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The Big Show – Worst Podcasting Experience Ever – Show Notes
To Say that this week was taxing for poor old Karl Madden is an understatement. Standing in for Ewen this week, Karl is presented with an enourmous amount of technical problems but comes through with flying colours. Churhillian nay!
Karl Madden - @claw0101 also on the Media show.
Ian Grant - @tioaboa and on Google+
Joe De Max - @joedemax
Jeff Gamet - Macobserver.com @jgamet Freshbrewedtales.com jgamet at app.net
Steve Naybour - @stevenaybour The London Mac User Group.
Sponsors UK2.Net
Opening Stories
Note this day everyone. The most important revelation of the year, nay the decade, has been decreed. Steve Wilhite, the creator of the Graphics Interchange Format has expressed his opinion, while collecting a Webby Award for Lifetime Achievement, that the proper acronym for his creation should be pronounced JIF and not GIF. This is Golly Jood news for all I say. “They are wrong. It is a soft ‘G,’ pronounced ‘jif.’
Some customers of Marks & Spencers have reported that the stores contact payment terminals has charged their debit cards even though they had never been removed from their bags. Customers of Pret a Manger have also reported similar issues, however, none of the same customers appear to be bothered about paying £5 for a sandwich in the first place. UK Consumers Reporting Contactless Payment Errors
An 18 year old student, Eesha Khare (EE-sha K-ray), has invented a mobile-phone charger that is capable of charging up a phone in around 30 seconds. This is fortunate as that is roughly the amount of time the iPhone will last if you leave locations services switched on. Student Invents Device That Will Charge Your Cellphone In 30 Seconds.
NASA has awarded a grant of $125,000 to a company to devlop a 3D food printer. The first design to be printed will be a pizza that will consist of water, oil and three layers of nutritional powders. The Powders to be used in the design come from such protentially scrumy sources as grass, algae and insects. Hmmmmmm....Who wants that last slice? NASA funds 3D food printer, pizza is the first item on the menu.
Main Show Stories
Yahoo has bought the popular blogging platform Tumblr for £1.1 billion. Marissa Mayer has promised that Yahoo will not screw up the service. I've recently moved my blog over to Tumblr from Posterous (after Twitter shut it down). What do we think of this acquisition and do we trust Yahoo in there promise?
Yahoo has updated its photo service Flickr with a new design and new prices. Go Ad Free for $49.99 a year or buy and extra 1TB of space for $499.99 a year. I reached out to Alex Fox as a professional photographer and James Kenny as an avid Flickr user to see what they thought of the changes. New look Flickr adds 1TB of storage for all users.
The gaming industry’s great hope finally arrives: Microsoft unveils Xbox One. Will this be the ONE box to rule all media boxes or will it just be another growing number of black boxes nesting under the TV?
Arrested Development Season 4 is out on Sunday May 26. What do we think of Netflix approach to it's own shows? Netflix plans to double its original content output next year.
Has anyone taken advantage of this process yet? If so, is it a simple procedure? Twitter finally introduces two-factor authentication
The Verge asks a month after the Launch of Twitter Music is anyone using it? I myself have used it once in that interim, anyone else? A month after launch, have we forgotten about Twitter #Music?
Cool Thingies
Steve - Wunderlist. Free checklist app for iPhone and iPad.
Ian - NFC Task Launcher and NFC stickers.
Jeff - Magellan SmartGPS
Joe - Canon R205 refurbished camcorder. £69.
Karl - Mailbox for iOS. Free app now with iPad support.
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