Archive for DAB RADIO

Pure for Petrolheads

Nov 23, 2011 No Comments by

Pure wants you to spend nearly £200 on an additional radio for your car. It is a digital radio. Could you care less?

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DAB Radio buying guide

Jan 30, 2011 1 Comment by

Before you buy a digital radio make sure you can receive digital broadcasts at www.getdigitalradio.com Then stick with your FM radio and all this DAB nonsense will go away.  Unless over 50 percent of the populace take the digital option by 2015, FM will continue.  See the Category Overview for why this will be a […]

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DAB Digital Radio overview

Jan 13, 2011 No Comments by

There’s a lot going on in DAB digital radio. Such as whether the technology will prevail, whether enough of us will take the DAB plunge and whether there’s a future for FM.

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FOGEY 5 DAB Digital Radios

Jan 13, 2011 No Comments by

The Fogey 5 are the best five products in their class by virtue of expert and consumer review from at least 10 respected and authoritative websites. PURE EVOKE Flow Few people in radioland seem to realise that most radio consumers listen to a very small spread of stations.  Most, I suspect, are tuned to the […]

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News

The $800 Million ebook

No one forces anyone to buy a book, whether it’s digitally rendered or paper and print. If Apple had set their prices too high, a lack of sales would have suggested their error. And there are always alternatives for the consumer such as libraries and those dusty repositories known as ‘book shops’

Et tu, Apple?

This isn’t so much built in obsolescence we’re talking about here, rather a deliberate and unnecessary removal of functionality from an otherwise perfectly serviceable device. That we paid good money for. And is now worthless, in every sense.

Reebok Checklight

This bit of kit is integrated into a skull cap (a headband version is in the works) and displays the force sustained by head impacts on an LED display that sits at the back of the neck.

Panasonic

That’s what happens when you eavesdrop on conversations about subjects of which you know nothing. You find that the person upon whose eaves you were dropping doesn’t know anything either.

CES Unveiled

At 4pm the seething hordes of the geek media were let in to swarm around buffet tables groaning with free food and bars serving equally free booze. Somewhere amidst the platters of shrimp and beef skewers there were selected brands showing their products at very many small stands.

CES. Oh Yes.

CES is now a curious circus, notable as much for some of the biggest names in tech that choose to be absent: Apple, Google, Amazon.

I Know Who You Are…

Users of social networks reveal far more about themselves than they should or that they are aware of and that in doing so they put themselves where the law, which has been tortoise-slow to try and get to grips with the new electronic age, cannot help them.

Bitcoin

There is plenty written about the digital world that is mildly diverting, in a ‘what will they think of next?’ kind of way, while being unlikely to impinge on the lives of thee and me. Such is Bitcoin.

PRINTER WOE (continued)

The HP website assures us that Windows 7 is pre-loaded with the driver that will make it and the 7690 sing sweet printerly music together. They are lying. And that lie is compounded by the fact that the driver we need cannot be downloaded from the HP website.

Here’s Looking At You

If you don’t like what’s being done with your online burblings, go offline, go analogue. Or just shut up.

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Pogue Knows

David Pogue is something of a hero at Fogey Central and we’ve said as much before

Monday Mash-Up

Links to articles we’ve read recently, two from the Independent on Saturday 19th January and two from the New York Times on Sunday 13th January. All are worth a look.

Just One More Game … Angry Birds, Farmville and Other Hyperaddictive ‘Stupid Games’

Here’s a fine feature by Sam Anderson from the New York Times Magazine about mindless video games. The sort of things (Angry Birds) that have replaced the fag-break in the nation’s use of snippets of down time. This Fogey has spent an inordinate amount of time on Angry Birds and so far no 3-star level […]

Fogey Likes: Jeffrey Steingarten

Jeffrey Steingarten is food critic for US Vogue. His writing is wonderful and, since he’s waxed lyrical often about kitchen gadgets and food and cooking technology, he’s a perfect fit for Tech Fogey.

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David Pogue

David Pogue is a very funny man who knows what he’s talking about. A rare bird indeed.