Gadget Show Live Competition Winners Announced!!!

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The votes have been counted, the correct entries sorted from the incorrect ones and I can reveal the 10 lucky winners of the Gadget Show Live competition for pairs of tickets to this weekend’s event.

So, without further ado, congratulations to Mohd Imree Azmi, James van den Bergh, Gavin Bond, John Thomson, Steve Hamilton, Shane Day, John Ross, Andy Cook, Sue Fraser and Melanie Clark who’ll all have tickets in the post. If you don’t get them in time, the let me know. Oh, and make sure you come and say hello.

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Tech Digest Podcast #2

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Here’s the second podcast from the team at Tech Digest. This week, we got stuck in to Twitter being bought by Google, Conficker’s no-show, and whether or not it’s reasonable for networks to get upset about Skype on the iPhone.

In the middle section, Dan extolled the joys of the Kaleidescape home cinema system, while I tried to convince him to use a couple of services that boost your Twitter experience – Mr Tweet and Topify.

Lastly, we talked about about the death of some poor guy while using Wii fit, and the end of Microsoft’s Encarta encyclopedia. I miss mindmaze so terribly 🙁

A small round of applause to the venerable Andy Merret, a.k.a. the Tech Trumpet, for coming up with some jingles for the start and end of the podcast. They’re rather good, aren’t they? Thanks Andy!

Download the podcast directly here, or subscribe via this URL.

As ever, if you have any comments, topics that you’d like us to talk about, or general abuse, throw it our way by sending us a tweet at @techdigest or emailing [email protected].

Tech Digest Podcast #1

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So, this morning, Dan and I got on Skype and had a go at recording a podcast. We chatted about the big stories of the week – Twitter and Last.fm trying to monetise their services, and the big media companies approaching Google to try to get their content higher in search rankings.

I’m a bit of a software person, whereas Dan’s into his hardware, so as a central feature, we thought it’d be fun to try to convince each other of the joys of a bit of software and a bit of hardware respectively. I plumped for Last.fm, whereas Dan tried to convince me I need Canon’s EOS 500D DSLR in my life.

Lastly, we took a brief look at some of the stranger news stories of the week – the 60ft penis on the roof and the CC all your emails to Jacqui Smith campaign. I wanted to talk about a few other stories here too, but we ran out of time.

Download the podcast as an MP3 here, or subscribe via RSS here.

It’s a little clunky, still – my voice buzzes a bit thanks to the cheap headset I’m using. We’re very much feeling our way around how the whole process works, so any recommendations and advice are more than welcome. Drop us a tweet at @techdigest or email me or Dan.

The NEW LOOK TECH DIGEST goes live tonight!!!!!

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Ok people, listen up, brace yourselves and batten down the hatches because tonight we launch the new, improved and 100% redesigned Tech Digest. Yes, you heard me. Take your screen shots and a long, last look because the site as we know it will go down at 8pm GMT to emerge an altogether smoother, sexier creature by 9pm.

Technology and blogging being what they are, don’t be surprised if it’s not the world’s smoothest transition but we’ll have whatever unexpected creases that arrive ironed out very quickly.

All that remains for me to say is, once it’s up, have a good nose around and enjoy it. See you on the other side…

Tech Digest & Shiny Shiny at The Gadget Show Live 2009!

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Ladies and gentlemen, gadgets girls and gadget guys, I’d like to announce that Tech Digest will be working with The Gadget Show as their online partner at The Gadget Show Live exhibition at the Birmingham NEC 17th-19th April 2009. Nice, eh?

So, what does this mean? Well, for one you get a chance to win FREE TICKETS here on TD. Secondly, it means that you won’t have to travel all the way to Vegas in January or Berlin in August any more if you want a gander and, more importantly, a first hand play with latest bits of kit the tech world has to offer.

Thirdly, and best of all, is that we’re not only going to be covering it left, right, centre, backwards, forwards and inside and out but also we, and the sisters from Shiny Shiny, will be running six live shows each day at the How To Theatre…

Top 100 Christmas Presents 2008: 20 to 16

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Welcome to the top 20. The end is in sight. The light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter. Let’s hope it doesn’t turn out to be a horde of luminescent zombies. That’s not as unlikely as it sounds, if you believe Valve. Click the hordes of slavering zombies below to begin.

100-96 | 95-91 | 90-86 | 85-81 | 80-76 | 75-71 | 70-66 | 65-61 | 60-55 | 54-51 | 50-46 | 45-41 | 40-36 | 35-31 | 30-26