Tech Talk with Frampton, Mraz, Magic & more in 2014.

LOS ANGELES — Veteran rocker Peter Frampton was miffed.

Performing onstage in Carmel, Ind., someone in the front row wouldn't stop snapping smartphone shots of him. So Frampton did something that just hadn't been seen at many concerts before. The rock hero silenced the fan: He interrupted his guitar solo, grabbed the phone away, and then went back to riffing.

Wind of Change.

That just happened to be the title of Frampton's first solo album, and boy is it more relevant than ever.

Our lives are shifting daily, thanks to the ever moving tech train.

And that's what #TalkingTech is here for — to document and make some sense of them.

We close 2014 with another stellar roster of interviews, with more than 50 from all walks of personality — from musicians Frampton, Kenny Loggins (raising funds for a new album on Kickstarter) and new podcaster Chick Corea to late-night comic Jimmy Kimmel, whose "Mean Tweets" is one of his most popular segments, and Fox's Lou Dobbs, who never leaves home without two smartphones.

We had movie stars — Pierce Brosnan is crazy for feeding his Instagram and getting new likes — and sports heroes too. Did you know that former NBA great Shaquille O'Neal spends $1,000 a week on buying apps?

As we always do at this time of year, here are some more highlights from 2014.

•Howie Mandel: We had so much fun with the veteran comic. I asked about the trend of taking selfies with celebrities instead of asking for autographs, and he corrected me, saying my use of "selfie" wasn't as intended. "A selfie is a picture of yourself. As soon as someone else is in it, it's an 'ussie.' It's a selfie plus someone else. If you just want a selfie, I can't be in your selfie. I can be in your ussie."

•Zendaya: Speaking of selfies, the teen star from the Disney Channel doesn't care whether it is, indeed, the proper use of the word: She calls herself the "Selfie Queen" and told us how she spends hours taking photos of herself and friends and posting them to her 14 million followers on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. "I post pictures of my nails, because that's my thing, my outfits, whatever I'm doing that day. Like most people my age, I will take 50 pictures, delete them all, find the one I like, then stare at it for 80 billion hours. It's fun. It's like your own personal photo shoot."

•Harry Shum Jr.: from TV's Glee is such a geek he shelled out $1,500 for an early version of Google Glass computerized eyewear, which he used on a recent trip to Spain and France. He told us that on the set, "I'm the go-to guy. 'Oh, the iPad is messed up — let's ask Harry.' If I wasn't doing this, I think I'd be in some kind of tech support. I love introducing people to tech."

•Brooklyn Decker: The supermodel/actress dropped by the USA TODAY bureau here and showed us how she has fun with the free Voice Changer Plus (Apple) app, which records your voice, then alters it into the sound of a ghost, turtle, a person who just sucked in helium and more. "My best friend just turned 30, and I hosted her surprise party. We kidnapped her. I was wearing a Richard Nixon mask and did this voice (via the app) to scare her in the car."

•Magic Johnson: The former NBA superstar made news when he sat with us and discussed the diversity inequity problems in Silicon Valley. Looking to diversify with black and latino engineers? "They just need to give me a call. If they're looking for talent, give me a call. If they are looking for companies to partner with, give me a call."

•Uzo Aduba: The actress, who won an Emmy for her role as Suzanne the "Crazy Eyes," inmate on Netflix's hit Orange is the New Black, stopped by the USA TODAY bureau to talk about the phenomenon of folks doing their best "crazy eyes," impressions on Instagram, and then showed us how to do it, too. "Think of something you love … and feel like you're going to explode."

•Wayne Knight: Everybody knows this guy from his old gig as Newman on Seinfeld, and he has a new job, co-starring in TV Land's The Exes , which is where we met him, at the set. Who knew he was such a techie? He's got every TV app for his iPad known to man (including BBC, Netflix, CBS, Justin.TV, HBO GO, Ustream and the Slingplayer) and has been with Google Voice even before it was Google Voice.

•Katharine McPhee: We met the co-star of the hit new CBS series Scorpion on the day the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus were released in September, and not only showed them off to her, but had fun demonstrating the new "burst" selfie mode on the improved camera, which lets you take hundreds of shots instantly. She was good sport about it — even though, afterward, she talked about suffering from tech anxiety. "I'm OK with iPhones, I know my way around them. But anything new, it always seems like a daunting task to see how it works. What makes me anxious is loading photos from phone to computer, or backing up the phone to computer. The idea of going to an Apple Store to get answers to something I don't know how to do makes me crazy. I'd rather be getting my nails done."

•Jason Mraz: Finally, when I meet folks, they generally ask me this question: Who's your favorite interview of all time? There have been so many through the years — from tech stars Steve Jobs and Sergey Brin to Jerry Seinfeld and Kermit the Frog — how to pick just one?

Well now, I have an easy, immediate answer, and it took place in 2014, on January 25th, in Anaheim, Calif., at the NAMM show, the meeting of musical instrument manufacturers and dealers.

I interviewed Mraz on stage, for a live #TalkingTech, at the Taylor Guitars booth, and he told me how he used a free app for composing songs.

"All of my songs begin with Voice Memos," he said of the Apple iPhone app.

Just doing the interview live in front of about 500 people was special enough. But as a topper, after about 45 minutes of Q&A, we finished up by picking up two guitars and playing a song. We were at a music convention, on a stage after all, so besides the fact that I'm a longtime guitar player who's always up for some strumming, the setting was right on. And the song just happened to be one of his most popular, iconic hits, I'm Yours. How's that for an all-time memory?

Watch the accompanying clip for my all-time 2014 highlight!

Finally, big thanks for all who helped keep the celebrity edition of #TalkingTech running along all year.

First: The publicists who put us together. They include Jeanne O'Keefe, Lippin Group; Chalise Zolezzi, Taylor Guitars; the Ginsberg/Libby PR team; CBS, including Beth Aiken, Christine Park and my old pal Phil Gonzalez; TV Land's Toni Tonge and Vanessa Reyes; Lewis Kay, PMK/BNC; ABC's Jonathan Hogan; Kelly Boynton, Access Communications; Netflix's Lindsay Colker; O.A.R.'s No. 1 fan Scott Heath; Larry Solters; the folks at Turner; Paramount/CBS' Stacey Luchs, John Wentworth and Neil Schubert; Lori Jonas; DKC's Jeffrey Klein and Chris Legentil of the NBA.

Thanks to the great support from USA TODAY, as always: Steve Elfers, Julie Ianuzzi, Shannon Rae Green, Lauren Ready, Brett Molina, Tim Loehrke, Chris Kievman, Lisa Kiplinger, Michael Kofsky, Rem Rieder and our just departed tech editor, Nancy Blair, who helped shape and guide these pieces.

But the biggest hand goes to Sean Fujiwara, the talented young video maven who shot these with me. Sean did a yeoman's job, as always, running from camera to camera as we shoot and coming up with broadcast-quality results. Everybody send him a note on Twitter @seanfujiwara and tell him what an awesome job he did in 2014!

How we do it: We generally show up an hour ahead to set up cameras (this year, mostly the Canon 5D Mark III, Canon 70D and Sony RX10) and get the lighting right (often a Lowel Rifa softbox and a Lowel Pro light) monitoring the sound (Zoom H4N audio recorder).

Look for more great celebrity #TalkingTech segments in 2015. Who's on your wish list? Let us know. Find me on Twitter, where I'm @jeffersongraham.

And thanks, as always, for watching!

Happy holidays everyone.