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Episode 187 - Apple iPod Touch, Newer Tech. miniStack v3

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Apple 8 GB iPod Touch
Newer Technology miniStack v3


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Paul said:

Tiffany

Your 2 out of 5 for the iPod Touch is a bit strange. You take off marks for ONLY having wifi. Does your 80GB iPod or any MP3 player that is not a phone offer a non-wifi wireless connection? Nope.

Also you mention the cables being different from the previous generation. If you own the older cables, this is an issue. If you do not have existing cables, this is a moot point.

Jeff said:

Tiff, were you drinking this day? I don't think you really understand what wifi is. Anyone else think this?

Arizona Steve said:

Take it easy on Tiff! Who cares if it has wi-fi or not? What kind of idiot would pay $299 for an ipod anyway?

Jamie said:

Hi Ben and Tiffany... I don't see any way to get email to you any more... so I was wondering if you would review the MonolithMC (monolithmc.com) and the possibilities of integrating third party apps into it.

Scott Pritchett said:

So, Ben, what is your score once it gets bricked? From 5 -> 0 in one firmware update, good name for a film?

Borat from Kazachstan said:

I wanna do sexy time with mrs Young. How much $$ ?

RivasKitty34 said:

Set your life more easy get the personal loans and all you want.

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Episode 186 - Stylish laptop bags for guys and gals

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Arizona Steve said:

I love your parody of the Apple ad!
Have you seen the $160 iPhone clone from Deal Extreme?
It looks better than the real iPhone and has a removable
battery and comes with 2 batteries but unfortunately it
doesn't have wi-fi.
www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.5179

BTW, that reCaptcha is getting out of control with code
words like "kidnapped Cowie's"!!

RamzaMik said:

Im a bit disapoited with your sleeves review (your bag and messenger review are more complete). First of all, when buying a sleeve it is oftenly to give the machine an additional protection when inside another bag. There is my point, Ben started de ''girly'' section of the show with sleeve from iskin and moshi. At this point, the review lost all its credibility, as Ben started to tell those product are more girly for stupid reason as ''look it is orange and black'' or check it out when its open, the inside is orange...as the outside (wow collor match = girly). But the very thing that made the show irrevelent is that he still continues with personnal comments instead of reviewing important aspect of the product, such as ''how hard the sleeve is'' omg! a sleeve review without talking about the actual hardnest of the product...what a lost of time! Mackbook pro user oftenly choose the product over its capacity to absorb shock and there is nothing about it in the review (shame on you!). Plus, her team mate make him realize he was out of the track with is ''girly'' comments on the product so he finished the iskin review with the quote '' i cant imagine a guy going with the sleeve under the shoulder and blablabla...'' totally a useless comment and it is not professional at all, superstition and sexist comment shouldn't take place in show like this. Oh and by the way, iskin sleeve can come in charcoal (gray and black) way too much girly for you Ben, i suppose.

The second sleeve review (from moshi) was the product that brought me to listen the episode. What a disapoitment ( i trully lost my time listening to it) Ben is not reviewing anything! That product is for a lot of person the most ''luxury'' and fashion sleeve or product for macbook that you can find on the market. How can you automatically associate fashio/luxury to girly thing? WTF we are in 2008 right? Men cannot have style or fashion items? Go back to work, cauz your going on the wrong direction.

There was several things i wanted to see beeing reviewed about the mochi sleeve and Ben did none of them.
1ST: How good is the Viscotex insert thecnology? Damn this was one of the top thing to talk about, intead of laughting about the remote pouch (shame on Ben again!)
2ND: Terahedron inner lining, this technology is suppose to keep your MB look clean and polish? why not reviewing this...instead of telling people that briefcase/handle sleeve are women things (omg Ben! take your next payckeck, go to NewYork and see if evry one with a briefcas on WallStreet is a women or gay-men or a ladyboy)
3rd : How well the ''incase'' use is? This sleeve is especially built so you can ue your MB inside the sleeve. Why not reviewing that? there is strap to maintained the laptop still and there are 4 rubbed-circle on the bottom so the MB is a little upped to give air-circulation to avoird over-heat. But again, this kind of stuff is much less important than giving sexist and useless comment about a product on stupid fact that is just annoying for Men that actually own one of the two first sleeve reviewed in the ''girly'' section.

Bad bad and bad episode, should have made a ''unisexual'' category for the two sleeve.

Oh and btw, Ben i also put my (blackberry, ipod and my nintendo ds) in a little pouch just like the one for the remote...and i nether tought it could be seemed as girly things or whatever....my girlfriend is also saying that youre totally missing the point.

The rest of the review is ok, all the other product was way too much girly for a boy to like it.

Will continue to listen to the show, but will totally avoid Ben comments or appreciation since i know he's telling shit.

When you're in a not good position and have got no cash to get out from that point, you will require to receive the home loans. Just because that would help you emphatically. I get car loan every time I need and feel good just because of that.

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Episode 185 - Airhead Wakeboards & Tubes

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Airhead Breakout Wakeboard with Vise Binding
Airhead Heart Attack Wakeboard with Vise Binding
Airhead Spectra Thermal 4-Section Wakeboard Rope - 70’
Airhead Blast 1-Rider Open Round Tube
Airhead Rip II Towable



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Paul said:

I really enjoyed this review. It was fun! Great editing as well.

Arizona Steve said:

Ben, You screaming like a girl while you were being towed! LOL

Robert said:

nice show!!

How many horsepower was that pontoon boat? (I'm just wondering what it would take to get a 210lb fella up on a wakeboard.)

Ben Freedman said:

Howdy...

It's just 135hp, and I'm closer to 230lb.

I can get up behind lesser engines, it's mostly a matter of hanging on until the boat gets up to speed. It's not a very good boat for teaching someone who doesn't already know how to wakeboard.

Thanks for the kind words....

-Ben

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Episode 184 - iPod Nano, Classic, Panasonic HDC-SD1

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Apple 8 GB iPod Nano
Apple 160 GB iPod Classic
Panasonic HDC-SD1 Camcorder



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Torgo said:

Ha! You guys posted this review on October 8th? What, could you not review an iPod Touch because you couldn't afford to buy both? The "review" itself is terrible as well -- way to be behind the times, superficial and dull.

Sam said:

Hi guys,

Very nice episode as usual. I like how you review gadgets. It is particularly interesting to listen to the points raised by Tiffany, which are rarely discussed in other reviews while very relevant to potential buyers.

I also wanted to thank you for giving us the 360 tour of your production setup. That was very brave of you ;-)

Great show! Keep up the good work.

Sam

Tom said:

Nice job! I like the extended format and the fact that you really know your tech and the items you are talking about. I also like your presentation! I would love to hear about your system, tools, servers and distribution costs. Even though it is flash - the quality size and framerate is great. Since we are talking about a LARGE file given res, framerate and length how can you folks afford to pay for each stream? Is there some kind of magic tech going on here or have streaming costs taken a nosedive? Oh it took David Pogue of the NYTimes two years to get the sound right, but you guys have even got that together. the head mounted mics are almost invisible, what are you using? Camera? Compression system? Even your backdrop looks good without the cheesy greenscreening everyone else is using. That is worth a story in itself! Once again, very nice job - I rate your work a 5 out of 5 - keep up the great work!

Tom said:

Nice job! I like the extended format and the fact that you really know your tech and the items you are talking about. I also like your presentation! I would love to hear about your system, tools, servers and distribution costs. Even though it is flash - the quality size and framerate is great. Since we are talking about a LARGE file given res, framerate and length how can you folks afford to pay for each stream? Is there some kind of magic tech going on here or have streaming costs taken a nosedive? Oh it took David Pogue of the NYTimes two years to get the sound right, but you guys have even got that together. the head mounted mics are almost invisible, what are you using? Camera? Compression system? Even your backdrop looks good without the cheesy greenscreening everyone else is using. That is worth a story in itself! Once again, very nice job - I rate your work a 5 out of 5 - keep up the great work!

Tom said:

Nice job! I like the extended format and the fact that you really know your tech and the items you are talking about. I also like your presentation! I would love to hear about your system, tools, servers and distribution costs. Even though it is flash - the quality size and framerate is great. Since we are talking about a LARGE file given res, framerate and length how can you folks afford to pay for each stream? Is there some kind of magic tech going on here or have streaming costs taken a nosedive? Oh it took David Pogue of the NYTimes two years to get the sound right, but you guys have even got that together. the head mounted mics are almost invisible, what are you using? Camera? Compression system? Even your backdrop looks good without the cheesy greenscreening everyone else is using. That is worth a story in itself! Once again, very nice job - I rate your work a 5 out of 5 - keep up the great work!

Tom said:

Nice job! I like the extended format and the fact that you really know your tech and the items you are talking about. I also like your presentation! I would love to hear about your system, tools, servers and distribution costs. Even though it is flash - the quality size and framerate is great. Since we are talking about a LARGE file given res, framerate and length how can you folks afford to pay for each stream? Is there some kind of magic tech going on here or have streaming costs taken a nosedive? Oh it took David Pogue of the NYTimes two years to get the sound right, but you guys have even got that together. the head mounted mics are almost invisible, what are you using? Camera? Compression system? Even your backdrop looks good without the cheesy greenscreening everyone else is using. That is worth a story in itself! Once again, very nice job - I rate your work a 5 out of 5 - keep up the great work!

Tom said:

Nice job! I like the extended format and the fact that you really know your tech and the items you are talking about. I also like your presentation! I would love to hear about your system, tools, servers and distribution costs. Even though it is flash - the quality size and framerate is great. Since we are talking about a LARGE file given res, framerate and length how can you folks afford to pay for each stream? Is there some kind of magic tech going on here or have streaming costs taken a nosedive? Oh it took David Pogue of the NYTimes two years to get the sound right, but you guys have even got that together. the head mounted mics are almost invisible, what are you using? Camera? Compression system? Even your backdrop looks good without the cheesy greenscreening everyone else is using. That is worth a story in itself! Once again, very nice job - I rate your work a 5 out of 5 - keep up the great work!

Tom said:

Nice job! I like the extended format and the fact that you really know your tech and the items you are talking about. I also like your presentation! I would love to hear about your system, tools, servers and distribution costs. Even though it is flash - the quality size and framerate is great. Since we are talking about a LARGE file given res, framerate and length how can you folks afford to pay for each stream? Is there some kind of magic tech going on here or have streaming costs taken a nosedive? Oh it took David Pogue of the NYTimes two years to get the sound right, but you guys have even got that together. the head mounted mics are almost invisible, what are you using? Camera? Compression system? Even your backdrop looks good without the cheesy greenscreening everyone else is using. That is worth a story in itself! Once again, very nice job - I rate your work a 5 out of 5 - keep up the great work!

Alan said:

Thanks for your review of the Panasonic HDC-SD1.
In future could you discuss battery life. This is an important factor when deciding on a final purchase of a video camera.
I am new to your audience and have enjoyed the episodes I have watched. I am catching up to your more recent shows.
You guys are entertaining to watch and give a professional air to your vidcast delivery.
I do have one question. Am I right that you use 3 cameras to produce the vidcast?

Parcero said:

I like this production guys, good job, the only thing about this long video is that there's no way to jump to a later part in the video (you can but it takes time to load, yes I know it is high def video and lengthly so it takes time to load and you can't fast forward until it loads), for instance, I came to watch the review on the camcorder but had to watch the whole review of the ipod which I wasn't interested on. My constructive criticism goes on that, probably separate videos per each device would be better. Now, aside from that you guys do a great job. and as for the comment above I go with 2 Cameras, The main camera for the long shot which is used to do the close-ups as well and the one they use to make the close up on the devices. Did I get that right?.. :) Good job guys again!

LU said:

Wow Torgo what a dick!!!!!!!
People like you are so internet typical, I bet all you do is sit on your fat ass in front of your computer (in your underwear eating Cheetos) dogging people left and right just to make yourself feel better about your pathetic, meaningless life!!!
How about appreciating the fact that these people put together a professional looking segment (Which is not easy to do!!) and provided a great review that both techno heads and house wife's can get something out of!! Oh that's right I forgot your the internet moron.
Nice job guys keep it up !!!!

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Episode 183 - Podcast Expo

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Revolabs Website
Labrats.tv
TechSmith (Camtasia) website
Ustream.tv
Smidgits.com
Bias Website
Sound Ideas Website



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Arizona Steve said:

I don't understand why so many people want to make podcasts. I've tried it and it's really hard to do.

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