Episode 1118

Oberon Design
Leo has received a new iPad case from Oberon Design in Santa Rosa.  He wishes he had made that his TTTT gadget yesterday.

Oberon Design's iPad Cases
DGW Downloadable Video
Lindsay Kooser the Computer Guy has been downloading and watching the videos of DGW on YouTube, although it doesn’t update as reliably as the audio podcast feed.  Lindsay doesn’t use iTunes but uses the Juice Receiver.  Leo suggests using the following feeds (for podcast clients):

For large videos: pcast://feeds.twit.tv/dgw_video_large
For small videos: pcast://feeds.twit.tv/dgw_video_small

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Episode 1117

iPad Data Pricing Down Under
Denzel from Australia thinks the iPad might be heading for the Gadget Warehouse down under, given Telstra‘s expensive data packages.  It’s A$75 for 10GB at 30Mbps download speed.  If Leo continues to bring out new podcasts, Denzel will have to be more selective with his downloads, or upgrade to a higher plan.

Those figures look like Telstra’s cable broadband package, not mobile broadband for the iPad.  Telstra offers Pre-Paid Micro-SIM cards for the iPad 3G – A$30 for the card with 1GB for the first month, and recharges at differing prices, ranging from about A$37.5 to a staggering A$90 per GB.

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Episode 1116

Logitech HD Pro C910
Dick tested the new webcam and the video is available on his YouTube Channel madmaddest.

Logitech HD Pro C910
A Mess of Mods
As Leo said last Friday, for this recording session, Dick has a troop of visiting chatroom moderators in Gizneyland, headed by Dan Hendricks, Becky, cwbp et al.

Gone Mental
Jeff from Knoxville, Tennessee has been a listener since Episode 1, and has never missed a show.  He even got his father hooked on DGW after he got himself an iPod.  Unfortunately, he realised things had gone seriously wrong for him when he started air-drumming a DGW jingle while at work today.  He’s going to check himself into a mental institution after this email.  Oh, but he’ll miss Warehouse Friday.  OK, after that then.  But no, Leo hasn’t reviewed the iPhone 4 yet.

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Episode 1115

Another Gadget Warehouse Poet
In addition to Rick Maxon, long-time listener Danny Whitmer from Australia has also contributed to the opening verses for Warehouse Friday.

Up In The Air Miles
Dick and Leo talk about George Clooney’s movie Up In The Air, air miles, and Time Magazine’s article on 10-million-air-miles members.

A Symphony of Old and New
Alvin Jones from Tampa, Florida still has a 27″ Symphonic CRT TV set and has been trying to find a way to play digital media on the old TV without connecting it to his computer or burning a DVD.  He found the Sony SMP-U10 USB Media Player on compusa.com (also available on Amazon).  It can connect to both modern and old TV sets, and can play media from any USB drive.  Now Leo might play old TechTV programmes on a black and white TV in the background in the studio.

Sony SMP-U10 USB Digital Media Player

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Episode 1114

Sneaky Snickers
As soon as he heard that Leo was fond of Snickers, Rodney Johnson, who works for Snickers, sent a whole load of them over to Leo.  There goes Leo’s diet.

The Time-Hallowed Doohickey
Bob Hamilton has learned everything he knows about gadgets from the Daily Giz Wiz.  However, he does have a question.  The Doohickey that Dick and Leo talked about, doesn’t work for Bob.  He tried replacing a part, but to no avail.  Dick and Leo have fun offering solutions.

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