How do you stream your music and video from today’s services? This week, Norm, Jeremy, and Patrick discuss data encryption, the fall of Rdio, tablet displays, and the endurance of Star Wars! Also, we mull over Oxford Dictionaries word of the year selections and share what we’ve been testing. Apologies for the video going out in the last five minutes–an office munchkin pushed our mixer buttons!
One Day Builds
Adam embarks on one of his most ambitious builds yet: fulfil…
Show And Tell
Adam recently completed a build of the royal St. Edwards cro…
Making
Viewers often ask to see Adam working in real-time, so this …
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Adam and Norm assemble a beautifully machined replica prop k…
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One of the ways Adam has been getting through lockdown has b…
Making
Adam unboxes and performs a quick test of this novel new hel…
Making
When Adam visited Weta Workshop early last year, he stopped …
One Day Builds
Adam tackles a shop shelf build that he's been putting off f…
Show And Tell
Time for a model kit build! This steampunk-inspired mechanic…
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Adam reveals his surprise Christmas present for his wife--a …
im sorry Norm but the start was a trainwreck. The podcast has a branding, and the start should be consistent. Add your own flare but try to keep the start similar.
so negative this week and way too political
The Canadian Lumbersexual as interviewed by This Hour has 22 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsfyDdU–Bw
in the video just past 2:05:00 the video cuts out and the volume drops, then goes back up, then goes down again….
sorry about that. a three-year-old ran to our production station and hit a bunch of buttons and levers in the last three minutes. it’s fixed in the audio version.
The King Arthur is another example of a character who’s story has been rewritten many times with the same characters. In this case over a number of centuries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7_1R_b4x7Y
Good stuff as always chaps!
Oh, and thank goodness you don’t have to worry about ‘Brexit’ over in California. I wish I hadn’t heard of it, too.
If you have the means, please donate to EFF. They are such a worthy organization.
FairPhone’s repairability, in my impresion, is not so much about user experience… Repairability fits in to their philosophy of social responsibility in manufacturing. Making it easy to recycle is, in their approach, part of this philosophy in order to reduce waste and enable recycling which is better for the environment and people who might be affected by toxic e-waste. It reminds me of the chair company that re-engineered their product to make it purposely easy to disassemble for recycling.
Norm, please never use “irregardless” again. It is not a word. I do enjoy your work and look forward to you “finding your voice” in taking over the hosting of the podcast. Keep up the good work. Excellent subject matter and good rapport between you, Jeremy and Patrick.
“Irregardless” is a perfectly cromulent word.
“Going back to Winamp”
Been using it for 13 years and I still haven’t found any better player.
Hey ! I did not get the memo about the; bring your kids to work day! 🙂
ha. the video ended in a hilarious way. fitting of a three year old!
Explosion! Black screen! Cut the audio!
I still use Winamp, too. 🙂
Please check Patrick’s level. He’s a good bit lower than Norm and Jeremy at times, so I had to keep adjusting the volume in the car. Seems to be a recurring issue – low talker or bad mic?
Don’t forget about Google Music! Great service to use if you’ve got songs which aren’t typically found on streaming services. (Because you can upload something like 20k tracks to your account)
Also, I wanted to mention that the biggest disruption to Star Wars continuity will be when John Williams passes away. He’s been a truly excellent anchor in my opinion, holding up a big piece of the entire franchise so far.
Regarding Music to listen to on the radio I would suggest checking out 8tracks.com and flitermusic.net. At our job we also listen to I heart radio online. I heart and filter are more random then 8tracks but I am not one of the type of people who needs to control every song I listen to.
WHY WOULD YOU BUY A PC?!?!?!?!
Not everyone can afford to buy an Apple Laptop, Tablet, Desktop. You can buy a relitivly good PC for doing school work, watching videos online, and facebooking for under $500. You can’t buy an Apple. Not everyone has companies just giving them products to test out.
No worries Norm. We get our fair share of older rugrats on days when the schools close due to snow. We take over empty offices, put DVD players and game controllers in the rooms (parents bring them in) and turn them into a play rooms – not a problem when the door is closed. The older ones do art on the white boards.
Next time, it would be great to hear a discussion from the three of you on the ars technical article on ads that use inaudible sound to link to your phone, TV, etc…..
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/beware-of-ads-that-use-inaudible-sound-to-link-your-phone-tv-tablet-and-pc/
As a designer working on user experience and interfaces, I find the Fast Company article to be a piece of valid criticism clouded by a ridiculous headline and published on a platform, FastCo.Design, which is usually filled with tabloid clickbait drivel from terrible writers. If the authors wanted to get a rise out of people, good job, if they want people to take note and make a course correction, not so much.
II travel a fare bit by car, and I often listen to different podcasts. But I often run in to problems when listening to this one.
I find the soud quality strange at best. I don’t know what’s causing it but I have a hard time hearing Norm and Patrick in the end of centense.strange enough Jeremy I can hear just fine.
Maby it is som kind of miceophone disciplin thing, or it got something with droping voice pitch in the end of eatch centens.
Try to eaven out the sound output in some way so I don’t have to crank my car stereo all the way up to hear you guys.
Great content by the way keep up the good work.
I think given the news of the week, the tone and subject were understandable. Security online and off is certainly tech-relevant stuff.
Patrick has two volume levels: mouse and Randy Savage. For the love of god get on the mic when you speak softly. I have to crank my volume to hear you, then when you laugh my eardrums almost burst.
This week’s episode had pops and cracks almost the entire duration and it was really frustrating to listen to.
And once again you talked about streaming music and failed to discuss how Zune Pass was sunset just last week. I had the subscription for years, and it was FANTASTIC because it was $15 a month and I could keep 10 DRM free mp3s every month. Now all Zune Pass subscribers (those who are still left anyway) have been migrated to Groove Music, which is a far inferior subscription service because the apps are horrendous, but I’m pretty sure their music catalog is still at least or better than Spotify.
thank you; thought I was the only one… PLEASE fix Patrick’s audio issues. I like what he contributes but it is maddening listening to his inconsistent volume. Cowgod is right–he really needs to get on the mic.