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Mark and Wes in Moraga, CA at the Ranch House Cafe.

Sites of Interest:

• Steve Jobs maintains grip on Apple.
  
  
• Some Safeway stores now have free Wi-Fi as part of a rebranding marketing effort.
  
  
• Remember ICQ?
  
  
• Tesla is working on an electric sedan.
  
  
  
  
• Mark sounds skeptical that Tesla will ever ship anything, but they claim they have already delivered 250 of their Roadster model. Video of a real owner showing off his Roadster.
  
  
• The idea of battery-powered cars is older than you think.
  
  
• Solar-powered birdhouse with perch that lights up at night to attract bugs for the birds to eat.
  
  
• Submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions.
  
  
• iPhone firmware 3.0 has been jailbroken, but you probably shouldn't try it yet.
  
  
• There are lots of rumors that new iPhone models will be out this summer.
  
  
• Is this article accurate about Obama's gift of an iPod to the Queen of England? No? How about this one?
  
  
• President Obama gave Gordon Brown a box set of DVD's.
  
  
• One of Google's April Fools jokes was that Google Apps can now be written in Fortran 77.
  
  
• Information and video tours of a typical Google data center.
  
  
• Flywheels are now used for Uninterruptible Power Supplies in competition to batteries. (Mark called these "gyroscopes" because he was thinking of something that spins.)
  
  
• The Apple 1 and a history of the Apple Computer Corporation.
  
  
• Nomee, TweetDeck, and PeopleBrowsr are software/websites that help you organize your feeds from various social networks.
  
  
• Wes likes the hi5 social networking system which claims to be the third largest in the world, but Mark never even heard of it. They are having a funding crisis.
  
  
• Mark couldn't remember the free dating service with the fishy name. It's PlentyOfFish.
  
  
• Write applications for .NET using the MONO IDE on Mac, PC or Linux.
  
  
• Mark likes the free SyncToy program from Microsoft, and mentioned it because it uses .net.
  
  
• Is voicemail obsolete?
  
  
• Mark's favorite voicemail transcription service is VoiceCloud.
  
  
• Western Digital goes solid state, acquires Silicon Systems.
  
  
• iFart was the #1 seller in the iPhone app store.
  

Mark's iPhone Applications of the week:

• Bump -Somehow it knows when you bump two iPhones together, and will transfer contact information.
  
  
• TapTapCards -Turns pictures on your iPhone into real picture postcards that are snail-mailed to your friends.
  
  
• Color Splash - give photos a dramatic look by converting them to black and white, while keeping your chosen details in color.
  
  
• iControl Cat - remote control for your cat, just like TV remotes. Mark particularly liked this because, believe it or not, he bought one of these and it didn't work either.
  
  
• Farthoven -this sort of fart app has been done before, but Mark liked the name.