New Week Cast

New Podcast Tech Junkie Week Cast 3 enjoy.

Tech Junkie Day Cast 2

Tech Junkie Day cast 2 is up goto the Podcast feed and download it. Enjoy

Sorry....

Sorry I've been really busy today and didn't get to write as much as I wanted to I had a story planned about giving up cable in favor for youtube and Joost and other internet based video, but today got hectic quick, but I do have a new laptop coming next week!

Day Update

Just a quick day update to keep everyone in the know. Gaim Linux instant messenger has been renamed to pidgin, after threats by AOL they had to change their trademark. Also Blu-Ray is outselling HD DVD. I actually thought that HD-DVD would beat Blu-Ray. I have a feeling though that most of those sales are from 007 Casino Royale.

I think it’s dumb that Gaim was forced to change their name. They used the name Gaim before AOL dubbed AIM, so if anyone should be backing down it should be AOL. I personally think targeting an open-source organization like Gaim is of bad taste anyway.

Sony has never had great success with formats. Look at Betamax. Look at UMD, so my guess is Blu-Ray isn’t going to be all that successful but I’ll reserve my judgment. Like I mentioned I think that HD-DVD needs a few more big titles to start to catch on. HD-DVD already has a big advantage; it’s cheaper in every aspect.

I’d also like to mention about Internet radio. If you haven’t heard about the Internet radio case please visit saveinternet.com and send an e-mail to your senator.

Day Cast

A new Tech Junkie Day Cast has been uploaded.

The go generation

I’m always interested in technologies and where they are going. I remember when laptops where getting just as powerful as desktops. People where dropping their desktops in favor for laptops. I remember when people started dropping their landlines for cell phones. Because cell phones went down in price and the quality and reception dramatically improved. So my question is what are we going to move to next? Obviously people thought that we would replace our laptops for handheld devices but we realized that, that these devices where just simply too small to work on effectively for some tasks. Maybe the answer is a new portable device by Intel. Maybe the future is in these new smart phone devices. Maybe the answer is the iPhone. There’s no doubt that if UMPC’s ever become affordable, they will claim a large part of the laptop market. So what’s next?

Some changes

I'm making a couple small changes and one really big one! I'm now going to put podcasts on the blog and you can get them via RSS http://techjunkie.podbean.com/ . Unfortunatly Im limited on space on this account so you will only be able to get the 6 latest podcasts at this source. The rest will be pushed back into the archive which has no RSS and requires you to download it manually.

The next big announcement is
The podcast is going to be split now. We are still going to have a 20min podcast on the weekend with Jeff and its going to be called the Tech Junkie Week Cast. But now a couple times a week Im going to produce a short podcast with just me covering a few quick stories to keep you updated, this will be called the Tech Junkie Day Cast.

I hope to reach to a larger of audience with the new blog and podcast integration and multiple podcasts, my goal is to reach the average on the go consumer and keep them informed of the ever changing technologies.