Mark Has no Gas

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Mark and Wes at the Korean Bulgogi House restaurant in Concord,CA, (AGAIN).

Sites of Interest:

• Piechart showing why people buy Macs and other Apple products.
• Microsoft announced the Project Natal technology under the name "Kinect". The name reminds Mark of Microsoft's KIN1 and KIN2 phones.
• Chart showing where Americans moved in 2008.
• Apple CDMA iPhone 4 rumor given new wings.
• What is Apple Inc.'s role in task force investigating iPhone case?
• Giant Jesus statue hit by lightning and burned.
• Horizon MiniPak personal fuel cell charger hits shelves for $100.
• Futuristic New Release: Vinyl and CD on One Hybrid Disc.
• Senators propose granting president emergency Internet power.
• Teardown of new Mac Mini.
• Nintendo 3DS Release Date And Pricing To Be Revealed On September 29th.
• Google TV.
• Adding a Set-Top Box To Your TV Is Nothing New.
• Frequency chart of TV bands.
• Xbox 360 250GB first unboxing.
• New Xbox 360 has red dot of death, instead of red ring? Not quite.
• How to get rid of the Windows Blue Screen of Death.
• How to make an old Mac into an iPad holder
• YouTube now has a Video editor.
• Apple Store application.
• Early cassettes were pink and came in cardboard boxes.
• New unibody Mac Mini.
• MSI replacing BIOS with UEFI firmware interface sometime this year?
• Disco: massive data - minimal code.
• The Farting Preacher needs fart odor neutralizer pads.
• Critical apps that should convince you to get an iPhone, not some other smart-phone platform: Fart Detective, Fart Studio, Fart Piano, Fart Drums HD, Torture Box.

Wes' iPhone Application of the week:

• Baby Decks DJ -- the world's first dual scratch turntable for the iPad, a fully portable DJ rig.
• Mellotronics M3000 for iPad -- the most accurate and thorough digital simulation of the classic 1960s tape replay instrument.
• StudioTrack -- Multitrack Recording songwriting tool for musicians who want to capture musical ideas and record songs on their iPad.

Mark's iPhone Application of the week:

• Clinometer --measures the slope by all edges of the device in every direction. When the device is put flat on the table a bubble view will fade in.
  

Paper Airplanes!

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Mark Wes, and guest Bob O'Rob in a secret conference room in San Francisco, CA munching chips and pretzels and slurping sodas.

Sites of Interest:

• Details about the iPhone 4 and IOS 4.
• There are rumors that Skype will support the iPhone 4's front camera for video chats, but we can't find any definite information.
• Mark said he will put IOS4 on his iPad, but the date for that has not been determined, Apple just says "in the fall".
  
• How to make paper airplanes from phone book pages.
• Make your own cardboard cutouts of Steve Jobs and the iPhone 4.
• New version of Ubunto Linux is available: Lucid Lynx.
• Asterisk, a free, open-source telephone PBX
• You can interface real phone lines with Asterisk via ethernet boxes like these: Linksys 3102
• Bletchley Park WWII archive to go online.
• The NSA has a Museum -- The National Cryptologic Museum.
• The Kryptos sculpture at the CIA headquarters. The Dan Brown book Mark was thinking of is "The Lost Symbol".
• Free coffee at Barnes and Noble stores if you have a Nook reader or the B&N iPhone app.
• Coffee: Drink Up to Prevent Diabetes?

We apologize, but after Bob left, the mixer was set wrong so only Mark's microphone is live, and therefore Wes is a little hard to understand.

• Infographic: Tallest Mountain to Deepest Ocean Trench .
• Farmville and Guitar Hero announced for iPhone.
• Warning: be sure you buy an iPhone to make sure you can run these fine apps: LED iPocket FlashLight, Bad Calculator, Dumbbell for iPad, Fart Drums HD, Fart Piano Free HD, FatBooth, Less Cigarette, Spin It HD, and Werewolf Me
• The movie "Splice" is very disturbing, and "The Human Centipede" is a lot worse.

Mark's iPhone Applications of the week:

• BirdPie and Twitpad -- Unofficial and official apps to play the live stream for Leo Laporte's TWIT.tv network and netcast.
• Da Vinci HD, Rembrandt HD -- High-quality scans of all of each artist's paintings for only 99 cents.
• Space Wallpapers HD -- Over one hundred space photos in beautiful HD glory to use as iPad wallpapers.
• Categories -- App for jailbroken iDevices only, lets you create groups of icons on your iPad or any device that doesn't have IOS4.

What is wrong with AT&T

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Mark and Wes at the Korean Bulgogi House in Concord, CA.

Sites of Interest:

• AT&T Data plan changes for iPhone and iPad.
• How does the purchase of radio spectrum affect cellphone rates (PDF)?
• Rumors of iPhone for Verizon continue.
• Google ditches Windows on security concerns.
• Macs are susceptible to viruses just like Windows is.
• Microsoft's Project Natal close to release, will be called "Kinect".
• The World Carrot Museum.
• Rumors that Hulu may start charging, publish an iPad app.
• Roku set-top box for watching Netflix movies.
• Details about the forthcoming Google TV.
• Google Wave is now available to everyone, but Mark wonders is people actually use it very much??
• Apple rejected an app to sync iDevices over wi-fi; but it is available as "Wi-Fi Sync for jailbroken devices.
• Videos of Steve Jobs' comments at D8.
• Microsoft Windows Embedded Compact 7.
• Roll-up computer screens and prototypes of entire roll-up devices.
• And Now the Smart Toy, taking Simon to a new level.
• The Square credit card reader has to generate it's own power.
• Mastercard Money Send faq.
• Maker Faire.
• Playing the Dr. Who Theme With Millions of Volts of Electricity.
• Tesla coils can make music as midi instruments.
• Iota Flex wrist band wants to be a MiFi for voice and text.
• Play SNES on your jailbroken iPad, with an iPhone as controller .
• Python script turns any song into a swing number.
• Sprint advertises a 4G network, but it isn't really.
• A Guide to Facebook’s New Privacy Settings.
• Please don't buy an Android phone, or Blackberry, or anything else but the iPhone platform so you can run important applications like these: Farting Zombies HD, Brainless Zombie Quiz HD, iToilet, Chalk Screecher. EmoKill, Fart Blower, IQ Profiler, and SnowCat.

Wes' iPhone Applications of the week:

• Prince of Persia Retro -- For the first time on iPhone, relive the classic adventure that started it all!

Mark's iPhone Applications of the week:

• Angry Birds HD -- Dish out revenge on the green pigs who stole the Birds’ eggs. Use the destructive powers of the Angry Birds to lay waste to the pigs’ fortified castles.
• Geared for iPad -- The first and only Gear-based game with absolutely no snap-grid. Geared delivers complete and total freedom to the player, bestowing every puzzle with a near infinite array of choices
• Ndrive USA HD -- This does not seem to be in the app store at this time.