The Gadget Show - News Podcast For April 1
Be sure to listen to today’s news podcast with guest co-host Eric Mack for your chance to win a Sleeptracker watch valued at $US149.
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The Gadget Show - News 1st April 2005 (42min 03sec)
MP3 - 14.5MB
TIME
00:00 Network Intro
01:05 Summary
02:00 Introducing Eric Mack
02:15 Where is Eric? The lovely Pine Mountain Club, California
04:05 Eric Mack, eProductivity Specialist, ICA.COM, Inc.
06:45 TabletPCs, and productivity with products like Mindmanager from Mindjet, and gestures (see Hobie Swan’s blog)
12:35 Eric’s experience in researching and buying a TabletPC, and his top two preferences, the Toshiba Protege M200 and Fujitsu Lifebook T4010D
20:00 Evaluating TabletPC screens
21:45 Tivo advertisements in the wild and overt product placement
26:24 The Podcast Network
27:29 PSP U.S. launch and PSP hacks : PSP web browser, videocasting, and linux
29:20 Halo2 expansion pack
30:05 Matrix online hires actors to play major roles
31:15 The PSP: cold, naked, and disassembled
32:00 Sleeptracker review and competition
39:10 MGM v. Grokster and the technology implications
41:39 Thanks and wrap up
April 2nd, 2005 at 1:57 pm
[…]
April 02, 2005
Sleeptracker Watch Competition.
Over at The Gadget Show there is a Sleeptracker watch, as reviewed here […]
April 4th, 2005 at 3:03 pm
Best technology tip for productivity about gadgets I have is:
Don’t stuff around with your gadgets while your meant to be doing other things.
Molly
April 12th, 2005 at 8:09 am
Here’s my stab at a tech productivity tip:
If you spend a good part of your day in front of a computer you owe it to yourself to setup a personal wiki (a web site that lets you quickly and easily edit pages from within your browser).
You can then use this private, personal wiki to either keep a diary of your thoughts, create an outline of things you want to learn or remember for a later date, jot down notes for an upcoming presentation — the options are almost endless.
If you’re thinking to yourself, “That’s what a notepad/blog/pda is for”, well, a wiki is one of those things you don’t quite get until you start using it. They’re so easily editable and accessible (especially if you use multiple computers) that it allows you to write webpages in an effortless way that’s hard to reproduce with any other software.
The wiki software I would recommend for beginners is TipiWiki2 — it’s amazingly simple to setup (it’s really only 3 html files, a css file and a folder!) and is PHP, so almost every hosting plan out there would support it.
April 16th, 2005 at 2:10 am
My tech productivity tip:
The beauty (imho) about the Ipod is that it has one main funtion: to play music. I try to find more and more gadgets that do that one function I need well. In the end I have a lot of different gadgets, but when it comes time to use one of them, I don’t get sidetracked using that gadget for something else.
April 16th, 2005 at 2:15 am
[…] ; Mister Tut @ 12:14 pm
A comment on BoingBoing just alerted us to the fact that here is a contest to win one of those cool SleepTracker watches […]
April 16th, 2005 at 2:32 am
Two fairly quick tips:
1) If you have important paperwork or schoolwork, keep it in a CVS system. This allows you to strip all old history out of documents (preventing the unauthorized reading of changes) while still maintaining a history of each document. This is also useful if one accidentally saves over or deletes an important document.
2) Have work groups or small businesses use bug tracking tools as work management tools. This is an adequate solution for those who can’t afford or don’t like the features provided by MS Exchange server, and has a number of other advantages (like not using a hacked mail protocol and interporability with any client).
April 16th, 2005 at 5:21 am
Productivity tips -
1) With the very low prices of disk drives there’s no reason to suffer the dire consequences of losing your PC’s boot drive ever again. Buy an extra drive and get Casper XP. You can very easily schedule a complete drive backup nightly or weekly as you choose, and be fully protected. The product is extremely easy to use, runs in Windows with other apps running, it’s also inexpensive, and has excellent tech support. Think of how much more productive you’ll be after sleeping soundly knowing your system is backed up.
2) Get a DVR. It will completely change the way you watch TV. Setting recordings is trivial. Watching your shows on your schedule is a dream. The time saved skipping commercials to watch just the good stuff is more than worth the investment. Trust me on this one.
April 16th, 2005 at 6:26 pm
My tech productivity tip is this:
Get the most capacious USB non-volatile RAM drive that you can afford. These little beauties are the best way to transmit data between systems with a reasonable degree of security and to ensure that you always have your precious data with you at all times. The tiny key fob form factor of these drives means never having to part with your work, which means that you can do meaningful work without fuss wherever you are, if you have access to a computer with USB. I got one for myself and one for my wife, and they have become one of those things you don’t leave the house without: keys, wallet, glasses, watch, chip drive.
Make sure yours is platform agnostic so you don’t get jammed up in compatibility issues. These little wonders can be used with a version control system or synching system if you need such functionality, but they provide a dead-easy way to mirror working directories on computers which are not networked together simply by copying the entire contents between computers, always dumping the most recent updates to the stick drive at the end of a working session.
At the rate prices are coming down, these little gadgets might soon make a great removable media storage system. Just get a USB hub and fill it full of stick drives: bang! gigabytes of stable removable media at your beck and call. Run out of room? Just buy another chip drive.
April 20th, 2005 at 12:01 pm
If one is to get two drives, as dw suggests, why not just use a software RAID 1 to mirror them? Windows XP, MacOS X, and Linux all have the capability to do this in software, and many x86 motherboards have the capability to do it in firmware, on XP.