Wiffy

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Mark and Wes in Orinda, CA at the Serika Japanese Restaurant.

Sites of Interest:

• Compact Disc turns 30.
  
  
• Remember the first CD Burners?
  
  
• The longevity of optical media.
  
  
• Audacity - an open source cross-platform audio editor.
  
  
• Wavosaur - a free audio editor for Windows that supports VST plugins.
  
  
• The Mentalists use iPhones as instruments; and another cellphone orchastra based at Stanford University.
  
  
• The latest iTouch models can now be jailbroken.
  
  
• History of WYSWYG.
  
  
• The LOGO programming Language.
  
  
• The Forth programming language.
  
  
• The Pentium Chronicles.
  
  
• We have mentioned the Will It Blend site before, but now there's Will it Fart?
  
  
• Pastor Gas.
  
  
• Kid uses a fart machine during a City Council meeting.
  
  
• Google will shortly have free phone services, so sign up for the waiting list. (If you have a Grand Central number, you can keep it and Google has probably already converted it to the new system.)
  
  
• Tellme has free voice phone services for the public.

Wes' iPhone Applications of the week:

• TextFree Unlimited - Buy this app and then send and receive unlimited free text messages from an iPod touch or iPhone to any US mobile phone. They have a free lite version of the app to check it out.
  
  
• Things - Todo manager that synchronizes with Things for Mac.
  

Mark's iPhone Applications of the week:

• Toodledo - Todo manager that synchronizes with the toodledo.com website, and via that, it can sync to Outlook.
  
  
• Farty Face - Select or take photos of your arch-nemesis (or best buddy) and blast away!