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Episode 22 - Road Warrior
Episode 22 - Technology Road Warrior. Charlie and Stephen talk about Macworld and the new Intel based iMacs and MacBook Pro. They also discuss iWork06, iLife06, and answer the Email of the Week. They also tell you how to arm yourself with portable technology when travelling far and wide.
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Macworld Expo: Keynote Coverage
Jobs rolls out Intel-based Macs; pro apps set for March crossgrades
At the opening keynote address of the Macworld SF 2006 convention, Apple CEO Steve Jobs this morning announced more than just progress on the switch to Intel processors. He announced the immediate rollout of a new line of iMacs sporting Intel Core Duo processors. In addition, he also announced the February ship date for a new line of notebook computers called "MacBook Pro," also sporting Intel Core Duo chips. To top it off, he said all Apple hardware would be migrated to Intel chips by the end of calendar 2006.
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TiVo: HD and CableCards Together in One Machine
Series3 dual-tuner HD PVR's price not yet determined
At the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show, TiVo demonstrated a prototype of its new Series3 HD Digital Media Recorder. While in Las Vegas for the show, we spoke with Bruce Lee, product manager of TiVo, and also with Jim Denny, TiVo’s vice president of product marketing, about the company’s new high-definition personal video recorder. This much-anticipated product, which TiVo has been touting as “almost ready” for the past two years, will feature compatibility with numerous cable systems and dual CableCard tuners when it’s released later this year. However, company officials weren’t yet willing to disclose an exact ship date or price.
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Rapid-Fire Roundup® of Cool Products
Open Office
If you need to create Word documents, power point presentations, or create a spreadsheet, but can’t afford the high cost Microsoft is forcing you to pay for Office, then check out Open Office. Open Office does nearly everything Office does including saving into those Microsoft formats, and best of all its free! Open Office saved my butt this week when PowerPoint crashed and I needed to create a presentation for the next day.
Podcast Factory
Listeners are expecting more from their podcasts, and if you are a podcaster, you need to deliver. The M-Audio Podcast Factory Deluxe features two studio microphones, the popular M-Audio MobilePre USB audio interface, Ableton Live Lite 4 software to record your show and add an additional soundtrack, and Red Square Podifier software to generate an RSS feed for your multitudes of listeners.
Scrolling LED Name Badge
We had more people come up to us and ask us about our LED name badges at the show than ever before. These red or blue badges will scroll your 256 character message that is certainly an eye catcher. Smaller than a credit card, light as a feather, and runs for 18 hours on two small batteries.
Dell 30-inch Monitor
This new flat panel LCD monitor from Dell is enormous, and sharp, too-- it's a whopping 2560 x 1600 pixels, and requires a special graphics card just to get it running. The 30-inch 3007WFP is beautifully designed, has a fast response time of 11 milliseconds – (gamers will like that), and get this, the best part is that the price is only $2200 for all this video goodness. Better save up an extra $700 for that gForce 7800GTX graphics card you'll need to drive this monster.
Canon and Toshiba’s New Flat Screen technology
There's a new kid on the block when it comes to flat screens, and it's called SED. Standing for surface conduction electron emitter display, this technologies jointly developed by Canon Toshiba, and it was first demonstrated at the consumer electronic show last week. Offering the same picture quality as the best video on the planet, a CRT, yet slim like an LCD, this new SED technology will be expensive at first, but will use inkjet printing technology to bring costs down to earth. Expect to see some of these available in about a year.
Black & Decker LI3000 SmartDriver
This compact screwdriver is exactly what the weekend warrior handyman needs. Not too big, not too small, it drives in screws or bolts in the blink of an eye. The thing only costs $40, yet does most of the things the big boys can do. Best of all, it can hold a charge for year and a half, so if you don't have any home improvement projects happening over 18 months, you can pick up that bad boy right where you left off and it will still be holding a full charge. I used one the other day to put on some new license plates, and it turned a 15-minute headache into a two-minute cakewalk.
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