The Tech Addicts Podcast Gareth Myles

Gareth and Ted chat about being a YouTuber, Logitech MX Keys Mechanical, Microsoft's plans for the CoPilot + PCs at the Surface event, screenshooting your personal information, UGREEN's latest Portable station, Motorola Moto G85, 6TB 2.5-inch portable hard drives and the HMD T21.

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Ian Barton on UptimeKuma

Worried that your emby or Plex server has stopped working? UptimeKuma is a monitoring application which you can set up to watch over your computers and services and send you warnings if it can't assess the app or server. Monitoring uptime for HTTP(s) / TCP / HTTP(s) Keyword / HTTP(s) Json Query / Ping / DNS Record / Push / Steam Game Server / Docker Containers Fancy, Reactive, Fast UI/UX Notifications via Telegram, Discord, Gotify, Slack, Pushover, Email (SMTP), and 90+ notification services 20-second intervals, Multi Languages, Multiple status pages, Map status pages to specific domains, Ping chart, Certificate info, Proxy support, 2FA support


Banters: Knocking out a Quick Bant

A feature on how to do simple desk-down YouTube review videos.

Ted's Logitech MX Keys Mechanical


News, Mews and Views

Microsoft Surface event: the 6 biggest announcements (we’ll come to Recall later in the show)


Hardline on the hardware

Miss the feel of classic audio kit? Tivoli Songbook and Songbook Max bring retro knobs and sliders to modern Bluetooth speakers and DAB radios

UGREEN's latest Portable Charging solution debuts to deliver 48,000mAh of power at up to 300W

It took 8 years to launch a 6TB 2.5-inch portable HDD up from 5TB - but at least it is not that expensive - at £162.99

HMD T21 tablet debuts - it’s a Nokia T21 clone! - £229


The Wearables Watch


Phone Zone

Mobile industry is quietly preparing for the biggest change to your smartphone in a decade - iSIM will hasten the end of SIM cards and allow networks to preload plans on devices

Motorola Moto G85 shown in first render images with modernised design and new display - Moto G84 Specs (£194 at AmazonUK)


The Name of the Game

Ayn's new gaming handheld looks like a PSP, and it might just fill the hole in your heart left by Sony's best portable - A Vita moreso than the PSP

Anbernic announces a new 1:1 handheld that will let you relive your Game Boy glory days

Microsoft looking to purchase Steam

Sony’s Futuristic Gear - including a Gaming Controller - YouTube Sony Showcase Video


Flap your trap about an App

'The Entire History of You': How a lone developer created free app that records everything you do on your PC — and allows you to rewind and search for anything and then there’s New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC all copying Apple’s Time Capsule?


Google Gallows & Chrome Coroner

New 'Add to Chromebook' badge and tabbed PWAs are coming in the meantime Turn Websites into Desktop Apps Yourself Instead of Waiting for an App - See the badge at this Pixlr example website

You can now hum to find a song on YouTube Music for Android - Users can also sing the tune or even play it on an instrument

Gmail moving low-priority emails to refreshed 'Updates' inbox on Android, iOS

Google Set to Make Its Largest Acquisition Ever, Threatening Microsoft - What HubSpot Does Now - Another View


Bargain Basement: Best UK deals and tech on sale we have spotted

Sony WH-1000XM5 £254 from £379

Verbatim GNC-200 200W GaN Charger with 2 x USB-C PD 100 W / 1 x USB-C PD 65 W / 1 x USB QC 3.0 - £65.83

Kindles all on Sale again - the top-end Scribe with over £100 off so £304

UGREEN UK to European Plug Adapter PD 30W Travel Adapter with

Gareth and Ted play with Linux Mint, the Arc Browser and chat about AI in Ukraine, AI in Jet fighters, weak passwords, a smart rings from Amazfit, Nintendo Switch 2, the Asus ROG Ally 2 and HTC's new phone.

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Banters: Knocking out a Quick Bant

Linux Mint experience


News, Mews and Views

A Woman Is Photographed In An Intimate Moment By Her Robot Vacuum, The Images End Up On Facebook

No more 12345: devices with weak passwords to be banned in UK

NASA achieves 25Mbps over a 140 million-mile gap

The latest 400 hp water engine: better than all hydrogen and the end of electricity

Ukraine unveils AI-generated foreign ministry spokesperson

An AI-controlled test jet fighter has taken to the skies


Hardline on the hardware

FiiO has squeezed in 20 balanced armature speakers inside its new custom in-ear monitors for 3D printed hi-res audio bliss

Astell & Kern takes on the Sony Walkman with all-new Activo brand and P1 player

Matter 1.3 adds support for more appliances and EV chargers


The Wearables Watch

Amazfit Helio Ring pricing and US release date officially announced

Razer to pay out over $1 million in refunds over its misleading (and hideous) Zephyr face mask

Black Shark GS3: Smartwatch from the Xiaomi ecosystem launches at a low price with GPS, navigation and 5 ATM water resistance

Samsung Galaxy Watches (and the Galaxy Ring) could get an AI-powered heart health upgrade


Phone Zone

The ghost of HTC might just have another phone in the works


The Name of the Game

Asus ROG Ally 2 confirmed

Nintendo Switch 2 leak seemingly confirms magnetic Joy-Con and display upgrade

Breaking Bad The Last Batch trailer


Flap your trap about an App

The long-awaited Arc browser finally launches on Windows, and it's well worth a try - Hands-On

This awesome browser extension will give you the Microsoft Copilot sidebar inside Google Chrome


Google Gallows & Chrome Coroner

YouTube TV starting to roll out Multiview on Android phones, tablets

Chrome's Gemini address bar shortcut rolls out

Google Play Books curiously puts audiobook previews on YouTube

Window-Snapping and Overview is here for ChromeOS 124

8 best Chromebook extensions for everyone from novices to power users

Chromebooks may soon offer Spatial Audio

Google Chrome is preparing its own version of Android's Circle to Search


Bargain Basement: Best UK deals and tech on sale we have spotted

SABRENT USB C HDMI Adapter Multi Port USB Hub - Save 32% promo code: WF4HVDHI 
Now £6.49 (or something like that)  Was: £9.99

Kindle Scribe (64GB) £304.99 from £409.99 26% off

AnkerWork M650 Wireless Lavalier Microphone - £139.99: £249.99

OnePlus Pad with Free Keyboard £379 from £449 (+ Keyboard value is £149, so the the kit was £598)

Kingston DataTraveler Exodia DTX/256GB Flash Drive USB 3.2 Gen 1 - save 29% Now £13.49

Was: £18.99 

Samsung Galaxy S24, S24+ and S24 Ultra now with various discounts


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Ted and Gareth bang on about Immich, home made weather stations, emulators on Chromebooks, a poetry camera, Sony Reon Pocket 5 wearable air conditioner, Marshall headphones, Blackview phones, the new old Bang & Olufsen CD player, the upcoming Xperia 1 VI, the sexy Moondrop MIAD 01 and young kids with phones.

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Turn your Kindle into a clock and weather station

I've now followed the instructions and got it working. For anyone else trying, it doesn't explain that the "Save" button in the last step is the one at the bottom of the screen.


Banters: Knocking out a Quick Bant

Immich experience


News, Mews and Views

Quarter of UK’s three- and four-year-olds own a smartphone, data shows


Hardline on the hardware

Sony’s wearable air conditioner is the first step towards a real Dune stillsuit

World's first 'Poetry Camera' uses AI-power to turn photos into poems

You can now translate sign language automatically with these amazing Raspberry Pi glasses

Your credit card may soon light up with an OLED screen

PiDock 400 turns Raspberry Pi into a 13-inch notebook

Marshall drops two next-gen Bluetooth headphones with a major 100-hour battery life and minor price tags

Bang & Olufsen Makes a Compelling Case to Collect CDs Again


The Wearables Watch

How to enable ECG and Blood Pressure features on non-Galaxy Phones - APK, ADB, Mod Alert!


Phone Zone

This upcoming Android phone is bringing back the headphone jack in style
Dual ports heres

Easy Call Integration for Chromebooks and Pixel Phones - like Phone Link for Windows etc.

Blackview Hero 10 will be the world's cheapest foldable when it launches next month

The Xperia 1 VI could be coming soon as Sony announces Xperia event


The Name of the Game

Cheaper Evercade retro consoles will arrive in July

The best Chromebook emulators - RetroArch, Dolphin, PPSSPP, John NESS, Eclipse, M64Plus FZ

Exodos


Flap your trap about an App

10 incredibly useful programs that every PC should have

Microsoft's AI tool can turn photos into realistic videos of people talking and singing

AirChat is the latest app trying to make 'social audio' cool again

TikTok Notes is a new Instagram rival, and it's rolling out now - not in the UK yet


Google Gallows & Chrome Coroner

Google Drive web app is getting a dark theme - hurrah! It arrived at last!

Google Chrome removes side panel button in favour of pinning

Google is launching a paid version of Chrome

Google is feeling pretty pumped about a new way of showing you ads on YouTube

Google Play accidentally reveals the 'Cubes' feed, a 'shortcut' to apps & games

Google Podcasts' export tool is rolling out worldwide ahead of June shutdown


Bargain Basement: Best UK deals and tech on sale we have spotted

Presonus Eris 4.5, Studio Monitor Speakers, Pair, 4.5 Inch, Gen 1 - £109.99 Was: £136.27

MSI Claw £200 off, now £599 at Curry’s

MERCUSYS 8-Port Gigabit Desktop Switch with 7-Port PoE+, PoE Power Budget 65W, compatible with 802.3af/at PDs - £34.99 RRP: £44.99 

SoundCore Motion X500 £99 from £170

Anker USB C Hub, Dual-Display USB-C Hub (10-in-1), 4K@30Hz HDMI Display, 1080p VGA, 100W Max Power Delivery, 5 Gbps USB-C sold by Anker FBA - £19.99 RRP: £45.99

Razer Edge with Kishi V2 Pro Controller £289 from £449


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Gareth and Ted chat about mechanical keyboards, compact camera, the Marshall Action III, viewing photos in Windows, Reddit's future, a CoPilot key, the Moto Edge 50 UItra and much more!
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Marshall Acton III in the house!
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Matthew Jones on De-Convergance (Ted mentioned on the last show in relation to FiiO’s PMP) I think you are right on the whole de-convergence thing Ted.
I think the whole convergence experiment was great fun - and we’ve taken it a long way - but it has arguably has culminated in a “Jack of all trades/master of none” peak, where the separate components are prevented from reaching their full potential, or doing things that might improve their individual capabilities, if doing so doesn’t compliment the vision of the converged device.
If you are right, and we start to focus more on standalone products, I think it can only be a good thing - and certainly more fun for the tech community!
 
Banters: Knocking out a Quick Bant
Image viewer for Windows:
Irfanview (Ted)
ImageGlass (Gareth)
Google News Delayed Stories
News, Mews and Views
Reddit is now a publicly traded company
Compact cameras are making a comeback as demand for Nikon Coolpix soars by over 8,000%
Gen Z Are Ditching the Camera App and Using Vintage Digital Cameras Instead 
Three UK Sees Average Mobile Data Usage Per User Hit 30GB
X is working on NSFW Communities for adult content
Hardline on the hardware
Everything Microsoft announced at its March Surface event
Windows AI PC manufacturers must add a Copilot key, says Microsoft
KeysMe Mars 03 Wireless Custom Mechanical Keyboard
Yaw Motion Simulator 
Edifier QR65 Desktop Active Monitor Speakers debut with LDAC and extra TurboGaN fast-charging feature £299?
Phone Zone
Motorola is reportedly bringing back its flagship Ultra smartphone for the Edge 50 flagship lineup
There will be three flagship Pixel 9 phones this year
The Name of the Game
This mechanical keyboard will bring you back to the Commodore days - £85 at AmazonUK - C64
Flap your trap about an App
Turn your Kindle into a clock and weather station
Google Gallows & Chrome Coroner
Lenovo’s tiny Chromebox Micro Can be powered by a PowerBank for portable use
Google Drive website is getting a dark theme
Bargain Basement: Best UK deals and tech on sale we have spotted
LISEN Tablet Stand 360° Adjustable Rotating Tablet Holder - £18.99 + 10% + 20 promo code NEXOD4X9 = £13.29 off Was: £25.99 
Logitech MX Keys Advanced £99.99 from £119.99 (and more before) + 5/m £20
Anker USB C Plug - £9.99 Was: £15.99 
SoundCore Motion 300 BT Speaker with BassUp, 30W Stereo, IPX7, £79.99 from £89.99 plus 20% Voucher, so £63.99
Behringer MONITOR2USB Headphone Amplifier -  £67.73 Was: £133.56
Marshall Major IV On Ear Bluetooth, Wireless Earphones, 80+ Hours Wireless playtime - £78.99 from £129.99
Sony PS-LX310BT Bluetooth Turntable with built-in Phono Pre-Amp -  £199.00 Was: £232.00
Nothing Phone (2) - 256GB + 12GB RAM £483 from £629
 
 
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Gareth Myles and Ted Salmon host a St. Patrick's Day Tech Addicts podcast discussing Voyager 1's latest "poke" from NASA and its minimal computer capacity. They talk about LocalSend, a cross-platform file-sharing tool, and consider diving into Linux. The episode also covers a range of tech topics from Samsung's new phones, a potential TikTok ban, to the latest in wearables and AI advancements. To be sure.

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AJ Santos on Voyager 1 Latest

The Nasa team recently sent a "poke" to prompt V1's flight data system (FDS) and received a signal that differed from past attempts. A DSN engineer helped decode this signal, which may contain clues to the source of the issue. There is hope! The computers aboard the Voyager probes each have 69.63 kilobytes of memory, total. That’s about enough to store one average internet jpeg file. The probes’ scientific data is encoded on old-fashioned digital 8-track tape machines. Once it's been transmitted to Earth, the spacecraft have to write over old data in order to have enough room for new observations. The Voyager machines are capable of executing about 81,000 instructions per second. The smartphone that is likely sitting in your pocket is probably about 7,500 times faster than that. They transmit their data back to Earth at 160 bits per second. A slow dial-up connection can deliver at least 20,000 bits per second.

…and Kurt Kaufman on NASA Restores Communication with Ailing Voyager 1 (but it can’t live forever)!

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Ian Barton on LocalSend (14-minute YouTube Video)

A Cross-Platform, Open Source Alternative to AirDrop and Quick Share.

Works nicely on my Pixel, Chromebook and Linux computers. It's supposed to work with iPhone and Windows, but I haven't got any of these systems to test it on.

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Banters: Knocking out a Quick Bant

Streaming woes… farewell Netflix and Prime?

Gareth bought a new phone and the iRiver H140 - RockBox

Samsung Galaxy S8 - Samsung Galaxy S24


News, Mews and Views

Android apps on Windows 11 will stop working next year

TikTok ban Passes the House: Here's everything we know

Over 15,000 Roku accounts hacked, information sold for pennies

Microsoft confirms March 21 event for new Surface hardware and Copilot AI

Windows 10 still has double the number of users of Windows 11

Did you know: This is the highest-paid tech CEO in the USA


Hardline on the hardware

Casa Pop-Up Desk - Keyboard, Wireless Touchpad, Stand

New dressing robot can 'mimic' the actions of care workers

Fiio's new portable music player doubles as a Bluetooth desktop amplifier

These super stylish designer wireless speakers by Elac have HDMI and a phono stage for your turntable, too

NZXT Relay SwitchMix 


The Wearables Watch

Pixel Watch Steps are inaccurate vs Galaxy Watch


Phone Zone

Asus Zenfone 11 Ultra launches with huge display and $899 price

Motorola just announced two new budget phones, the Moto G Power and Moto 5 5G - Including Qi Charging Ready for Qi2

Samsung's Galaxy A55 and A35 are official with 6.6" OLED screens, focus on security

Samsung Galaxy A35 vs A55 - A34 vs A35 - A54 vs A55


The Name of the Game

Nintendo strikes a massive blow to the emulator scene for Android


Flap your trap about an App

Microsoft says users can now uninstall OneDrive in Windows for good - Next Edge…

X will launch a YouTube-like video app on Samsung TV and Amazon TV

'TikTok Photos' surfaces as an app exclusively for sharing photos (assuming they’re not banned!)


Google Gallows & Chrome Coroner

Google is preparing an 'A

Gareth Myles and Ted Salmon are back with tips on decrypting Audible books with Libation, concerns about Voyager 1's failing communications, and latest tech news covering from wooden satellites and mass-produced 1TB microSD cards to affordable smartphones and innovative wearables.

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Ian Barton on Libation

Downloading and Decrypting Your Audible Books. I have a lot of books on Audible. I would like to download them in a format that is decrypted in case Audible goes "Mammaries skywards" in the future, or is taken over by another company that demands you pay for all your books again. I came across a free program called Libation. You can view it on GitHub and it can be installed on most operating systems. It has all sorts of filtering options and will download a postage stamp size icon. Note you can only download books that you have purchased from Audible.

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AJ Santos on What’s Going On With Voyager 1? Future Looks Uncertain

Voyager 1 is the furthest any human object has ever gone from Earth. It is now over 15 billion miles from our planet, flying through interstellar space. Since its launch in August 1977, the spacecraft has remained in contact with Earth, but over the last several months, that communication has become nonsensical. Are we about to lose the second-longest operating spacecraft in human history?

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Banters: Knocking out a Quick Bant

Streaming woes… farewell Netflix and Prime?


News, Mews and Views

Super-DVDs

The FTC bans AI impersonations of individuals — and unveils greater powers to win stolen money back

Japan to launch world’s first wooden satellite to combat space pollution

Forget about eSIM, this multi-operator SIM could make swapping mobile networks as easy as ABC — but it is not available for smartphones right now

Samsung is now mass-producing 1TB microSD cards, sales will begin in Q3 '24


Hardline on the hardware

ZTE Shows off its 3D-Capable Nubia Tablet at MWC

TCL NXTPAPER 14 is a massive 2.4K tablet perfect for comfortable reading

This £9, 1.7-inch wide computer is almost 10x more powerful than a Raspberry Pi Pico

The 12-inch Honor Pad 9 now available in the UK and Ireland (One single, measly update to A14, eventually)

Samsung Galaxy Book 4 now launched globally


The Wearables Watch

Oppo introduces Air Glass 3 XR prototype at MWC 2024

The Galaxy Ring will provide longer battery life than Samsung’s smartwatches


Phone Zone

Infinix demos colour-changing back panels for phones with E Ink technology

Motorola showed us its phone that bends around the wrist

This 28,000mAh power bank happens to be an Android phone

Moto G04 costs just £89, and it's a super 6.6-inch smartphone - Specs


Flap your trap about an App

Microsoft Copilot's Notebook feature ships to general availability

Windows 11 could soon deliver updates that don’t need a reboot

The Sticky Notes app just got the biggest update since Microsoft shipped Windows 11, and no it has nothing to do with AI-powered features or Copilot this time


Google Gallows & Chrome Coroner

Google announces Gemma, its open models for AI research

Google designers explain why Chromebook keyboards have lowercase letters

Google Chrome will soon protect your home network from cyberattacks

You can now mark up your Google Docs with handwritten notes on Android devices

New Chromebook feature will allow mouse movement with keyboard keys


Hark Back

iRiver PMP 140


Bargain Basement: Best UK deals and tech on sale we have spotted

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