7-11, Ice Cream & Christmas

Mark & Wes, in Walnut Creek, CA at the Tokyo Lobby.

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Mark figures out a way to intercept Wes on the bus using a system called Nextbus in order to take BART to the east bay together. We're thinking about changing the name of our show from WNO, to simply "SlurpCast". In this show, we talk a bit about the in-ear headphones that Wes got at the Apple store and Mark ordered via the Apple website. Mark feels that these are not as good as other in-ear headphones, like the Shure model he used before. Wes thinks that the lack of good movies has something to do with the writers strike. The Day the Earth Stood Still was yucky, although Gran Torino was good. Fart applications for the iPhone outnumber the total available applications on the Samsung Instinct. Ever hear about Usenet? Wes talks a bit about this old valuable part of the internet, but both of us get interrupted by the background noise of some darn college students.

Sites of Interest:

• The Nextbus system works with a few public transit systems around the US to give you GPS-based predictions for when the next bus will arrive at your stop. Their web server is good at bringing up very simple HTML when it sees you are contacting it with a dumb cellphone browser. The Routesy iPhone application interfaces with Nextbus data for San Francisco only.
  
  
• The new Apple In-Ear stereo headphones have a microphone for phone use and a remote control.
  
  
• The Spoofcard website and telephony servers let anyone on any phone in the US make phone calls with fake caller ID and altered voice. Mark inadvertantly kept calling this "spoofstick" because he was mixing this up with another service called VoiceStick. There is an iPhone jailbreak app called SpoofApp available through Cydia which makes it easier to use Spoofcard from an iPhone.
  
  
• Applications for Franky's phone, the Samsung Instinct.
  
  
• Opera - A very compact and creative browser for many operating systems, including some cellphones.
  
  
• The history of computer Spell Checkers. Also an interesting article on why the spell checkers in search engines are very different from the ones in word processors.
• Usenet - An underrated resource for valuable information. Wes' favorite usenet application is Agent.
  
  
• The Internet is for porn.
  
  
• Doug Engelbart demonstrated personal computing, networking, the first computer mouse, etc. in 1968.
  
  
• Videos of a Russian doll Theremin orchestra and a cat playing a Theremin. There are Theremin simulatorsfor the iPhone.
  
  

Wes' iPhone Applications of the week:

• Chopper - a game that reminds Wes of Chop Lifter for the Apple II.
• Allrecipes Dinner Spinner - an app that helps you choose a meal that's healthy for you to make at home.

Mark's iPhone Applications of the week:

• Keep In Touch- a contact manager that reminds you to keep in touch with people on an appropriate schedule.
• WifiTrak - a Wi-Fi finder that shows you whether an access point that appears to be open will actually let you connect to the Internet without needing validation.

Franky goes to Hollywood.. or San Francisco?

Mark, Wes, and guest Franky in Lafayette, CA at the Swad Indian restaurant.

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We have a guest this week: Franky, Al Bernay's disciple. Franky goes to Hollywood -- literally, that's where he lives; but for this week he was visiting in San Francisco. The audio quality in this show is excellent because we used a PZM microphone, however there is a lot of GSM noise because Mark's iPhone was too close to the recorder and Wes was more agressive than normal in editing this show to eliminate some of the noisiest spots. They talk about Myst Online, the new domain suffix .tel, the dBASE database management system, Radio Shack (ewwwwwww), CompuServe and Tymshare, and of course lots of iPhone stuff.

Sites of Interest:

• Radio Shack's PZM microphone, which may or may not actually be PZM.
  

• Franky's Facebook page. Franky Goes to Hollywood, the movie. Frankie Goes to Hollywood, the music group.
  
  
• Franky's cell phone is a Samsung Instinct.
  
  
• Myst Online goes open source.
  
  
• The new .tel TLD and how it is very different from other domain suffixes.
  
  
• History of the dBASE database management system.
  
  
• Read historic Radio Shack catalogs online.
  
  
• History of the CompuServe system.
  
  
• There are now over 10,000 iPhone applications in Apple's app store.
  
  
• A software hack to SIM unlock 3G iPhones -- meaning allowing them to be used on any GSM carrier instead of being locked to AT&T, for example -- will be released on 1/1/2009. If you already upgraded to firmare 2.2 using iTunes, then you won't be able to unlock using this method. If you have not upgraded yet, follow these instructions on how to upgrade only the firmware and not touch the GSM modem chip.
  
  

Wes' iPhone Applications of the week:

• Joost - play videos from joost.com.
  
  
• Woman Calendar - Men and women have very different reasons for using this; it's pretty expensive, but Wes thinks it's worth it.
  

Mark's iPhone Applications of the week:

• Copy/Paste - This is a little complicated to set up, but pretty easy to use and really does give you limited Copy and Paste functions for the iPhone.
  
  
• FindInPage - The podcast was edited so that a mention of this is inadvertently mixed in with the Copy/Paste discussion. FindInPage is a jailbreak app which is installed with Cydia, and edits your bookmark file to add a "Find in Page bookmark". WARNING: the current version of this app sometimes destroys your bookmarks instead of adding the new one, so wait for a revised version to show up.
  
  
• Pull My Finger - Stupid audio app which has a bunch of fingers to pull. Guess what happens.
  

In-ear headphones not

Mark & Wes, in Rockridge, CA at Pasta Pomodoro

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Our intro audio sample comes from the movie WestWorld. Mark reminds us about the Gopher protocol, and how that works. Wes remembers the text web browser Lynx. Why is Symbian supporting Lotus Notes? Why do companies who purchase other software companies, screw up the software products? Mark gets a phone call from a reporter investigating 911 fraud. Ever notice that bus and train riders who use laptops seem not to be aware of the fact that anyone can see their private information? Dell is now offering professional designs on their netbook line for an extra $50. Should employees get paid to wait for their computer systems to boot up? Near the end of the show, Mark and Wes talk a bit about the tools we use here to create the RSS feed and issues around the rich text editors involved.

Sites of Interest:

• New Apple In-Ear headphones with microphone and remote control.
  
  
• Griffin Clarifi iPhone case with macro lens.
  
  
• Craigs Crime List, a site where people can report crimes that happen to them on CraigsList.
  
  
• Ted Nelson coins the word "hypertext", predicts the world wide web.
  
  
• The Gopher protocol preceded html.
  
  
• Lynx is a text-only web browser that some people still use.
  
  
• Nokia S60 adds support for Lotus Notes.
  
  
• A history of computer spreadsheet software.
  
  
• VU-Calc for the Timex Sinclair ZX/81.
  
  
• Mark's comments about Steve Jobs and lowercase characters were wrong. He had read this Steve Jobs speech in 2005 and thought he remembered Steve making such a claim.
  
  
• News story about a modern-day blind phone phreak being arrested.
  
  
• Example of a privacy filter so people next to you can't see your notebook screen.
  
  
• Comparison of netbooks. Mark says that Fry's had only one when he visited several weeks ago, but they have a few models now.
  
  
• Article about companies not wanting to pay for booting and shutting down computers.
  

Wes' iTouch Applications of the week:

• Frotz - text adventure games for the iPhone and iTouch.
• iBlogger - a tool for blogging on your iPhone or iTouch.
• iHotness - am I hot or not for the iTouch or iPhone.
• CraigsMobileList - A better way to view CraigsList content on your iPhone.

Mark's iPhone Applications of the week:

• Sniff_jazzbox - an example of Mark's love for stupid audio apps.
  
• New version of Google search app has speech.
  

How to make BART go faster

Mark & Wes, in Orinda, CA at Yu Sushi.

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Wes isn't ready for the G1 phone yet, but is thinking about getting one once other carriers start offering their own Android phones. Mark doesn't think that the T-Mobile network is all that good, so holding off on the purchase of a G1 specifically may be wise. Was UNIX originally a public domain operating system from Bell Labs? Mark ponders the question of what device may have been made to emulate another, in the 1800's? Some guy hooks up electrodes to his face to move facial muscles based on the sound of music. Mark invented a device for a psychology lab to analyze thinking patterns. We end the show with an update on Al Bernay and the discoveries found at Al's place.

Sites of Interest:

• Ancient Rome layer added to Google Earth.
  
  
• Google G1 phone is gaining momentum?
  
  
• IBM 7090 - first computer to be used for animation.
  
  
• More on the history of early computer animation.
  
  
• Tron was pretty early, but not the first computer generated film.
  
  
• Blade Runner - the last analog sci-fi film.
  
  
• Dark Star - another famous analog sci-fi film.
  
  
• Unix history chart and First Unix manual with 60 commands, 11/3/71
  
  
• CP/M - Operating System by Digital Research.
  
  
• History of MS/DOS and speculation on why IBM used it instead of CP/M for the PC.
  
  
• The first timeshare system Mark used was CP/CMS and he evaluated a VM/PC.
  
  
• How to emulate VM/370, the successor to CP/CMS, on any modern PC!
  
  
• Apple's DOS Compatibility Boards.
  
  
• Microsoft's CP/M card for the Apple II.
  
  
• DOSBox - An x86 emulator with DOS.
  
  
• Univac computer first to predict elections, Eisenhower/Stevenson
  
  
• How to turn a human into a remote-controlled robot. Watch the video!
  
  
• Eye-tracking technology is useful for testing usability of software and websites.
  
  
• Google uses searches to track the spread of flu.
  
  
• Frankie helping Mark go through Al Bernay's things:
  
  
  
  
• Picture of Al in "the basement" in late 1960's. Note the homemade circuit cards hanging from the walls:
  
  
  
  
• A couple of these circuit cards that survived:
  
  
  
  
• The homemade switchboard that Al used to control his phone lines:
  
  
  
  
• Cherry-brand slide matrix switch that Al labeled to install into his equipment, but not sure if he ever used it:
  
  
  
  
  
  

Wes' iTouch Applications of the week:

• FieldRunners
  
  
• iDrum

Mark's iPhone Applications of the week:

• SiAX - SIP and IAX2 VOIP app, install from Cydia for jail-broken phones only
  
  
• iSkream - Stupid, but fun, audio app.
  
  
• iOscilloscope - Draws oscilloscope display from iPhone microphone sounds.

I want the Woot BOC

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Mark & Wes, in Walnut Creek, CA at the Plearn Thai Restaurant.

What's that Mark? Did you say Bag o' Crap? You still couldn't get one? Mark describes something called a woot-off, and tells all about what happens near the end of one of them. What does "MUD" stand for? Hmm.. Mark's friend has a hard disk issue that SpinRite fixed. The Android phone was released to a crowd of people in SF, but the experience was less than its competitor's waiting line. Mark and Wes discuss potential software for Android, and the T-Mobile plan for the G1 phone, which doesn't seem that much different than the iPhone AT&T plan.

Sites of Interest:

• Woot, and their occasional Bag of Crap.
  
  
• WNO's Listener Pull for the week: Sparrow, who is a developer of the popular Nirvana MUD internet adventure game.
  
  
• What does "M.U.D." stand for?  Wikipedia claims that Wes and Mark are both right.
  
  
• ChaCha.com: where any question gets answered, and YOU can make money helping to answer them.
  
  
• SpinRite is probably the best hard drive data recover software solution available.
  
  
• The first Android phone was released by T-Mobile.  See the rate plans as part of this FAQ.
  
  
• Android has an app store kind of like the iPhone, but more open.
  
  
•  Android has a "kill switch" so google can remotely remove an app from your phone. 
  
  
• AT&T has a data-only iPhone plan, but only for people who have a hearing or speaking disability.
  
  
• Scotch Tape can generate X-Rays; watch the detailed video.
  
  
• Do you remember Word Perfect?
  
  
• Mark changed his mind and now remembers Wordtech Systems of Orinda California began by making keyboard stickers for WordStar, not Word Perfect.
  
  
• Call Wes' cell from an unblocked land line, and MetroPCS will show your name as well as your number.
  
  
• Joost will now run within your web browser, and legally streams TV Shows and Video.
  
  
• Hulu is another legal service for streaming commercial video.
  
  
• Mark owns one of these Curta Calculators.  It was widely used in car rallies, and here are detailed instructions from 1979.

Wes' iTouch Application of the week:

• Theriminator - An emulator of one of the first electronic synthesizers, the Theremin.
  
  
• Mark mentioned that synthesizer pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre designed these speakers for the iPod.

Mark's iPhone Applications of the week:

• The Brightkite web service now has an iPhone app.
  
  
• WinterBoard - Theme your jail-broken iTouch/iPhone. 
  
  
• Crazy Skeleton - the ultimate Halloween costume accessory!
  
  
• Debugger - Peer into the circuitry of your iPhone and get rid of any bugs.

Where does the cheese go?

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Mark & Wes, in Lafayette, CA at the Chow Restaurant.

Tonight we find our two nerdy friends eating food at a small hidden away place underneath a heat lamp eating simple Italian meals. Mark doesn't get the joke on Melissa's myspace profile and goes on to describe the official definition of a 'myspace picture', and what it means to not understand camera usage. Mark speaks about perspective, and how the process of catching flying balls is, in reality, an easy algorithm. Microsoft is no longer supporting their old Spot Watch paging in the next version of MSN Messenger. Mark describes what bubble memory is and how time was involved. 4.13% of the HTML passes WC3 Validation? Also, what do Mark and Wes think of this new restaurant?

Sites of Interest:

• What causes GSM cellphone noise?
  
  
• WNO's Listener Pull for the week:  Melissa.
  
  
• Simple algorithm for how people and dogs can catch balls and frisbees.
  
  
• MSN is phasing out the ability to send pages to Spot watches.
  
  
• The IBM 5100 Portable Computer (Project Mercury)
  
  
• What Google searches looked like in 2001.
  
  
• If you dig a hole straight down, where will you come out?  Probably not China.
  
  
• The Grid Compass 1101 - Bubble Memory Laptop.
  
  
• Bubble memory never caught on.
  
  
• Early computer memory devices worked by wasting time.
  
  
• In Mark's first job, he had one of these amazing Wang calculators on his desk.  He can't find any references right now, but remembers it used an acoustic delay line memory.
  
  
• Opera study on W3C standards compliance.
  
  
• Internet Explorer 8 will be standards compliant.
  
  
• Flock 2 Browser adds social networking features.
  
  
• Mark and Wes use Digsby to handle all their instant messaging needs.
  
  
• Voipcheap and Poivy let you call landlines and cellphones around the world often for free, or a lot cheaper than Skype.
  
  
• How to store data so people hundreds of years from now can read it.

Wes' iTouch Application of the week:

• iDrink - the iTouch application to stir up your drink palette.

Mark's stupid iPhone Applications of the week:

• Using these you can even impress the harmonica-playing bus boy at Hometown Buffet!  iBeer, iMunchies, Harmonica.

I'm Loopt for Android

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Mark & Wes, in Lafayette, CA at the Swad Restaurant.

Mark and Wes console each other about their stock market losses. In our fantasy, our podcast is better than KenRadio. Use your phone to display membership cards? Of course you can, so long as the bar code is visible and the facility approves. What tools were available in the old days of computer game programming? Take for instance the Atari 2600? Woz used the 6502 processor for the Apple II, and used it because of the manufacturer handing out free processors at some conference he went to. Steve Jobs and Woz created Breakout for Atari. At what point in history were KeyPunch Operators highest in demand? Could YOU live off of unemployment? T-Mobile reports high numbers of pre-orders for the G1 Android Phone. Digsby is really one guy?

BTW, instead of waiting to gain an audience, Mark and I are going to come and get you!

Sites of Interest:

• KenRadio is one of the podcasts that inspired us to start our own.
  
  
• Scan membership cards and keep their images in your phone, instead of filling up your wallet.
  
  
• The MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor chip was the heart of the Kim-1, Commodore 64, Apple II, etc. Commodore later bought the chip manufacturer.
  
  
• Punch card computing with wire plugboard programming for tabulating and reporting functions.
  
  
• Keypunch machines.
  
  
• Magnetic drum memory, and how real programmers wrote code for early machines with drums as their only memory.
  
  
• Mark loves the FileTracer shareware program and has used it for years, but there is no Vista version.
  

• The "Everything" free program does basically the same function as FileTracer, but it does support Vista so Mark is happy again.
  
  
• The GoPhone unlimited data plans are being dropped. GoPhone sim cards will work in cellular modem cards and devices used with notebook computers.
  

Wes' iTouch Application of the week:

• WikiMe - Automatically displays GeoLocated Wikipedia articles for landmarks near you. This is perfect for traveling to strange cities and immediately seeing the tourist attractions around you.
  

Mark's iPhone Applications of the week:

• Loopt lets you see where your friends are on a map, and shows pictures and brief descriptions of other Loops users near you who opt in to that service.
  
• WhosHere is similar, but only for the function of showing other users near you.
  

Stanfords Restaurant & Bar

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Mark & Wes, in Walnut Creek, CA at Stanfords Restaurant and Bar.

Wes meets Wes, at Stanfords, where he and Mark discover what a 'butter burger' is. Mark discusses how to train a Cat by using a clicking device combined with treats and warm fuzzies. Apple drops the developer NDA for applications created for the iPhone, but what does this really mean? Wes complains the the Sarah Connor Chronicles will end of life soon, but then nothing good lasts forever. Mark bought the domain name RapKids.com for Wes' recording program in Byron County, and much of the music used on the WNO PodCast comes from his work with 360. If you followed Mark's advice and jailbroke your iPhone or iTouch, he has a slight warning for you, and describes what you must do NOW to protect your iPhone if it gets 'bricked'.

BTW, instead of waiting to gain an audience, Mark and I are going to come and get you!

Sites of Interest:

• The good lord willing and the crick don't rise.
  
  
• The cat training revolution.
  
  
• Apple drops the iPhone SDK NDA, possibly because of the controversy over the Podcaster app.
  
  
• Google offers a blog search engine that not only lets you search blogs, but automatically shows what stories are active right now in blogs around the world.
  
  
• Google has an experimental audio search engine where you type in keywords, and it will show portions of videos that contain those words in the audio track.
  
  
• Wes likes the Sarah Conner Chronicles.
  
  
• Myspace Music Recording Deals.
  
  
• Watch the video about the amazing future Plastic Logic Reader.
  
  
• Duke Nukem gets released for Xbox 360.
  
  
• The original Adventure game, and you can play it online or on your computer.
  
  
• The only other video game Marked ever liked was The Prisoner for Apple II.
  
  
• Z-machine interpreter for Infocom games.
  
  
• Nintendo releases DSI in Japan; comes to us next year?
  
  
• Mark's new external battery for charging an iPhone/iPod on the go.
  
  
• Warning for people who jailbroke your iPhone/iTouch: read this article and keep it handy because you might need it in case your iPhone becomes "bricked". BUT RIGHT NOW, BEFORE YOU GET BRICKED, you must set up the OpenSSH facility, or you won't be able to do what that article says. For Windows users, install the Putty program on your PC to talk to the OpenSSH connection.
  
  
• TwiddleBit makes Microsoft Project-like apps for Windows Mobile and Symbian phones.
  
  
• Leo Laporte is already using "Munchcast" as the name for a podcast, but they don't actually record from a restaurant so it isn't the same as our slurpcast.
  
  
• But Mark wins because he owns shitcast.com! (This will re-direct to slurpcast.)
  

Wes' iTouch Application of the week:

• iBlueSky - Mind Mapping Tool

Mark's iPhone Applications of the week:

• Backgrounder (for jailbreaked devices only; install with Cydia). Mark has been using this since the podcast was recorded and he finds that it only keeps the background apps running for a while. At some point, when the OS needs memory, you will find that the app may stop running in the background. This doesn't cause any harm; it just isn't as great as we expected.
  
  
• BeejiveIM - Instant Messaging Anywhere. Kind of expensive; Palringo does most of the same functions for free. But Beejive is worth it because it keeps IM sessions open for 24 hours when you exit the app. (Note that the settings for Beejive and many other apps appear in the iPhone's Settings app; you will not find them inside the Beejive program itself.)
  

Why not JailBreak?

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Mark & Wes, in Orinda, CA at Baan Thai.

Wes knows nothing about condoms. Mark jail breaks his iPhone 3g, which he then explains in more detail. They talk about how this hacking of the internal iPhone device started, and the discovery of the internal encryption key. Is it true that the jail broken iPhone runs applications better than the standard OS? The idea is that apps have more control over the device, than the standard Apple SDK allows. What is Mark to do with all the Esquire Digital Ink copies he owns? Wes thinks Apple watches the ideas that come out of the Jailbreak community to see what they might want to add to the standard firmware. Mark talks a bit about Android, and both discuss the positives and negatives regarding the HTC and T-Mobile introduction that should be more available next month. Is Municipal WiFi even a possibility? The Elvis Card.

Sites of Interest:

• Jailbreak your iPhone from a Windows system with iTunes 8 and this link. This is the method Mark used so we know it works. The same website has a similar jailbreak method for Macs. Note that the first iPhone boot after jailbreaking may take a very long time, so be patient and don't think that the process failed.
  
  
• The two competing App store programs for jail broken iPhone and iTouch devices: Cydia and Installer, and Cydia seems to be the newer method with the most apps. The above method for jailbreaking offers to install both of them, and you should let it. You will find these as icons just like any other iPhone apps, and the links above explain how to use them.
  
  
• Jailbroken iPhones can be used like a cellular modem for Internet access from a notebook. The best method for doing that is PDAnet which can be installed from Cydia.
  
  
• Jailbreak app IntelliScreen for showing info on the home screen.
  
  
• Google hired Andy Rubin, developer of the Sidekick, to lead the Android project.
  
  
• Android phones will work very closely with google's web apps such as gmail and Google Docs.
  
  
• The T-Mobile G1 Android phone.
  
  
• The way you pronounce linux, is...
  
  
• Video of Steve Ballmore being the PC guy.
  
  
• Craig of Craigslist has a boring twitter feed.
  
  
• Google has products under development for you to check out now.
  
  
• Very funny video of what it was like to use YouTube in 1985.
  
  
• This is the 25th anniversary of the cellular phone network. Mobile phone history from the perspectives of Motorola and AT&T.
  
  
• Ricochet wireless Internet was available in some areas of the country in the late 1990's. They used battery-operated modem boxes that you would Velcro to your notebook. This picture shows a Ricochet modem next to a notebook so you can tell the size.
  
  

Wes' iTouch Application of the week:

• X-Plane 9

Mark's iPhone Application of the week:

• Categories (install from Cydia for jailbroken devices)

Polenta and Potting Material

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Mark & Wes, in Lafayette, CA at Pizza Antica.

The show starts out with a story about the first integrated circuit on Sept 12th in 1958. Al Bernay secured his own circuits by using potting material. NASA MARS image anomalies are probably based on image scale. Mark has a theory about UFO's. Have you ever played the 'integrated circuits around you' game? Wes claims he has an integrated circuit... down there... Mark is now using another blue-tooth headset for his 3G iPhone. Can the 1st gen iTouch use the microphone imbedded in the headset for the 2nd gen iTouch? The heating lamp debacle ends up getting solved by upper management. Analog TV signal going digital, but if you live in the boonies, you may not get the new digital signal anyway... Did you even see the Esquire Digital Ink Cover Magazine?

Sites of Interest:

• 50th anniversary of the integrated circuit.
  
  
• NASA photographs of Mars that look like forests and trees, and something that looks like a piece of wood.
  
  
• People think they are abducted by flying saucers.
  
  
• The Globe is a good newspaper for articles about flying saucers.
  
  
• The Blue Ant V1 bluetooth headset with speech recognition and voice response.
  
  
• Mark impresses Wes and the waiter with the iLightr app for the iPhone.
  
  
• Mark used to like the Zivio Bluetooth headset, returned it, but might someday buy it again.
  
  
• Transition of over-the-air TV from analog to digital; one town started early as a test.
  
  
• Esquire magazine with electronic ink on the cover.
  

Wes' iTouch Applications of the week:

• Pocket Money
  
• The Line Rider app is based on an online game. (Mark gave the wrong URL; he thought it was Line Writer.)
  

Mark's iPhone Applications of the week:

• EarthScape
• Name In Lights

My 'Ding-Ding' Machine

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Mark & Wes, in Rheem, CA at Tamamis

This show was recorded using Mark's lapel microphones. For whatever reason, you can hear us eat and chew and slurp in high detail. In the show, Mark and Wes ramble a lot about Apple's new updates to certain products, iTunes 8.0, 2.1 firmware iTouch & iPhone update, Nano's potential 508 compliance for sight-impaired users. Mark explains how 'location over Wi-Fi' works, and how people have to drive all over the place to map the Wi-Fi locations. Wes thinks he caused his Wi-Fi to be added by doing something to trigger the location on his iTouch, but Mark is skeptical. What is the deal with the Genius feature of iTunes? Wes can't tell if it actually finds matching songs, and Mark isn't very interested in the feature unless it works with banjo and pipe organ music. Wes has a good way to look for new applications for your iPhone or iTouch, and explains how to do this. Did the 2.1 firmware fix your application crashing problems?

Sites of Interest:

• The Homebrew Computer Club.
  
  
• Apple's announcements of September 9, 2008. (Mark is happy, the new 2.1 firmware did fix his problems with iPhone applications.)
  
  
• Rockbox has alternative firmware for iPods and other MP3 players.
  
  
• The new iPod Nano's have speech for blind users.
  
  
• The new iPod Touch models don't have a microphone, but the headset port now supports headsets with a microphone.
  
  
• Microsoft Location Finder tries to locate your PC using the Wi-Fi access points near you.
  
  
• Skyhook Wireless also has a browser-based location service using Wi-Fi.
  
  
• Navizon is yet another Wi-Fi location service, but pays Windows Mobile users to help them build their database. Mark's information was old; they now pay the big points only if you find cell towers and access points not already reported by other users.
  
  
• The iPaq H4355, Wes' old Pocket PC, could use the Internet through Wi-Fi.
  
  
• The Pool-Playing Robot.
  
  
• New Xbox 360 prices, and they will act as a Netflix player. But after reading those complex instructions, Mark changed his mind and likes the simplicity of the original Roku Netflix Player because it hooks up to your TV and Wi-Fi or Ethernet connection and works standalone without needing a PC, Media Center, or anything like that.
  
  
• Walter T. Shaw wrote a book and is planning a movie to honor his father Walter L. Shaw, the telephony inventor. Walter T. was a master jewel thief and teaches you how to do it.
  
  
• The free tip calculator app for iPhone/iTouch has been fixed and no longer makes big mistakes when you ask it to round up the amounts.
  
  
• Mark has a Star Trek Credit Card and Wes doesn't.
  
  
• Years ago Mark had an Elvis Presley credit card, but the company eliminated them. In trying to find a picture of one for this podcast, he found that site showing they are available again! But the application form doesn't appear to be working at this time so maybe they aren't available after all.
  

Wes' iTouch Application of the week:

• Beat Creator

Mark's iPhone Application of the week:

• Face Melter

Kips cooks with Gas

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Mark & Wes, in Berkeley, CA at Kips

This show was recorded in a noisy area of Kips in Berkeley. Wes complains about his bubble drink and how it wasn't blended. Mark talks about Walter/Wendy Carlos and Switched on Bach. He has a pic of what looks like a Moog analog system, but there is a possibility that it is just an analog computer. What is it!? Who is the guy? They talk about the first MP3 player and what it looked like in 1998. Wes talks a bit about the unit that Apple examined before the iPod was created. Also his drink is not blended like it should be. Mark suspects that Google created Chrome in order to have something for Android, as well as a way to halt the payments for revenue to the Mozilla Foundation. He also believes their goal is to get people away from being concerned about applications for specific Operating Systems. Wes agrees and talks a bit about Google Docs. Some people think the earth is only 5000 years old and that we never went to the moon. What's next from Apple? New iPhone? iTouch Nano?

Sites of Interest:

• Mark found this picture on a website with unrelated miscellaneous photos, with only the legend: "Moog Synthesizer in the 1970s (a pioneering era of Jean Michel Jarre compositions)".  The gentleman in the picture is probably a young Mr. Jarre.
  
  
• Official Bob Moog website run by his family; website of his company which still makes new music products; and a YouTube channel with videos of him.
  
  
• Walter Carlos turns into Wendy Carlos.
  
  
• The first MP3 player from 1998.
  
  
• But wait, Kane Kramer invented a portable digital music player in 1979!

• The Diamond Rio 300 made portable MP3 players practical.
  
  
• Diamond MultiMedia, makers of the Rio, but more famous now for graphics & sound cards.
  
  
• Mark's first iPod was the Apple iPod Mini.
  
  
• Google releases Chrome, it's own web browser.  People speculate on why: as an application platform, as a mobile browser for Android, or to save money by cutting down Google's payments to Mozilla?

• The Spore Creature Creator is available now, and the game should be available soon.


• How to make a replica of the Apollo guidance computer.
  
  
• Example of a website claiming the Earth is only 5,000 years old.
  
  
• NASA website debunking moon-landing-skeptics.
  
  
• MythBusters episode busting these skeptics..


• Share your purchased iTunes apps with a friend!  This works, but warnings: It might not be legal, and Mark's iPhone app problems started several days after he tried this, but it's probably coincidence because a lot of people have the identical problem.

A GEM of a show

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Mark & Wes, in Emeryville, CA at The Emerybay Public Market.

This show was recorded outside of the food court in Emeryville. People thought Mark and I were some strange group of Radio DJ's, and the guard actually came up and started a conversation about our equipment.

In this show, Mark and Wes go back in time to discuss early Apple computers, and tell brief stories of the first Apple machines we both used. Wes talks a bit about the GEM DOS Shell. Forget GEM, Mark used DESQview to run multi-dos sessions... until he discovered that Windows could do the same job. Wes uses his Intel Mac Mini for video editing because it handles HD video fairly well. Us iTouch and iPhone users will be getting a new firmware upgrade in less than a month that should fix the app crashing problems we're experiencing. Nothing is better than a short BB-the-dog story, which Mark gives us, explaining how dogs check their peemail.

Sites of Interest:

• This was recorded on Wes' Marantz PMD-660
  
  
• Belkin GoStudio for professional recording on an iPod
  
  
• The Mac at 25
  
  
• The Logo programming environment
  
  
• Original Mac had networking built-in
  
  
• Mark liked the Apple III for the device configuration software, but look at the picture: doesn't it look like the keyboard was removable?  It wasn't!
  
  
• The infamous Lisa from Apple. And a Lisa ad with Kevin Costner!
  
  
• The original Lisa's used the proprietary Twiggy floppy drive
  
  
• You can see an Apple III and thousands of other items at the DigiBarn Computer Museum
  
  
• Mark used to rent time on Macs at Krishna Copy to use Pagemaker
  
  
• The GEM operating system
  
  
• Sample Vision audio editor for early PC's that ran within GEM
  
  
• DESQview could multi-task multiple DOS applications
  
  
• At one point Microsoft added the Windows "cool switch" feature to cycle through multiple applications
  
  
• Picture of Mark's old giant monitor which was very deep and hung off the back of the desk
  
  
• iPhone security problem
  
  
• Mark likes Sanyo rechargable batteries: highest capacity, or Eneloop for long shelf life
  
  
• False rumor that Steve Jobs died
  
  
• PSP 3000 to have Dual Shock support
  
  
• Viruses on laptops at the International Space Station
  
  
• Paper street maps with multiple layers
  
  
• Software to make a big photo out of a library of tiny photos
  
  
• Software to make a photo out of a phrase repeated over and over

Loards Ice Cream & Candles

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Mark & Wes, in Orinda, CA at Loards Ice Cream

This show was recorded at Loards Ice Cream due to the fact that there was a live band (with NO BANJO) playing loudly in the mall where the expensive Japanese Restaurant was located. So we waited until after dinner and forced ourselves to eat ice cream out of ice cream cups in order to bring you another wonderful and fact filled episode! In this show, Mark and Wes talk about MacroMedia, Adobe, Flash for the iPhone, Audio Editors, Steve Jobs is angry with Adobe for stating they would create their own Flash for the iPhone, does Steve approve every App Store application? Mark saw The Woz and a friend on a Segway in San Francisco. Mark talks about BART's Segway Policy. Also, did you know you can make your own Segway clone?

Sites of Interest:

• The iPhone app WHERE has a sub-function that identifies the mountains near you.
  
  
• WHERE's mountain id function is based on the website HeyWhatsThat.
  


• The iPhone face detector.
  
  
• Apple's cost for building the iPhone and the iTouch.
  


• Hunting for the 2600 stereocilia.
  


• Sound Forge has DTMF Blue Box Tones.


• Cool Edit was another editor that also could also create DTMF's.
  
  
• Controversy about Flash for the iPhone.
  
  
• Steve Wozniak has a thing about Segways and Kathy Griffin.
  
  
• BART policy about passengers with Segways.
  
  
• How to build a clone of the Segway.
  


• New PSP to be released in October here in the US.


• MameUI32 for XP & Vista.


• Before the Atari 2600, Nolan Bushnell liked the Magnovox Oddyssey.
  
  
• Nolan's new restaurant chain: uWink.
  

And that comes with Garlic Bread? Or cheese bread?

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Mark & Wes, in Oakland, CA at LJ Quinn's Light House.

This episode contains a lot of fresh ground pepper and eating noises. Wes reveals why Quinn's is so important to him. Mark spends a large portion of the show speaking about cell phones in the US versus Europe, carriers, cell phone prices and different rates for calls. Can you really trust cloud computing? Google Docs? Mark invited some phone folks over to his party with interesting consequences.

Sites of Interest:

• CDMA is popular for cellular in the US, but GSM is used almost everywhere else.
  
  
• United Mobile sells multi-country GSM SIM cards. The one with the 44 country code is cheaper for people to call you.
  
  
• Sample eBay search for cheap quad-band unlocked GSM cell phones.
  
  
• International call-back services can save you money when traveling.
  
  
• Save far more by making your own call-back service with Asterisk, among a million other things that Asterisk can do. (Email Mark for details on scripting the callback.)
  
  
• Wes was thinking about Magic Jack for cheap phone service based on a USB device, but Mark misunderstood and thought he was talking about something completely different.
  
  
• Voip Cheap is really cheap for overseas calls, and can be part of a call-back service you build with Asterisk.
  
  
• Mark likes the Zivio headset from Joby, but it's expensive.
  
  
• PSP now supports Skype.
  
  
• Wes' iPhone App for Today - Study Cards
  
  
• Six-CD Memory Training course that Mark likes. But wait, why couldn't he remember the name of it?
  
  
• Yet another of Mark's inventions was stolen (not really) by this web site.
  
  
• Good article on the term "cloud computing".
  
  
• Should you trust cloud computing like gmail and google docs?
  

Al Bernay - part 2

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Mark & Wes, in Lafayette, CA at Bo's Barbecue

This episode is also dedicated to Al Bernay, who passed away on July 10th. Al had friends his family knew little about, and Mark and friends were amazed at how wrong the Rabbi was. Franky looks too young to be his age. Al created his own MIDI files and worked with the Petunia sound plug for the Commodore Pet. Honey bees or wasps, and how to get rid of them. Al's electronic address book was paper, sort of. Why do these people applaud this musical group, when there is no Banjo!? Netshare for the iPhone and possible reasons why it was allowed and then pulled -- twice! Mark likes the way the public perceives the value of apps in the iPhone store and how they complain that a $2 application is only worth $1. What do you mean you don't remember WebVan!?

Sites of Interest:

• Al and Franky.
  
• Falling Down - Mark thought the name of this movie was "Going Home". What do you expect from someone who rates movies based on how long he falls asleep?
  
• Sequencer Plus Gold - DOS based MIDI Editing Program, probably not what Al used.
• Noah Everyday with music by Carly Comando
  
• NetShare for the iPhone will most likely not be back.
• Epocrates has free medical software for various handheld devices, including iPhone.
  
• The iPhone availability updates website is now off the air.
  
• ScribD will post your PDF files for viewing over the web, and will even scan/OCR some types of paper documents/books for free.
  
• Paytrust will receive electronic and paper bills, consolidate them, and help you pay them.
  
• Pixily and Shoeboxed invite you to fill boxes with your snail mail, send it to them, and they will OCR it.
  
• Webvan went out of business.,.
  
• Al loved Kip's because it has a real charcoal broiler for hamburgers and hot dogs.
  

Al Bernay - part 1

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Mark & Wes, in Emeryville, CA at the Asqew Grill

This episode is dedicated to Al Bernay, who passed away on July 10th. Mark talks about the history of the Mark Bernay Society, the fact that Al was truly the original PodCaster, and his involvement in the beginning of something that affected the future of technology and the generation of kids who took pleasure in experimenting with phones and equipment. This is the first of two shows where we will talk about Al and how important he was to young people, as well as us older ones.

Sites of Interest:

The following websites have a lot of tape recordings that the webmaster and other people made back then by dialing Al's and other lines and recording the calls.

• http://www.mapstostarshomes.com/
• http://www.dialajoke.us/
  
• http://www.funfone.org/
• http://www.telephone-entertainment.com/
• http://www.paulmackpresents.com/

Other web sites mentioned in the podcast:

• http://www.phonetrips.com - search for recordings that say "Al Bernay".
• http://www.milesofmemory.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=8&Itemid=11 - Play the video "Maps 06" and the chapters of "Maps 07".

Al's web pages. These work best in Firefox with pop-up blockers turned off, and the first one especially may not work in Internet Explorer.

• http://www.touristguider.com
  
• http://www.your-teacher.net
  
• http://home.earthlink.net/~aldiamond/jbrtc-ns.htm
• http://home.earthlink.net/~aldiamond/job4kids.htm
  

A Stain on the Dumb ASCII

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Mark & Wes, in Lafayette, CA. Doing the Pizza Antica.

Mark has an issue with a battery refill web site, as they most recently gave him what appear to be defective refills twice. Listeners have convinced me to record the waiter taking our orders, so don't judge us on the food we order. Mark doesn't care as long as the soup makes a solid slurping sound . Mark runs through the kinds of Pizza you can get in Italy, causing me to think of a Tetris cut pie. iTouch v2.0 firmware crashing problems may be due to the apps and not the OS. Wes thinks he knows where Steve lives. Why is the Flashlight application so popular!? OMG! Mark has a 3G iPhone! So Mark goes into a water closet and gets confused. Eventually he learns the correct way to Pee in Berlin. Speaking of Pee-ing, what does Cat Piss stand for? Actually Mark said "CAPTCHA", not "cat piss". San Francisco will now help you find an empty parking spot by cell phone. Esquire Magazine will feature Electronic Ink soon.

Sites of Interest:

• Refill notebook and other rechargable batteries
  
• Interview with Al Bernay
• Al Bernay was bald
• Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
• The Turing Test
• Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail’s CAPTCHA broken by spammers
• Kurzweil reading machine for the blind
• San Francisco to experiment with finding parking spots by cellphone
  
• Esquire Magazine will experiment with electronic ink on the cover

The Italian Sausage

Axe & Wes, in SF, CA having lunch at Tart to Tart.

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New iTunes, iPhone and firmware all around, 20% of all apps on AppStore are free, Twitter is available in free and premium edition on AppStore, iTouch firmware update was delayed, problems with the iTouch firmware update, software quality assurance, 80% of all iPhone apps are free, Yelp, Evernote iPhone app, Shazam to find your favorite song on the radio, Jott, iPhone screenshot capability, 24k Gold iPhone, Nokia and Navteq, Squirt your sphincter, Electronic Toilets.

Sites of Interest:

Problems with iPhone v2.0
Gold iPhone
iPhone Screen Capture
Dual Screen Laptop
Nokia Completes Purchase of Navteq
Belkin Makes Descent iPod Recording Dock
Apple iTunes Apps Store
Toilet Tool

Word Tech Systems

Mark & Wes, in Orinda, CA looking for WordTech Systems.

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Because Mark is on vacation in Europe, this weeks show is a quick smearing of audio clips from previous shows that go back to 2005. In this set, Mark and Wes reminisce.

Korean Bulgogi House

Mark & Wes, in Concord, CA at The Bulgogi House.

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What is tthe maximum length of a domain name?, HD Camcorders, Bill is not really retiring, Steve looked ill so is he leaving Apple?, Gates did Quality Control for Microsoft Products, remember Jaz Drives?, Sleep Texting?

Sites of Interest:

• http://www.yelp.com/biz/korean-bulgogi-house-concord - The restaurant where we are slurping.
  
• http://www.thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/ - The longest domain name with lists of the longest stuff.
  
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7475986.stm - Internet overhaul wins approval.
  
• http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=873516 - DXG-567V HD Camcorder that looks good to Wes.
  
• http://www.preferredphoto.com/viewproduct.aspx?ID=9947764 - Mark's "$100" Kodak camera; sometimes it is that cheap. Works with AA batteries, but you MUST get Ni-MH rechargeable AA's, not alkalines!
  
• http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/141821.asp - Typical Bill Gates email in which he tries to view Microsoft products as an ordinary user.
  
• http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/jobs-hid-cancer-for-nine-months-before-seeking-treatment-damn/ - Steve Jobs hid his cancer.
  
• http://usb.brando.com.hk/prod_detail.php?prod_id=00549 - Use SATA drive as swappable externals.
  
• http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9098418 - The end of Windows XP.
  
• http://www.watsoncard.com/ - Modern version of the old Watson telephony cards/
  
• http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/425382 - Sleep Texting.
  
  

The SlurpCast Network!

Mark & Wes, in Lafayette, California at Swad Indian Restaurant.
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In this show, we talk about Boost Mobile, Meet Sense, Get Drop Box, Bright Kite, Gspace, Mesh, Drop.io, NullSoft, Mark and Wes should swear more than we do, MySapce is due for a face-lift, possibly never have an iPhone to be used as a Modem, instead of 'bricking your phone, how about Graham Crackering your phone?, Apple probably takes a loss on new products when first introduced, Sprint Instinct, The Zivio Cell Phone BlueTooth HeadSet with a true microphone in front of your mouth.
Sites of Interest:

• http://www.download.com/8301-2007_4-9962810-12.html - CitySense, an urban navigation product.
  
• http://www.brightkite.com/ -Location-based social networking. Email Mark for an invite code.
  
• http://www.getdropbox.com/ - Keeps sets of files synchronized between multiple PC's/Macs, and backed up on the web.
  
• http://www.mesh.com/ - Microsoft beta test system similar to getdropbox.
  
• http://drop.io/ -Yet another site for sharing files with other users.
  
• https://www.vpn.net/ -Easily set up a virtual private network between your machines.
  
• https://secure.logmein.com/ -Remotely control your computers - like GoToMyPC, but free!
  
• http://www.nullsoft.com/ -Subsidiary of AOL that produces Winamp, SHOUTCast, and other products.
  
• http://www.bebo.com/ -Yet another social media network.
  
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B26asyGKDo -Noah Day by Day
  
• http://www.myspace.com/carlycomando - Pianist who composed/performed the music for Noah's video.
  
• http://us.kensington.com/html/15462.html - Small rechargeable battery pack that plugs directly into iPhones and iPods.
  
• http://www.palluxo.com/2008/06/21/samsung-instinct-with-haptic-feedback-yes-it-is-iphone-killer/ -Is this the iPhone killer? Not really.
  
• http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0/releasenotes/ -What's new in Firefox Release 3.
  
• http://www.getgspace.com/ - Turns the 2GB of your Gmail account into free online storage.
  
• http://www.joby.com/products/zivio/ -Vaporware bluetooth headset with microphone that pulls out to be next to your mouth.
  
• http://avanalysis.com/audiotests.html - Series of recordings demonstrating the microphones in several models of bluetooth headsets under various noise conditions.

His name is Sammy

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Mark, Wes & Sammy, in Lafayette, California at Swad Indian Restaurant.
The group talks a bit about (bullshit) Energy Drinks, Microencapsulated Drugs, Scratch n' Sniff, Smell-o-Vision, Cut a steak with a MacBook Air, Netflix Player by Roku, "Do you know who I am?", Linux on your cell phone, Astound Me, Billboards that gather stats about who's looking at them, Mark's feedback on the new iPhone, Mark gives out the answer to the first challenge, The Perverted Captain Crunch Dream, Subvert and Profit,

Second contest is still open. How does Sly Dial work? Listen to previous show (2008_06_05) to win. Answer given out in next show.

Sites of Interest:

• http://www.retrofuture.com/smell-o-vision.html - Scratch-and-sniff cards once used in movie theatres.
  


• http://www.willitblend.com/videos.aspx?type=unsafe&video=iphone - What happens if you stick an iPhone in a blender?
  
  
• http://www.roku.com/netflixplayer/ - Play Netflix on-demand videos on your TV set.
  
  
• http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/12/motorola-slashing-20-of-its-research-division/ - Motorola cutting back it's research division.


• http://www.astound.net -Bay Area alternate cable TV/Internet provider.
  


• http://thegadgetsite.blogspot.com/2008/06/gigabyte-m528-mid-750-due-out-in-late.html - Interesting new UMPC.
  
  
• http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/04/billboards-with-facial-recognition-software-trickling-out - Billboards with cameras watching you watching them.
  


• http://reviews.cnet.com/keyboards/celluon-laserkey-cl800bt/4505-3134_7-31645178.html - Laserkey draws a virtual keyboard on a table.
  
  
• http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/12/glass-keyboard-concept-opts-for-cameras-instead-of-keys/ - Experimental keyboard design made of glass.
  
  
• http://www.apple.com/iphone/ - iPhone 3G.
  
  
• http://www.gimp.org/ - Like Photoshop, but free!
  
  
• http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/ - Like Visio, but free!
  


• http://www.innovative-sol.com/drivermax/ - Freeware to make sure all your Windows device drivers are up to date.
  
  
• http://www.shavlik.com/ - Software to manage Windows security updates, mainly for corporations.
  
  
• http://www.download.com/8301-2007_4-9965215-12.html - Universal printer driver for travelers.
  
  
• http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/06/09/handlink_wi_fi/ - Coin-operated Wi-Fi base-station.
  


• http://www.subvertandprofit.com/ - Make the big bucks by helping websites cheat.
  

No Links in our Dinners!

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Mark & Wes back in Lafayette, California at Bo's Barbecue. Starbucks offers free wi-fi now, Jott has new features, Elephant Beetle's need love too, Mark talks about one of his first GPS units, a Garmin Street Pilot, Roku's NetFlix Player, interesting views from Mark about current state of technology advancements, now you'll know how the GPS system works.

Win a Cap'n Crunch whistle by answering Mark's interesting new challenge. Also there is one week left to answer the challenge from last week.

Sites of Interest:

• http://www.starbucks.com/retail/wireless.asp - Free wifi at Starbucks after registering a Starbucks Card
  
• http://www.customguide.com - Free two-sided cheat sheets for many software products.
  
• http://jott.com/jott/feeds.html - Listen to your RSS feeds
  
• http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/05/fiveinch-elephant-be.html - Five-inch elephant beetle in search of mating partner
  
• http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/05/philips-introducing-52-inch-1080p-3d-display/ - Philips introducing 52-inch 1080p 3D display
  
• http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/05/telson-umpc-prototype-does-3d-without-the-goggles/ - Telson handheld does 3D gaming without the goggles
  
• http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/05/antienergy-drink.html - Anti-energy drinks
  
• http://www.timebridge.com/home.php - Personal Scheduling Assistant
  
• http://www.gasbuddy.com/ - Find the cheapest gas station in your area
  
• http://autos.msn.com/everyday/gasstations.aspx?zip=&src=Netx - Another site for finding the cheapest gas
  

Arnold Palmer

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Mark & Wes back in Lafayette, California at Pizza Antica.
Mark takes a moment to talk a bit about his theory on the stock market, voting power, dividends, and paper with no value, Wes finds a tool that helps him get around the Windows XP Login screen for an old machine he forgot the password to, 3D monitors exist, hacking windows mobile OS for old phone models.

Win a prize by answering Mark's interesting challenge. Answer in the blog by leaving a comment, or send either of us an email.

Sites of Interest:

• http://blog.pmarca.com/2008/05/in-praise-of-du.html - Marc Andreessen: In praise of dual-class stock structures for public companies.
  
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_tables - Rainbow tables to help crack passwords.
  
• http://www.d--b.webpark.pl/dreampackpl_en.htm - DreamPack software if you forgot your Windows password (beware of loud music here)
• http://www.humanproductivitylab.com/archive_blogs/2007/11/15/cisco_experimenting_with_an_on_1.php - Cisco Experimenting with an On-Stage Telepresence.
  
• http://www.crn.com/networking/208401625 - Android OS makes waves.
• http://www.ion-audio.com/vcr2pc - Ion Introduces VHS to PC via USB machine
• http://www.wideweb.com/phonetrips/ - Do a find for "Dom Tuffy" and "Tom Duffy".
• http://www.lospadres.info/thorg/lbb.html - Text of the Esquire article from October 1971.
• http://bodin.org/koolefant/ - The picture used to be different in different browsers, nowadays not so much.
  

Remember the Phonograph

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Mark & Wes back in Lafayette, California at Swad.
Wonderful Indian flavors again at Swad Indian Cuisine. Mark shares a lot about old technology and surprises me with his findings regarding the Philco Radio Phonograph, DJ's at Chris Bernay's Wedding, methods in the past for figuring out what song you heard on the radio, reradiation & reflection statistic tracking, Roku NetFlix Player, Nano Technology Robots are becoming a reality, a 1927 GPS Watch.

Sites of Interest:

• http://www.jitterbuzz.com/indrad.html - Antique radios.
• http://graphic-design.tjs-labs.com/show-picture.php?id=1133814455&size=FULL - Play records on a beam of light!
• http://www.kurthanson.com/HTM-RAIN/NewsArchives/Feb-00/022300.htm - Xenote iTag helped identify songs on the radio.
  
• http://www.sonyericsson.com/product/trackid/ - Cell phone software for identifying songs you hear
  
• http://www.immi.com/howItWorks.html - Using cell phones to track what songs/commercials/movies people listen to.
  
• http://www.roku.com/netflixplayer/ - RokuLabs Netflix Player.
• http://facelogon.xidtech.com/index.htm - Computer security using webcam face recognition
• http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/05/20/nanosoccer-at-robocu.html - Nano-bot soccer!
  
• http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-564133/Fancy-driving--earliest-wind-sat-nav.html - 1927 GPS Watch.