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Month: September 2009

Today is Freeview Retune Day

Posted on 30 September 200929 September 2009 By FrequencyCast 1 Comment on Today is Freeview Retune Day

If you’re reading this on Wednesday the 30th of September 2009, today is Freeview Retune Day. If you get your digital TV from Freeview, you will need to get your Freeview box or TV set to re-scan its Freeview channel lineup, to make sure you get all of your channels. The changes that are being…

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Digital TV, Freeview

Sky TV comes to X-Box

Posted on 25 September 200925 September 2009 By FrequencyCast No Comments on Sky TV comes to X-Box

From October, X-Box 360 users will be able to get TV shows from Sky. Sky subscribers will be able to watch selected channels from their Sky package on the X-Box 360 once a planned software update is rolled out in October. Sky Player will also allow you to create an avatar of yourself and watch…

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Digital TV

WKRP – Now available in the UK

Posted on 23 September 200925 September 2009 By FrequencyCast No Comments on WKRP – Now available in the UK

American comedy TV series WKRP in Cincinnati is finally available in the UK. If you’re not familiar with the series, it was first shown in the late 1970s, and it’s a US sitcom based at a commercial AM radio station. The largely dysfunctional staff show how not to run a station – the first episode…

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Radio, Random Stuff

Portable Wi-fi is here

Posted on 21 September 2009 By FrequencyCast No Comments on Portable Wi-fi is here

Want a better way of getting Internet on the move? How about carrying your own wi-fi hotspot in your pocket? 3 has just launched MiFi, their mobile wi-fi modem service. Get a Mi-Fi modem for a one-off £70, and use it as a portable wi-fi 802.11 access point. The modem is a combined 3G data…

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Announcements

FrequencyCast Audio Update 16 Sept Released

Posted on 16 September 200916 September 2009 By FrequencyCast No Comments on FrequencyCast Audio Update 16 Sept Released

Hot off the press, over 16 minutes of tech and TV news from the team at FrequencyCast. In this update we look at the merging of two mobile networks, what Apple’s been up to this month, Freeview HD testing, BT Vision updates, a Sky offer, the latest on iPhone sat nav applications, and a new…

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Digital TV, HD, Phones, Podcast

FrequencyCast blog now iPhone compatible

Posted on 15 September 200915 September 2009 By FrequencyCast No Comments on FrequencyCast blog now iPhone compatible

The FrequencyCast News Blog (wot you’re reading now!), is now iPhone, iPod Touch and Google Android compatible. Here’s a before-and-after on how our Blog behaves on an iPhone: FrequencyCast on an iPhone – Before FrequencyCast on an iPhone – After Our blog now detects if you’re connecting on an iPhone, Touch or Android device, and…

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Announcements

CoPilot Live Sat Nav for iPhone updated

Posted on 13 September 200916 September 2009 By FrequencyCast No Comments on CoPilot Live Sat Nav for iPhone updated

Got an iPhone? Turn it into a Sat Nav for £27. If you listen to Show 43, you’ll have heard us review the Co-Pilot Live satellite navigation application, comparing it with the TomTom and Mobile Navigator applications. CoPilot came out very well, especially given it’s half the price of the TomTom equivalent. In our review,…

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Phones, Technology

iTunes 9 Podcast Categories Removed?

Posted on 10 September 200910 September 2009 By FrequencyCast 1 Comment on iTunes 9 Podcast Categories Removed?

Here at FrequencyCast, we’ve been playing with the new iTunes 9 released yesterday, and it seems that one of the key features for podcast listeners has vanished. The list of podcast categories no longer appears on the main iTunes Podcast page. The new iTunes interface makes it easy to select from the top podcasts and…

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Podcasting, Technology

New iPods, updated iTunes and new iPhone OS

Posted on 10 September 200910 September 2009 By FrequencyCast No Comments on New iPods, updated iTunes and new iPhone OS

Lots for fan of Apple products to sink their teeth into as Apple has released a new set of iPods, a new version of firmware for the iPhone, and an updated iTunes. Here’s a summary: New iPods: A new iPod Nano has been released, sporting a video camera and a slightly larger screen. 8 Gig…

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Gadgets, Phones

Orange and T-Mobile to merge

Posted on 9 September 2009 By FrequencyCast No Comments on Orange and T-Mobile to merge

It’s just been announced that UK network Operators T-Mobile and Orange are set to merge into one company. This will make the new combined network operator the largest in the UK, with 37% of the mobile phone market, knocking the current number one, o2, off the top spot. Although the merger will mean less competition…

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Phones

Boat That Rocked DVD

Posted on 7 September 200920 October 2011 By FrequencyCast No Comments on Boat That Rocked DVD

The Boat That Rocked DVD is out on DVD today. If you haven’t got a copy yet, why not? If you didn’t get to see the film at the cinema when it was released in April, you may want to watch the DVD. From the pen of Richard “Four Weddings” / “Notting Hill” / “Love…

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Nostalgia, Radio

FrequencyCast UK Podcast 43 released

Posted on 1 September 200931 August 2009 By FrequencyCast 1 Comment on FrequencyCast UK Podcast 43 released

Show 43 of FrequencyCast, the UK’s TV and Tech podcast, has just been released. In this show, we discuss all that’s new with digital TV and technology. Here’s what we cover in this show: News Updates: 3D TV is with us, the end of the ISS, Freeview changes, and Lazy Britain. Focus: GPS gadgets –…

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