Rafe Blandford

Subscriptions, home-working kit reviewed & video conferencing tips [S19E05]

10 November 2020  |  Season 19  |  1 hr 15 mins

This week:

🔁 Subscribing to stuff: Xbox to washing machines
🏠 Long-term working from home kit reviews
📹 Video conferencing tips

Also, Rafe will send a postcard to anyone who reviews the show. "How hard could that be…?" he asks 🤔

1 Question, 3 Answers: Is 5G worth it? [S19E04]

16 October 2020  |  Season 19  |  1 hr 4 mins

This week:

1️⃣ question with 3️⃣ answers… Is 5G 'worth it'?

Apple bundles, what we crowdfund & app recommendations [S19E03]

7 October 2020  |  Season 19  |  52 mins 51 secs

This week:

 Apple's new services & bundles
💸 The things we crowdfund and kickstart
📱 October 2020 app recommendations

1 Question, 3 Answers: Apple vs Epic [S19E02]

24 September 2020  |  Season 19  |  1 hr 3 mins

This week:

‼️ A brand new format
Apple 🆚 Epic
3️⃣answers

Robots, clever fitness tech & automated homes update [S19E01]

10 September 2020  |  Season 19  |  1 hr 2 mins

This week:

🤖 Robots doing clever things
🏃‍♂️ Clever sensors taking fitness apps to the next level
🏠 An update on automated homes in lockdown

Tik (Tok)-ed off, apps for time at home & our online profiles [S18E10]

27 July 2020  |  Season 18  |  1 hr 6 mins

This week:

😱 Tik Tok and privacy
🏠 Useful apps when you're spending more time home
🌐 Our online profiles and websites

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...