Jul 21, 2015

Here’s the playlist for this week’s show. Vikki Carr – It Must Be Him (Vikki Carr’s birthday was July 19) Crosby, Stills Nash and Young – Teach Your Children Neil Young was in the tech news this week, talking about the (lack of) music streaming quality. Woody Guthrie – This Land Is Your Land It was the anniversary of...

Jul 21, 2015

July 19, 2015. Stupidity. There seems to be quite a lot of it around. And I don’t just mean on this show: our news segment this week seems to be filled with people who probably should not be let anywhere near the internet. And then, of course, we have our useless gadgets. Plural. Five of them. Nothing new here: we’ve been talking about them for...

Jul 19, 2015

LG and Sony released some new TVs this week. Super thin, with super deep blacks and amazing contrast. And Huawei’s latest Talkband, the B2. This is a fitness tracker, and a bluetooth headset. Click right here for the show’s podcast.

Jul 19, 2015

Have you ever been asked to send all of your account credentials by email to a service or product supplier of some sort? Did you? Should you? I recently was asked to do this; and here’s how I handled it. And, importantly, why. And we talk about the latest Kindle eBook reader. Here’s this week’s...

Jul 19, 2015

In this week’s show (June 21, 2015 for the calender-challenged), we talk about budget Windows 8.1 tablets. Consider this: full Windows 8.1, installed on a tablet, for a little over $50. We also talk about running Windows 10 on the Raspberry Pi, and in keeping with this week’s super-cheap hardware, we revisit the Google Cardboard. Listen to the...