The Tech Addicts Podcast

Lively and rousing weekly UK based podcast about all forms of technology. Hosted by Gareth Myles and Ted Salmon Visit us at www.techaddicts.uk

Mobile Meat 03/09/2025

The Powershot of Love 03/02/2025

The Powershot of Love Gareth and Ted battle hangovers to chat about the Canon Powershot V1 and V3, alongside an aluminium vinyl player, Anbernic's new ROM delivery app, and upcoming tablet from Oppo and Pixel Penis. With Gareth Myles and Ted Salmon RSS Link: | | | | | | | Feedback, Fallout and Contributions JTManuel Wow! I never thought I'd get a mention. Thank you guys. I've been listening to the both of you since forever (Ted from PSC, Gareth since Mobile Tech Addicts) and have yet to be disappointed. I too am like Ted. I'm currently an RGN working in a private care home here in Barrow-in-Furness and have been a tech enthusiast since I got my . I then moved on to the NES (not SNES) then all iterations of Gameboy. And you guys are all so relatable. I am always looking forward to both PSC and Tech Addicts for my daily walk to work. Keep up the great work and cheers from the North West! @CheapRetroGaming Thanks so much for sharing this interview, I've only watched a few videos from Slopes Game Room but I've enjoyed what I've seen thus far. For the podcast/interview here, I liked the different stories of what Daniel had gone through, such as almost getting scammed by the other channel, but thankfully avoiding that. I had also never heard of his epic Amico video that he had produced either. I hope to check it out later! Years ago I was really interested in that system because I liked the idea of the unique controller and the family friendly games, but of course, I have no interest in getting it now. It's sad how all that has panned out. Thanks again for your interview! News - - Banters: Knocking out a Quick Bant Bargain Basement: Best UK deals and tech on sale we have spotted Ali Foote on £14.99 from £26.99 - £13.99 £189 from £289 - £39.09 £114.50 from £148.99 - £99.95 with 90 hour battery, £59.99 from £79.99/£69.99 Main Show URL: | Contact:: | Gareth - | | | | Ted - | | | YouTube: /episode/index/show/techaddicts/id/35498595

Slopes does Tech Addicts 02/23/2025

Tech Addicts 2025 - Vibes of a Vinyl Revival 02/16/2025

Tech Addicts 2025 - The Encryption Element 02/09/2025

Tech Addicts 2025 - The Encryption Element Gareth and Ted chat about the UK Government compelling Apple to give access to their encryption, Meta torrenting ebooks, Coolermaster unleashing the Masterhub, Windows 98, AOL Desktop, film photography and Ted's take on the Marshall Monitor III. With Gareth Myles and Ted Salmon RSS Link: Direct Download | | | | | | | | Feedback, Fallout and Contributions @martemiranda1171 I got this recommended by YouTube hahaha Simon Bates has Given Windows The Boot! After listening with interest to your tales of tinkering with Linux, and as Windows was getting on my tits, I decided to give Linux a try. I used a piece of software on a USB called . It allows you to put as many ISO files on a USB as you want without committing to any one operating system. I tried about 5 live Distros over the course of a week. It really is a tinkering dream. Distro-hopping is so addictive. It’s like setting up a new phone then changing it again! I couldn’t believe how advanced Linux has become. In the end I opted for which is based on but geared towards gamers as I have a big library. Every game just works as soon as downloaded. As Gareth said, there seems to be a decent software store with everything you need - and it all just works. Thanks guys for giving me a little nudge. Looking forward to your Linux special. News - Banters: Knocking out a Quick Bant SE is a thing! like Vinyl LPs? . If so, a good time to buy a ? Bargain Basement: Best UK deals and tech on sale we have spotted - £8.99 6-Port GaN Charging Station, 2.26" LCD Display and Smart Control Dial - £139.99 from £169.99 - £32.49 Includes Premium Pen – Jade Metallic 16% off, £359 from £429 - £97.18 Portable Bluetooth Keyboard With Built-in Cover, Pale Grey (only), first reduction to £65.35 from £79.99 since launch - £14.99 14.0" 2.8K 90Hz Touchscreen Intel i5-13500H, 16GB RAM, 512GB, Windows 11 40% off, £599 from £999 Main Show URL: | Contact:: | Gareth - | | | | Ted - | | | YouTube: /episode/index/show/techaddicts/id/35209130

Seb's Place does Tech Addicts 02/02/2025

Tech Addicts 2025 - The Galaxy of Terror 01/26/2025

Tech Addicts 2025 - The TikTok Timebomb 01/19/2025

Tech Addicts 2025 - Mecha Minds 01/12/2025

Tech Addicts 2025 - An Ayaneo Diffusion 01/05/2025

Sunday 29th September - Here Comes That Syncthing Feeling 09/29/2024

Sunday 29th September - Here Comes That Syncthing Feeling Gareth and Ted are joined by Ricky West to cheat about Syncthing, Huawei's HarmonyOS, Lenovo's new gaming tablet, FiiO KA15 DAC, Wear OS 5, Vivo on Android 15, Motorola Thinkphone, Hasselblad's limited camera medium format camera, Galaxy Tab S10+ and Ultra rumours, OpenAI and ChatGPT pricing, Marshall Monitor III, Pro-Ject T1 EVO and a little deal from Denon! With Gareth Myles and Ted Salmon RSS Link: | | | | | | | | Feedback, Fallout and Contributions Ian Barton on For several years I have been running an i3 box with Archlinux and TVHeadend to record TV. A couple of months ago the motherboard died. I wanted to record TV directly to one of my UNRAID servers up in the attic. Unfortunately, there are no TV aerial coax connections in the attic. I decided to buy this box. You can plug the HDHomeRun into your aerial in the lounge and use the other aerial connector to plug directly into the TV. The HD Homerun has an ethernet port so I can connect to another box somewhere on the network. Using Emby I can connect directly to the box to watch live TV. Emby on my UNRAID server supports HDHomeRun, so I can record TV programs using the schedule from the HDHomerun. I can watch Emby recordings from anywhere else on the planet that has WiFi and decent Internet access. HDHomeRun app on both Android and iOS that allows you to record programs and watch the recordings. Steve Litchfield on You're absolutely safe without a VPN. Every Internet-facing application accesses data over an already-secure connection. There's nothing bad guys could do even if they were to somehow intercept random batches of your over-the-air 1s and 0s. VPNs are OTT security. It will make activity significantly slower, because of extra encryption - pages will take longer to load, videos will buffer more. You just don't need a VPN. You really don't. Even in a dodgy cybercafe in Turkey. Your own encryption, built into your OS and applications, is quite enough. One caveat to all this - VPN's ability to fake where you are in the world to a service that you're accessing. Which is borderline illegal, or at least against terms of service of whichever service you're accessing. But so what? Save your money! - Linux Levity News, Mews and Views Hardline on the hardware Audio Antics The Wearables Watch Phone Zone - Edge 50 Neo clone in Work Clothes! Flap your trap about an App 26,000 on my PC! Google Gallows & Chrome Coroner - Bargain Basement: Best UK deals and tech on sale we have spotted 2 pack Now £15.99 20% off Was £19.99 + 6% Voucher at checkout 4 pack Now £22.99 42% off Was £39.99 + 6% Voucher at checkout - first reduction from £219 to £169 Now £414.99 19% off Was £509.99 £31.99 from £41.99 Now £269.00 33% off Was £399.00 £279.99 + free TCL NxtPaper Tab 11 (currently £169) Main Show URL: | Contact:: | Gareth - | | | Ted - | | | Ricky - YouTube: /episode/index/show/techaddicts/id/33249277

Tech Addicts Podcast - Cloud Controversies - 15 Sep 2024 09/15/2024

Sunday 1st September - Atari or Spectrum this Christmas? 09/01/2024

The Gadget Show does Tech Addicts - Jason Bradbury 08/16/2024

Sunday 6th August - Ted On The Edge 08/06/2024

Sunday 21st July 2024 - Measuring your Ring 07/21/2024

Sunday 23rd June - Samsung Galaxy Ulster 06/23/2024

Sunday 9th June - Peeking at Pentax 06/09/2024

Sunday 26th May - Something has come to the Surface 05/26/2024

Sunday 26th May - Something has come to the Surface Gareth and Ted chat about being a YouTuber, Logitech MX Keys Mechanical, Microsoft's plans for the CoPilot + PCs at the Surface event, screenshooting your personal information, UGREEN's latest Portable station, Motorola Moto G85, 6TB 2.5-inch portable hard drives and the HMD T21. With Gareth Myles and Ted Salmon RSS Link: | | | | | | | Feedback, Fallout and Contributions Ian Barton on Worried that your emby or Plex server has stopped working? UptimeKuma is a monitoring application which you can set up to watch over your computers and services and send you warnings if it can't assess the app or server. Monitoring uptime for HTTP(s) / TCP / HTTP(s) Keyword / HTTP(s) Json Query / Ping / DNS Record / Push / Steam Game Server / Docker Containers Fancy, Reactive, Fast UI/UX Notifications via Telegram, Discord, , Slack, Pushover, Email (SMTP), and 90+ notification services 20-second intervals, Multi Languages, Multiple status pages, Map status pages to specific domains, Ping chart, Certificate info, Proxy support, 2FA support Banters: Knocking out a Quick Bant A feature on how to do simple desk-down YouTube review videos. Ted's News, Mews and Views (we’ll come to Recall later in the show) Hardline on the hardware - - it’s a Nokia T21 clone! - The Wearables Watch Phone Zone - () The Name of the Game - A Vita moreso than the PSP - Flap your trap about an App and then there’s all copying Apple’s Time Capsule? Google Gallows & Chrome Coroner in the meantime - See the badge at this - - Bargain Basement: Best UK deals and tech on sale we have spotted £254 from £379 - £65.83 - the top-end Scribe with over £100 off so £304 PD 30W Travel Adapter with USB C GaN Fast 4-in-1 £13.99 Or but P&P will apply. £129 from £199 for iPhone Foldable Wireless Charging Pad - £16.49 Wireless Gaming Mouse £96 from £139 Main Show URL: | Contact:: | Gareth - | | | Ted - | | | YouTube: /episode/index/show/techaddicts/id/31468447

Sunday 12th May - With a Hint of Mint 05/12/2024

Sunday 28th April - Immich and Emulators 04/28/2024

Sunday 31st March - Yaw wanna hear this! 03/31/2024

Sunday 17th March - To be sure, to be sure 03/17/2024

Sunday 17th March - To be sure, to be sure Gareth Myles and Ted Salmon host a St. Patrick's Day Tech Addicts podcast discussing Voyager 1's latest "poke" from NASA and its minimal computer capacity. They talk about LocalSend, a cross-platform file-sharing tool, and consider diving into Linux. The episode also covers a range of tech topics from Samsung's new phones, a potential TikTok ban, to the latest in wearables and AI advancements. To be sure. With Gareth Myles and Ted Salmon RSS Link: | | | | | | | Feedback, Fallout and Contributions AJ Santos on The Nasa team recently sent a "poke" to prompt V1's flight data system (FDS) and received a signal that differed from past attempts. A DSN engineer helped decode this signal, which may contain clues to the source of the issue. There is hope! The computers aboard the Voyager probes each have 69.63 kilobytes of memory, total. That’s about enough to store one average internet jpeg file. The probes’ scientific data is encoded on old-fashioned digital 8-track tape machines. Once it's been transmitted to Earth, the spacecraft have to write over old data in order to have enough room for new observations. The Voyager machines are capable of executing about 81,000 instructions per second. The smartphone that is likely sitting in your pocket is probably about 7,500 times faster than that. They transmit their data back to Earth at 160 bits per second. A slow dial-up connection can deliver at least 20,000 bits per second. …and Kurt Kaufman on (but it can’t live forever)! ------------------- Ian Barton on (14-minute YouTube Video) A Cross-Platform, Open Source Alternative to AirDrop and Quick Share. Works nicely on my Pixel, Chromebook and Linux computers. It's supposed to work with iPhone and Windows, but I haven't got any of these systems to test it on. ------------------- Banters: Knocking out a Quick Bant Streaming woes… farewell Netflix and Prime? Gareth bought a new phone and the - - News, Mews and Views Hardline on the hardware The Wearables Watch Pixel Watch Steps are inaccurate vs Galaxy Watch Phone Zone - - - The Name of the Game Flap your trap about an App - Next Edge… (assuming they’re not banned!) Google Gallows & Chrome Coroner (...at last! But not on Pixel 7 yet only Samsung.) - Bargain Basement: Best UK deals and tech on sale we have spotted 256GB/8GB, Viva Magenta £299 from £331.62 + 5 Months x £60 - Now 33% off £39.99 was RRP: £59.99 – Snow (Amazon Exclusive) - £329 from £372.58 + £65.80 x 5 months - £9.94 Was £14.99 £189 from £299 + £37.80 x 5 months - £99.99 (Intel Core i5-1235U, 8GB, 256GB SSD, 14 Inch Full HD Display, Google Chrome OS, Iron, 30 Percent PCR Chassis) £429 from £599 - £234.99 …and if you live in the good ol’ USofA and fancy a Marshall Speaker, there’s loads of - but sadly not in the UK Main Show URL: | Contact:: | Gareth - | | | Ted - | | | YouTube: /episode/index/show/techaddicts/id/30406088

Sunday 3rd March - A Wooden Satellite 03/03/2024

Sunday 3rd March - A Wooden Satellite Gareth Myles and Ted Salmon are back with tips on decrypting Audible books with Libation, concerns about Voyager 1's failing communications, and latest tech news covering from wooden satellites and mass-produced 1TB microSD cards to affordable smartphones and innovative wearables. With Gareth Myles and Ted Salmon RSS Link: Direct Download | | | | | | | Feedback, Fallout and Contributions Ian Barton on Downloading and Decrypting Your Audible Books. I have a lot of books on Audible. I would like to download them in a format that is decrypted in case Audible goes "Mammaries skywards" in the future, or is taken over by another company that demands you pay for all your books again. I came across a free program called Libation. You can view it on GitHub and it can be installed on most operating systems. It has all sorts of filtering options and will download a postage stamp size icon. Note you can only download books that you have purchased from Audible. -------------- AJ Santos on Voyager 1 is the furthest any human object has ever gone from Earth. It is now over 15 billion miles from our planet, flying through interstellar space. Since its launch in August 1977, the spacecraft has remained in contact with Earth, but over the last several months, that communication has become nonsensical. Are we about to lose the second-longest operating spacecraft in human history? ------------------- Banters: Knocking out a Quick Bant Streaming woes… farewell Netflix and Prime? News, Mews and Views Hardline on the hardware (One single, measly update to A14, eventually) The Wearables Watch Phone Zone - Flap your trap about an App Google Gallows & Chrome Coroner Hark Back Bargain Basement: Best UK deals and tech on sale we have spotted lowest price since launching at £169, now £119 - Now £24.99 Was: £79.99 £37.98 from £59.99 - Was: £29.99 Now £19.99 + 10% off voucher = £17.99 - Lossless 2.4 GHz - 30 Hour Battery Life - £112 from £174 - HOLY SHIT! Something different! - Now £160.00 Was £199.99 63% off, now £19 Main Show URL: | Contact:: | Gareth - | | | Ted - | | | YouTube: /episode/index/show/techaddicts/id/30205843

Sunday 18th February - Publisher Perished 02/18/2024

Sunday 4th February - Tuck, Fold and Roll 02/04/2024

Sunday 21st January - Its a Ring Thing 01/21/2024

7th January 2024 - Scratching that Twitch 01/07/2024

Sunday 10th December - The Podcast Before … Xmas 12/10/2023

Sunday 10th December - The Podcast Before … Xmas Gareth and Ted get together for a *festive* epic as they chat about The Day Before, the Samsung Galaxy Tab A8, ChatGPT, Windows 10 support, Duracell Battery, Logitech Astro, Yamaha CD-C603, Rotor R550X, Murena 2, vivo Y100i, final UX3000 and the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra. With Gareth Myles and Ted Salmon RSS Link: | | | | | | | Feedback, Fallout and Contributions Chad Dixon with his 2021 Review I mostly use a tablet for browsing the internet, maps, light gaming, watching streaming video content and video calls & conferencing. I can report that the A8 is excellent for all of these on its clear and bright 10.5" LCD screen. Audio quality is very good on its four Dolby Atmos speakers. There's no booming bass but it's definitely loud enough when watching music and concert videos and there’s a 3.5mm jack. Battery is pretty decent, 7040mAh. I could go a whole week with light use. 64GB I've filled already but there is an SD card slot. My gaming is mostly puzzles so I'm not pushing the graphics capabilities of its Unisoc Tiger T618 (12nm) Octa-core processor. Build quality has proved to be good so far. It's been in a folding case since day one. But even naked, its 508g 6.9 mm thick body feels very sturdy in the hand. The back does warm up a bit during a long video viewing session but no real problem. Overall, I'm very pleased with my purchase and at under £170. I would highly recommend this tablet for everyday use. You're getting a whole lot of tablet for a budget price. ------------------ Xerxes Hodivala on It’s a beautiful space with all their current products on display. I had to get my Fold 4 repaired under warranty. The S-Pen digitiser had failed on each side of the crease. They are going to replace the digitiser, inner screen, metal frame, hinge and both batteries as part of the service. It will basically be a new device when I get it back. The experience was first rate, as good as customer service at an Apple Store. This was actually the reason why I decided on a Samsung rather than a Pixel or OnePlus for my first folding device. I wanted something that I could take to a physical shop for repair if needed. News, Mews and Views Hardline on the hardware Phone Zone - Blimey! 512GB half-decent mobile phone for £200?! The Name of the Game - Flap your trap about an App Google Gallows & Chrome Coroner Bargain Basement: Best UK deals and tech on sale we have spotted £299/£249 free buds with some, down from £439 and £399 - Hi-Fi Sound Quality - Hybrid Noise Cancelling - Maximum 35 Hours Music Playback - aptX Low Latency - Multipoint Connection - Designed in Japan - £105.00 Was: £119.00 (AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme model) - £699 to £549 (and 12-months to pay) - Now £89.00 RRP: £124.99 Triple Display, 13-in-1 USB-C Dock with Dual HDMI and DP, 10 Gbps USB-C and USB-A Data Ports, 100W PD, Ethernet, SD/TF, 3.5mm Audio - £93.49 +£30 off discount using link = £63.49 Was: £109.99 (3rd Gen, 2023 release) £44.99 (£9 x 5 months too, for me), 3 colours [or £72.98 with the stand]. A good bedside companion for casual viewing/news/data/clock? I’ve never used Alexa/Amazon Smarts before. You? - 49 inch, 1440p, 240Hz, 1ms GtG, VA Display, HDR 10, AMD FreeSync compatible, Smart Energy Saving, Displayport, HDMI A freebie? Main Show URL: | Contact:: | Gareth - | | | Ted - | | | YouTube: /episode/index/show/techaddicts/id/29006263

Sunday 12th November - Where the EE Roam 11/12/2023

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