All posts by Andy McCaskey

Gazelle: Recycle your Gadgets for Cash

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Andy  McCaskey interviews the Anthony Scarsella, Chief Gadget Officer of gazelle.com, a user friendly website offering reverse online shopping to resell or recycle your used electronics.
You probably have a drawer full of gadgets that could have some real cash value. You can find out quickly and easily, with Gazelle – without the risks of on-line auctions or in person cash exchanges for your old electronics.

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Tour of the TPN Live Studio Booth at CES2011

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Behind the Scenes

With almost every interview slot filled, our audience did not have a chance to get a view of the entire operation of the booth during most of CES2011. In this segment, we take a break between guests, and you can get a good idea of the scope of the Tech Podcast Network studio booth in South Hall.

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Ever Wonder About SD Cards ? This Might Surprise You

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The common SD memory card has been around for a number of years: conveniently sized storage, plenty of capacity. Unfortunately, familiarity breeds ignorance, and a lot of consumers end up with the wrong product for their device.   Alisa Hicks of the SD Association points out that many product performance issues with respect to SD cards could be solved simply by reading the equipment manual and then making an informed buying decision, instead of grabbing the latest bargain-bin price buster and pushing it into the slot.

SD memory cards come in a variety of speed classes and three different physical sizes: SD, miniSD, and microSD. The SD Association has tutorial videos and consumer information on their site, to help you get the right product for your device.

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Free Mobile Digital TV with a USB Adapter – At Interstate Speeds

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If you thought that the WinTV adapters from Hauppauge were only a convenience when traveling once your reached the hotel room, or a way to keep up with the game from a coffee shop where there aren’t TV’s tuned to a local station, you need to take a fresh look (as a passenger, of course) at Mobile Digital TV. In motion.

For less than $70, you can get a USB plug in adapter that converts your Windows laptop into a Digital TV that can receive broadcasts in a moving vehicle while in traffic, on a trip or on the open road.

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Live CES2011- Killing Wifi Dead Spots and Exploring Boxee Box

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Regardless of your home installation skill, you will have some dead spots in wifi coverage. The new D-Link base station with steerable beam antennas virtually eliminates these zones where coverage drops out. D-Link’s Steve Stanzione steps through the fundamentals of wifi access points and answers questions on placement within the home.

Part 2 of the interview is a close up look at the D-Link Boxee Box – the connectors, the remote, and some of the behind the scenes stories on why D-Link chose to add some features, and leave out others.

Not to be lost in the shuffle, the new product line from D-Link aimed at home and small business security have some cool features for monitoring your home and property.

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Live-CES2011- Femtocells Extend Wireless Coverage Inside Your Home

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Regardless of where you live in the country, it’s a good bet that you might have some severe coverage problems for your cellphone in your home. Our CES guests from the Femtoforum explain a solution. Cell tower placement and home construction materials can generate wireless dead zones. Femtocells allow you to increase the reliability of your wireless service by using you internet connection for backhaul of the cellular signal. A femtocell at home eliminates the variability of cell service, and generally can handle up to four connections from the home.

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Pure Contour Internet WiFi Connected Radio Includes FM, iPhone Dock

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Internet Radio has grown up with this internet connected radio with iPhone and iPad dock from Pure. When you are using the internet radio features to listen to one of the  just over 17,000 internet radio stations available, you can slide in the docking drawer for a smooth appearance. To play from your iPhone or iPod, touch to slide the drawer out.  Pure is just moving into the US market, out of a very successful base in the UK and other regions of the world. In fact, Pure is the biggest digital radio manufacturer (WiFi and LAN) in the world. They also include FM broadcast for local stations.

At CES2011, Pure also launched Flow Songs, which allows you to purchase music direct from your radio- using Shazaam technology.

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Algebra or Mortgage ? A Graphing Calculator Makes Things Clear

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It may be  for home work or working up the finance package for a home. And now it’s in full color !

Either way, the Casio Graphing calculator line that has been upgraded and introduced at CES 2011 is a sure winner. Mike Reiners notes that Casio was the innovator of the graphing calculator over 25 years ago. Mike is a full time teacher in Minnesota, and comes up with some novel ideas to challenge his students, using the capabilities of the graphing calculator. The secret to the long battery power of the unit gives you over 140 hours of capacity on 4 AAA batteries.

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Press It and Forget It – The iTatch Solution

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Scared that that expensive iDevice might take the plunge from your apartment patio to the street six stories below ? Press it and forget it – the largest suction cup on the market attached to a lanyard that you wear around your neck.

No joke – you’ll see in the demo that it stands up to some strong abuse. Price class $30 for iPad, $16 for iPhone

Stick one on your ereader so it won’t fall off your lap when you fall asleep. Put another on your smart phone so you never drop it again.

Get it now at itatch.com.

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Thin Is In: Aigo Ultra Portable Thin Mouse

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One centimeter in height, the Storage Mouse from Aigo includes a micro SD card in a very smart package. Laser pointer included, with Bluetooth connection. Price point $30. Soon to be launched, a two finger mouse that includes a numeric keypad that’s ideal for the use of Skype-out, permitting dialing just like a mobile phone.

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