Sound levels for dust collectors and air cleaners.

The most interesting part of that to me is…........doing it with a smart phone…...........

I definitely don’t hesitate to put on ear protectors these days, and once you get a bunch of stuff going, it is definitely needed.

-- Jim, Anchorage Alaska

The smartphone was the only way to test this for me…

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You know, I am an anomaly. I am very techie in some ways……no…extremely techie…… but not into a lot of gadgets. But now I have an iPhone……needed it for travel, in particular the vacation home, where we only have cell phones. No sense in paying a monthly phone bill there.

My iPhone only has a few added apps, medical ones. So I just don’t think about all the things they can do. It’s kinda the difference between a content consumer and a content creator. The consumers don’t have the slightest idea of how content is created. No, you can’t use an phone or an iPad, (my wife has and uses the iPad all the time) to create content. Meaning content to be used by others or sold. So this stuff about the PC era being done and it will all be phones and pads, comes from a very narrow view and experience with computers. Of course, iPads are a just a handicapped computer, we know that…..(-:

Even entering notes and doing things in the hospital, I have noticed the residents don’t use speech to text or pads. They all type away like maniacs. My partner teaches at the residency program……..they all tried Dragon……and eventually all went back to typing……very fast.

So to the topic of the moment, the video section of the kitchen-dining room receiver slowly just failed. Didn’t want to deal with repairs, it was aging, and went out and bought a new one. Figuring out it was the receiver, and not the TV, was simple, but not trivial. So I get the new receiver, modest, Yamaha. Has Airplay, and all the network goodies. Fortunately I had the foresight to wire that niche where the receiver sits, about 5 years ago, for the network.

So now it will play from the iPhones or iPad, I have two wireless systems going as well as extensive wired. As soon as you hit Airplay you hear the relays shifting in the receiver, and it starts playing……that surprised me, because it interrupted TV. And it will search my computer and play straight from that.

Now all that is old hat, probably 3 to 5 years old maybe, I don’t know. But the consumer end of electronics sometimes amazes me………because I am too busy creating, to do much consuming, in the techie realm.

Different perspective. But definitely an LJ perspective………if you think about it.

Later…………..

-- Jim, Anchorage Alaska