Sep 5, 2010
Tonight’s Gadget Grill Giveaway is a pair of the top of the line Q-Jays Earphones. And we have one pair of these in-ear earphones for every winner tonight. Unfortunately, tonight there can only be just one winner. But that winner just might be you: listen to the Gadget Grill at 9 tonight on 2RDJ FM-88.1, or streaming from www.radio2rdj.com, to find out...
Aug 29, 2010
Every year, Microsoft Australia hosts a major technical event for developers and IT professionals, known as Tech Ed. For the major part of the last week, I was fortunate to be able to have attended this year’s event as a guest of Microsoft. Although my attendance was as a member and guest of Microsoft’s Open Source Convergence group, this conference...
Aug 29, 2010
Do you like movies? At the Gadget Grill, we do too! And that is why we are pleased to tell you that Google have just added a movies section to their YouTube site. This section contains over 400 movies, including some very obscure stuff, but also including a very comprehensive catalogue of stuff like old Three Stooges comedies. Slowly I turned, step by step. ...
Aug 29, 2010
Yep, that’s right: just add water. Well no, not quite. But scientists have recently rediscovered that water droplets, surrounded by modified silica, can be used to create a form of powdered water. It is believed that powdered water can help to counteract global warming by soaking up carbon dioxide.
Aug 29, 2010
The American FTC has had a look at some product reviews that had been placed on the iTunes store by employees of Reverb Communications. It seems that these very favorable reviews that were put onto the site were reviews of their clients’ products, but no declaration of any connection between the employees, Reverb Communications, and their clients, was...