Oct 30, 2009

This week marks the forty-seventh Gadget Grill show. Now keep that number in mind because we share the number seven with someone else because this week, Windows 7 gets launched. The follow-up to Microsoft’s Windows Vista – which doesn’t exactly have the best reputation – was launched this week and we were on hand to talk to...

Oct 22, 2009

Every time you surf the web, there’s a risk that you might hand out your details to someone who can’t be trusted. That’s why it’s important to understand what’s going on out there and how much your identity is as risk. This includes things like email addresses, passwords, and credit cards. So on this show, we’ll be talking to...

Oct 12, 2009

Amazon’s famed e-reader for books has been announced for the rest of the world which means it’s on its way to Australia. This is great news for anyone who wants to bring their books around with them in a digital format. But what are the costs for Australians buying books in the digital format? We found it out before anyone else last week so...

Oct 9, 2009

One of the primary issues that I found when running my first installation of Windows 7 RTM was a very serious problem with the sound drivers for the embedded sound card on my Gigabyte motherboard. While I certainly had sound, in many areas it was simply unusable. This manifested itself in that, when using a microphone, there was a significant (maybe a quarter-...

Oct 9, 2009

Every time a new piece of paid software is created, there’s always a risk that someone’s going to go out of their way to steal it. On this episode of The Gadget Grill, we’ll talk to Elgato, makers of the EyeTV software & hardware for Apple computers to hear about how software infringement as well as intellectual property is handled from the...