What's New is Old, a Slurpcast.

One Infinite Loop - a tribute to steve jobs

noreply@blogger.com (Wes) — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 05:00:00 +0000

Mark, Wes & Bob o' Rob at CPK in San Francisco, CA.
The team dedicates this show to the passing of Steve Jobs. Each of us shares our personal experience with him, and opinions about his success and failures.

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To the Moon, Private Sector!

noreply@blogger.com (Wes) — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 05:00:00 +0000

Mark, Wes, Bob o' Rob & Frankie at CPK in San Francisco, CA.

In this show: Steve Resigns from Apple, HP drops Desktops & Web OS & Touchpads kinda, China gets iPhones kinda, Windows 8 is cool kinda, and other funny tech news.

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Showing our age

noreply@blogger.com (Wes) — Fri, 27 May 2011 05:00:00 +0000

Mark, Wes & Bob o' Rob at a hidden meeting place in San Francisco, CA.

In this show: Early loss of show control, Japan disaster site storage facility, Rapture delays, Thoughts on Microsoft & Skype purchase, Google Wallet may not work, Pay me in BitCoins!, Kindle usage not so great, Yes you can get a great laptop now for under $500.00.

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A ton of good in this world

noreply@blogger.com (Wes) — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 05:00:00 +0000

Mark, Wes & Bob o' Rob at the Mel's Drive-In, in San Francisco, CA.

In this show, iPad iCade, 360 Netflix Kinect Update, Asus Honeycomb Tablet, RIM Playbook, Windows Mobile used to run a lot of apps, Repulsive Forces on Muni, Bob & Wes talk about Afro's, 1961 Yuri Gargarin first man in space controversy, and other random bits of tech opinions.

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Shatner woke up the Space Shuttle

noreply@blogger.com (Wes) — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 05:00:00 +0000

Mark, Wes & Bob o' Rob at the WestField Shopping Center in San Francisco, CA.

In this show, wes talk about Elizabeth Taylor's passing, William Shatner broadcasting a wake up call for the crew of the Space Shuttle, online news has taken over paper news, orders for iPad2's have slowed slightly, the FCC has a spine?, starting to see applications being supported by consumer appliances and automobiles. Bob also speaks a bit about smoking.

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Apple sold a ButtLoad of iPad2's

noreply@blogger.com (Wes) — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 05:00:00 +0000

Mark, Wes & Bob o' Rob at the California Pizza Kitchen in San Francisco, CA.

In this show, we talk about the crisis in Japan, iPad2 sales, what would we be without GPS?, old box of cereal for sale on eBay from 1972, Mark wants to take a bath in a tub filled with Captain Crunch Whistles, Hadron Super Collider is really a time machine and Wes gets his hands on an HTC ThunderBolt.

As always, Mark talks about his Kraps.

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Our thoughts on iPad2

noreply@blogger.com (Wes) — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0000

Mark, Wes & Bob o' Rob at the California Pizza Kitchen in San Francisco, CA.

In this show, we juggle our thoughts about the iPad 2, Apple starting to allow development and interpreters on iOS devices, public transportation with cloth seats can make you sick, color photos of SF from the 1906 earthquake, who is going to ever watch all the video on YouTube! Enjoy the show!

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Serial Ports on Everything!

noreply@blogger.com (Wes) — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Mark, Wes & Bob o' Rob at the California Pizza Kitchen in San Francisco, CA.

In this show, we ponder on in-flight wifi, companies do have a responsibility to make sure their web sites are accessible to people with disabilities, Palm will take over the world, Symbian OS, is the new MacBook Air any good?, FireSheep, SkyFire, and Samsung Android Phones.

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Joe, Wes, Mark & Steak

noreply@blogger.com (Wes) — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:19:00 +0000

Mark, Wes & Average Joe at the Daily Grill in San Francisco, CA.

In this show, we introduce our guest, "Average Joe" who comments on our stories and adds his own thoughts to topics like Android phones, craigslist reaches 2billion posts, now you can implant a layer of LED's under your skin, AT&T fails us again as we wait patiently for a Verison iPhone, FireSheep, Kurzweil, Justine Bieber, Atari 2600 the size of a deck of cards, and other deep and cranial stories.

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Bob & Wes without Mark

noreply@blogger.com (Wes) — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 03:16:00 +0000

Wes & Bob o' Rob in San Francisco, CA.

In this show, Bob and Wes talk about the new AppleTV, Segway, SETI and Viking system that may have actually found life on MARS. Bob makes fun of Mark and his Crap Apps. Enjoy the show!

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Audible Pain

noreply@blogger.com (Wes) — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:00:00 +0000

Mark, Wes & Bob o' Rob at the top of the WestField Mall in San Francisco, CA.

In this show, Mark, Bob and Wes talk about Drugs, The Smart Car, Mac Paint, ShamWow, William Shatner, Back to the Future, The first Drum Machine, and other ramblings.

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How many times can you fall off a cliff?

noreply@blogger.com (Wes) — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:00:00 +0000

Mark & Wes at the California Pizza Kitchen in San Francisco, CA.

In this show, Mark, Bob and Wes all talk about iPad, Flip Book, Computer Shopper Magazine in 1996 and what you could buy back then, old LCD displays, how many ways the word 'meat' can be used in a joke, what is the future of Microsoft Mobile, Adobe vs Flash, Nicholas Cage is probably the worst actor ever, Tron Legacy, and 3D will not die out soon.

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Mark Has no Gas

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Bernay) — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 05:00:00 +0000

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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!

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Bernay) — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 05:00:00 +0000

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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

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Bernay) — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:00:00 +0000

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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.

More Tech Anniversaries and Computer Music History

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Bernay) — Fri, 21 May 2010 05:00:00 +0000

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Mark and Wes, and at Flippers Gourmet Hamburgers in San Francisco, CA.

Sites of Interest:

Duke to shut Usenet server, home to the first electronic newsgroups.
How to use Usenet for Warez.
Celebrating PAC-MAN's 30th Birthday.
Google had this Pac-Man game as it's home page for the anniversary.
Listen to this recording of a woman calling her help desk to get rid of the Pac-Man game on her home page.
Mark tried one of these AT&T 3G Microcells, but had problems with two of them and returned it for a refund.
IOS 4.0 for iPhone.
AT&T Will Finally Allow iPhone "Tethering" -- For $20 Extra A Month
Pandora devices in the home.
Hackers can remotely disable your car's brakes
The laser turns 50.
The Evolution of PC audio
What the Internet knows about you.
RetroN 3 Video Gaming System.
YouTube Adds Colored Tags in Comments.
Is your iPad keeping you awake?
iPhone gigaputt virtual golf game.
Interview with Mick Jagger about copyright.
BE sure to buy an iPhone, not Blackberry, Android, etc. so you can run these critical apps: Zombie Farts HD, Magic Mover, and Boink.

SORRY, BUT THE BATTERY IN OUR RECORDER DIED AT THIS POINT, AND WE DIDN'T REALIZE IT, SO THE SHOW ENDS EARLY

Sony Dash Chumby Slash Flash Player Subtracted by Angry Steve

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Bernay) — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:00:00 +0000

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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.

How Much Fiber do you Need to be Healthy?

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Bernay) — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 05:00:00 +0000

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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.

Do you want your PC inside a keyboard or monitor?

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Bernay) — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:45:00 +0000

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Mark and Wes at Saigon Bistro in Concord, CA.

Sites of Interest:

A technical history of Mac operating systems.
The Cell-mate headset for i Phones and others similarly shaped.
Mark is amazed: SanDisk ships 32GB microSDHC card for $200.
Can I have my futuristic transportation already?
The World's Fair was held in San Francisco in 1915 and 1939.
The Physics Behind Four Amazing Demonstrations.
Some iPhone App Sites Demand Money for Reviews.
The world's ten oldest jokes revealed.
If you want to write a realistic fart app, you had better understand the science behind farts.
No more 4-track cassette recorders. A video about how these worked.
Free: 137 Years Of Popular Science online.
What Really Happened to Mayor McCheese?
The Commodore name licensed again for a line of keyboard PCs.
Dormiphone: The Tape Machine For Your Subliminal/ESP Needs.
Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, tape-based, polyphonic synthesizer.
Styletap, thePalm Pilot emulator for jailbroken iPhones
Caching Apple's Signature Server to allow jailbroken iPhone 3GS to revert to a previous version of the OS.
Great iPhone apps that should convince you to buy one instead of Android, Blackberry, etc: a Fart Smeller, Zombie Apocalypse, Butt Muffler, Football - real kick, Dog Translator, Swearing Machine, Attention: Drunk People, Mad Eyes, and Swami Paws.

Wes' iPhone Applications of the week

RokuRemote -- Remote control your Roku Soundbridge Internet radio.

gFlashPro Flashcards & Tests -- Learn anything from chemistry to ancient history, study for a professional certification, or take a minute to relax and enjoy some trivia, anywhere and anytime.
Study Cards -- a series of apps on to help you study different subjects

Mark's iPhone Applications of the week:

Wi-Fi Finder -- The largest offline directory available of paid and free Wi-Fi Internet access - over 280,000 locations in 140 countries worldwide!

slate.com -- Access to the latest Slate.com articles blogs, and videos.

Nobody has Jobs!

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Bernay) — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:00:00 +0000

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Mark and Wes at the Szechwan Chinese Restaurant in Orinda, CA.

Sites of Interest:

Leo lePorte's best Tech Guy caller ever -- her stolen WiFi disappeared.
Wes likes his Ipevo Mini Network Storage Adapter for only $59
Mark thinks this is a milestone: Kingston unveils 256GB thumb drive for well-heeled memory fiends
Cool Leaf transparent acrylic touchscreen keyboards
MITS Altair replica kit
Compass Table Is the Most Fun You'll Ever Have With Coasters
Recognizr app is coming for some cell phones
Apple removes Wi-Fi scanners, 'minimum functionality' iPhone apps. Mark is concerned that fart apps might be next.
Comparison of the touch screen accuracy of various smartphones.
Is Coffee Good or Bad For You? The Pros & Cons of Coffee Drinking.
Table and bubble chart about which food supplements actually work to promote health and which are bullshit. (Mark loves saying "bullshit bullshit bullshit").
Clive Sinclair created Big Trak, a new type of car and he doesn't use computers or cell phones.
What type of music helps you be more productive?
We all live in a yellow drum machine.
The Linux Sampler Project.
OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - Rube Goldberg Machine version.
Why you should buy an iPhone instead of other platforms: to run essential apps like these:i RubberDuck , Hot Basketball Ko , iCuckoo Push, Amazing Dirty Sex City Names, Aerial Accidents Top 20, Kama Stick, Fart Harmonica Pro.

Wes' iPhone Application of the week:

Trillian -- organize and stay in touch with your IM and social friends while on-the-go.
DailyFinance -- only free app with real-time quotes, tracking for multiple portfolios, customizable news from 3,000+ sources and professional-grade charting.

Mark's iPhone Application of the week:

3D Sun -- not useful to the average person, but Mark was blown away that mankind has reached the point that such a thing is possible for the average person to carry around.
DirecTV-- TV Guide for the DirecTV system, and you can easily set your home DVR to record shows remotely from your iPhone.

Mobile Phone Experiments in 1913

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Bernay) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:00:00 +0000

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Mark and Wes at the Monsoon Masala Indian restaurant in Pleasant Hill,CA.

Sites of Interest:

Mr. Edison's Kindle -- article about 15 modern products that, believe it or not, had their beginnings in Edison's time.
8 Bit Weapon Chiptune Sound Library.
How to fake DNA tests.
What iPad Apps Are Going to Feel Like.
Dumb terminals connecting to mainframe computers.
This is the notebook Mark just bought.
Clear Classic USB Joystick lets you enjoy old school gaming on a Mac or PC.
How unique -- and trackable -- is your web browser?
How 8-track tapes work.
Exidy Sorcerer: The 8-Track Computer.
Concrete5 is a free open source content management system.
The Apache web server.
Don't buy an Android phone Windows Mobile, or Blackberry, only buy an iPhone so you can run these essential apps: iTeether, massage chair controlled by iPhone, Got Smell, Cupcake Tic Tac Toe, Voodoo Doll, and Hologram Building.
Website with good quality free technical ebooks.

Wes' iPhone Application of the week:

Teavana Perfect Tea Touch -- features everything you need to blend and steep your favorite teas including a musical tea timer.

Mark's iPhone Application of the week:

MobileRSS -- feature-rich Google Reader client for your iPhone and iPod touch,

Touchtone or rotary dialing, which costs more?

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Bernay) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:00:00 +0000

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Mark and Wes at Chef Chao's restaurant in Rheem, CA.

Sites of Interest:

MadTV made this video about the iPad before it was announced.
History of the Apple Newton.
Apple hired back one of the developers of the Newton.
Details of the new Apple iPad.
Haiti Earthquake Survivor Calls iPhone a Life Saver.
Haiti Earthquake Relief: How You Can Help.
AT&T Seeks to Phase Out Landline service.
Spike Jonze video about robots in love.
Online fan club for the other Spike Jones.
NEC’s “Battery-Less” Remote Control Could Be The Future Of Gadget Power.
The famous Dan Brown novel that Mark couldn't think of was The DaVinci Code.
The Plastic Logic QUE ebook reader.
YouTube Redesigned With Films, User Uploads in Mind.
YouTube's Next Venture: Movie Rentals.
Home page for the legitimate uses of BitTorrent.
The Texas Instruments watch we discussed in a previous show is being used to unlock doors.
ATM Card Skimmers Are Getting Frighteningly Sophisticated.
Speaker system for pregnant women.
Watch Any Vimeo Video in Freaky ASCII-O-Vision.
Interview with the father of videogames, Ralph Baer.
You should buy an iPhone instead of any other platform so you can run essential applications like these: SafeCab, Voice Band (video of it), Anti-Aging, Boobs and Sneezes, and Werewolf Me.

Mark's iPhone Application of the week:

PetSnap -- With 32 different sounds and useful features, PetSnap could easily attract your pet’s attention and assist you creating wonderful pets’ photos!

CES, VES, and Laptop TV

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Bernay) — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:00:00 +0000

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Mark and Wes at Bo's BBQ in Lafayette,CA.

Sites of Interest:

New Google "near me now" features for iPhone and Android.
Google takes a new approach with China.
China is now the largest importer of cars
2010 Will Be the Year of 3D TV
How different types of 3D glasses work.
3D without glasses, works very much like the 3D postcards you see in souvenir shops.
Nvidia 3D vision card and glasses for 3D on your home PC. Mark was wrong in being skeptical about this. He was assuming 3D would need polarization on the display screen and forgot the technology where the glasses have electronic filters that turn each eye's lens transparent and opaque in sequence to match the left and right pictures blinking alternatively on the display.
TV goggles exist, but never seem to be good enough.
The director of Avatar and Titanic made a 3D IMAX documentary called Ghosts of the Abyss about finding the wreck of the Titanic and exploring it with mini submarines containing IMAX cameras.
Interview with James Cameron about the technology used to film Avatar.
Good video of the Sony Aibo robot dog in action, including interaction with a cat.
Video of Bigdog, a Military robot that look like a double-sided dog.
Video of the Manoi Go break-dancing robot.
Digital Mobile TV meant for portable devices.
Sugar-powered phone, pour coca cola into it.
Free Photoshop Online.
The Sony Dash can run Chumby applications as well as other multimedia functions.
SBSettings for jailbroken iPhones Offers Faster Method to Manage iPhone Settings
Article critical of the Sound Exchange website.
Touch the Future with Light Blue Optics.
New Sony eBook readers have touchscreens and free cellular network access for downloading books and periodicals.
Philip K. Dick Estate Sends Google Cease And Desist Over Nexus One Name.
Pacman re-written for the 1976 Fairchild VES/Channel F/System II
"Demo apps" people used to write to show off their programming skill
The jailbreak ProSwitcher does multitasking on the iPhone looking just like the Palm Pre.
Please don't make the mistake of buying an Androd phone, Blackberry, or Windows Mobile. Only the iPhone can run amazing and essential applications like these: Mr. Dumb - Toilet, Marco Popo, iThong, Pet Snap, Nude-it, and Drunk Dialer.

Wes' iPhone Applications of the week:

Labyrinth 2 --The creators of the original iPhone Labyrinth game bring you Labyrinth 2 - the groundbreaking game taken to the next level.
GoodReader -- Read huge PDF, or TXT files, flawless performance with files over 1 gig in size, and re-flows the text to fit the iPhone screen.

Mark's iPhone Applications of the week:

HuffingtonPost.com -- Take the Huffington Post with you, and get the latest news and opinion --even when you are on the go.
Dragon Dictation -- Voice recognition application powered by Dragon NaturallySpeaking that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text.
Mailme Voice -- The quickest way to get all those things that you need to remember straight to your e-mail inbox.

Frankie's back from Russia

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Bernay) — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 06:00:00 +0000

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Mark, Wes, and guest Frankie at the Swad restaurant in Lafayette, CA

Sites of Interest:

The little-known Jewish holiday of Christmas Eve.
Most Bay Area cellphone carriers now work in the BART Transbay tube. That article shows problems at first, but the service seems to be good now.
Comparison of prepaid cell phone plans, including unlimited plans that compete with Metro PCS.
If you aren't familiar with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's personality, please watch this video first so you will understand the context, then watch this Video of a guy who says Steve Ballmer personally fired him because he wasn't enthusiastic enough about the word "Bing!"
Mark's puppy is a Bichon Frise.
Nettop computers are miniature desktop machines that use basically notebook components so they are very small and use little electric power. Mark got an Acer Aspire Revo 1600 for $200 and is happy with it for the price.
Taffic and runway lights with incandescent bulbs are being replaced with LED lights because they last far longer and use less electricity, however because they run so much cooler, they create a hazard in the winter.
World Climate Report, a blog skeptical about global warming.
If you are truly concerned about global warming, the best thing you can do personally to save the planet, is to eat your pets
Here are the pictures Wes took of his trip to Thailand.
San Francisco mayor backs mandatory cell phone radiation labels.
Inform 7 is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language.
USB Hourglass random number generator and random number generators based on radiation.
Twitter co-founder starts a new company, Square, that lets individuals and small businesses accept credit cards for payment using a tiny cube accessory that plugs into the audio jack of iPhones and other cell phones. See a video here.
Mark sees a similarity between Square and the beginnings of PayPal, which started as a way to beam money from one Palm Pilot owner to another.
Google goggles is an Android app that lets you take a photo of a product or building and lookup information about it by matching your photo to others of the same object that Google knows about. Google says Goggles will eventually be implemented on the iPhone.
Wes saw the Rama IX Bridge in Bangkok, which was dedicated to King Bhumibol Adulyadej on his 60th birthday.
The latest rumors about an Apple Tablet device.
Reference manuals for the Apple Newton including a scripting language for end-users
Be sure to buy an iPhone, not a Blackberry or Android device so you can run fine applications like these: iboobOrButt, Bing, Pull Santa's Finger, iLust, Stool Scanner (Fingerprint Test), ISOCK-the talking sock!, Assassin FPS, and Pie Fight.

Wes' iPhone Applications of the week:

RacerCoaster -- race a powerful racing buggy over roller-coaster-like race tracks?

Mark's iPhone Attacks

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Mark and Wes, at the California Pizza Kitchen on Van Ness in San Francisco.

Sites of Interest:

Fertility treatment may produce fewer baby boys.

Why we know from genetics that grandmothers play favorites.

This is the blood thinning drug that Mark is taking that requires a lot of testing to get the right dosage

Twitter to make money in 2010 with non-traditional advertising

What is the President and his staff looking at?

Wes mentioned this EZ430 sports watch and development platform. Mark ordered one from here for only $49 which includes the watch and all the tools. The ordering website didn't actually work to complete the order, so Mark ended up calling the phone number listed in the error message page and ordered it by phone.

Buffalo USB 3.0 hard drive now on sale and also a USB 3.0 PCI adapter card.

Mark bought Wes one of these for Bah Humbug day.

Darpa’s Simulated Cat Brain Project a ‘Scam’?

Tesla Motors IPO coming 'any day' now

Changes to Sarbanes-Oxley to ease costs for small firms

Mark explains why you should only buy an iPhone, not a Blackberry or Android phone or Windows Mobile, because seriously only iPhones can run these essential apps: Balloon Boys, Banjo Hoedown, CatPaint, and Sexy Fruit.

Geohot's jailbreak for latest iPhones and ipod Touch's including ones with the latest firmware. But note that the very latest models currently being sold by Apple have a serious problem with this: you must connect the device to a computer and re-do part of the jailbreak every time you reboot the device. This is a serious issue for an iPhone because if you are out and away from your computer and something happens to force you to restart your phone, you will be without a phone until you can get to a computer to do the "tethered boot".

Wes' iPhone Applications of the week:

iTimeZone -- World time clock that lets you enter a past or future date and time as well as the current time and see the corresponding date/time in other cities.

TripIt--That link will take you to search page which shows several apps that interface with the tripit.com website.

Mark's iPhone Applications of the week:

Blower Real Air -- Simulates an air blower on the screen, including making a special sound that somehow causes a tiny stream of air to blow out of the speaker port!

Crazy Text -- Lets you create messages in inverse and upside-down text.