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Phill Schiller is not Vince Shlomi. Steve Balmer is really Peter Boyle.

What's New is Old

English - September 18, 2009 13:00 - 1 hour - 24.5 MB - ★★★★ - 1 rating
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Mark and Wes at Korean BBQ Plus in Concord, CA. Sites of Interest:

Is it true that in Second Life you can walk uphill both ways to/from school (in the snow)?Read news fast with Google Fast Flip.Are there problems with iPhone 3.1?The Jailbreak is out for 3.1 for the older iPhones and iTouch's, but not for the 3G(S) or latest iTouch's.Saurik's article criticizing Apple's closed app store, and details about the eventual jailbreak for 3G(S) with 3.1 and what you should do to prepare for this.The History of Turntablism, and now DJ's have Pioneer's new CDJ-2000 DJ deck.History of mechanical music clocks.Kanye West crashes the Video Music Awards, then he crashes a presidential speech, President Obama calls him a jackass, and a website where he disses your website.Mark likes Baby Gramps because he plays the banjo at least sometimes.How large can memory cards get?  Toshiba announces a 64 GB SD card. The largest microSDHC we found for sale is 16 GB.The Broadcom chip in the new iPhone Touch is capable of 802.11n.The new iPod Touch models don't have a camera, but it looks like a prototype did.Does David Pogue have a conflict of interest?  And his new book The World According to Twitter.Twitter hash tags.Look at this guy's prediction about  the iPod nano camera.The next eco supercar: the Steenstra Styletto.Electric cars have been around since the 1800's.Information and news about the upcoming Windows 7.Carbonite.com offers unlimited offsite backup to their Internet servers for less than $5 per month, and you can save 20% if you buy via this special deal.Buddy Backup is an example of software that lets you backup to a friend's hard drive over the Internet for free.Bing Visual Search for popular iPhone apps.  Mark is confused on how to use it to find fart apps, since farts are invisible.Steve Ballmer gets mad at a Microsoft employee for using an iPhone, and gets physical with Guy Kawasaki's MacBook Air.The most amazing video of Ballmer's presentation style.Video about the Steve Jobs reality distortion field and details on how it works.Wes' stupid BlackBerry can't run these basic iPhone apps, and neither can Android phones: Waiter Rater, I Got a Man, Virtual High Five, DollEye, Virtual Sushi, Fat Mama's Pussycat Playland, and Blood.Krapps.com is a blog with more examples of the KRitical iPhone apps that aren't available for other platforms.OpenStreetMap creates and provides free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them.

Wes' iPhone Applications of the week:

Driving Test - teaches the material and simulates the written driving test and at the end presents you a detailed score which you can e-mail yourself. Works for multiple states, but Mark is skeptical because driving laws can be different.iChess - Play against the iPhone computer or a second player.

Mark's iPhone Application of the week:

Waze - free, 100% user-generated, social navigation app that allows drivers to build and use live maps & real-time traffic updates to improve their daily commute. .

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