ZATS: Episode 5
Episode 5 of ZA Tech Show sees a well fed crew of Simon Dingle, Brett Haggard, Jon Tullett, Duncan McLeod and Ben Kelly discussing the following:
- The break-up of Motorola
- Seagate’s threats surrounding solid-state drives
- USB 3.0 and its rival Firewire
- Microsoft’s ‘Albany’
- Other online applications including Photoshop and Picnic
- Google Talk’s new web widget
- The next round of voting for the OOXML document format
- New search-engine Searchme.com
- The future of online search and social-bookmarking
- Sony’s optional removal of bloatware from its laptops
- The new 9″ Eee PC from Asus
- New chip technology from AMD and Intel (and Brett’s remarkable knowledge of silicon)
- Software nostalgia (Simon and Duncan can tell you all about Space Quest. Seriously)
So make with the downloads. It’s free.
The direct download link is giving a 404 File not found error
Hey Boerewors
Thanks for letting us know about the error. It’s sorted out now.
You can also listen to ZATS by clicking on ‘play’ at the top of this post or via RSS in iTunes and other aggregators. The direct download is provided for die-hards who want to download an audio file without subscribing or using our embedded player
Sadly, thanks to my rural location, a download is my only option. My connection during the day only allows me to listen to your informative diatribe using streaming if I have the patience to piece together snippets of sound 5 minutes apart (and I dont have that kind of patience).
Hence I download it on my ailing 0-2 bar GPRS cell connection, then listen to it.
I find your conversations about broadband and connectivity in each of your episodes particularly frustrating as I cannot access any of those technologies, not even bad versions of them.
You made an interesting comment about waving a product in a customer’s face and then telling them they cannot buy it in one of your shows. I find this particularly true of my own situation, where I am bombarded with non stop advertising from Telkom in my mail, email etc and then told I cannot access any of it.
It seems so silly that they have me on their database as NOT being able to get ADSL/Wimax, yet they still send me the advertising AND phone me to offer it to me. Do they even use a customer database?
It drives me insane.
Enough ranting. Continue the good work
Boerewors, where are you based?
The direct download is also useful to copy onto my MP3 player, and listen to the podcast while driving to work.
Good work guys, this is a fun and interesting way for me to keep up with what’s going on in the Tech world. I’m also particularly interested in the Free/Open Source stuff, so more of that would be great!
I live in a town called Harburg, it is in the same area as Wartburg/Dalton. It is midway between PMB and Greytown.
It is 74km from PMB, 65km outside Iburst range. Telkom will not upgrade my exchange to ADSL and dont have any Wimax towers in the area. Vodacom will not enable any 3G in the towers in the area, saying that the 3G signal does not propagate well in rural areas. MTN has no signal here at all.
Ah. You chaps missed the game of all games - CONQUESTS OF CAMELOT. King Arthur (or Lancelot?) chasing after 15 green Hercules pixels of hottie. From the Kings Quest guys. Nothin’ beats it…