April, 2010 Archive

It crashes our devices, it’s a security risk, it eats batteries, it’s slow, it’s closed to third-parties, it’s poor on touch-screen devices, and it’s not needed. That’s why iPhone users won’t be seeing Adobe’s Flash on their hardware any time soon, according to Apple. For months, there’s been some ping-ponging between Adobe and Apple about [...]

Still don’t have a Scooby-Doo who to vote for? Fear not… help is here, via the Sky Vote-U-Lator. You can have your voting preference scientifically worked out for you, based on your Facebook social networking activity. Want the fill SP? Click on this here video, voiced by the lovely Brian Blessed: Or hop to www.vote-u-lator.com

News of a new killer smartphone from Nokia, the Nokia N8. What’s so exciting about the N8? This is a touchscreen device powered by the Symbian operating system, and it’ll have a whopping 12 megapixel camera. The big selling point though, is likely to be video. The phone has an impressive lens, can record 720p [...]

3D TV in the home is now a reality. For £1,800, you can now own a 40 inch HD TV that supports 3D. In the race to bring out the first 3D-Ready TV, it seems that Samsung was the winner in the UK, releasing the Samsung UE40C7000 40 inch 3D Ready TV a few days [...]

Looks like a bad week for anti-virus firm McAfee. On Wednesday the 21st, the released a virus definitions file that wrongly detected a Windows XP system file, svchost.exe, as a virus. The result, thousands of PCs around the world crippled – either constantly rebooting, or failing to connect to a network. The company has issued [...]

If you caught our Gadget Show Live special released a few days ago, you may have heard us talking about EnigmaTAG. We’ve now had a chance to give this impressive technology a try. If you’ve ever lost, or being worried about losing, one of your precious bits of tech, then you need to consider EnigmaTAG. [...]

As gadget-lovers will know, there’s a huge gadget show taking place now at the NEC in Birmingham. Our listeners asked us to attend, and so we did. Our Carl and Pete were at Gadget Show Live yesterday (Thursday the 8th April), and we’ve been able to put together our review of the show in record [...]

Gadget Show Live Audio Report [ 29:47 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

You have to laugh, don’t you? There’s us, banging on in Show 47 about the importance of backing up your data, and this week, we lost a vital file. The file in question was actually a transcript of the latest show, Show 50, kindly created by the team at Typing Angels. Foolishly, our Pete deleted [...]

Happy April! It’s the start of a new month, and that means it’s time for a new FrequencyCast – and this is show number 50! Here’s what we look at in Show 50: News Updates: Lots of HD news, tablets, cancellations and 3D. Focus: Getting more from your MP3 Player Hands-on: Who needs and iPod [...]

Frequencycast UK Show 50 [ 30:55 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download