Episode 946
October 26, 2009 The Jabra Stone
Hot on the heels of the Jabra Halo (Episode 923), Dick introduces the Jabra Stone.
Jabra Stone
Comic Con
Over the cold and miserable weekend in New York City, Dick went over to the Comic Con, and met Tom Wopat and John Schneider, co-stars of The Dukes of Hazzard. Talk of stars who had a glorious past reminds Leo of what what a friend told him when she was mad with Leo: "At your peak, you were a little known celebrity on a minor TV channel."
Leo's Schadenfreude
A recent Sunday edition of the New York Times on 16 October 2009 featured an article on G4 and its signature show The Attack of the Show (renamed from The Screen Savers), whose audience on a good day was reported to be about 114,000. Not that Leo is bitter about G4, but he is happy to reveal that a little show like the Daily Giz Wiz has an audience of 75,000 a week, and the flagship show This Week In Tech has 175,000. This is the first time that Leo has seriously talked about the audience number of the Daily Giz Wiz.
TWiT Video Channel
The TWiT Video Channel is coming soon. The announcement was made at Blog World Expo on 16 October. The TWiT Network is partnering with Mediafly to distribute video versions of their shows on multiple video platforms, including the Roku and smartphones like the Palm Pre, Blackberry and other Android phones via phone apps, Zune, and the Logitech Squeezebox. For a report of the announcement, check out GearDiary. For the list of distribution platforms, see TWiTonMediafly.com.
The first 5 shows to be rolled out are TWiT, TWiF, TWiG, MacBreak Weekly and Windows Weekly. After that, the Daily Giz Wiz is likely to follow in a month or two.
Flash Memory Advances
Matt Nagel, a Tech PR for Cohn & Wolfe, works on different products including SanDisk. He was amused to hear about the price of the original SanDisk Cruzer in 2002 (Episode 940), the 256MB-SD card version of which cost $200. He notes that the recommended retail price for the latest Cruzer is $32 for the 4GB version, and $134 for the 32GB version. The 4GB version is available for $15 at Best Buy. Matt has also offered Leo SanDisk's latest and fastest CF card, the Extreme Pro.
SanDisk Extreme Pro CF Card
Coby Snapp CAM3000
Speaking of deals, Dick learned that the little camcorder from Coby the Snapp CAM3000 (Episode 938) was sold as the deal of the day by J&R at $20.
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