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Episode 48 – Parole Set for 2/10 – 1/12/2011

by Alex Martin in Movies, Tech393 days ago

With CES content still being published on Tested, Will, Norm, and Gary start this podcast with a summary of some of the show’s standout products. These include the Motorola Atrix PC/Android-phone hybrid, Lady Gaga’s camera glasses, Sony’s 3D headset, and Toshiba’s glassesless 3D TVs. They also look at why no one trend emerged as a highlight of the show. Before moving on to the news, Gary’s research (for a science fiction project) into Lagrangian points prompts an interesting, if inexpert, physics discussion. The biggest...

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This is Only a Test – Episode 43 – The SARS Mask Cast – 12/30/2010

by Alex Martin in Misc, Tech407 days ago

Starting with Norm’s Blackjack strategy, the WANG (Will, Ana, Norm, and Gary) deliver an unfocused retrospective podcast. But first, Gary’s new tradition of watching the Big Lebowski prompts a discussion of Cohen brothers’ films (with spoilers from 24:30-25:00). Next, they talk about tech highlights and lowlights of the year, looking at Apple products, social-networking apps, and 3DTVs. After plugging Rush Coil’s chiptune Christmas album, they move on to the news. Netflix Instant takes up 20% of the USA’s Internet bandwidth; a discussion...

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Tekzilla 174 – HBO without Cable, Free Defrag Speeds Up Windows!

by Jon Cole in Tech422 days ago

Google news has been quite ubiquitous over the past week and rightly opens up the discussion on this episode of Tekzilla. Marissa Mayer has been setting the search space ablaze with her talk at LeWeb, which focused on Google’s plans to use location data to contextualize search results. Google’s Cr-48 Chrome OS laptop has been causing a stir as well, as Google is sending the device to 60,000 users in a pilot program. After Patrick weighs in on the Veebeam, Robert goes HD Nation on you with a review of Panasonic’s 42″ TC-L42d2...

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Engadget Podcast 221 – 12.11.2010

by Jon Cole in Tech425 days ago

The Nexus S is the Android handset of the hour and Josh starts off the show by talking about his review. He gave the device an 8/10 rather than a 9/10 mostly because of the plastic hardware, lack of 720p support, no native voicechat software, and weak Android UI implementation. On the other hand, he praises the phone for the new Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS and recognizes that it’ll be the new gold standard for Google phones. The Google news doesn’t stop any time soon, with Android Honeycomb coming under the microscope due to its focus...

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Episode 40 – Beard on the Run – 12/9/2010

by Alex Martin in Games, Tech427 days ago

After discussing the philosophy behind Will’s “clever internet t-shirt“, and Gary’s attempts at growing a beard, the crew gets into some tech talk. Gary’s spent another week with his new TV and reports on the minutiae of setting it up, aranging cables, breaking it in, and reinforcing his weak TV cabinet. Meanwhile, Norm has spent enough time with the Samsung Galaxy Tab to recommend you not buy it. Will’s also experienced some audio bugs with Windows Phone 7, and thinks it’s far behind iOS4 as a mobile...

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Engadget Podcast 220 – 12.03.2010

by Jon Cole in Tech431 days ago

This week’s Engadget Podcast starts off with… a Lenovo advertisement, which is an oddly high point for the show as it shows some form of legitimacy. The holiday blitz has hit the tech industry in full, with Verizon making a huge splash with the upcoming wide release of 4G LTE service in over 30 markets. Nilay briefly details the pricing plans for the USB modems to go out on release and Josh goes into his experience with the LG product. After a strange survey about the iPad and Samsung Galaxy Tab hit the internet like wildfire, Engadget...

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Tekzilla 169 – Avoid Black Friday Scams!

by Jon Cole in Tech438 days ago

Apple’s hotly anticipated iOS 4.2 update largely brings the iPad up to speed, but the “Find My iPhone” feature going free means that MobileMe membership is no longer required to help you hang onto your phone. Google is up next in the news, as they battle Viacom for access to content on the Google TV and delay Chrome OS once again. News wraps up with Netflix’s pricing remodel, which adds a new streaming-only option at the price of increased rates for disc-laden plans. Thanksgiving means a weekend starting with Black Friday,...

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This is Only a Test – Episode 11 – The Eleventh Episode Spectacular – 5/13/2010

by Alex Martin in Tech637 days ago

First on the list of Tested products this week is a $200 alarm clock — the Sony Dash. The decadent bedroom accessory is the next evolution of the radio alarm clock, adding internet connectivity so you can read the news, stream music and video, and check Twitter feeds in the morning. Testers Will and Norm have also tried out Swipe this week — an alternative virtual keyboard which draws controversial opinions from the two hosts. Will details  Android 2.2, nicknamed “FroYo”, which sounds like it uses iPhone like pages of icons. Tech...

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This is Only a Test – Episode 10 – What’s the Right Price for a Kin? – 5/6/2010

by Alex Martin in Tech644 days ago

The Tested two have been using the Alienware M11x, Sonos S5 music streaming boxes, Psyko’s surround-sound headphones, and the iPad 3G. Some of these have reviews on the site, some don’t, but Will and Norm give their honest impressions here. Moving on to tech news, they discuss the unappealing data plan for Microsoft’s Kin“smart-dumb” phones — $30 a month for data (not including calls and texts) doesn’t look like great value for a phone that lacks many of the features of its peers. They also chat about...

Windows Weekly 132: Google Bing

by Jon Cole in Tech801 days ago

Office 2010 is the big topic for this week, with Leo Laporte and Paul Thurott coming through to give you some tips on getting started.  The Office Beta is currently public and Paul notes his preference of the Office Home and Business 2010 option, which offers Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Outlook, and OneNote.  The Click-2-Run option for the beta is also a hot issue, considering Leo really enjoys the virtualization aspect and believes we’ll see many similar applications in the future. Leo talks about his recent attempt to use the developer build...

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CastMedium Podcast 013 – 11.30.09

by Jonathan Downin in Games, Movies, Tech802 days ago

After missing a week, we are back with a special episode. Yesterday marked the 1 year anniversary of the site, and to commemorate the occasion we brought on at1UP‘s Mike Cruz as our special guest. He has been one of our biggest supporters, so it was great to have him on the show. Also, we decided to go a little longer this week, but we will be back to 30 minutes next week. With the longer runtime, we hit a lot of topics. The latest episodes of 4 Guys 1UP and A Life Well Wasted kick things off in the podcast section. Everyone has a few things...

TWiT 222: 3 Dollah Coffee Pot

by Jon Cole in Tech808 days ago

This Week in Tech is down to a barebones cast, but that doesn’t mean there’s any shortage of news.  The first point of discussion is the class-action lawsuit against Facebook and Zynga, due to their delivery of deceptive, scammy advertisement.  Advertising is an oft discussed issue on TWiT, so it shouldn’t be surprising that nobody has anything nice to say about Zynga. Both Leo and Becky are positive about the California ban on power-consumptive televisions, but John isn’t sold.  Despite his typical antagonism, he manages to uncover some...

Engadget Podcast 172 – 11.23.2009

by Jonathan Downin in Tech808 days ago

The reveal of Google’s Chrome OS has been the biggest thing to happen in the tech world in a long while. The guys are talking about Google’s approach of reducing the computer experience down to a browser. Paul is the most positive, as usual, but even he is not sold on an OS that is based around a model that caters to consumption, with very few concessions made for any substantial creation. He wrote an editorial and has a video walkthrough of the early open source Chromium release that gives a feel for what the OS will be like. AT&T...

gdgt weekly 064

by Jon Cole in Tech811 days ago

Ryan starts off Chrome OS talk by announcing that one of the gdgt’s engineers compiled the developer code preview, placed it into a VMware virtual machine, and made it available on their site.  Beyond that, Ryan is mostly unexcited about the OS considering its not much more than a browser.  In his characteristic optimism, Peter notes that this is Google really throwing its weight behind their own OS, which is exciting enough to begin with. Sony seems to be interested in making a digital distribution storefront similar to iTunes and both of the...

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