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Digital Life #28: Lapdancing laptops and phones you can touch

By Joseph Hanlon on 08 October 2008

Tags: 50d | 5800 | canon | digital life | itunes | networking | nokia | podcast | laptop | transfer


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Welcome to the latest edition of Digital Life, the only tech podcast with a list of laptops guaranteed to make you more appealing to the opposite sex.

In addition, we look at renting and buying movies online, pick apart Canon's latest dSLR, walk you through the process of transferring your iTunes from one computer to another, plus take an advanced look at Nokia's new touchscreen wonder — the totally tubular 5800 XpressMusic.

Behind the mics are CNET.com.au's Ella Morton and SEA FM's Cam St.Clair. CNET's newest tech crusader Alexandra Savvides pops in to discuss Canon's 50D in relation to the Dada art movement and the post-industrial age, while mobologist Joe Hanlon tells the harrowing tale of having to hold Nokia's new touchscreen phone and then having to give it back.

Each episode we bring you a bunch of chatter on the latest news, cool products and burning issues in the gadget world. The show goes out on radio from 10pm Wednesdays, or 8pm for the WA dwellers. To see if there's a station near you, visit TheRadio.com.au. You can also listen online from 10pm via the Sea FM Web site.

The podcast can be streamed or downloaded above and below. Listen to our previous episodes and subscribe via iTunes or RSS on our Digital Life podcast page.

Check out the links below for more info on what we talked about.

Nokia's totally Tubular new phone
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

Is Canon's 50D really 10Ds better than the 40D?
Canon 50D

Sexy, sexy Laptops
The five most beautiful laptops

What do you call a smartphone that doesn't make calls?
Archos debuts two 'internet media tablets'

Legal movie downloads? There is such a thing?
We take a good, hard look at the state of digital video downloads through iTunes and BigPond movies.

How to transfer your iTunes library from one computer to another
Ask Us: Transferring iTunes libraries

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