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361 Podcast episodes
- 1 Question, 3 Answers: How should I read and buy books? [S19E08]
This week we tackle another '1 question, 3 answers', combining requests from listeners who asked for advice on reading, books and the written word.
Ben, Ewan and Rafe each give their best answer... The only rule being that they can't agree with any previous answer.
Let us know your thoughts on these subjects or anything you'd like to hear covered in future via the website or Twitter.
Extended until Christmas: Leave us an iTunes podcast review, tell us (by email or Twitter) and Rafe will send you an exciting (and probably concrete-themed) postcard. One lucky reviewer could also win the last ever Blandford Estate limited-edition mug.
Support 361 Podcast
Links:
- Audible audiobooks
- Blinkist
- Feedly RSS reader
- Instapaper
- Apple News
- The Great Courses
- Kindle Paperwhite
- Kindle Oasis
- Kindle Unlimited
1 hr 6 min - All about voice assistants [S19E07]
This week the team discuss:
- The state of voice assistants and the devices we use at home.
- How Amazon's Alexa, Google's Assistant and Apple's Siri perform and their strengths and weaknesses.
- The future of voice assistants - are they a passing fad or destined to be built into everything?
Let us know your thoughts on these subjects or anything you'd like to hear covered in future via the website or Twitter.
Extended until Christmas: Leave us an iTunes podcast review, tell us (by email or Twitter) and Rafe will send you an exciting (and probably concrete-themed) postcard. One lucky reviewer could also win the last ever Blandford Estate limited-edition mug.
Support 361 Podcast
Links:
- tado° smart heating
- Echo Wall Clock
- Echo Flex
- Google Nest devices
- Akinator - Mind-reading skill
- Samsung Bixby
- Voice in a Can
1 hr 8 min - 1 Question, 3 Answers: Recommend me a wearable [S19E06]
This week we tackle another question in our new '1 question, 3 answers' format. Combining requests from several listeners who asked for advice on:
Wearable devices that don't look masculine?
A great 'first' smart watch?
Which is the 'best' smart watch?
Wearables that aren't for sport?
Ben, Ewan and Rafe each give their best answer... The only rule being that they can't agree with any previous answer.
Let us know your thoughts on these subjects or anything you'd like to hear covered in future via the website or Twitter.
Also, 'leave us a podcast review and Rafe will send you a postcard'... Leave us an iTunes podcast review, tell us (by email or Twitter) and Rafe will send you an exciting (and probably concrete-themed) postcard. One lucky reviewer could also win the last ever Blandford Estate limited-edition mug.
Support 361 Podcast
Links:
- tado° smart heating controls
- Hive Smart Heating
- TechTalkUK podcast
- Monzo Premium
- Apple Watch
- Samsung Galaxy Watch 3
- Matt Miller's Mobvoi TicWatch Pro 3 review
- Garmin Instinct Esports Edition
- Polar heart rate sensors
- Polar H10 heart rate monitor on a chest strap
- The Woof pet tracker
- Tractive GPS tracker for cats and dogs
- Xiaomi Smart Band 5
- Withings Move smart watch
- Withings Steel HR smart watch
- Garmin MARQ Collection
- TAG Heuer Connected watch
- Montblanc Smartwatch Movement
1 hr 7 min - Subscriptions, home-working kit reviewed & video conferencing tips [S19E05]
This week the team discuss:
- Subscription services from XBox to washing machines and Volvos to magazines, we look at how many firms are experimenting with providing their services as subscriptions.
- Long-term reviews on our most important working from home kit, including desks, chairs, screens, lights and more. What turned out to work well and what would we recommend?
- Video conferencing tips for people working from home. We discuss tips for better video calls and some interesting experiments in making video conferencing work better.
We also launch our 'leave us a podcast review and Rafe will send you a postcard' campaign (the PR team are still working on the name). Leave us an iTunes podcast review, tell us (by email or Twitter) and Rafe will send you an exciting (and probably concrete-themed) postcard. One lucky reviewer could also win the last ever Blandford Estate limited-edition mug.
Let us know your thoughts on these subjects or anything you'd like to hear covered in future via the website or Twitter.
Support 361 Podcast
Links:
- Care by Volvo
- Access By BMW
- WashPass by Candy
- Xbox All Access
- Kindle Unlimited
- Philips Hue Play Light Bar
- Herman Miller Mirra 2 chair
- Elgato Key Light Air
- Jabra EVOLVE 80 headset
- Jabra Evolve2 40
- mmhmm - Clear, compelling communication for everyone
- Cameron Hunter's Zoom pop-ups triggered by hand gestures
- ManyCam virtual webcam
- Reincubate Camo - Use your phone as a pro webcam
1 hr 16 min - 1 Question, 3 Answers: Is 5G worth it? [S19E04]
This week we tackle another question in our new '1 question, 3 answers' format. Long-time listener @martineyles asks:
I see lots of rollout of 5G going on, but there are still populated areas where I can't get any data coverage at all.
Other listeners wrote in to ask if 5G handsets were good buys. We combined them all into a single question:
Is 5G worth it?
Ben, Ewan and Rafe each give their best answer... The only rule being that they can't agree with any previous answer.
Let us know your thoughts on these subjects or anything you'd like to hear covered in future via the website or Twitter.
Support 361 Podcast
Links:
- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
- Ewan guests on Fintech Daydreaming podcast
- Apple Watch 6
- STREAKS habit tracker
- CARROT Weather
- Weather Line
- Things to-do list app
- Widgetsmith
- Charty app to create graphs from shortcuts
- Starlink
1 hr 5 min - Apple bundles, what we crowdfund & app recommendations [S19E03]
This week the team discuss:
- Apple's early-Autumn (OK, 'Fall') announcements including their new Fitness+ service and One bundle (plus some new iPads and Watches).
- The things we've crowdfunded and kickstarted, including Ewan's tendency to be the kiss of death to any business he backs. Also, are these campaigns about more than fundraising now and are they worth backing?
- App recommendations - inevitably shaped by spending more time at home - the new services we're finding useful.
This episode was recorded before the merger of Crowdcube and Seedrs was announced.
Let us know your thoughts on these subjects or anything you'd like to hear covered in future via the website or Twitter.
Support 361 Podcast
Links:
- We're all working from Rafe Blandford's home office now (on Zoom)
- Set up an Apple Watch for a family member
- Apple One
- Apple Fitness+
- Seedrs
- Crowdcube
- Planta
- Patch - Indoor plant and houseplant delivery
- Quibi
- Drafts
- Zapier
53 min - 1 Question, 3 Answers: Apple vs Epic [S19E02]
This week we tackle the first question in our new '1 question, 3 answers' format. Twitter user @monkeyandweasel asks:
Will Fortnite (Epic) win against Apple, and what will be the impact?
Ben, Ewan and Rafe each give their best answer... The only rule being that they can't agree with any previous answer.
Let us know your thoughts on these subjects or anything you'd like to hear covered in future via the website or Twitter.
Support 361 Podcast
Links:
- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
- MacStadium - Mac hosting
- GrannySmith – tyler.io
1 hr 4 min - Robots, clever fitness tech & automated homes update [S19E01]
We're back and as we start our 19th season (and is it 8th or 9th year...?) the team discuss:
- How robots, clever sensors and AI are revolutionising some unexpected industries
- Taking health and fitness apps to the next level with machine learning
- An update on how our automated homes have responded to us being.. well... home more.
Let us know your thoughts on these subjects or anything you'd like to hear covered in future via the website or Twitter.
Support 361 Podcast
Links:
- Small Robot Company
- Graze Autonomous Mowing
- Hampshire County Council & PA Consulting trial 'cobots' in care sector
- Lumen metabolism tracker
- FocalPoint - more accurate GPS tracking for wearables
1 hr 3 min - Tik (Tok)-ed off, apps for time at home & our online profiles [S18E10]
It's the last episode of the season and in an extended episode the team discuss:
- Why we're abandoning out Tik Tok trial and the ongoing concerns with the platform's approach to privacy.
- The apps (and 'not apps' in Rafe's case) that we're using as we spend more time at home.
- Our online 'identities' via websites and profiles.
Let us know your thoughts on these subjects or anything you'd like to hear covered in future via the website or Twitter.
Support 361 Podcast
Links:
- TouchRetouch - Photo-cleaning app
- Snapseed - Photo touch-up app
- The Phones Show by Steve Litchfield
- Phones Show Chat podcast
- HEY email from Basecamp
- eufy RoboVac
- MX Keys keyboard
- Magnetic laptop stand (also for keyboards)
- Microsoft Edge browser
- iMessage 2FA Workflow for Alfred
- Alfred - Productivity App for macOS
- Ben's blog on essential apps and utilities for a new Mac
- TikTok accused of secretly gathering user data
- Apple Suddenly Catches TikTok Secretly Spying On Millions Of iPhone Users
- Kudoboard - Group Card For Special Occasions
- Monocle magazine
- Delayed Gratification magazine
- Popshot Quarterly magazine
- Offscreen magazine
- Backstage Talks magazine
- ManyCam
- mmhmm - Clear, compelling communication for everyone
- rafeblandford.com
- ewan.net
- about.me - Personal homepage service
- Carrd - One-page sites
- bensmith.uk
- Ghost - Blogging platform
- Universe — Website Builder on the App Store
- Fruition: Free, Open Source Toolkit for Building Websites with Notion
- Hosting Potion for Notion
- HostNotion - Custom domains for your Notion pages
- Micro.blog - Indieweb blogging
- One Page Love - One Page Website Inspiration and Templates
1 hr 7 min - Rafe's duck, Apple's silicon, Wirecard's melt-down & Basecamp's HEY email [S18E09]
This week, in addition to Rafe Blandford's pet duck (please use the official #duckfollowup hashtag for follow-up), the team discuss:
- Apple's annouced Macs running on its own ARM-based chips dubbed 'Apple Silicon'.
- Wirecard, the fintech world's 'secret' plumbing that suddenly became very visible when a UK financial regulator forced it to stop its services.
- HEY (yes, it's all capitals...) the 'opinionated' email service from the team behind Basecamp
Let us know your thoughts on these subjects or anything you'd like to hear covered in future via the website or Twitter.
Support 361 Podcast
Links:
- Rafe Blandford's quality Instagram duck content
- CalDigit TS3 Plus Thunderbolt 3 Dock
- Xioami Mi Box
- Lenovo Smart Frame on Indiegogo
- Apple announces Mac transition to Apple silicon
- Wirecard: Cardholders' money locked as FCA freezes UK subsidiary
- Curve - App & Card
- onfido - Document and facial biometrics verification services
- HEY by Basecamp
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About 361 Podcast
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The iTunes 5★ reviewed podcast that reviewers call it "A great British spin on the world of tech", "Informing and entertaining" and "the best tech podcast by far…"