iTunes off my computer. I downloaded a lot of my different discs - music - and I'm trying to put it on my iPhone. I'm not successful in doing that and I'm not sure what's happening. I can see my iPhone in iTunes but it has no location where I can pull the information over."
Joe, this question feels like a throwback to 2014! No one seems to sync their music to their phones anymore. Everyone seems to be using some service like Apple Music, Spotify,