Stewart Wilson
Senior Editor
Wollongong
Stewart Wilson has been with TECHGEEK.com.au from the start, and is now Senior Editor of TECHGEEK.com.au. He is also in charge of Audio-Visual production for TECHGEEK.com.au, creating the TECHGEEK Weekly, TECHGEEK Tips and the new Gadgetlyst Bytes podcasts. He also manages the new TECHGEEK First Look YouTube series. Wilson also runs a web hosting business AlfaHosts and is also a IT techie. A Windows fan boy at heart, he owns a HTC 7 Mozart and yearns to be a qualified Systems Administrator. (Disclaimer: AlfaHosts is an affiliated company with Reawaken Media)
Sennheiser has bought out brand new headphones at CES 2012. The HD 25 Amperior and the HD 700 are both quite expensive but offer great sound quality. The Amperior has an aluminum casing which is either blue or silver in colour, microfiber ear pads and a fully extendable head band for maximum comfort. It has a detachable microphone and inline controls. According to The Verge, the music was “puncy and loud” and the audio quality was “pretty impressive”.
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NETGEAR have announced their new Powerline 500 Nano range. This very small device allows you to convert any old power point into a “high speed” network connection. With speeds up to 500Mbps, the Powerline 500 Nano will happily play HD videos, SD videos and even 3D video. Of course, these devices can be used as a simple network port for use with a Computer, Blu-ray Player, SmartTV, Set top box, gaming console plus everything that has a Ethernet port. NETGEAR have mentioned that these devices have a low latency, which would be perfect for a gamer needing that fast connection.
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Today at CES 2012, NETGEAR announced the Universal Dual Band WiFi Range Extender. It allows you to extend your wireless network to a new area easily and quickly. The WN2500RP extends both 2.5GHz and 5GHz bands concurrently across your home and will simply attach to your existing router. The WN2500RP also has a built in 4 port switch, allowing you to plug in devices via Ethernet to use the wireless network.
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Hard drive manufacturer, Seagate has provided a financial update, reiterating that the demand for hard drives will exceed the supply this year. Meaning it will be hard to purchase hard drives at their usual cheap price. Seagate claims that prices of hard drives will remain quite stable. ”The exabyte (overall capacity) shortage will be more pronounced than the unit shortage, and as a result pricing is expected to remain stable,” Seagate added.
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The year 2011 was one year that we will all never forget. Even though they were all in the beginning of the year, the floods in Queensland and Brazil, the earthquakes in Christchurch and the tsunami in the north of Japan are still present in all of our minds. We also saw the death of a tech luminary, Steve Jobs; and the powerful News Corporation losing its influence over politicians in the UK after the phone hacking scandal took a drastic turn from celebrities to victims of crime.
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So, if you did miss our Holiday Gift Guide Live podcast this year, Stewart actually found a way of recording it. So this is the entire two-hour live show, unedited and uncensored for your own listening pleasure.
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Don’t forget! We have our live podcast on this Friday, 16th December 2011 starting at 7:00PM. The show will be filled with Gift Ideas, best products to buy and of course, giveaways! However, you have to be an Australian citizen to win. But how do you win? Simple. Ask us a question.
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Thanks to our friends at Kingston, one lucky winner has the chance to win this fantastic Kingston Wi-Drive (RRP $149.99). With it’s built in 16GB of flash storage, Wi-Drive allows iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch users to stream movies, listen to music, view pictures or download documents by utilizing the Wi-Drive App (available on the App Store) and Wi-Fi 802.11 g/n.The files are easily retrieved wirelessly and without the need for messy cables.
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With your children quickly moving into high school, university or even a trade, the need for a laptop increases and with Christmas creping up on us very quickly – now is the perfect time to purchase a laptop for a present.
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Looking for a new router for your home network or maybe you have no idea what to buy the techie in the family? Well the NETGEAR N600 Dual Band Gigabit Router is a great gift for yourself or someone else. It has all the features of the modem/router we reviewed before, the Netgear DGND3700 N600 Wireless Modem Router plus much much more. More information after the break.
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Readers, please be advised that this week’s edition of TECHGEEK Weekly will be missed due to the majority of the TECHGEEK team having examination preparation. We apologise for the inconvenience and will be back next week or the week after with the latest and greatest of Tech News!
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In this edition of TECHGEEK Weekly, host, Stewart Wilson is joined by Tom Solari to deliver you the best (and worst) in news. We talk about the happenings at Nokia World, Some things you didn’t know about Steve Jobs and the sexy thermostat.
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The Netgear N600 Wireless Modem Router is a performer in it’s category of networking gear. Not only does it integrate many devices into a single device, it does it well. Boasting Dual-Band 802.11n, gigabit connectivity, two USB ports for sharing storage devices and DLNA streaming, the Netgear N600 let’s users turbo boost their network with speedy and reliable connectivity.
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OSX/Tsunami-A, a new Trojan horse for Mac OS X has been discovered by Sophos. The Trogan is a port of the linux virus, Troj/Kaiten. Which embeds itself into the system and listens for commands on an IRC network. What makes this Trojan particularly nasty is that the controller can instruct your computer to DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) a particular computer/server/ip address. The trojan also allows the controller to run any script or command on your Mac as they wish.
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James Wilson holds iPad 2 at the Sydney Launch on March 30. (Image: Stewart Wilson/TECHGEEK.com.au)
That’s right, the iPad eveyone knows and loves will soon be available to purchase from your local Telstra Store. Telstra are allowing you to purchase the iPad WiFi + 3G version either for full price on pre-paid or spread the cost out over 24 months on a post-paid plan. As per any Telstra mobile product, you’ll experience NextG’s vast and supiror network. Too bad the iPad 2 doesn’t support LTE/4G. You can register your interest here. The full press release is after the break.
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NETGEAR have announced their new Powerline 500 Nano range. This very small device allows you to convert any old power point into a “high speed” network connection. With speeds up to 500Mbps, the Powerline 500 Nano will happily play HD videos, SD videos and even 3D video. Of course, these devices can be used as a simple network port for use with a Computer, Blu-ray Player, SmartTV, Set top box, gaming console plus everything that has a Ethernet port. NETGEAR have mentioned that these devices have a low latency, which would be perfect for a gamer needing that fast connection.
Sennheiser has bought out brand new headphones at CES 2012. The HD 25 Amperior and the HD 700 are both quite expensive but offer great sound quality. The Amperior has an aluminum casing which is either blue or silver in colour, microfiber ear pads and a fully extendable head band for maximum comfort. It has a detachable microphone and inline controls. According to The Verge, the music was “puncy and loud” and the audio quality was “pretty impressive”.
