What's on this week's PC Pro podcast?

sizzling

"Hot Hardware of the Week" 140W TDP. LOL.

By c6ten on 20 Aug 2009

The Sonos is cool, but...

I want to pick upon something you mentioned in your HHotW segment of the podcast. You guys should look at some of the iPhone Apps that already exist. If you don't mind using iTunes, the REMOTE app is awesome. I think to give this a mention as a direct competitor to the Sonos is only fair. I have a multi-room iTunes system running through my media centre, NAS and have ported music all over my house with Apple Airport express, http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/
This in tandem with the iPhone app means my girlfriend and I have access to all our music everywhere in the house from our phones. (Without the cost of Sonos gear!) Awesome eh?

S

By urbanaught on 28 Aug 2009

please speak up

A tongue in cheek suggestion for Hot Hardware of The Week - an amplifier for Mr Fearon's voice. I've listened to the podcast for just over a year now and he is incredibly difficult to hear whereas everyone else comes in loud and clear.

By Fraz_pro on 24 Sep 2009

Audio

I don't know if you've started using a new encoder, but for the last week or two the podcast has been virtually unseekable on my Sansa mp3 player. Seeking backwards or forwards seems like random access now.

By The_Scrote on 27 Sep 2009

We did indeed switch encoders. Thanks for the feedback - I should be able to fix this for next week!

By DarienGS on 30 Sep 2009

Guidelines for linux

There are in fact guidelines for the common linux desktops - GNOME and KDE. The GNOME Human Interface Guidelines are at http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/

And the sign up process to leave a comment is terrible - can you allow openID or something. Horrible form, tell you one thing is wrong and give you the form back with things deleted so you forget them, then refill in things, then get told you can't have spaces in a field ... grrr

By HamishD on 30 Sep 2009

pure evoke flow

where is podcast # 75? doesn't appear in my Pure generated list.

cheers

By floppyowl on 10 Oct 2009

PC Pro iPod podcast

Hi, I downloaded the latest podcast (78) on my PC, however the latest download for my iTunes subscription us still showing as 77. Will 78 be available for iTunes soon?

Thank you.

By cooloox on 16 Oct 2009

iTunes

There does seem to be a problem with the itunes feed as I also still only have last weeks and not the most recent.

By ainsley001 on 16 Oct 2009

Podcast feed fixed

Apologies all for the problems with iTunes feed. Should be fixed now.

By Barry_Collins on 16 Oct 2009

Podcast Problems

I'm subscribed to your excellent podcast through Zencast, until last week the cast downloaded no problems. Last weeks dated the 14th didn't appear till later in the week. This weeks has not yet appeared, except by going direct to your web pages. I presume it may be a similar problem to the ITunes problem.

By bloke1960 on 22 Oct 2009

No podcast so far

Hmm seems to be another problem with the podcast not loading in iTunes

By Moorezo on 22 Oct 2009

Podcast problems

There's no issue with the feed link this week. We've re-pinged iTunes and can only apologise for the delay, but it's out of our hands, I'm afraid.

Barry Collins
Online Editor

By Barry_Collins on 22 Oct 2009

"...yes but..."

"...yes but I've seem actual books!!!"


lol

By retpyrc on 30 Oct 2009

iPhone worms

Just listened to this weeks podcast. For the iPhone worms to affect your phone, you need to install OpenSSH which has to be done by the user. It is not something done by the jailbreaking process. If it is not installed, the worm can't infect the phone.

By james016 on 12 Nov 2009

Thanks for the clarification - I was under the impression the SSH server was exposed as a standard part of the jailbreak process, but I see that you're correct. (I wouldn't know myself, you see... being a good boy I haven't jailbroken my own phone!)

By DarienGS on 12 Nov 2009

Glad to help :)
I do agree with what was said on the podcast though even if I haven't been a good boy. There are some genuinely useful apps on the Cydia store that I would love to see in Apple's App Store.

By james016 on 13 Nov 2009

Dial-up

I'm not sure I agree with Darien re dial-up internet being OK for some functions. It is easy to forget how slow it is, and easy to forget the amount of bling on todays webpages that wasn't used 10 years or so ago. Recently I tried using dial-up to purchase something on my father-in-laws machine. Wow - what a chore. Some webpages took an age to load up simply because of all the gucci coding no-doubt behind them. To get to the point where I actually stuck my details in (which admittedly isn't too bad in itself) I had a couple of time outs. Interestingly using Chrome made the experience a bit better.

By Nodule on 3 Dec 2009

Canoncan

re: podcast 86 10dec and ink cartridges.
Where do you get the idea that Canon cartridges are cheap? Prices quoted in your printer reviews are also cheaper than I can see advertised. For instance, a set of 5 genuine Canon ink tanks for a pixma 4500 are around 50 quid on Amazon, chipped compatibles go for around 12.
I have noticed newer printers appear fussier about the ink quality. I ran an epson 600 for years on compatibles, no real problems. The Canon started blocking days after using a compatible. No permanent damage, genuine ink cleared the heads. Maybe it was a duff brand - time for a comparison test?

By davidwxxx on 10 Dec 2009

The inflatable sheep!

By anthonysjones on 23 Dec 2009

solution to audio levels

Why don't the podcast crew run the podcast wav file through the Levelater 2 to bump up the audio of "soft" voices. I've tested and it is quite impressive.

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/01/08/levelator-
2-0-automagically-makes-your-podcast-sound-better/

By dyagetme1 on 14 Jan 2010

The Levelator

Looks interesting - I'll investigate it for next week. Thanks for the suggestion.

By DarienGS on 15 Jan 2010

Incomplete podcast?

Either my podcast software (DoggCatcher on Android) is playing up or this week's edition (#92) is incomplete - it's only 20MB and it cuts off after 21 minutes :(

By nelviticus on 28 Jan 2010

Same here, only getting the first 20 mins or so.

By james016 on 28 Jan 2010

Incomplete for me as well. I thought it was my iPod at first but listened in my browser and got the same.

About broadband speeds, my parents' house has a terrible connection too. It's always under 1mbps but they live in a built up area, however it's about 3 miles from the exchange. I can't understand the goverments plans fibre when people in this country are still on a connection that can't even stream SD video.

By JBaker on 28 Jan 2010

Incomplete for me as well. I thought it was my iPod at first but listened in my browser and got the same.

About broadband speeds, my parents' house has a terrible connection too. It's always under 1mbps but they live in a built up area, however it's about 3 miles from the exchange. I can't understand the goverments plans fibre when people in this country are still on a connection that can't even stream SD video.

By JBaker on 28 Jan 2010

Podcast 92 terminates after 21 mins!

As per above users. Both via iTunes and your site.

By amh15 on 28 Jan 2010

Just re-downloaded it through iTunes. Now getting the full 36min podcast.

By james016 on 28 Jan 2010

Podcast problems

Apologies for the problems with the podcast. The feed is now fixed, although it may take some time for that to work through the iTunes cogs. You can use the direct link above to download the full show.

Barry Collins
Online Editor

By Barry_Collins on 28 Jan 2010

Comments section suggestion

Seems a bit daft having to scroll to the bottom of the page for the most recent comments, any chance of having reversing the listing of comments so most recent are at the top? Or better would be to have different sections for different shows? Or only comments for the most recent show displayed?

Or am I just being picky?

By mviracca on 30 Jan 2010