Practical Geek podcast
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- Website
- http://www.pressplaynetwork.ca/the-practical-geek
- Description
- Useful tech advice for frugal Canadians.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2017-12-02 01:30
- last episode published
- 2017-02-23 00:00
- publication frequency
- 18.24 days
- Contributors
- Dockercast
- Owner
- Barry Link
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 26
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Technology
Recommendations
Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2017-02-23 | We look at standing desks, including two office workers who've come up with their own cheap solution to an often expensive proposition. We visit a village in B.C. that bought a drone and wrap up with another instalment of You Can't Get It in Canada. Ba... |
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| 2017-01-17 | In this episode, I discuss what I've learned from months of using Netgear Arlo and D-Link cameras in my home. My conclusion: although they can be fun and useful, you might not want or need a camera at all. Listen to find out why. Also, another segment ... |
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| 2016-12-14 | Amazon Prime Video is no replacement for the loss of Shomi in the online video streaming space in Canada. But maybe that's not the point of the service. |
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| 2016-11-21 | Are you prepared for Black Friday? What about your holiday tech shopping list? Guests Tyler Orton and Brittany Whitmore parse out Black Friday with me and provide advice for tech consumers about what to expect this week, whether Black Friday is worth ... |
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| 2016-11-17 | The Google Chromecast has been my champion for months as the best budget streamer for Canadians. If all you want is to put Netflix or YouTube on your TV, this was the device to get. But now Roku has introduced the Express, which is $5 cheaper than the ... |
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| 2016-11-03 | We talk to two people who keep old devices running long after they’ve been rendered obsolete by new products and abandoned by their makers. Why do they that? Because sometimes, upgrading to a new device is the wrong thing to do. We meet an iPod Classic... |
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| 2016-10-21 | What would you do if all the technology you rely upon in your daily life suddenly stopped working? We talk to Patrick Blennerhassett, whose latest novel examines that scenario and what it means for our increasing dependency on technology. Then we talk ... |
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| 2016-09-22 | Roku and VMedia have partnered to provide what looks like Canada's first straightforward and legal live TV streaming package online. It's basically a skinny cable package available through a Roku streamer with no contracts or subscriptions to a cable s... |
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| 2016-09-09 | This episode is the second part of our two-part series on cord cutting in Canada in the second half of 2016. We discuss my suggestions for the devices, apps and services you should consider when cutting the cord. But first we talk with an old friend o... |
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| 2016-09-01 | As thousands more Canadians consider cutting the cord, we present part 1 of our fall update to the cord cutting scene in Canada. We once again talk to Sean Whitehead, owner of Kutko Canada, about the devices and services he recommends, the current stat... |
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