ANATAD Podcast

We welcome two guests to episode 38--Android 11 Beta 1 and a guest all the way from "down under"--Marco, another Android fanboy.We opened up the session with a good discussion on the first beta of Android 11 that dropped on June 10, 2020.We talked a little bit about what type of backup is available on Android 11 beta and then we moved on to the "multi-finger" gestures that Android 11 came with that can be enabled by going into Talkback Settings, then tapping on the "developer Settings" and therein, enabling the "multi-finger" gestures.We closed the session with a demo of the OpenCamera app from:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sourceforge.opencameraFor questions, concerns or suggestions for the ANATAD Podcast crew, please, send mail to:[email protected] you want to become a member of the ANATAD mailing list, simply send a "join Request" to:[email protected]

Episode 37 brings us to TCL's Android TV.We discuss these two Android TV's from TCL--the 32 and 40-inch TV's.The 32-inch sells for $139 and the 40-inch goes for $199.Both TV's can be picked up from the following Best Buy URL's:32-inch:https://bit.ly/2Mzj1rF42-inch:https://bit.ly/2A0sKoAWe then moved on and talked about the two phones from Motorola--The "G Fast" and the Moto E."Next, we discussed HTC's upcoming phone, the "Desire 20 Pro," followed by the controvertial move from Zoom wherein, free accounts may not be encrypted and then we moved onto Nimer's update on the Motorola Edge Plus and we closed the episode with a "tip of the week" from Nimer, showing how to add icons to the home screen or how not to add them to the home screen.For questions, suggestions or anything else regarding the podcast, please, send us email at:[email protected] to subscribe to the ANATAD mailing list, simply shoot a "join Request" to:[email protected]

Episode 36 is our very first YouTube Live Stream!We discussed "Plus Codes" from Google, the "StrandHogg" malware, an update from Nimer regarding the Motorola Edge Plus and the "Bixby" app from Samsung.In the "app of the week" section, I Warren, demonstrated an app on Jerusalem tour.This app has a Hebrew name (Check out "?????? ?????? - ???? ??????"), so the icon isn't read by English TTS enginesThe app is located at:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mytoursapp.android.app1295We also talked about a new video conferencing service by the folks from the "Brave" browser, called "Brave together," located at:together.brave.comFor questions, concerns or suggestions, please, reach us via email at:[email protected] become a member of the ANATAD mailing list, simply send a "Join Request" to:[email protected]

Welcome to episode 35 where we salute the "Global Accessibility Awareness Week."We showcase some of the apps that Google released during the "Global Accessibility Awareness Week"--Action Blocks, Sound Amplifier, Google Maps and "live Transcribe."Sound Amplifier is located at:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.accessibility.soundamplifierwhile "Live Transcribed is found at:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.audio.hearing.visualization.accessibility.scribeand "Action Blocks" can be found at:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.accessibility.maui.actionblocksWe moved on to the "Tip of the week where I, Warren demonstrated how to download Dropbox content onto your SDCard and also demonstrated how to set the SDCard as the default location for downloads using the Chrome Dev.Nimer showed a tip on how to use an alias using Gmail as he also talked a little more about some of his observations with the Motorola Edge Plus.For questions, suggestions or concerns, please, contact us using our email address:[email protected] should you want to join out mailing list, all that needs happen is you sending a "join request" to:[email protected]

Motorola finally delivered a flagship phone worth talking about since the Moto Z2Force, thus, the title of this episode--Pretty Woman!This is a gorgeous phone that is reminiscent of the Samsung Edge-series, except that Lenovo went all in with the "edgey" thing!Nimer unboxed the phone and went through the setup process and everything went well, except that the in-display fingerprint reader was a nightmare!We moved on from the "Pretty Woman" and I demonstrated "new Pipe," an app that lets you consume YouTube content as though you were a premium subscriber.New Pipe is found on Github at the following URL:https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/releasesIf you want to import your YouTube subscription as I described on the podcast, then use the following URL:https://www.youtube.com/subscription_manager?action_takeout=1Simply follow the instructions on the podcast and you'll have your subscriptions in place.We then concluded the episode by reading an email from one of our listeners.For questions, concerns or suggestions for upcoming podcasts, please, feel free then to contact us at:[email protected] subscribe to the mailing list of the ANATAD forum, simply send a "Join Request" to:[email protected]