Known as MAD's Maddest Writer, co-host of The Giz Wiz with OMGchad at www.GizWiz.TV, The Giz Wiz on ABC's World News Now, and on Tech Guy Labs with Leo Laporte on www.TWiT.TV.
The Don Rickles Project Leo watched the Don Rickles Project movie recently and is acting like him and calling everyone a hockey puck.
A Slow Moving World Like another listener in Episode 914, Al Spalding also listens to the Daily Giz Wiz at an accelerated speed, but only 25% faster. He likes it that way. The problem is, now everything else seems slow, including the new Harry Potter movie he saw recently with his wife who assured him that he was crazy.
Dick the Yoga Master Dick always stays ahead of the curve, and has been doing yoga for 30 years, long before Leo starts doing his Pilates, yoga and TWiT Sit. Dick still does a sun salutation every day.
Circadian Rhythm Disorder Leo needs 8 hours of sleep every day, while Dick gets tired every night at 11, and then gets wide awake by midnight. Dr Leo Laporte diagnoses Dick's condition as a circadian rhythm mismatch.
A Tip from England Stephen Doo from England gives us all a tip. Certain models of the iPod Touch (2nd Gen onwards) works with earbuds with a built-in microphone, like the EarPollution Timbre (Episode 912). Download the Skype iPhone app, and you can start making free calls on the internet when you're in a WiFi zone.
Bad Timbre? After Leo talked about the Timbre, it became rather popular and its price started going up. One listener who got it wasn't completely happy with the sound quality, and Leo reminds us again that at about $20, one cannot expect it to perform at the same level as the Bose QuietComfort, or a $300 pair of Etymotics.
Motorola Bluetooth Headset On its Way Leo was asked about bluetooth stereo headsets on the radio recently and found some made by Motorola. He's reserving them for TTTT so that Dick doesn't steal a march on him again.
Open-Source 3D Printer Talk of 3D Printers (Episodes 901, 907, 912) got Brian Drake from Gallatin, Tennessee going too. He tells Dick that there is an open-source fabber, called fab@home. Just don't let it on to Colleen, who might start replicating everything in the TWiT Cottage.
Anthony Wood's Six Ventures Anthony Wood, before he started Roku, was involved in writing software for the Radio Shack TRS80, Dreamweaver, ReplayTV, Soundbridge and Netflix. Roku, the Japanese word for "six", is his 6th business venture.
TWiTLive, Coming to You in Every Possible Way Leo reveals that TWiTLive may well be coming to your home on Roku, but at the moment it's still under discussion. Meanwhile, thanks to Colleen, if you have an iPhone, you can watch TWiTLive using the iPhone app USTREAM Viewer, as Leo demonstrates after the show (video from odtv.me):
Podcast Description Opher Banarie gives Leo an instant letter. After Dick covered the Zune HD yesterday (Episode 921), Opher asks if Microsoft has fixed the pet peeve that he has about the old Zunes, that there is no way to read the title or description of the podcasts. Leo checks the Zune HD and can verify that the Zune HD now shows the full title of the podcast and gives you a description, if that is available.
Zune OLED Screen Leo was going to do the Zune HD for his pick tomorrow, and once again Dick has usurped Leo’s TTTT gadget (the last one being the Verbatim Tuff N Tiny in Episode 901). But Leo gets to show off the OLED screen: see the video below (courtesy of odtv.me).
921 on 921: It’s All in the Planning This week, all DGW episode numbers coincide with the dates. That’s how well planned the Daily Giz Wiz is, all thanks to the meeting at the New York City Hudson Hotel in December 2005 when Dick and Leo discussed the idea for a daily gadget show.
Just as Henry Hudson went on a voyage looking for the Orient and ended up discovering what is now New York, poor Dick at the Hudson Hotel thought he was embarking on a gadget show and ended up doing a tragicomedy with Leo.
FM Transmitter for the Daily GizWiz Roger Harmon is a recent convert to the Daily Giz Wiz, and experienced some problem with the iTunes feed. There was some confusion between the Daily GizWiz and the spaced out Daily Giz Wiz, but Dane Golden had that fixed. Roger listens to the shows on his iPod in his car using an FM transmitter, but signal is not very clear, and asks if Leo has a better recommendation. Leo suggests trying one from Griffin (iTrip) or from Belkin (TuneCast 3), but adds that free FM signals tend to be weak in metro areas
Second Longest Show At 34:38, today’s show is the second longest episode so far, still almost 5 minutes short of the longest one, Episode 709, the Energizer Aluminium Alloy LED Flashlights.
September 25, 2009