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Category: podcast

  • Podcast 28: iFixit.com Gadget Teardowns – CEO Kyle Wiens

    iFixit.com is famous for its detailed photography and text descriptions of gadget tear downs (mostly Apple products). They were the group, for example, that discovered the 2nd generation iPod had an unused Bluetooth radio in it. They took apart the Palm Pre and its TouchStone induction charger this past weekend. I spoke with its CEO and founder Kyle Wiens to talk about iFixit, their tear downs and their new user contributed tear downs.

    http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown

    This podcast is 26 minutes and 47 seconds long.

    – You can listen to the podcast right now from your web browser by using the embedded player above.
    – You can also subscribe to the podcast in iTunes or this RSS feed.
    – You can also point your smartphone’s browser at mobiletoday.podbean.com to listen to or download the MP3 file over the air to your phone.

  • Podcast 27: Celio Redfly Terminal for Windows Mobile – Conversation with Colin Kelly Jr.

    Although I’ve been a vocal critic of the Celio Redfly dumb terminal device for Windows Mobile smartphones (I own the original C8 model), Celio’s Marketing Communications Manager, Colin Kelly Jr., was gracious enough to accept my invitation to talk about Celio’s various Redfly products for this podcast. We discussed a couple of upcoming products too including:

    – Redfly Mobile Dock
    – Redfly for BlackBerry
    – Redfly for Android

    The podcast is 40 minutes and 30 seconds long.

    – You can listen to the podcast right now from your web browser by using the embedded player above.
    – You can also subscribe to the podcast in iTunes or this RSS feed.
    – You can also point your smartphone’s browser at mobiletoday.podbean.com to listen to or download the MP3 file over the air to your phone.

  • Blast from the Podcast Past: Podcast 4 with Ilium Software

    I just found out that one of my long time favorite mobile software development firms has a Twitter account. You can follow Ilium Software at…

    @IliumSoftware

    Ilium’s Ellen Craw and Marc Tassin were one of the very first podcast guests on the MobileViews Podcast (then called the MobileAppsToday Podcast). You can listen to it using the embedded podcast player above.

  • Podcast 26: iHound Software – Track a Lost or Stolen iPhone

    I had the opportunity to speak with iHound Software’s VP of Business Development (and one of the firm’s founders) about their iHound for iPhone app that can help you recover a lost or stolen iPhone. The app normally costs $3.99 but is currently on sale in the iTunes App Store for $2.99. Purchasing the app includes 6 months of tracking service via their website. The annual cost for the service is $9.99.

    Gary announced on the podcast that they just started providing code to enable other applications to use their service. This means, for example, that if a game is iHound enabled, if someone uses that app on your iPhone, it will broadcast its current position.

    – You can listen to the podcast right now from your web browser by using the embedded player above.
    – You can also subscribe to the podcast in iTunes or this RSS feed.
    – You can also point your smartphone’s browser at mobiletoday.podbean.com to listen to or download the MP3 file over the air to your pho

  • Mini-Podcast 9: LiveScribe Pulse Smartpen

    The LiveScribe Pulse Smartphone 2GB model I bought arrived a few days ago (There’s also a 1GB model). In this mini-podcast:

    1. I discuss syncing with multiple computers and multiple platforms (Mac OS X & Microsoft Windows)
    2. I provide a short sound recording made with the pen’s built-in microphone (it also comes with a headset that records in stereo).

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    Sample image of notes written using the LiveScribe Pulse Smartpen

    – You can listen to the podcast right now from your web browser by using the embedded player above.
    – You can also subscribe to the podcast in iTunes or this RSS feed.
    – You can also point your smartphone’s browser at mobiletoday.podbean.com to listen to or download the MP3 file over the air to your phone.

  • Mini-Podcast 8: Phone Voice Spam in my Google Voice Account

    I was surprised to see what looks like phone voice spam in the History folder of my Google Voice account.

    googlevoice_phonespam

    I believe these missed phone calls are incoming phone spam because I’m not familiar with the numbers and Google Voice managed to record two brief fragments from the first number in the list above (401-889-9876) from Warwick RI and the last number (786-369-7342) from Miami FL. I’ve attached those two recorded fragments of what sounds like part of a pre-recorded phone voice spam at the end of Mini-Podcast 8.

    – You can listen to the podcast right now from your web browser by using the embedded player above.
    – You can also subscribe to the podcast in iTunes or this RSS feed.
    – You can also point your smartphone’s browser at mobiletoday.podbean.com to listen to or download the MP3 file over the air to your phone.