Bluetooth has been around for a few years now and has become common place in Mobile Phones and laptop computers. Over the last 6 months of writing Inspect My Gadget, a have had a much deeper look into what Bluetooth can do for me.

There are a lot of people who use Bluetooth purely for connecting up a Bluetooth headset to their phone, but Bluetooth can be used for so much more than this. Each Bluetooth enabled device offers its own range of Bluetooth services. Each service can be used to give you a feature you may not have experienced yet. 

This article will explain what Bluetooth is and offer you a lengthy collection of fun things you can try with it, bringing together many of the Bluetooth articles which are already available at Inspect My Gadget.

I have not seen many of these fantastic Bluetooth features reported elsewhere on the web. Bluetooth has not seemed to have been overly embraced by the public. I feel Bluetooth is very powerful and the word should be spread.

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I keep hearing this term around the Internet titled Web 2.0. What does this mean? It doesn’t make any sense because the web has evolved over the last 20 years and the Internet has evolved with it. I would have thought that Web Version 2.0 would be referring to when web pages came into fashion as opposed to the older bulletin boards.

So I did some research into what Web 2.0 is, mainly to find out how it can help us in our day to day computing. From the little snippits I have read so far, it does not seem like Web 2.0 is anything new.

This article will hopefully clear up what Web 2.0 is. A lot of Internet sites are making a lot of money out of it, and I want to know what all the fuss is about. Currently it feels like I am going to be let down by something that has been around for years. Let’s have a look into it.

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Remember the games and applications we used to use constantly? Many of these have been abandoned by their manufacturer and released to the public domain free of charge. This is because they are no longer making the company any money and the company no longer wants to support the product. The result is that some of these games and applications can be freely distributed.

Because of this, the term “Abandonware” started. There are a whole heap of games that were made before 2000 that can now be downloaded and played for free.

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I live in a house with very bad television reception which allows me when the weather is good, to get only 3 television channels. When it is raining, I am lucky if I can get one. I  have had to make the move to watching TV through my computer as this is much more reliable for me. A result was that I can now get much more interesting content, as I choose what shows I want to watch out of a huge range available internationally.

Certain TV channels, websites and individual shows are now releasing their content online in the form of a Vodcast. The Vodcast software which you need to install on your computer downloads the show around the time the show goes to air for you to view at your own convenience at a later time. With this technology taking off and the list of available content getting longer, it won’t be long before we can get all our TV viewing material this way.

This article will look at some of the software you can use to get Vodcasts onto your computer. Vodcasts work very similar to RSS feeds and Podcasts, only this time for video. In fact, a Vodcast is a Podcast. They all provide syndicated content. We can set the content to download automatically to our computers without needing to go to the website to get the video files manually. Vodcasting often offers us entire shows rather than a few select grabs.

This article is in no way comprehensive. It is for people who have not yet experienced watching Vodcasts on their computer and want to give it a go.

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We have been able to stream radio shows onto our computers for quite a few years now. Using our computers to stream these shows live has helped us get to content that is from overseas, making the world smaller. It has also helped us get local stations if we live in a location with bad reception or if we are just outside the range of the stations signal coverage. This is called webcasting.

Podcasts are the next step in this evolution. Podcasts are not streamed live but that opens us up to many more listening options. We are no longer limited to radio shows as many websites are now offering their genre and news in the form of a Podcast, releasing regular episodes for free to the public. The information you can get covers as many genres as there are websites. Some of the content is produced professionally and others are very amateur.

The Podcast software which you need to install on your computer, downloads the content for you so you can listen to at your own convenience at a later time. Using Podcasts is very quick and easy and I want this article to encourage the use of this fairly new technology as it is getting more and more popular.

This article will look at some of the software you can use to get Podcasts onto your computer. Podcasts work the same as RSS feeds as it is also syndicated content, only this time for audio. We can set Podcasts to download automatically to our computers without needing to go to the website to get the Podcast audio files manually. This article is in no way comprehensive. It is for people who have not yet experienced listening to Podcasts on their computer and want to give it a go.

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