Rafe Blandford

Rafe's duck, Apple's silicon, Wirecard's melt-down & Basecamp's HEY email [S18E09]

14 July 2020  |  Season 18  |  1 hr 4 mins

This week:

🦆 Rafe's got a pet duck ( #duckfollowup )
 Apple's ARM-based Macs
💸 Wirecard's problems hit popular fintechs
✉️ HEY email by Basecamp

Follow-up, Photos and WWDC [S18E08]

28 June 2020  |  Season 18  |  1 hr 4 mins

This week:

✉️ Follow-up on photo backup, screens, Disney+ and more
📷 Smart camera apps that let you 'fix' your photos on your phone
🍏 What we wanted out of WWDC

Feedback, fitness apps & photo back-up [S18E07]

21 June 2020  |  Season 18  |  50 mins 44 secs

This week:

✉️ Listener feedback - robots, banking and apps
👟 Health and fitness apps that might help
📷 Backing-up your important photos

Customising the Apple Watch, Lenovo's Smart Frame & data hoarding [S18E06]

12 June 2020  |  Season 18  |  58 mins 48 secs

This week:

⌚️ 'Pro'-level Apple Watch customisation
🖼️ Lenovo's discounted Smart Frame for early adopters
🗄️ What's the oldest data you're hoarding?

Headsets, lock-down habits & money [S18E05]

6 June 2020  |  Season 18  |  1 hr 2 mins

This week:
🎤 Mics & headsets for working from home
🏃‍♂️ What (online) lock-down habits will stick?
💸 Real-time banking

Amazon Echo accessories, Covid-19 apps & Tik Tok [S18E04]

29 May 2020  |  Season 18  |  52 mins 49 secs

This week: Rafe recommends a clock, we try to understand Covid-19 tracing apps and we notice Tik Tok might be a thing.

361's 9th birthday, smart lights, map apps & video calling [S18E03]

22 May 2020  |  Season 18  |  1 hr 7 mins

This week: It's our 9th birthday 🎉, Hue smart lighting turns bad, walking around with maps and the best video calling apps for home working.

Home networking, self-improvement apps & the iPad Magic Keyboard [S18E02]

14 May 2020  |  Season 18  |  50 mins 38 secs

This week: How to network your home office with TV wiring, apps for running, learning and reading & an iPad Magic Keyboard (it's good).

Equipping a home office, budget robot vacuums & Disney+ [S18E01]

7 May 2020  |  Season 18  |  52 mins 23 secs

Working from home, cleaning that home and staying home to stream Mandalorian. We don’t get out much...

Google Maps hacking, Sonos and goodbye to Blackberry [S17E10]

10 February 2020  |  Season 17  |  46 mins 4 secs

In which we discuss 2 'real' news items and spend 15 minutes reminiscing about how much better mobile email was over 2G. Also, Mark the editor speaks...

Robot vacuums, noise-cancelling headphones & electric car charging [S17E09]

29 January 2020  |  Season 17  |  41 mins 34 secs

Cleaning robots, noise-cancelling headphones and how to charge your (electric) car at home. It's a 'quality of life improvers' episode…

Recapping 2019 [S17E08]

27 December 2019  |  Season 17  |  43 mins 20 secs

The team look back over topics they’ve discussed during the year, with follow-up and the latest news.

GPS hacking, Apple's Express Transit comes to London & Christmas gifts [S17E07]

9 December 2019  |  Season 17  |  37 mins 25 secs

GPS hacking in China, Tube travel in London and Christmas gift ideas. This week we're going places (and bringing a gift).

eSIMs, the (folding) Motorola Razr & Apple TV+ [S17E06]

25 November 2019  |  Season 17  |  41 mins 26 secs

Specialist SIMs, folding phones and (Apple) TV for free... (no, there's no theme this week)

Airpods Pro, hacking mobile networks & phones vs cameras [S17E05]

10 November 2019  |  Season 17  |  38 mins 51 secs

Earbuds that silence, hackers that hide and cameras that see in the dark. It's a feast for the senses.

Google's Nest Aware, Monzo's starting-over with Plus & 5G [S17E04]

28 October 2019  |  Season 17  |  35 mins 9 secs

Paying Google to watch your home, paying challenger banks for fancy cards and would you pay more for 5G?