Episode 1020

Audible Total
Gill heard Episode 1010 in which a listener did a website which would display the total number of Audible books.  Gill reckons that there must be an easy way to get the number, and it's by doing an empty search on Audible.  [Leo actually mentioned this method in that show.]

Weekend Shows
Tess (who may or may not be the same Tess who wrote in Episode 325) loves Dick's new site.  She's a big fan and starts the day with the show every week day.  Tess wonders if Dick and Leo could do the Saturday and Sunday shows as well.  No immediate plans for that, but Tess can always listen to the themes for those shows at saturdaytheme.com and sundaytheme.com - thanks to listener Daniel Rodrigues Parreira who runs the websites.

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Episode 1019

Trackball Explorer
Dick and Leo often wonder why manufacturers ever made a particular gadget, but probably never why they stopped making a gadget.  Brian Drake from Gallatin, Tennessee has one from the latter category, his favourite Microsoft Trackball Explorer, which still fetches very high prices on Amazon and eBay.

Microsoft Trackball Explorer
Brain Trainer
Leo has several brain training games on his iPhone.  His trainer was telling him that high blood pressure may be one of the contributing causes for Alzheimer's Disease.  Maybe Leo should check his blood pressure, as he's always losing the thread.

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Episode 1018

A Millennium Lost
Stefan Schemahorn noticed something wrong when listening to Episode 1007.  In the intro, Leo gave the date as January 19th, 1010.  A century lost?  No, it's an entire millennium lost.

Search and Replace, Undo, Reboot
Leo wishes that he could do a Command-Z for his mistakes in life, or a Search and Replace, or as the chatroom suggests, Ctril-Alt-Del.

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Episode 1017

Technology Minute
Listeners have found new ways of contacting Leo - on Dick's Facebook Wall.  College student Travis McGough has been writing a technology column called "Technology Minute" for a local newspaper called the Tri-County Gazette, and is thinking of renaming it "This Month in Technology".  He wonders if Leo has copyrighted "This Month In".

Ough
Leo has fun with all the possible (and some impossible) pronunciations of "ough" - which Leo mistakenly calls a "diphthong".  The word "tetragraph" is probably what he wants.

This Week In
Leo thinks TWiT owes its name to Mel Allen's "This Week In Baseball".

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Episode 1016

Mama Laporte
Mama Laporte may have got hooked on appearing on TWiT (see Episode 1002), as she keeps calling Le Le during his shows.  Dick is still getting letters asking him to replace her for Leo, most of which are signed Mary L.

Pingo MyDeskFriend
Leo has got a new addition to his penguin collection - Pingo MyDeskFriend,  your Facebook robot companion who can read and announce your news and messages on Facebook and from elsewhere via RSS, and responds to your voice commands.

Pingo - MyDeskFriend

Leo hasn't had enough time to get it to work properly and is thinking of giving it to Mama Laporte for her to sort out.

A Christmas Card for Ludwik
Ludwik Trammer has just recently got a Christams card from TWiT.  Not bad, considering that last year, Dick's Ultimate Ludwik Package (also posted in December) didn't reach him in Poland until Valentine's Day (see Episode 773).

DGW Gadget Costs
Ludwik also asks if Dick could put him in touch with Slightly Obsessed (see Episodes 1008 and 1012), to put in the latter's data into his search at GizWizSearch, new features of which are slowly coming together.

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