What's New is Old
118 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 8 years ago - ★★★★ - 1 ratingMark Bernay & Wes get together once a week to eat dinner and chew and slurp into a microphone. Oh, yeah, we also discuss the latest technology and Internet news and often relate the new items to older technology.
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Phill Schiller is not Vince Shlomi. Steve Balmer is really Peter Boyle.
September 18, 2009 13:00 - 1 hour - 24.5 MBMark 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...
Choose your own Android
September 11, 2009 13:00 - 52 minutes - 24.5 MBMark and Wes at Bo's Barbeque in Lafayette, CA until the wasps and loud band-with-no-banjo forced us out, and then we went to a Starbucks. Sites of Interest: It's the 40th anniversary of Nerf. Mark has one of these Nerf toys and this iPhone app to control it (although he hasn't gotten the app to work yet, possibly because his missile launcher looks identical, but has a different brand name on it). Wes complains about the Sima Hitch device we talked about last week. This is the type of w...
The Cross-Platform Fart-App Compiler
September 04, 2009 07:00 - 55 minutes - 24.5 MBMark and Wes at Pizza Antica in Lafayette, CA. Sites of Interest: The movie "9" comes out on 9/9/09. The 9 Experiment is here. Information about USB On-The-Go. The Apple Camera Connector let you copy photos from certain digital cameras to your iPod. Wes is buying the Sima Hitch USB Transfer Device. Review of the new Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Snow Leopard adds an anti-malware scanner and here's an example of Mac malware in the wild. Macs have security vulnerabilities, and malware c...
Show me how to strengthen my fingers again?
August 08, 2009 13:00 - 54 minutes - 24.5 MBMark and Wes at Pizza Antica in Lafayette, CA. Sites of Interest: Wes' stupid Blackberry can't run these ordinary everyday highly-useful iPhone apps: Treadfinger, Static Chic, SEX-A-MA-PHONE, iDontFart, or the Amazing Radiation Detector. Computer History Museum in Mt. View, CA. Are developers for Windows Mobile worth more than 99 cents? Build an Apple-1 replica from a kit. Web-based Apple ][ and Apple IIgs emulators, including virtual disks for nearly every game ever made for these mac...
No sir, you can't train that Zombie
August 08, 2009 13:00 - 51 minutes - 24.5 MBMark and Wes at the Peet's Coffee & Tea in Orinda, CA . Sites of Interest: On Earth, most methane in the atmosphere is produced by the ongoing, unstoppable farting of living things. Wes' stupid Blackberry phone can't even run the basic iPhone apps such as ManWax, Raoul the Dancing Pancake, My Little Cockroach, Gobbler, and Zombie Weatherman. Mark is reading the book: Zombie Survival Guide, and loved the movie Fido. Original District 9 short film. Radio Shack asks for our help changing ...
Find Ghosts? - There is an app for that!
July 31, 2009 13:00 - 1 hour - 24.5 MBMark and Wes at the LeCheval Vietnamese Restaurant in Walnut Creek, CA . Sites of Interest: Mark used his iPhone to test the restaurant for ghosts using GhostRecorder. Creative Labs introduces Zii Plaszma, the StemCell Computing Platform. Early BART ticket counterfeiting. Cap'n Crunch caught doing this. Hackers counterfeiting San Francisco parking meter cards. O.R.B. Bluetooth Ear Ring: wear it as a ring on your finger, open it into a Bluetooth headset. How the old Napster worked. Sha...
Full Metal Chopsticks
July 24, 2009 13:00 - 1 hour - 24.5 MBMark and Wes at the Ohgane Korean BBQ in Oakland, CA . Sites of Interest: Amazon CEO apologizes for removing George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm digital books from Kindle machines that had already purchased them. History of Amazon Acquisitions and Investments, including Zappos.com for $920 million. An old article about the history of Novell Netware, showing its importance at the time. iPhone factory worker committed suicide (or was pushed?) after being interrogated (tortured?) about a ...
Is your iPhone 3GS Broken?
July 08, 2009 13:00 - 1 hour - 24.5 MBMark and Wes at the Korean Bulgogi House in Concord, CA . Sites of Interest: Mark mentioned hostgator.com for hosting WordPress blogs and many other types of web pages and services. Wes' stupid Blackberry can't even run basic iPhone apps like these: Fartoscopes, Big Mouth, and TubaFollow. Zoho has free and low-cost productivity, collaboration, and business apps. They just added a way to export your Access databases to the web. Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Murray Hopper was the first woman to ...
"Bing" goes the sound of Microsoft
June 05, 2009 13:00 - 59 minutes - 24.5 MBMark and Wes at the Back Forty Texas BBQ in Pleasant Hill, CA . Sites of Interest: When we recorded this show, the Palm Pre had not yet been released and we were going by rumors and pre-release reviews. The Pre is now out and available in Sprint stores. Mark played with one and liked it a lot more than he thought he would. Same story with the new iPhone: our show was going on rumors, but the iPhone 3G S has now been announced and should be available for purchase on June 19. If Mark decid...
The Mail Order Tapeworm
May 15, 2009 00:34 - 1 hour - 24.5 MBMark, Wes, and guest @besz at Bo's BBQ in Lafayette, CA . Sites of Interest: We make jokes about being sick because this recording was made when the Swine Flu scare was going on. Apple removed the Baby Shaker iPhone app from the app store. History of the word "computer". Comptometer operators should have had that title. Were the people who wired plug boards the first programmers? Purse that is a cross between a Nintendo and a Commodore 64. History of Commodore Computers and pictures o...
New ways to be gross with Twitter
April 22, 2009 13:00 - 59 minutes - 24.5 MBMark and Wes in Pleasant Hill, CA at the Monsoon Masala restaurant. Sites of Interest: Office chair that measures farts and sends twitters. Brain-Twitter interface. There have been similar machines that read brainwaves as an input device to a video game. There are websites where you type commands and a virtual actor obeys them. E.g. Virtual Girlfriend. Long before twitter you could leave community messages on cards. The Community Memory system of public terminals. Optical signaling i...
A Garden Hose in Paris
April 13, 2009 13:00 - 51 minutes - 24.5 MBMark and Wes in Lafayette, CA at the Swad Indian restaurant. Sites of Interest: Amazon officially announced the Kindle 2. E-ink devices will soon be in color. Modern Flash Memory is like the ancient core memory in that they both retain their bits when power is removed. Wes mentioned an idea from the TED Conference, Homo Evolutus. Bill Gates released mosquitoes to an audience at Ted. Mark thought this Hello Kitty lineman's handset was for sale, but it's just a hand-made gift. History...
BlackBerry & iPhone Battle at Strada
April 10, 2009 13:00 - 57 minutes - 24.5 MBMark 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 compa...
Model Airplanes
April 03, 2009 13:00 - 1 hour - 24.5 MBMark and Wes in Moraga, CA at the Ranch House Cafe. Sites of Interest: Steve Jobs maintains grip on Apple. Some Safeway stores now have free Wi-Fi as part of a rebranding marketing effort. Remember ICQ? Tesla is working on an electric sedan. Mark sounds skeptical that Tesla will ever ship anything, but they claim they have already delivered 250 of their Roadster model. Video of a real owner showing off his Roadster. The idea of battery-powered cars is older than you think. Solar-powe...
The Alien Habbit
March 27, 2009 13:00 - 54 minutes - 24.5 MBMark and Wes in Lafayette, CA at Pizza Antica. Sites of Interest: Medieval Tech Support for this new-fangled thing called "books" on "paper". IBM's history and a history in ad pictures of IBM typewriters, including the Magnetic Tape/Selectric Typewriter (MT/ST). The Friden Flexowriter used paper tape to do very early word processing. The new mp3HD format and information about the various MPEG standards. Fingerprinting blank paper using commodity scanners. Statistics on iPhones and iPh...
Wiffy
March 13, 2009 13:00 - 57 minutes - 24.5 MBMark 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 L...
$1,300 Power Bars
February 20, 2009 13:00 - 50 minutes - 24.5 MBMark and Wes in Concord, CA at the Fry's Electronics Store. Sites of Interest: Legal stink over fart apps. Mark and Wes bought these Poqet PC devices back in the day, and still have them. Sony P Series tiny notebooks are still bigger than the Poqet. The technology behind the movie Coraline. Mark suspects the $1,000+ "power conditioners" at the Fry's store are just glorified $5 power strips and in the real world don't make any difference to audio and video quality. Mark guesses that t...
Boobs Not Allowed
February 06, 2009 13:00 - 54 minutes - 24.5 MBMark & 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...
The Humpy Thing
January 23, 2009 13:00 - 49 minutes - 24.5 MBMark & 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 dire...
Would Steve eat at Nama Sushi?i
January 09, 2009 13:00 - 1 hour - 24.5 MBMark & 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 "Wh...
7-11, Ice Cream & Christmas
December 26, 2008 13:00 - 45 minutes - 28.3 MBMark & Wes, in Walnut Creek, CA at the Tokyo Lobby. Mark figures out a way to intercept Wes on the bus using a system called Nextbus in order to take BART to the east bay together. We're thinking about changing the name of our show from WNO, to simply "SlurpCast". In this show, we talk a bit about the in-ear headphones that Wes got at the Apple store and Mark ordered via the Apple website. Mark feels that these are not as good as other in-ear headphones, like the Shure model he used before....
Frankie goes to Hollywood.. or San Francisco?
December 19, 2008 13:00 - 33 minutes - 28.3 MBMark, Wes, and guest Franky in Lafayette, CA at the Swad Indian restaurant. We have a guest this week: Franky, Al Bernay's disciple. Franky goes to Hollywood -- literally, that's where he lives; but for this week he was visiting in San Francisco. The audio quality in this show is excellent because we used a PZM microphone, however there is a lot of GSM noise because Mark's iPhone was too close to the recorder and Wes was more agressive than normal in editing this show to eliminate some of t...
In-ear headphones not
November 21, 2008 13:00 - 56 minutes - 28.3 MBMark & Wes, in Rockridge, CA at Pasta Pomodoro Our intro audio sample comes from the movie WestWorld. Mark reminds us about the Gopher protocol, and how that works. Wes remembers the text web browser Lynx. Why is Symbian supporting Lotus Notes? Why do companies who purchase other software companies, screw up the software products? Mark gets a phone call from a reporter investigating 911 fraud. Ever notice that bus and train riders who use laptops seem not to be aware of the fact that anyone...
How to make BART go faster
November 14, 2008 13:00 - 1 hour - 28.3 MBMark & Wes, in Orinda, CA at Yu Sushi. Wes isn't ready for the G1 phone yet, but is thinking about getting one once other carriers start offering their own Android phones. Mark doesn't think that the T-Mobile network is all that good, so holding off on the purchase of a G1 specifically may be wise. Was UNIX originally a public domain operating system from Bell Labs? Mark ponders the question of what device may have been made to emulate another, in the 1800's? Some guy hooks up electrodes to...
I want the Woot BOC
October 24, 2008 13:00 - 1 hour - 28.3 MBMark & Wes, in Walnut Creek, CA at the Plearn Thai Restaurant. What's that Mark? Did you say Bag o' Crap? You still couldn't get one? Mark describes something called a woot-off, and tells all about what happens near the end of one of them. What does "MUD" stand for? Hmm.. Mark's friend has a hard disk issue that SpinRite fixed. The Android phone was released to a crowd of people in SF, but the experience was less than its competitor's waiting line. Mark and Wes discuss potential software fo...
Where does the cheese go?
October 17, 2008 13:00 - 50 minutes - 28.3 MBMark & Wes, in Lafayette, CA at the Chow Restaurant. Tonight we find our two nerdy friends eating food at a small hidden away place underneath a heat lamp eating simple Italian meals. Mark doesn't get the joke on Melissa's myspace profile and goes on to describe the official definition of a 'myspace picture', and what it means to not understand camera usage. Mark speaks about perspective, and how the process of catching flying balls is, in reality, an easy algorithm. Microsoft is no longer ...
I'm Loopt for Android
October 10, 2008 13:00 - 43 minutes - 28.3 MBMark & Wes, in Lafayette, CA at the Swad Restaurant. Mark and Wes console each other about their stock market losses. In our fantasy, our podcast is better than KenRadio. Use your phone to display membership cards? Of course you can, so long as the bar code is visible and the facility approves. What tools were available in the old days of computer game programming? Take for instance the Atari 2600? Woz used the 6502 processor for the Apple II, and used it because of the manufacturer handing...
Stanfords Restaurant & Bar
October 03, 2008 13:00 - 55 minutes - 28.3 MBMark & Wes, in Walnut Creek, CA at Stanfords Restaurant and Bar. Wes meets Wes, at Stanfords, where he and Mark discover what a 'butter burger' is. Mark discusses how to train a Cat by using a clicking device combined with treats and warm fuzzies. Apple drops the developer NDA for applications created for the iPhone, but what does this really mean? Wes complains the the Sarah Connor Chronicles will end of life soon, but then nothing good lasts forever. Mark bought the domain name RapKids.co...
Why not JailBreak?
September 26, 2008 13:00 - 1 hour - 28.3 MBMark & Wes, in Orinda, CA at Baan Thai. Wes knows nothing about condoms. Mark jail breaks his iPhone 3g, which he then explains in more detail. They talk about how this hacking of the internal iPhone device started, and the discovery of the internal encryption key. Is it true that the jail broken iPhone runs applications better than the standard OS? The idea is that apps have more control over the device, than the standard Apple SDK allows. What is Mark to do with all the Esquire Digital In...
Polenta and Potting Material
September 19, 2008 13:00 - 55 minutes - 28.3 MBMark & Wes, in Lafayette, CA at Pizza Antica. The show starts out with a story about the first integrated circuit on Sept 12th in 1958. Al Bernay secured his own circuits by using potting material. NASA MARS image anomalies are probably based on image scale. Mark has a theory about UFO's. Have you ever played the 'integrated circuits around you' game? Wes claims he has an integrated circuit... down there... Mark is now using another blue-tooth headset for his 3G iPhone. Can the 1st gen iTou...
My 'Ding-Ding' Machine
September 12, 2008 13:00 - 55 minutes - 28.3 MBMark & Wes, in Rheem, CA at Tamamis This show was recorded using Mark's lapel microphones. For whatever reason, you can hear us eat and chew and slurp in high detail. In the show, Mark and Wes ramble a lot about Apple's new updates to certain products, iTunes 8.0, 2.1 firmware iTouch & iPhone update, Nano's potential 508 compliance for sight-impaired users. Mark explains how 'location over Wi-Fi' works, and how people have to drive all over the place to map the Wi-Fi locations. Wes thinks h...
Kips cooks with Gas
September 05, 2008 13:00 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MBMark & Wes, in Berkeley, CA at Kips This show was recorded in a noisy area of Kips in Berkeley. Wes complains about his bubble drink and how it wasn't blended. Mark talks about Walter/Wendy Carlos and Switched on Bach. He has a pic of what looks like a Moog analog system, but there is a possibility that it is just an analog computer. What is it!? Who is the guy? They talk about the first MP3 player and what it looked like in 1998. Wes talks a bit about the unit that Apple examined before th...
A GEM of a show
August 29, 2008 13:00 - 1 hour - 28.3 MBMark & Wes, in Emeryville, CA at The Emerybay Public Market. This show was recorded outside of the food court in Emeryville. People thought Mark and I were some strange group of Radio DJ's, and the guard actually came up and started a conversation about our equipment. In this show, Mark and Wes go back in time to discuss early Apple computers, and tell brief stories of the first Apple machines we both used. Wes talks a bit about the GEM DOS Shell. Forget GEM, Mark used DESQview to run mult...
Loards Ice Cream & Candles
August 22, 2008 13:00 - 43 minutes - 28.3 MBMark & Wes, in Orinda, CA at Loards Ice Cream This show was recorded at Loards Ice Cream due to the fact that there was a live band (with NO BANJO) playing loudly in the mall where the expensive Japanese Restaurant was located. So we waited until after dinner and forced ourselves to eat ice cream out of ice cream cups in order to bring you another wonderful and fact filled episode! In this show, Mark and Wes talk about MacroMedia, Adobe, Flash for the iPhone, Audio Editors, Steve Jobs is an...
And that comes with Garlic?
August 15, 2008 13:00 - 46 minutes - 28.3 MBMark & 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 c...
Al Bernay - part 2
August 08, 2008 13:00 - 39 minutes - 28.3 MBMark & 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...
Al Bernay - part 1
August 06, 2008 11:42 - 1 hour - 28.3 MBMark & 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 you...
A Stain on the Dumb ASCII
July 25, 2008 13:00 - 40 minutes - 28.3 MBMark & Wes, in Lafayette, CA. Doing the Pizza Antica. Mark has an issue with a battery refill web site, as they most recently gave him what appear to be defective refills twice. Listeners have convinced me to record the waiter taking our orders, so don't judge us on the food we order. Mark doesn't care as long as the soup makes a solid slurping sound . Mark runs through the kinds of Pizza you can get in Italy, causing me to think of a Tetris cut pie. iTouch v2.0 firmware crashing problems m...
The Italian Sausage
July 11, 2008 13:00 - 33 minutes - 28.3 MBAxe & Wes, in SF, CA having lunch at Tart to Tart. New iTunes, iPhone and firmware all around, 20% of all apps on AppStore are free, Twitter is available in free and premium edition on AppStore, iTouch firmware update was delayed, problems with the iTouch firmware update, software quality assurance, 80% of all iPhone apps are free, Yelp, Evernote iPhone app, Shazam to find your favorite song on the radio, Jott, iPhone screenshot capability, 24k Gold iPhone, Nokia and Navteq, Squirt your sph...
Word Tech Systems
July 04, 2008 13:00 - 15 minutes - 28.3 MBMark & Wes, in Orinda, CA looking for WordTech Systems. Because Mark is on vacation in Europe, this weeks show is a quick smearing of audio clips from previous shows that go back to 2005. In this set, Mark and Wes reminisce.
Korean Bulgogi House
June 27, 2008 13:00 - 55 minutes - 28.3 MBMark & Wes, in Concord, CA at The Bulgogi House. What is tthe maximum length of a domain name?, HD Camcorders, Bill is not really retiring, Steve looked ill so is he leaving Apple?, Gates did Quality Control for Microsoft Products, remember Jaz Drives?, Sleep Texting? Sites of Interest: http://www.yelp.com/biz/korean-bulgogi-house-concord - The restaurant where we are slurping. http://www.thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/ - The longest domain name with ...
The SlurpCast Network!
June 20, 2008 13:00 - 1 hour - 28.3 MBMark & Wes, in Lafayette, California at Swad Indian Restaurant. In this show, we talk about Boost Mobile, Meet Sense, Get Drop Box, Bright Kite, Gspace, Mesh, Drop.io, NullSoft, Mark and Wes should swear more than we do, MySapce is due for a face-lift, possibly never have an iPhone to be used as a Modem, instead of 'bricking your phone, how about Graham Crackering your phone?, Apple probably takes a loss on new products when first introduced, Sprint Instinct, The Zivio Cell Phone BlueTooth ...
His name is Sammy
June 13, 2008 13:00 - 1 hour - 28.3 MBMark, Wes & Sammy, in Lafayette, California at Swad Indian Restaurant. The group talks a bit about (bullshit) Energy Drinks, Microencapsulated Drugs, Scratch n' Sniff, Smell-o-Vision, Cut a steak with a MacBook Air, Netflix Player by Roku, "Do you know who I am?", Linux on your cell phone, Astound Me, Billboards that gather stats about who's looking at them, Mark's feedback on the new iPhone, Mark gives out the answer to the first challenge, The Perverted Captain Crunch Dream, Subvert and Pr...
No Links in our Dinners!
June 06, 2008 13:00 - 1 hour - 28.3 MBMark & Wes back in Lafayette, California at Bo's Barbecue. Starbucks offers free wi-fi now, Jott has new features, Elephant Beetle's need love too, Mark talks about one of his first GPS units, a Garmin Street Pilot, Roku's NetFlix Player, interesting views from Mark about current state of technology advancements, now you'll know how the GPS system works. Win a Cap'n Crunch whistle by answering Mark's interesting new challenge. Also there is one week left to answer the challenge from last we...
Arnold Palmer
May 30, 2008 13:00 - 47 minutes - 28.3 MBMark & Wes back in Lafayette, California at Pizza Antica. Mark takes a moment to talk a bit about his theory on the stock market, voting power, dividends, and paper with no value, Wes finds a tool that helps him get around the Windows XP Login screen for an old machine he forgot the password to, 3D monitors exist, hacking windows mobile OS for old phone models. Win a prize by answering Mark's interesting challenge. Answer in the blog by leaving a comment, or send either of us an email. Sit...
Remember the Phonograph
May 23, 2008 13:00 - 43 minutes - 28.3 MBMark & Wes back in Lafayette, California at Swad. Wonderful Indian flavors again at Swad Indian Cuisine. Mark shares a lot about old technology and surprises me with his finding regarding the Philco Radio Phonograph, DJ's at Chris Bernay's Wedding, methods in the past to remember when a song was played on the radio, reradiation & reflection statistic tracking, Roku NetFlix Player, Nano Technology Robots are becoming a reality, a 1927 GPS Watch. Sites of Interest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
My Blog-Log-Blog
May 16, 2008 13:00 - 42 minutes - 28.3 MBMark & Wes back in Orinda, California. ahhh, the expensive Japanese Restaurant... Today Mark does the introduction and talks about his blog log, tracking dollar bills via the net, the iPhone rotary dialer, iPhone 3g battery life will not be great, the Babbage Difference Engine, remember "Don't Copy that Floppy?", The good and bad of new technology, and Wes and Mark talk about YouTube and how parents should handle their kids Internet Fame. Sites of Interest: http://www.mybloglog.com - Yahoo...
SY-109-er
May 09, 2008 13:00 - 36 minutes - 28.3 MBMark & Wes at Pizza Antica in Lafayette, CA... again. Today Mark gets to ask the waiter if he would stop if not told to, the SY109er clock, giveaway of the day, Mark's mother had a drawer full of 'stuff', Yahoo Pipes, updates on the iPhone SDK, 3G iPhone Spec, Travel and Package Tracking online, Speed Racer is actually pretty good? Sites of Interest: http://www.giveawayoftheday.com- Free Software. http://www.woot.com - Bag of Crap and Woot-offs. http://www.tripit.com/ - Better ways of tr...
See You See Me
May 04, 2008 13:00 - 34 minutes - 28.3 MBMark, Wes & Troy at Huong Tra in Richmond, CA. Today Mark and I meet up with Troy to discuss BrightKite, Internet Dating, RSS Appreciation, Skype Clients for cell phones, and how my Minidisc Recorder dies on Thursday night. Sites of Interest: http://www.yelp.com/biz/huong-tra-richmond - Huong Tra http://brightkite.com/ - Bright Kite, like twitter, but better? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CU-SeeMe - History on CuSeeMe Software http://sattlers.org/mickey/CU-SeeMe/index.html - CUSeeMe Soft...
Water To the Desert
April 25, 2008 13:00 - 43 minutes - 28.3 MBMark & Wes at Pizza Antica in Lafayette, California. Today we learn that Microsoft is dropping the Spot Watch product, but continuing the spot watch signal via FM sub carriers, Tom Leykus is YOUR father, Microsoft Mesh, Twitter Earth Apps, the door keeps slamming behind us, iMac speed bumps, Skype adds fixed price plan for skype-to-phone international calls, Mark misses his BART stop due to his ear buds and has to pay $30 for a cab, GPS' will soon tell you that you are in a bad neighborhood....