ZA Tech Show – Episode 62: ‘Paranoid Android’
Posted on Monday, May 18th, 2009 at 20:16 by Simon and filed under Podcast episodes, ZA Tech Show.Toby Shapshak, editor of Stuff Magazine joins Jon Tullett, Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle this week. We discuss:
- The HTC Magic from Vodacom and everything Android.
- Fixing Gmail’s IMAP on some mail clients.
- Mail and calendaring clients.
- Click here for Justin Hartman’s iCal fix.
- Personal cloud platforms. Who’s winning the race?
- Is the bandwidth on FNB Connect really unshaped?
- Hear our first reactions to the ICASA-COSATU-Vodacom debacle (we got the announcement while recording this episode).
- The cellular network reliability debate.
- Finality on the Idols mess.
This week’s choice technologies:
- Jon Tullett: Google’s new search options and Read It Later for Firefox.
- Brett Haggard: GMDesk and Issuu.
- Duncan McLeod: Blue Mail Central.
- Simon Dingle: Lenovo Thinkpad X301 and Blackberry Facebook 1.5.
7 Comments so far
Comment by bob, posted on May 19th, 2009 at 08:55Barry (BazDaddy), posted on May 19th, 2009 at 15:30
Hey guys
You were talking about doing some live broadcasting of your show, I host the main PTAWUG server at my home, we have a icecast server running on it that is replicated all over the WUG (including JAWUG). we would love to relay your live show over our network, you guys could even sit in on one of the IRC channels to get feedback from guys on topics you are talking about.
Keep up the great show…
Excellent show, well, more like ZAComedy Hour this time round, and aren’t we all glad the whole Vodacom vs Cosatu thing came to naught!
And just a post script: I am itching for a live show!
Comment by Trekelny, posted on May 19th, 2009 at 20:39
Fabulous as usual. I think extra points have to go to Duncan for asserting of the ICASA news, “this will hit the rand”. Spot on!
You mentioned that you want to do live broadcasting, with audience feedback – the best implementation of that I’ve seen, um.. heard, is on the Linux Outlaws podcast. Not sure how they do it (I always listen to the recorded podcast), but they have an IRC channel for the audience to respond in during the live session.
Lol someone was to close to the mic when eating dem sweet corn, CRUNCH CRUNCH, I found my self listening for the crunch more that Simon chatting about the lenovo


















Lol someone was to close to the mic when eating dem sweet corn, CRUNCH CRUNCH, I found my self listening for the crunch more that Simon chatting about the lenovo