Technology · Stephen Robles and Jason Aten
by Stephen Robles and Jason Aten
Tech news that matters for everyone to understand. Our hosts break down the most important stories, from consumer tech and gadgets, to AI and beyond. Stephen Robles is a content creator with over 350K followers across platforms, and Jason Aten is a technology columnist at Inc.com having written in the past for Business Insider and The Chicago Tribune. Tune in every Thursday for new episodes.
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I’ve been a longtime listener to Apple Insider and HomeKit Insider, mostly because I’m an Apple fanboy. I remember back in the day when Steven would come on to do special events episodes like WWDC and the iPhone release—those were the best episodes! He’s a great host. I was stoked when he became the main host on AI and Andrew’s cohost on HI. Jason was a frequent guest on AI and your dynamic was always stellar. I was pretty bummed when Steven left both podcasts, and both are worse off for it. Luckily, I stumbled across one of Steven’s YouTube vids a week ago and that led me here. You two are a great team!! I won’t even knock off a star for unbiased reporting of relevant political news. Five Stars!!
I love their banter and I always learn something new. I was sad when Stephen left the Apple Insider podcast, but I was happy to find him here and the chemistry between Jason and Stephen is perfect. Neither of them pander nor talk down to one another (which is sadly common among many cohost podcasts these days). As a lady tech enthusiast, it’s tough to find a couple of guys who do such a good job of reaching any tech-loving demographic.
This podcast continues to get better and better! It’s my only podcast for Apple news and information. You both give great information and work extremely well together. As always, battery percentage on, Apple Pencil tip towards top and dots on. I have messaged Stephen a few times regarding tips on products to buy and he has responded quickly and given great advice. Currently updating my Plex library with burning my hundreds of Blu-ray’s and adding captions to all of them since both of my daughters are hard of hearing and wear hearing aids. Stephen recommended a Blu-ray reader for my iMac and software to get them all converted. It’s been a slow process but I’m almost done. It is very helpful to have all the captions on for my daughters with whatever we watch. Thanks for all your help!
One of my favorite podcasts to listen to. New shortcuts discovery: I’ve dug up a hidden syntax that can be used inside the “Show Result” action in shortcuts that augments Siri’s behavior when the shortcut is spoken, like on a HomePod for example. This syntax is hidden visually inside the content that’s typed or passed to the show result action. 1. [Siri pauseForSeconds:0.3] * Adding this in the middle of a sentence tells Siri to wait for x-seconds before speaking the rest. It supports decimals. 2. [Siri show:”Text” say:”text”] * Adding this in a sentence will have the shortcut display certain text but pronounce different text. Apple used these in their “True or False” game shortcut seemingly to improve Siri’s phonetics for parts of the content that wouldn’t read properly. Like having Siri say “Ninety-two” but display “92”. In my testing, these two commands don’t work when pasted into the shortcut for whatever reason. Typing them out, paying careful attention to spaces and letter case usually ends in success. AFAIK, the shortcut doesn’t care what text is inside the quotation marks as long as everything else is typed properly. I haven’t been able to find any other in-line commands like this, but I have to assume there are more of them. Personally, I’ve used both of these to make a more natural sounding “Morning Briefing” shortcut to run in CarPlay on my way to work.
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