Technology Category

Technically, this is slightly old news, as it happened about two weeks ago, but it’s not always easy spot these things amongst the tech noise. If you’re a Skype user, note that there’s a new version of the Skype Windows app available for download. Version 5 of Skype comes with an amazingly handy feature – [...]

Many thanks to one of our regular listeners for drawing our attention to this nifty little surveillance device. The Spy Camera sits on your keyring and looks like a standard car opening “beeper” box – but it’s so much more. It can capture high res video, audio and still photos – making it perfect for [...]

FrequencyCast Show 56, for the 1st of October 2010, is out now. In this latest show, here’s a look at what we cover: News Updates: Sky to kill top TV channels, and a book on DAB’s future Hands-on: TV distribution with a Triax TV Link Classic Tech: Our look back at the humble calculator Your [...]

FrequencyCast Show 56 [ 30:45 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

As a follow-up to our “first look” at Amazon’s Kindle in FrequencyCast Show 55, Pete and Carl are proud to present a full 25 minute review of the Kindle, as one of our series of “Unofficial Guides” In our Kindle UK Review, we look at how to download a book, explore some of the more [...]

Amazon Kindle UK Audio Review [ 28:26 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Got a Freeview recorder made by DigiFusion, Inverto, Sony or Thomson? You may find that you’ve lost your 14 day programme guide. Some boxes from the manufacturers listed made use of the 14 day EPG known at 4TV – a service supplied by a company called InView. It seems that the contract between InView and [...]

Here’s something rather nifty… the opportunity to try on a watch and see what it looks like, in the virtual world. Watch makers Tissot have launched a virtual shop window at London’s Selfridges, where you can use augmented reality to try on one of their watches. You can even try it at home. A novel [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Got a car and a smartphone? Your country needs you! We’ve been trying out a rather nifty little application that has some serious potential… that’s if enough people get involved. Waze is a social navigation application that’s available for a range of GPS-enabled smartphones including the iPhone, Android phones, Windows Mobile and Symbian OS devices. [...]

Carl and Pete were out and about this weekend at the Dabs.com Live Gadget and IT Show. The show took place in the Great Hall at Wembley Stadium,and was showcasing a number of new products and gadgets. We took our roving mic with us, and recorded a few interviews with some of the key players [...]

FrequencyCast Dabs.com Show Special March 2010 [ 31:27 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Over the last 24 hours, Google has completed a major rollout of new Google Maps Street View data. When the service launched in 2009, only roads in major cities were covered, but in today’s update, it seems that around 95 per cent of homes across England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales are now covered in high [...]

The iPad is out. We’ve been listening to a flaky audio stream live from Apple’s Keynote speech to find out what’s new, and here’s what we can report:

Vodafone has just relaunched their “Access Gateway” product as “Vodafone Sure Signal”… but what is it? Well, it’s something called a Femtocell. No clearer? Thought not. It’s actually a little box that you plug into your broadband router, and what it does is clever. For those living in a valley, basement, mine shaft, or miles [...]

Britain’s in the grip of some lovely weather at the moment, isn’t she? Snow and ice… record low temperatures, having to import grit and rocksalt from Egypt to keep our roads running? Madness! Well, as it’s too cold to go out and play today, one of our team has taken the time to write a [...]

In Show 45, we took a quick look at the Olympus LS-11, pictured here. This is a high-spec recording device that can record high-quality stereo audio on the move. As we only had a few minutes in the show to cover this impressive bit of kit, we’ve put together one of our special “Unofficial Guides”, [...]

FrequencyCast Olympus LS-11 Unofficial Guide [ 18:41 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

At last – barcode scanning on a mobile phone that actually works. Despite some glowing reviews for the application RedLaser on iTunes, I must admit our hopes weren’t high. We’ve tried barcode scanning apps for mobiles in the past, notably on Nokia Series 60 handsets, and the results have been dreadful – lots of faffing [...]