SlurpCast: BlackBerry and iPhone Battle at Strada

Mark and Wes in Berkeley, CA at the Caffe Strada.

Sites of Interest:

Where are they now? 25 computer products that refuse to die.
Wes mentioned the vaporware Peapod electric car, and Mark pointed out that the Electric Time mini cars are available today.
The Nopopo Batteries from Japan will recharge with urine, blood, and even apple juice! But remember, liquids only, no po po!
RIM removed an application from the Blackberry app store, Wattpad eReader.
History of the Hewlett-Packard company, starting with the sale of oscillators to Disney.
40th Anniversary of the Request For Comment method of developing Internet standards.
Bill Gates and Paul Allen started their computer carreer with Traf-O-Data while they were in high school.
Bill Gates rocks! (Starting at 4:23 into this video)
The real portable Commodore 64, and Ben Heck's vision of what a Commodore 64 laptop would have looked like.
How to turn the lit-up Apple logo on a MacBook into a second LCD monitor.
Frequent IMs with your boss make you more productive.
BumpTop reminded Mark of the old Microsoft Bob add-on for Windows. But now that he watched that video to remind himself what Bob was really like, maybe they're not similar at all.
Wes' stupid $400 BlackBerry can't even run the most essential iPhone apps like iPimpler, i-Chirp, iTrigger Fart Version, I Crush Your Head, or Burpy.
Wes' BlackBerry is so useless that he might as well get this or this instead of the real phone.

Wes' iPhone Applications of the week:

Mark's iPhone Applications of the week:

Skype -Phone calls and chats through the Skype system.
SullysFlight - Mark has this, but it no longer seems to be available. It was a subset of X-Plane, which is still an active app.

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