Diggnation has been one of the internets most successful and well known podcasts. After nearly 7 years of weekly episodes, Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht are calling it quits at the end of 2011. An amazing 340 episodes, Diggnation travelled the world sharing Digg stories with millions of loyal fans.

Alex Albrecht will continue to appear on Revision3 as co-host of the popular Totally Rad Show.

Kevin Rose will also continue to appear on Revision3 programming on Foundation.

Unfortunately it looks like Diggnation, loved by Australians, will never make the trip down under. While the idea was discussed in multiple episodes, Aussie fans will sadly miss out. Revision 3 will continue to host every one of the 340 episodes so you can reminisce well into the future.

Personally I’ve been watching since the beginning and have enjoyed many laughs, drinks and conversations as a result of watching Diggnation well done Kevin and Alex, and thanks for relinquishing the iTunes charts for someone else to dominate.

The latest episode of the podcast is now available. The show notes are available below, along with downloads. If you prefer to stream it live, then the YouTube version is available at the bottom of this post. Don’t forget you can subscribe to techAU via iTunes and Zune.

Downloads

HD 720p version (660MB)
iPod version (170MB)
MP3 version (27MB)

Box.net bandwidth issue sorted

• Download away !

Tech.Ed Australia

• Strange year (Win8, Mango not quite here)
• Developer interviews
• Keynote
• Opening Party (Forza 4, Star Wars Kinect)
• Media Showcase
• Family HQ
• Green Button
• Ezi Data Solutions
• Cloud Media Roundtable (CTO MS AU)
• Soul Solutions
• Resonate Solutions
• Windows SDK
• Closing Party

Build Conference

• Starts Wednesday, Windows 8 detailed.
• Fast Boot times, Hyper-V support, ISO and VHD files, Ribbon UI in Explorer, Copying files, duplicate files. * Build Windows blog – http://blogs.msdn.com/b8/
• Long Zheng from iStartedSomething.com is at the event.

Review: MacBook Air

• Great buying experience
• Bootcamp 4.0 is awesome
• SD Card slot, battery life

TiVo Elite announced, we miss out again

• 4 tuners, 2TB hard drive
• CEO of Hybrid TV has left, CMO taking over.
• Business as usual – that’s the problem.

Yahoo CEO fired

• Carol Bartz, dumped by CEO
• Yahoo news, flickr still strong
• Skydrive making unlimited docs and photos.. impact on Flickr ?

The latest episode of the podcast is now available. The show notes are available below, along with download links. If you prefer to stream it live, then the YouTube version is available at the bottom of this post. Don’t forget you can subscribe to techAU via iTunes and Zune.

Downloads

HD 720p version (594MB)
iPod version (216MB)
MP3 version (24MB)

Telstra to launch 4G service end-August

· August 29
· Coverage limited to 5km from the GPO in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane initially.
· 4G USB modem will be dual mode, failing back to 3G.
· Available initially to select business customers
· $0 upfront on the $49 Telstra Mobile Broadband Standard Plan over 24 months inc 7GB data.

Sponsor: iOS Developer Conference – One More Thing

The aim of this conference is to give an insight into how Australian developers are achieving success on the App Store, and forging full-time jobs and careers out of cultivating their ideas and publishing their creations on Apple’s App Store. For more information and details about the event, please visit http://onemorething.com.au

Saturday 13th August, 2011

Revolt Theatre, Kensington, Victoria

Avatar Kinect available in labs

· Eyebrows, mouth, arms tracked.
· Fingers + movement side to side not tracked
· A number of environments

WP7 Mango Update

· Developers have the build, can’t talk about it
· Will be called 7.5
· Bunch of new manufacturers / phones coming at launch
· Launch expected around September

Google Plus Update

· Use case very limited
· Some reporting better engagement vs facebook and twitter
· UI holding it back
· Hangouts are cool, but rarely need to use them.
· +1 button is the best of all sharing buttons

Borderlands 2 confirmed

· 2012/2013
· First look at the game at Gamescom 2011 from August 17 – August 21, and at PAX Prime (Booth #3417) from August 26 – August 28

techAU going to Tech.Ed

· Microsoft tech conference
· 30^th Aug – 2^nd September
· WP7.5 should be on display
· 2 early for Windows 8, Build conference isn’t till Sept 13^th. (Sold out, streamed live)

Sensus night

· Tuesday 9^th August
· Will you complete it online?
· Estimations are that 1/3 of Australians will
· Government collects data to make planning decisions
· In your best interest to complete it accurately

Finding Twitter stats for your area is hard

· How many people are tweeting in your area ? Who is the most active ? What are they talking about (trends) ?
· Most twitter search services use data from tweets, not profiles
· http://Tweepz.com is closest, but data is out of date
· Opportunity for someone to create an app that services this need

JB Hi-Fi NOW Music streaming service

· Coming soon (before the end of the year)
· No pricing
· Unlimited access and listening to music from Mac, PC, Mobile
· 6 and 8 million tracks from 100,000 artists
· Microsoft Zune missed their chance ?

The latest episode of the podcast is now available. The show notes and download links are available below. If you prefer to stream it live, then the YouTube version is available at the bottom of this post. Don’t forget you can subscribe to techAU via iTunes and Zune.

Download

HD 720p version (481MB)
iPod / iPhone version (188MB)
MP3 version (21MB)

Internode announce NBN pricing higher than ADSL2
http://blog.internode.on.net/2011/07/21/nbn-retail-pricing-pressure-points
http://www.internode.on.net/news/2011/07/236.php

Sponsor: iOS Developer Conference – One More Thing (Saturday 13th August, 2011)
The aim of this conference is to give an insight into how Australian developers are achieving success on the App Store, and forging full-time jobs and careers out of cultivating their ideas and publishing their creations on Apple’s App Store. For more information and details about the event, please visit http://onemorething.com.au 

Apple releases new Macbook Air, Mac Mini, OSX Lion

• White Macbook discontinued
• Core i5 / i7 processors, SSD’s, no Optical drives
• OSX A$31.99 – LaunchPad, Mishion Control, Multi-touch gestures, Inverse scrolling, Full-screen apps, not all apps are supported, hosed Bootcamp Win7 partitions

ManaBar Melbourne Opening

• 4hrs there, 4hrs back, 30 minutes inside
• Small, but awesome place, made by the people

Google + a few weeks in.

• 10M users confirmed.. reports of closing in on 20M.
• Hangouts the best feature

Australia getting R18+ rating for games

• In-principle agreement from all states except NSW.
• http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-22/games-rating-agreement/2806200

Back again for another episode of the podcast, show notes and download links below. If you prefer to stream it live, then the YouTube version is embedded for your convenience.

ICANN to allow new TLDs from 2013.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/06/20/domain.names.explainer/index.html

Nokia announce the N9
http://swipe.nokia.com

Sponsor: iOS Developer Conference – One More Thing (Saturday 13th August, 2011)
The aim of this conference is to give an insight into how Australian developers are achieving success on the App Store, and forging full-time jobs and careers out of cultivating their ideas and publishing their creations on Apple’s App Store. For more information and details about the event, please visit http://onemorething.com.au

WP7 Mango update details
http://www.winrumors.com/windows-phone-mango-secret-features-demo-video

Display Port 1.2
http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/22/displayport-1-2-adds-active-cable-support-brings-longer-cords/

Firefox 5 released
http://www.bgr.com/2011/06/22/mozilla-launches-firefox-5-with-even-more-awesomeness/

Voluntary Internet Filter coming next month to BigPond and Optus
http://tinyurl.com/3fx6x8y

Gaming – Dirt 3 / Duke Nukem Forever

Download Links

NBN update

• Governments Business Plan released
• Entry-level wholesale plan of $24 expected to be $52 ?
• 8 year build, now 9.5
• Opposition still opposes, what happens next election

Skype down

• Skype down for hours
• Internet goes crazy
• Twitter over capacity

CES2011

• January 6th – 9th 2011
• Technology previewed for release later in 2011
• Big themes – Tablets
• http://www.cesweb.org/

North American International Auto Show

• - January 9th – 12th
• Watch techAU.tv for coverage and #NAIAS
• Guest of Ford

Year in Review

• Trip to America, visited TWiT, San Diego Zoo, Hot air balloon ride in Phoenix, Helicopter ride over Grand Canyon, week in San Francisco, bought iPad. Tech.Ed on the Gold Coast.
• New tech this year – Kinect, Boxee Box, iPhone 4, iPad, Audio Mixer, Logitech Pure-Fi Express Plus, Canon 500D, Angry Birds, Words with Friends.
• Kogan TV for my parents (first TV online)

Survey

techAU.tv/survey

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HD version
iPod version
MP3 version

From last week, Zune owners (predominantly US-based) can now get the techAU podcast. Both the MP3 and HD versions are available. Whilst Australians may be scratching their heads as to why this is important, techAU does receive a significant amount of its audience from the US.

With Microsoft’s announcement that Windows Mobile 7 will include Zune services, including podcasts, this will be important globally in the future.

techAU is always committed to delivering content in new and exciting ways. Giving users more destinations to consume our content ultimately helps to build audience, and improve the show.

More @ Zune.net

Now recorded, editing is underway for Episode #46 of the podcast, it’ll be available just as soon as your hangover subsides

If you want a sneak peak, check out the show notes.

Hope you all have a fantastic Australia Day !

Update
Podcast now available

Last night I had the opportunity to be on the Frankly Speaking podcast to discuss all things CES 2010. Hosted by Andrew Coates and Michael Kordahi, I had a great time hope to be on again in the future.

Please check it out. Head over to the FranklySpeaking website, have a listen and don’t forget to subscribe.

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There comes a time in every podcasts journey when things need to be upgraded. That time has arrived. I’m investing in the podcast with some serious new audio gear.

New items include:

• Heil PR40 Microphone
• Heil PL2T Mic Stand
• Heil SM-2B Shock mount
• Vinsheild pop filter

Check out the video below to see the unboxing and setup of the new audio equipment.

Update
The new audio setup is now complete. I’ve recorded some audio, check out, see what you think.

Microphone Test – MP3 (668kb)