Posts by Nick Broughall
Gadgets
4:38PM Nick Broughall | Last week, while watching an extremely disappointing movie on Blu-ray which won’t be named for fear of inadvertantly promoting it, my receiver switched off on its own, naturally at the film’s climax. At first I thought it had just overheated, but after a bit of playing around, I discovered that one or more of the speaker cables had short circuited. So my weekend will be spent replacing those cables – Joy! Oh, I’ll also be playing with the new HTC Tattoo and HTC Hero Android phones. More »
Weekend Gadgets: The Tattoo Hero And His Audio Cables
4:38PM Nick Broughall | Last week, while watching an extremely disappointing movie on Blu-ray which won’t be named for fear of inadvertantly promoting it, my receiver switched off on its own, naturally at the film’s climax. At first I thought it had just overheated, but after a bit of playing around, I discovered that one or more of the speaker cables had short circuited. So my weekend will be spent replacing those cables – Joy! Oh, I’ll also be playing with the new HTC Tattoo and HTC Hero Android phones. More » 
Online
3:41PM Nick Broughall | So I’ve been playing around with Google Wave for a while, and despite being on a few waves, have yet to find a really practical use for it. Until now – I want to use Wave as a way of chatting with you guys in real time – in particular as a way of getting feedback on the site. More »
Join The Giz AU Wave
3:41PM Nick Broughall | So I’ve been playing around with Google Wave for a while, and despite being on a few waves, have yet to find a really practical use for it. Until now – I want to use Wave as a way of chatting with you guys in real time – in particular as a way of getting feedback on the site. More »
Phones
2:19PM Nick Broughall | As picked up by David Flynn at APC, Telstra CEO David Thodey has responded to a comment on the Telstra Exchange blog to announce that the company is “working with Apple to enable tethering on the iPhone”, although he can’t reveal any specific dates. It’s kind of mind blowing that it hasn’t happened already, although I’m sure it’s what happens when you get two companies so focussed on doing things their own way that neither is willing to make the sacrifice necessary to bring this service to their customers.
[Telstra Exchange via APC Mag]
Tethering Coming To Telstra iPhones
2:19PM Nick Broughall | As picked up by David Flynn at APC, Telstra CEO David Thodey has responded to a comment on the Telstra Exchange blog to announce that the company is “working with Apple to enable tethering on the iPhone”, although he can’t reveal any specific dates. It’s kind of mind blowing that it hasn’t happened already, although I’m sure it’s what happens when you get two companies so focussed on doing things their own way that neither is willing to make the sacrifice necessary to bring this service to their customers.
[Telstra Exchange via APC Mag]
History of TV
12:00PM Nick Broughall | LCD’s Achilles’ heel has always been its ability to show fast moving images. Watching sports or fast-paced action films on an early LCD screen was terrible, thanks to the technology’s inadequate refresh rate. But just like introducing LED backlighting helped LCD display blacks better and more vivid colours, the introduction of 100Hz technology went a long way to eliminating the motion judder caused by fast-moving pictures. More »
100Hz: Saving LCDs From Motion Judder Since 2006
12:00PM Nick Broughall | LCD’s Achilles’ heel has always been its ability to show fast moving images. Watching sports or fast-paced action films on an early LCD screen was terrible, thanks to the technology’s inadequate refresh rate. But just like introducing LED backlighting helped LCD display blacks better and more vivid colours, the introduction of 100Hz technology went a long way to eliminating the motion judder caused by fast-moving pictures. More »
Computers
10:00AM Nick Broughall | The original T91 from Asus wasn’t quite the touchscreen netbook we’d been hoping for thanks to the average tablet XP software and lack of multitouch. But Asus is never a company to sit on their hands, so they’ve updated the T91 to the T91MT, which adds Windows 7 and multitouch. More »
Asus Eee PC T91MT Appeases The Multitouch Faithful
10:00AM Nick Broughall | The original T91 from Asus wasn’t quite the touchscreen netbook we’d been hoping for thanks to the average tablet XP software and lack of multitouch. But Asus is never a company to sit on their hands, so they’ve updated the T91 to the T91MT, which adds Windows 7 and multitouch. More »
Breakfast Wrap
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Breakfast Wrap: Best Of Thursday Night
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Oh God how I missed you Friday! Welcome back!
Livescribe Pulse Smartpen Gets Its Very Own App Store
I’ve had a quick look at it – being able to translate a word on the fly is awesome.
Rumour: Apple Tablet Delayed For OLED Upgrade
Oh, please. OLED is still way too expensive for this to be true.
Everything You Need To Know About Chrome OS [Liveblog]
Very interested to see how the world takes to Chrome OS…
Apple Exec Wants You To Puke All Over His Mind-Bending Deck
Somehow I don’t think he really does. Nice design though…
GPS
3:47PM Nick Broughall | Earlier this week, the guys at Pioneer let me drive around in one of their cars for a couple of days to test out the AVIC-F10BT in-dash satnav entertainment system. And now that I’ve tasted the supple delights of the AVIC, my own car’s stereo system seems old and tired, like a Hollywood starlet who’s let herself go. My satnav – once the pride and joy of my glovebox – now seems clunky and cumbersome. If I could, I’d take my car and the AVIC system to Vegas and get them hitched, because the simple fact is that they belong together. More »
Review: Pioneer AVIC-F10BT In-Dash Satnav System
3:47PM Nick Broughall | Earlier this week, the guys at Pioneer let me drive around in one of their cars for a couple of days to test out the AVIC-F10BT in-dash satnav entertainment system. And now that I’ve tasted the supple delights of the AVIC, my own car’s stereo system seems old and tired, like a Hollywood starlet who’s let herself go. My satnav – once the pride and joy of my glovebox – now seems clunky and cumbersome. If I could, I’d take my car and the AVIC system to Vegas and get them hitched, because the simple fact is that they belong together. More »
Entertainment
1:40PM Nick Broughall | Back in March, Telstra said they’d be launching 100Mbps cable in Melbourne. Today, the Big T announced that they’d be flicking the switch on December 1, as well as confirming details on the T-Box. Not to be confused with the T-Hub, this one’s a DVR! For TV. More »
Details On Telstra’s T-Box Announced
1:40PM Nick Broughall | Back in March, Telstra said they’d be launching 100Mbps cable in Melbourne. Today, the Big T announced that they’d be flicking the switch on December 1, as well as confirming details on the T-Box. Not to be confused with the T-Hub, this one’s a DVR! For TV. More »
History of TV
12:00PM Nick Broughall | Up until recently, LCDs just couldn’t compete with plasmas when it came to showing blacks or colours. They weren’t just bad, either: they sucked, at least in comparison to plasma. But then came LED backlighting, and things changed. More »
LED Backlighting Is LCD’s Trump Card
12:00PM Nick Broughall | Up until recently, LCDs just couldn’t compete with plasmas when it came to showing blacks or colours. They weren’t just bad, either: they sucked, at least in comparison to plasma. But then came LED backlighting, and things changed. More »
Sports
10:49AM Nick Broughall | Remember when watches just told the time? No, me neither. The latest watch coming out of Garmin’s factories – the FR60 – is a fitness freak’s wet dream in watch form. For $199, you get a watch with heart rate monitor, which tracks your efforts as you exercise. More »
Garmin FR60 Watch Is All About The Fitness
10:49AM Nick Broughall | Remember when watches just told the time? No, me neither. The latest watch coming out of Garmin’s factories – the FR60 – is a fitness freak’s wet dream in watch form. For $199, you get a watch with heart rate monitor, which tracks your efforts as you exercise. More » 
