Every now and then, you see something that makes you chuckle. After last week’s busy recording session, Carl and I popped to our local branch of Tesco to get a bite to eat, and to browse the tech magazines… well, it’s cheaper than buying them… As we both have something of an ear for audio, [...]

One of the joys of working from home this week has been daytime TV, and you can always rely on E4 to be running old Friends episodes in an endless loop. Watching the whole Ross and Rachel “we were on a break” this week has exposed me to the sponsor credits that top and tail [...]

It’s always fun to look back at a pioneering piece of technology and see how things have progressed. Thanks to one of our podcast listeners for bringing this one to our attention. It’s from the archives of the BBC Tomorrow’s World technology show back in September 1979, and it’s a test of a revolutionary new [...]

That’s it. I’ve had enough TalkTalk. Thanks for playing. Years back, I did the smart thing and switched my home phone calls from BT to TalkTalk – My line rental stayed with BT (for Broadband reasons), but calls went through TalkTalk to benefit from cheaper calls.’ However, there’s a problem with TalkTalk, and that’s that [...]

As we covered in our last podcast, details of what’s believed to be the next iPhone have been leaked, as a result of some Apple bod leaving a prototype in a bar. Someone’s created a rather nifty little video showing the 4G iPhone spin and flip in an iPhone TV ad style. Take a look [...]

Breaking News – Nothing to report! If you’ve been following the unprecedented situation with Britain’s Hung Parliament on one of the rolling news channels, you may be mistaken for thinking that No News is Breaking News. I’ve been following the story by watching the 24 hour BBC news channel over the last few days. I’ve [...]

Now and again, sites like Amazon throw up odd results. Out and about looking for a new ink cartridge, I had call to use Amazon on my iPhone to look up what ink cartidges my printer takes. Without a model number, I entered “HP all-in-one” to see a list of printers. I got pages of [...]

The UK’s lead story today is the fact that UK airspace has been closed. Volcanic action in Iceland has resulted in a clould of volcanic ash moving towards the UK. The authorities have closed UK airspace, as the ash can use a serious hazard to aircraft engines. We’ve had lots of fun watching planes landing [...]

Everybody loves pizza. Friday night was pizza night for the FrequencyCast boys tonight, and we took the easy option and ordered a Dominos pizza online. Car’s a “create your own” kinda guy, and Pepperoni does it for Pete. Ordering online is pretty straightforward, obviously. Slap in your details and address into the ordering engine at [...]

A little musical challenge for you. The FrequencyCast phone, the INQ1 has a distinctive 3 note “Low Battery” tone that wafts through FrequencyCast HQ and reminds me of a certain UK song. Click on this link to have a listen: http://www.frequencycast.co.uk/audio/inqnotes.mp3 Have a quick listen, and see if it reminds you of anything… Comment below [...]

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