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Mark and Wes at Indian Flavors in Berkeley, CA.

Sites of Interest:

• Steam for Mac opens a portal to May 12, steps through.
• First YouTube Video EVER Celebrates Its 5th Anniversary.
• Happy 10th birthday, Pocket PC/Windows Mobile.
• Microsoft confirms, kills Courier in one fell swoop.
• Google Kills Verizon Nexus One, Suggests HTC Incredible. 
• Adobe's CEO: Jobs' Flash letter is a 'smokescreen' for 'cumbersome' restrictions
• R.I.P. Floppy.
• Ubuntu 10.04 'Lucid Lynx' arrives on the scene.
• HP buys Palm: the liveblog.
• Sony's Dash goes on sale, officially this time.
• Celebrating the 30th Anniversary, Post-it Brand from 3M Proves It Has 'Sticking' Power.
• Romey and Michele's High School Reunion.
• Rob Cockerham's Costco prank.
• Nolan Bushnell Has Returned To Atari... Again...
• Earthly pleasures come to Google Maps.
• Very important applications for the iPhone platform, so please don't buy Android or anything else that can't run these: Wart Healer, A Faster Magic Sand, MeowLingual Cat Translator, My Cat Mood Decoder, Mud Splat, IPeeInABottle.

Wes' iPhone/iPad Applications of the week:

• Musophobia the Particle Painter -- a highly unconventional painting application, denies the single brush painting convention, and delivers a novel interface for drawing by up to 999 particle-brushes at once. And instead of using the brushes, you can merely interact with them: set them in motion on different trajectories.
• Gas Tycoon 2 HD -- a development of the genre where you have to lay a pipeline from sources to consumers of ready-made elements by their rotation in opposite directions. 
• Men's Health Magazine -- each month, get the same world-class workouts, tips, and in-depth feature stories that appear in the print edition, with enhancements.
• TN3270 -- emulates an IBM 3278 terminal for easy access to IBM Mainframes.
  
• GoDaddy.com Mobile -- Manage your domain names and other services from godaddy.com, view Bob Parson's videos and commercials.
• GoAruna Files -- Manage, share and have access to all your files at home, at work and on the go.
  
  
  

 

Mark's iPhone Application of the week:

• Pocket Weather World  -- Good app to display weather in any city, and their server sends push notifications on a schedule that update the icon for the app to show the current temperature without needing to open the app.
  
• Scan for all -- take a picture of a barcode on a product or ad.  Supports 1D and 2D barcodes to give you access to multiple formats.

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Mark and Wes, and guest Kyle at the Out the Door Vietnamese Restaurant in San Francisco, CA.

Sites of Interest:

• Kyle thinks he is a geek, however he might be a nerd or a dork. Here's the test to find out.
  
  
• 60+ years of Radio Shack catalogs.
  
  
• The Netflix app for the iPad (and soon for iPhone/iTouch) lets members watch complete streaming movies on the device from Netflix's wide variety of movies available to Watch Instantly.
  
• We all love the idea of the iCade that we discussed on a previous show -- the Ipad Arcade Cabinet but there's a problem. Click on the Buy Now link and you will see.
  
  
• iPad accessories. Why doesn't it have USB ports instead of these specialized connectors. Yes, USB would require device drivers, but those could be written over time.
  
• The iPad has been jailbroken already, but the method has not yet been made public.
  
• MobileMe Will Find or Erase Your Missing iPad.
  
• Over 1,000 Communities Apply to be part of the Google Fiber Test.
  
• Google changes its name to Topeka.
  
• Would you trust the kind of people who write an ugly, difficult to read, website like this one to develop Internet 2?
  
• Wes likes the book: Vintage Games: An Insider Look at the History of Grand Theft Auto, Super Mario, and the Most Influential Games of All Time.
  
• Microsoft Live Game Room.
  
• The Arcade Ambiance Project.
  
• Microsoft Project Natal and Sony PlayStation Move.
  
• You should buy an iPhone, not Android, Blackberry, or any other platform, so you can get great apps like these: A1 ClapClock Meccanis , TheInsulter, FunFart-restaurant, PooPong, Plunger.
  
• Lucid dreams and how to trigger them.
  
• Frog Migration: Omen to China Earthquake Disaster

Wes' iPhone Application of the week:

• If Found, + -- provides a valuable service of having a message placed on your background wallpaper, so if a good person finds your phone, they can find you, even if it is locked.
  
• Age Calculator -- will take a birthday as input and calculate exactly how long you've been alive, not just in years, but in months, weeks, days, hours, and minutes?
  
• iSeismometer -- just leave your iPhone on a hard surface with the app fired up, then tap somewhere nearby and watch what happens

Mark's iPhone Application of the week:

• MapQuest 4 Mobile --brings over a decade of digital mapping experience to your iPhone with unique features to help you get where you’re going. LikeVoice-Guidance, our latest addition to Driving Directions, for a more hands-free experience.
  
• Navigon MyRegion US West, Central, East --One of the original high-priced turn-by turn navigation apps, now available for rhe third of the US you need, at a much lower price.
  
• Reeder --RSS reader that syncs with Google Reader and has a good set of features.

Kyle's iPhoneApplication of the week:

• Sleep Cycle alarm clock -- An alarm clock that analyzes your sleep patterns and wakes you in the lightest sleep phase - a natural way to wake up where you feel rested and relaxed.