All Entries in the "Radio" Category

Radio 2010-06-22: Season finale

Over 24 shows we’ve covered almost 100 different gadgets, divided as follows (if we split out iPod/iPhone accessories that’d be about 10 or so of what is now in Accessories). Note that I compiled the list in a hurry so I’m probably missing some items:

Computers: 11
Cameras: 9
Printers: 1
Monitors: 1
Camcorders: 2
Webcam: 2
Mobile phones: 15
Accessories: 38
Hard drives: [...]

Radio 2010-06-15: MacBook Pro and lots of iPad stuff

First, a few stories we talked about:

Updated Mac mini
USB Typewriter for iPad

MacBook Pro 15-inch (left over from last week)

2.66GHz Core i7
4GB RAM
500GB HDD
Gorgeous notebook
Has a build-quality and feel like no other notebook
1440 x 900 pixels (optional 1680 x 1059 display)
GeForce GT 330M discrete graphics processor (512MB VRAM) and integrated Intel graphics, switches automatically
Apple claims 8-9 [...]

Radio 2010-06-08: MacBook Pro, Magic Mouse and HTC HD mini

Of course we had to talk about Apple’s announcements yesterday at WWDC. The main headlines were:

Apple introduces new iPhone 4
New iOS 4
Safari 5

Then follows the usual gadgets:
HTC HD mini

Small version of HD2
Inside is all yellow, very nice
Windows Mobile 6.5 (unfortunately)
The plastic back wraps around almost all the phone, very nice design touch
3.2-inch screen and 320 [...]

Radio 2010-06-01: Canon 7D and Nikon D300s

We dedicated this show to digital cameras. In the beginning we talked about some things you may want to think about if you’re in the market for a digital camera before the summer season:

What are you going to use the camera for?
Compact, DSLR, Micro Four Thirds?
Megapixels?
Lenses?
Accessories?
Memory cards?
Backup, storage?

Canon 7D

18MP
HD video 1080 29.97fps
Switch for video and still [...]

Radio 2010-05-25: Printer, 3G modem, Bluetooth and hard drive

Some interesting things from last week’s DCC:

Dell Mini 5
MSI tablet
Lots of iPad stuff, for example Case Logic
Cisco – Linksys bringing Flip to ME
Nikon camera with projector S1000pj
All posts at http://shuffle.to/dcc2010

Etisalat USB 3G modem

AED 99/m for first three months, then AED395/m (you can also cancel or downgrade plan)
If you go postpaid the modem is free
Huawei E150 [...]

Radio 2010-05-17: Games, Mac accessories and Samsung monitor

Tonight we certainly have a mixed bag for you. We started off talking about a few things.

Shufflegazine going to New York with Acer
Shufflegazine in Fujairah this week
HP in a 5-company fight to buy Palm
We’ve visited Jumbo’s new customer service center today (some photos on our photo blog)
Standard Chartered giving the choice to “corporate users” to [...]

Show notes 2010-05-12: Sync, mini PC, netbook and Wi-Fi

Few things we chatted about:

Asus announced two new NVIDIA-based graphics cards, saying we’re about 5 years away from computer-generated animation as real as real life. Two key developments: Much-improved tesselation and photo-realistic ray-tracing in real time
Sharp introduced new Quattron LCD TVs with four colors (Yellow in addition to RGB)
iStyle press statement saying you shouldn’t buy [...]

Show notes 2010-05-04: Notebooks and games

As we normally do in the beginning of the show we talked a bit about some recent news in technology and gadgets:

Etisalat has introduced iPad 3G compatible Micro SIM
Win Alan Wake branded notepad and pen
DoCamp (DemoCamp) Dubai May 8
Ford SYNC in a 2010 Taurus

Lenovo Thinkpad Edge 15-inch

Available in 13.3, 14 and 15.6 inch models
Takes the [...]

Show notes 2010-04-27: Hard drives, HTC HD2, Logitech speakers and games [updated]

Update: We didn’t make it to the games so we’ll include them next week.
Some stories we talked about first

Geant apologizes to Catboy for shrink wrapping his iPad
Geekfest 4.0
Win Samsung Star mobile

Toshiba Store Steel

Very small and stylish drive
120GB
Uses 1.8 inch HDD, same type as in iPods
AED 455

Western Digital My Passport Studio

Has simple LCD display
Display shows remaining [...]

Show notes 2010-04-20: Gaming accessories

We have an Apple iPad in the studio to talk about and try out courtesy of PK Gulati. It’s obviously not officially in the market yet but it’s sold by many. What listeners need to know at this point is that there is no UAE warranty on iPad, regardless of whether you buy it from [...]

Show notes 2010-04-13: Xperia x10, Milestone, Panasonic camera, Asus eeTop PC and more

This is yet another mixed bag of goodies. Two Android-powered mobile phones with some big differences and for the first time a desktop computer.
BlueLounge CoolFeet

Google Gears

Offline support for compatible web sites
Offline access to your Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, etc.
Many third party web sites participate
Plugin for Firefox for Mac, Windows, Linux
Built-in to Google Chrome for [...]

Show notes 2010-03-23: Webcam and digital music players

This is a show with a little bit of everything. Basically there was a theme earlier today when I was putting together the list of items but that didn’t work out as I didn’t get some of them delivered in time.

SSD (Solid state) versus HDD (hard drive)
Amazon announces Kindle app for (almost) all platforms

Microsoft LifeCam [...]

Changing radio show RSS podcast feed

We’re changing how we send out the radio show podcast feed to you listeners in order to be able to provide you with a better service. Unfortunately for a brief period of time that may mean that you experience some problems. If you subscribe to http://shuffle.to/podcast you should be okay as it just redirects to [...]

Show notes 2010-03-16: Lapdesk, GPS phone, netbook and game [updated]

Some things we chatted about in the opening part:

VoIP is coming to UAE
iStyle opens new store in Mirdif City Center

Dell Inspiron Mini 10

1GHz processor, 1GB RAM, 250GB hard drive
Cute form factor, different colors
1024×600 pixel display
Windows 7 Starter Edition (read more about it)
3 USB ports, SD card slot, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth
AED 1,299

Asus Garmin nüvifone M10

Windows Mobile [...]

Show notes 2010-03-09: HTC Legend, Nokia X6 and Sony Vaio X [updated]

We discussed this item, which basically says that parents don’t know all that their children are doing online and that the younger generation knows more about using technology than the older one. Not very surprising perhaps but some interesting findings nonetheless.
We also talked about Infinitec’s IUM (Infinite USB Memory) of which you can read all [...]