Boobs Not Allowed

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

Sites of Interest:

• Scandal in the FartApp space: FartnBurp claims to be the first to have farts and burps in the same app, but we reviewed one last week which had that and more.
  
  
• The author of a great Rubik's Cube solver talks about marketing his product against fart apps.
  
  
• Some women should not be allowed to call them "Panties".
  
  
• How MapQuest Works.
  
  
• History of Microsoft on the Web, including IIS.
  
  
• Abacus Online Museum.
  
  
• Synth Pioneer Jean-Jacques Perrey in a music video. Wes thought he was the creator of the Oramic, but that was Graham Wrench who built this for Daphne Oram.
  
  
• Mark found this 1-terrabyte hard drive for under $99.99. (That offer is sold out, but you can probably find others like it.) He said this was $1 per gigabyte, but it's actually $0.10 per gigabyte which is 10 times more amazing.
  
  
• Solid state "hard drives".
  
  
• Boobs And Booty Banned From The App Store -- but there are ways to cheat.
  
  
• How to re-program temporary road signs to say what you want.
  
  
• New version of Google Earth lets you explore beneath the oceans, and has many other new features.
  
  
• Mark points out that virtual reality will never seem like real life until smells can be recorded and played back. Maybe something like this?
  
  
• The technology behind Benjamin Button.
  
  
• Bug Labs -- This company makes a collection of easy-to-use electronic modules that snap together to build any gadget you can imagine.
  
  
• MuxTape -- A place for bands to post their music, and for listeners to create mixes.
  
  
• The Kindle 2 was a rumor when we did this recording, but has now been officially announced.
  
  
• Videos of the Apple Newton 2100.
  
  
• A New Zealand man bought a used iPod that turned out to be full of military secrets.
  
  
• VMware Fusion is popular for running Windows on a Mac, but Virtual Box runs on many other platforms, is open-source, and freeeeeeeeeeee.
  
  
• Microsoft has a new virtual machine product, Hyper-V, meant for running server systems.
  

Wes' iPhone Applications of the week:

• ModPlayer -- plays mod files. Duuuuuhhhhhh.
  
  
• Speedtest.net Speed Test -- Test the download and upload speeds of your iPhone's Internet connection, whether wifi or cellular.
  
  
• Tweetie -- Full-featured app for interfacing with twitter.
  
  

Mark's iPhone Applications of the week:

• Slurptastic -- cleans your screen from the inside.
  
  
• Jaadu VNC -- Expensive, but best app for remote control of a PC, Mac, or Linux machine. The instructions show how to install a freeeeeeeeeeeeeee VNC server on the machine to be controlled.
  
  
• TwitterFon -- Mark's favorite Twitter app. He was wrong when he said it didn't have a way to mark favorite tweets; he later figured out how to do it.
  

The Humpy Thing

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Mark & Wes in Oakland, CA at Sura Korean restaurant.

Sites of Interest:

• Information about Carpal Tunnel syndrome. Article that claims mice are more the cause than keyboards. Catalog of weird types of keyboards for people who do have this.
  
  
• Mark bought this vibrating Wake UP alarm which alerts you if your head nods forward while driving or in a movie. He bought it from an English language website in Korea which took an American credit card and shipped the item quickly. There is no link directly to the item, so go here and in the Title box search on exactly this string, including the brackets: [ICONIC] Wake Up
  
  
• History of Unisys, a union of Burroughs and Sperry Rand. The old Univac computers are in that timeline, long before the merger.
  
  
• The Mojave Experiment: Microsoft punks users to show people like Vista.
  
  
• How to control your humpy thing.
  
  
• Mark liked the movie My Bloody Valentine 3D.
  
  
• Watch all the episodes of the cult classic TV show The Prisoner for freeeeeeee, and read about the remake.
  
  
• Download movies very cheaply in various formats.
  
  
• Website that helps you sneak into multiple movies in a multiplex.
  
  

Wes' iPhone Applications of the week:

• Find an Apartment -- Lets you search Craigslist, Google Base, and more for apartments.
  
  
• Gym Buddy -- Keeps a record of your workouts.
  
  

Mark's iPhone Applications of the week:

• iBurp On Your Fart Ahhhh -- Select burp, fart, and relief noises, all in one app!
  
  
• Byline -- RSS reader that does two-way syncing with Google Reader.
  

Would Steve eat at Nama Sushi?

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Mark & Wes, in Walnut Creek, CA at Nama Sushi & Teriyaki.

Mark and Wes talk about Steve (you know which Steve) and his health and what he admitted. What went on at MacWorld? Where is the promised iPhone firmware with push notification? Apple NetBook? Newton? Why does Mark think that Steve needs a visit to McDonalds? Bits about Windows 7.

Sites of Interest:

• We clown Steve Job because this quote shows he would be against our "What's New is Old" show format.
  
  
• The truth about iMeat.
  
  
• The "Whipple procedure" is sometimes used for patients with pancreatic cancer. If Steve had this, it might explain his weight problems.
  
  
• Sign up for the Windows 7 public beta test.
  
  
• The Windows Blinds product lets you "skin" a large number of visual elements of Windows and applications, including letting you make XP look much like Vista.
  
  
• Microsoft is extending the date for Windows XP.
  
  
• Joost doing better in the marketplace with it's new web-browser-based player.
  
  
• Fart Studio, your all in one flatulence solution.
  
  
• The QWERTY keyboard was designed to make you type slower. Everyone believes that the Dvorak keyboard invented by Dr. August Dvorak is faster, but that may be a myth!
  
  
• JibJab to keep the laughs rolling.
  
  
• The last factory to make player piano rolls has stopped production.
  
  
• Actress Hedy Lamarr invented spread-spectrum radio using piano roll technology.
  
  
• Pour yellowsn0w on your jailbroken iPhone 3G to SIM-unlock it so that it will work with almost any GSM SIM card in the world.
  
  
• Freeeeeeeeeeee Internet dating sites.
  
  

Wes' iPhone Applications of the week:

• iAmAMan - Free calendar application meant to be used by men to secretly track multiple women's monthly cycle.
  
  
• Eternity Time Log - Time tracking and reporting application.
  
  

Mark's iPhone Applications of the week:

• Touch Physics and Crayon Physics Deluxe -Similar game/puzzle apps that let you draw objects with crayons on a blackboard, and they start moving to the laws of physics to let you solve the puzzle for each level. The serious bug in Crayon Physics was fixed in the latest version, so try it.
  
  
• Tag Reader and Seadragon Mobile - Mark mentioned these because they are written by Microsoft for the iPhone, and he thought that was weird.