Ryan Yee, Host of NerdBoyTV, introduces the Plantronics Virtual Phone Booth stereo headset. It's optimized for Skype, Windows Live, and Yahoo! Messenger with superb stereo sound and sound-isolating earbuds that let you "tune out noise and tune in to music, movies, MP3 players or streaming internet audio." Thus, the name..."Virtual Phone Booth."
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Saturday, March 22, 2008
SHOW #026 - NerdBoyTV Broadcast: March 22, 2008 (Saturday)
In this episode of NerdBoyTV, Ryan Yee kicks off "7 broadcasts in 7 days" in celebration of Spring Break. Everyday for the next seven days, NerdBoyTV will have articles, videos, and product reviews to share Saturday through Friday ;-) Today's articles include accessorizing your laptop, Apple's use of its iTunes Store to rollout its popular Safari browser to its PC users, Docsyncer helping people to convert their Office documents into Google Docs and Google Aps, SlideRocket adding "WOW" to your PowerPoint presentations, and the decline of consumer spending on electronics during this current recession.
Accessorizing Your Laptop by dummies.com: Yahoo! Tech: "One thing that's kept the computer industry alive for years and years is that the computer purchase never stops with the computer itself. First comes software. Then follows more hardware and even more hardware. Peripherals! Gizmos! Gadgets! And then you can get fun accessories like mouse pads and tchotchkes to sit atop the monitor. The computer is endlessly expandable."
Apple Uses iTunes to Put Fast Safari on Windows PCs - Yahoo! News: "Windows users perfectly happy with their Firefox or Internet Explorer browsers have been surprised to find a new Web browser on their hard drives -- Apple's Safari 3.1. The browser was originally only for Apple's Macintosh computer. The new browser arrived via Apple's software update feature, which is included in its iTunes software. iTunes boasts impressive penetration on Windows as well as Mac computers. Apple normally uses software update to deliver updates of the QuickTime media player, iPod software and iTunes."
DocSyncer helps wean users from Microsoft Office Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone: "In my preview of the Under the Radar conference I questioned the business viability of the document management product DocSyncer, which, among other things, takes users' Microsoft Office files (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and synchronizes them into a Google Docs or Google Apps account."
SlideRocket puts the 'wow' into online presentations Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone: "Flashy presentation tool SlideRocket is easily one of the best-looking services I've seen. CEO Mitch Grasso's presentation at this afternoon's Under the Radar session about the virtual worker (using SlideRocket to present) got several oohs and ahhs. In many ways it takes a cue from Apple's Keynote product with great use of fonts, reflections, transparencies, and transitions to put together presentations that use hardware acceleration and cutting-edge design templates to impress clients, co-workers, and potentially your boss."
Huge Decline in Us Consumer Electronics Spending: "The latest consumer spending survey from ChangeWave Research shows a sudden huge pullback in U.S. consumer retail spending on electronics - the largest decline since 2002. The survey of 4,427 consumers, conducted February 18-25, looked at discretionary spending on a range of popular electronic devices, including video game consoles, digital cameras and iPods."
Accessorizing Your Laptop by dummies.com: Yahoo! Tech: "One thing that's kept the computer industry alive for years and years is that the computer purchase never stops with the computer itself. First comes software. Then follows more hardware and even more hardware. Peripherals! Gizmos! Gadgets! And then you can get fun accessories like mouse pads and tchotchkes to sit atop the monitor. The computer is endlessly expandable."
Apple Uses iTunes to Put Fast Safari on Windows PCs - Yahoo! News: "Windows users perfectly happy with their Firefox or Internet Explorer browsers have been surprised to find a new Web browser on their hard drives -- Apple's Safari 3.1. The browser was originally only for Apple's Macintosh computer. The new browser arrived via Apple's software update feature, which is included in its iTunes software. iTunes boasts impressive penetration on Windows as well as Mac computers. Apple normally uses software update to deliver updates of the QuickTime media player, iPod software and iTunes."
DocSyncer helps wean users from Microsoft Office Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone: "In my preview of the Under the Radar conference I questioned the business viability of the document management product DocSyncer, which, among other things, takes users' Microsoft Office files (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and synchronizes them into a Google Docs or Google Apps account."
SlideRocket puts the 'wow' into online presentations Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone: "Flashy presentation tool SlideRocket is easily one of the best-looking services I've seen. CEO Mitch Grasso's presentation at this afternoon's Under the Radar session about the virtual worker (using SlideRocket to present) got several oohs and ahhs. In many ways it takes a cue from Apple's Keynote product with great use of fonts, reflections, transparencies, and transitions to put together presentations that use hardware acceleration and cutting-edge design templates to impress clients, co-workers, and potentially your boss."
Huge Decline in Us Consumer Electronics Spending: "The latest consumer spending survey from ChangeWave Research shows a sudden huge pullback in U.S. consumer retail spending on electronics - the largest decline since 2002. The survey of 4,427 consumers, conducted February 18-25, looked at discretionary spending on a range of popular electronic devices, including video game consoles, digital cameras and iPods."
Sunday, March 16, 2008
SHOW #025 - NerdBoyTV Broadcast: March 16, 2008 (Extra Edition)
In this extra weekend edition of NerdBoyTV, Ryan Yee talks about the No. 1 BLUNDER of all-times in the music industry (it use to be the guy who passed on The Beatles...guess what it is NOW?) and how the Playstation 2 (NOT PS3, XBox, or Wii) is burning up the cash registers now that we're officially in a recession!
Biggest Record Company Screw-Ups of All Time on Yahoo! Music: "The talent scout who turned down the Beatles has long been credited with committing the music industry's biggest gaffe.
But Dick Rowe's billion-dollar boo-boo has been beaten to the top spot on Blender magazine's list of the '20 biggest record company screw-ups of all time' by the failure of record companies to capitalize on the Internet.
The major labels took top dishonors for driving file-sharing service Napster out of business in 2001, instead of figuring out a way to make money from its tens of millions of users. The downloaders merely scattered to hundreds of other sites, and the industry has been in a tailspin ever since.
'The labels' campaign to stop their music from being acquired for free across the Internet has been like trying to cork a hurricane -- upward of a billion files are swapped every month on peer-to-peer networks,' Blender said in the report, which appears in its newly published April issue."
Price is Right for Playstation 2 - Video Game Feature - Yahoo! Video Games: "Wave goodbye to the Wii, pass on the PS3 and pull a 180 on the 360 - if you're looking for a way to play great games without breaking the bank, you're looking for the Playstation 2. We know it sounds crazy, but provided you're not overly concerned with cutting-edge graphics and online gaming, Sony's last-generation console still offers plenty of gaming thrills at a fraction of the cost of the newer systems."
Biggest Record Company Screw-Ups of All Time on Yahoo! Music: "The talent scout who turned down the Beatles has long been credited with committing the music industry's biggest gaffe.
But Dick Rowe's billion-dollar boo-boo has been beaten to the top spot on Blender magazine's list of the '20 biggest record company screw-ups of all time' by the failure of record companies to capitalize on the Internet.
The major labels took top dishonors for driving file-sharing service Napster out of business in 2001, instead of figuring out a way to make money from its tens of millions of users. The downloaders merely scattered to hundreds of other sites, and the industry has been in a tailspin ever since.
'The labels' campaign to stop their music from being acquired for free across the Internet has been like trying to cork a hurricane -- upward of a billion files are swapped every month on peer-to-peer networks,' Blender said in the report, which appears in its newly published April issue."
Price is Right for Playstation 2 - Video Game Feature - Yahoo! Video Games: "Wave goodbye to the Wii, pass on the PS3 and pull a 180 on the 360 - if you're looking for a way to play great games without breaking the bank, you're looking for the Playstation 2. We know it sounds crazy, but provided you're not overly concerned with cutting-edge graphics and online gaming, Sony's last-generation console still offers plenty of gaming thrills at a fraction of the cost of the newer systems."
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