HOUR 1:
Tech News & Commentary
The “Into Tomorrow” team posted the following message: “For those of you interested, a new iPhone is coming out on June 24th. We have the specs and details for you on our website. What do you think of the iPhone 4? Share your thoughts with us! ”
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“Wireless Update” Weekly Feature with Chuck Hamby
from Verizon Wireless
The “Into Tomorrow” team discussed the latest apps that they have been playing with recently.
- For Android, Dave recommends: Astro File Manager
- For iPhone/iPad: Chris recommends: eBuddy
- For BlackBerry, Mark recommends: crunchSMS
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John in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada listening on Sirius Ch.108 asked: Do they make a device that would block a GPS signal? They put a GPS device in my truck and it snitches on me every time I go a little too fast.”
You can indeed buy a GPS jammer, but maybe it’s helping to keep you safe, and we’re assuming that it’s your company that’s keeping an eye on your driving, so be careful before you jam it or rip it out. Many companies, like Haas GPS, provide services to companies to help keep track of their company vehicles and other assets.
You can have a very simple jammer that looks like an antenna with a cigarette lighter plug attached to it. You just plug it in and you’re in business. If the jammer is within 25 feet on the GPS unit, the signal should be jammed.
Prices vary, but you can buy the cigarette lighter model for about $130. There are bigger models for as low as $27.
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Guest in this hour:
Laura Fay, CEO – HAPPYneuron
HAPPYneuron brings you Brain Fitness through entertaining games that are fun and developed to challenge your brain.
Joe in Eerie, Pennsylvania listening on the radio asked: “I cannot pick up local TV and radio stations. My reception is poor. It’s better upstairs in the house but downstairs is terrible. I need help. I can’t afford the big cable bills right now because I’m retired.”
Many local stations are broadcasting High Def over the air for free.
Jason, from our staff, looked on Newegg.com and found a couple of different antennas for you to look into. One would be RCA’s ANT 301 with shipping it will cost you around $20, and has two different antennas that will allow you to pick up both VHF and UHF signals.
Or you can also look at DTV-PAL from Dish Network. It offers all the same options as the RCA, but also includes a DVR package. It is also however a little more expensive retailing at $299.
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William in Southwest Michigan sent us the following email and said: “You criticized Steve Jobs for choosing not to use Flash on Apple’s mobile devices. If your argument is that Flash is a “standard” and just needs improvement, recall who is responsible for doing that. Adobe. If Adobe wants to see Flash everywhere, they could offer Apple a license to develop their own native Flash player. I’m sure Apple could re-write Flash in Objective C and adapt it for touch-sensors. But Adobe hasn’t done that in the three years since the iPhone came out without Flash. And they seem incapable of doing the work themselves. Perhaps, you should be criticizing Adobe for not improving Flash for anything but Windows. Begin by asking how many programmers work on the Mac version.”
We did, in fact, criticize Apple for not supporting Flash on their iOS, as the portable operating system has come to be known. The security vulnerabilities that Apple seems unable to accept don’t seem to be causing any problems to the Android developers. Flash is working very well on our new EVO, for example.
We are not the ones who have made Flash into a virtual standard on the web. That was done by the programmers and web developers who chose to use it. Were it not for Flash, there might never have been the explosion of streaming video content we have today. We’re old enough to recall the bad old days when you had to download a “compatible player” in order to see online video. Our point is not that Apple is bad. Apple makes fine products. They make good decisions, and they make ones that are bad, in our opinion at least.
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Consumer Reports: “The Latest Headphones” Feature with Eileen McCooey
Michael in Temecula, California listening to our podcast and TiVo is calling about a site that allows you to view websites. recommending “Cool Iris.”
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This Week’s Prizes for Our Listeners
Amazon: HydroRight Smarter Flush Technology Converts any size toilet to Dual-Flush AND Anti-Siphon Fill Valve!
Cooper Lighting: Several Might D Light – Rechargeable LED worklight
iMPROV Electronics: Several Boogie Board Paperless LCD Writing Tablets
Joby: GorillaTorch Original – Hands-free flashlights with flexible, bendable legs and magnetic feet