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