3 posts tagged “gentleman”
Instinct
Touch-Screen SmartPhone
Link: Samsung Instinct
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Sprint doesn't have the iPhone but it offers the Samsung Instinct, another touchscreen smartphone. Features include turn-by-turn GPS, live TV on Sprint's fast and extensive 3G coverage, voice dialing, java applications and haptic response on the touch screen. Comes with a 2GB microSD card for storage.
No Letters from Leo
Leo again doesn't have a letter to read, and invites letters from listeners again. What good is that if Leo doesn't read his emails?
Phone Rental
Kerry Lutz writes in again to report a story from the San Francisco Chronicle from a couple of years ago about a widow who had been renting a rotary phone for 42 years. She spent about $14,000 over the years just for the rental. Dick suggests we all check our parents' phone bill.
Exorbitant Rates
Leo uses a business calling card when he travels, and learns a hard lesson. He's been charged operator-assisted call rates for his calls to Roz Savage's satellite phone (3 times a week), about $10 a minute and $400 a show.
More Exorbitant Rates
A guest of a tenant of a unit in Dick's building was locked out of the apartment, called a locksmith in, and was charged $666 for the service.
More GizWizBiz Gadgets
Dick has sold out his GizWizBiz Caps, but has more merchandise on offer, which he self-deprecatingly calls Giz Wiz Garbage. These include the Clip Hanger (see Episode 549), the folding LED lighted ball pen, and the LED Ice Cube.
Listen to Episode 622
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The Giz Wiz Home Page
No Letters from Leo
Leo again doesn't have a letter to read, and invites letters from listeners again. What good is that if Leo doesn't read his emails?
Phone Rental
Kerry Lutz writes in again to report a story from the San Francisco Chronicle from a couple of years ago about a widow who had been renting a rotary phone for 42 years. She spent about $14,000 over the years just for the rental. Dick suggests we all check our parents' phone bill.
Exorbitant Rates
Leo uses a business calling card when he travels, and learns a hard lesson. He's been charged operator-assisted call rates for his calls to Roz Savage's satellite phone (3 times a week), about $10 a minute and $400 a show.
More Exorbitant Rates
A guest of a tenant of a unit in Dick's building was locked out of the apartment, called a locksmith in, and was charged $666 for the service.
More GizWizBiz Gadgets
Dick has sold out his GizWizBiz Caps, but has more merchandise on offer, which he self-deprecatingly calls Giz Wiz Garbage. These include the Clip Hanger (see Episode 549), the folding LED lighted ball pen, and the LED Ice Cube.
Listen to Episode 622
Go to TWiT
The Giz Wiz Home Page
iSoniCast
iPod Accessory - Wireless Streaming
Link: Monster Cable
Turn-The-Tables-Tuesday
The iSoniCast enables wireless streaming from your iPod to your home stereo or other powered speakers. Monster Cable calls it a "wireless audio bridge".
Connect the base station to AC power and to your home stereo and to one of the audio inputs of your home stereo (via the mini-jack to RCA cable provided). Plug the transmitter into the iPod (which draws minimal power from the iPod), start playing and the music will be streamed by 2.4GHz wireless technology (with a bandwidth of 4 Mega-bits per second) to the base station receiver. The iPod doubles up as a remote control.
Mad Currency
Randal Schwartz, Perl expert, co-host of FLOSS and long-time fan of DGW, came across an entry on Wikipedia about fake denominations of US currency and found that the Mad currency (3-dollar bill) which Dick talked about in the past (see, e.g. Episode 121) has made its way into that entry. Dick goes on to describe the Alfred E Neuman postage stamps that Mad used to make.
Spork Cartoon
Dick and Leo mention in passing a spork cartoon which listeners have written in about. Leo says he is going to save it for the Letters Section, but naturally he forgets. While we wait for Dick and Leo's memory to come round, here's one which is pretty good, by Jakin J Waldock.
Listen to Episode 567
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Okidata Microline 92
Dot Matrix Printer
Link: Antic Magazine 1985 Printer Guide on Atari Magazine Compute Magazine June 1984 on Atari Magazine
Dick's Gadget Warehouse
From 1984 (and Dick still has the original receipt), the Okidata 92 printer cost $699, and the cable cost $39.95. The paper for printing (with the sheets all attached together but perforated) cost $19.95.
Dick also refers to the Okimate 20 which was an early attempt at colour printing.
NewerTech Universal Drive Adapter
The USB2 Universal Drive Adapter (Episode 267) recommended by Leo has proved to be popular. Steve Miller has bought one (Episode 279), so has Listener Joel who is an independent computer technician. It saves him from unscrewing the hard drives from the drive bays.
The Hindenburg Disaster
NewerTech Universal Drive Adapter
The USB2 Universal Drive Adapter (Episode 267) recommended by Leo has proved to be popular. Steve Miller has bought one (Episode 279), so has Listener Joel who is an independent computer technician. It saves him from unscrewing the hard drives from the drive bays.
The Hindenburg Disaster
Learn from Dick and Leo about the Hindenburg Disaster and Bill Gaines's interest in the German air-ship. Leo plays a audio clip of Herbert Morrison's live report at the time.
SitePal
While looking for the Hindenburg radio clip, a voice says "Please type your message in the text box and let me say it". Leo must have run into one of the ads by SitePal.
Brannock Device
Leo gets to read a letter today. Dr Mark Sukoenig, an optometrist from Syracuse, writes in about the Brannock Device (Episode 255). Syracuse was where the Park-Brannock Shoe Store started (and Carrier Air-Conditioners as well), and when he was young, he and his family would have been served by people in the store including Charles Brannock himself.
Listen to Episode 280
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The Giz Wiz Home Page
SitePal
While looking for the Hindenburg radio clip, a voice says "Please type your message in the text box and let me say it". Leo must have run into one of the ads by SitePal.
Brannock Device
Leo gets to read a letter today. Dr Mark Sukoenig, an optometrist from Syracuse, writes in about the Brannock Device (Episode 255). Syracuse was where the Park-Brannock Shoe Store started (and Carrier Air-Conditioners as well), and when he was young, he and his family would have been served by people in the store including Charles Brannock himself.
Listen to Episode 280
Go to TWiT
The Giz Wiz Home Page
