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Andy chats about the latest technology and interesting websites each week with Nerissa Pace on the "Talking back the night" radio show, heard across Australia.
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Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Top 3 websites The very latest that I’ve been testing out is the Sandisk Cruzer Profile which stores files…but also uses built in biometric fingerprint technology to store and retrieve passwords and login information to websites….it sure beats trying to remember passwords. Bigpond Music Interview Last night on the show I spoke with Craig Middleton, corporate affairs manager for Telstra Bigpond, about digital music downloads. Bigpondmusic.com have provided music download vouchers for 10 listeners - Thanks to everyone who entered, all 10 have now been given away. Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Top 3 websites www.auraltimes.com Here’s a new way to look at the news…Ior should I say listen to the news. www.timetravelfund.com The idea behind the Time Travel Fund is that while time travel is not yet possible it might be in say 500 years, so by making depositing 10 dollars to the fund, by the time that time travel was possible, the money would grow to an amount large enough to pay for someone to come back and bring you to the future…hmmmm www.watching-grass-grow.com Based in the state of Colorado, the camera pointed at a lawn updates every 3 seconds…good luck if you’re feeling like being bored. Fashion and electronics meet Dolce and Gabbana have teamed up with Motorola to come up with a version of the popular Razr mobile phone that is as much a fashion accessory as a useful piece of technology. The Motorazr V3i Dolce and Gabbana has been designed in Gold and Silver colours with an engraving of the Italian designers logo on the back. Extra touches include exclusive wallpaper, screensavers, ring tones and a pendant with gold D&G initials….very fancy piece of gear. Find out more about this mobile from Motorola HERE. Also helping pushing back the barriers between fashion and electronics is Australian fashion designer Peter Morrissey. He’s teamed up with one of the leading PC makers, Hewlett Packard to create two notebook PCs for style driven users. The HP Pavilion dv2000 has a textured wave-patterned design, with polished Piano black gloss casing….very eye catching let me let you…but of course it also features powerful processing capabilities, wireless connectivity and integrated webcam and a media card reader for getting photos of digital cameras. Also upping the fashion stakes is the Compaq Presario V3000 series Notebook which has a brushed metal finish with gun-metal highlights. This machine features a 14.1 inch widescreen Brightview LCD display, which is great for viewing photos and movies on. Both these notebook PCs come in at under 2000 dollars. For more details check out www.hp.com.au Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Top 3 websites http://www.acmi.net.au On the website for the Australian Centre for Moving image you will find the Parent’s guide to video games. www.namethatface.com So you think you know your celebrities? How about if their faces are distorted beyond recognition? Try this game to see if you can recognize them. www.mycorkboard.com The MyCorkboard screen saver isn’t just something you look at…you can customize it with calendars, clocks, photos, sticky notes, to-do lists, phone numbers and more…and it’s totally free! The latest electronic goodies Apple MacBook if you’re in the market for a notebook computer for home, work or school…this latest offering from Apple is worth a look! For starters it features a 13inch widescreen format display…and it’s a high resolution screen, so you can have plenty of things happening on the screen and it all looks great. It's fast…in fact the new MacBook is reportedly 5 times faster than the older ibook computers and 4 times faster than the old 12-inch powerbook notebooks. Another big thing for the new MacBook is that they now feature Intel processors, so you could potentially run both the Mac OSX and Windows XP operating system on the same machine! Also built into the macbook is the iSight camera, so you can do video chat or take photos….plus there’s a while suits of lifestyle type software included for music, photos, video…and podcasting. Traditionally Macs have always been a bit more pricey than their PC equivalents, but the new Macbooks start at just over 1700 dollars…which is great value for such a well put together machine.Stylish! Check em out at www.apple.com.au Sandisk Sansa e200 series digital music player The Sansa e200 series of digital music players have a slightly larger screen than the iPod nano while maintaining a slim design but there are also a few other features that are handy. There’s a built in FM radio that you can record on the go. The voice recording feature is handy to take notes. There is also a memory expansion slot…so if you need more storage space you can add it on easily.The 2 gigabyte Sansa digital music player comes in around 20 dollars cheaper than the 2gig iPod nano. Here's a link to stores that stock the Sansa e200 digital music players. |