$1,300 Power Bars
Mark 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 this is the "store on Locust" with the $80,000 amplifier; but their website doesn’t show anything like that.
- The Amazing Randi has a $1,000,000 challenge about audio cables, but Mark was wrong in the details.
- Startup.com, the movie.
- Big Blue’s employees really, seriously, used to sing these IBM company songs.
- President Obama introduces RECOVERY.gov.
- If you have a U.S. GSM cell phone (AT&T or T-Mobile), the trapcall service will show you the caller-id of people who try to call you with their id blocked; plus other services. This really works and Mark uses it.
- Mozilla’s Bespin framework aims to build an interactive Web-based code editor.
- The WebKit open source project let’s you design your own custom web browser.
- Mark mentioned a street in London that protects pedestrians who walk while texting. This turned out to be a hoax.
- The old Commodore Amiga with Video Toaster, could do this, but it takes 21st century engineering to actually make toast from a video machine!
- How to build an aquarium from an old Mac.
Wes’ iPhone Application of the week:
- He didn’t have any this week. Mark was shocked.
Mark’s iPhone Applications of the week:
- Tootin Pooch — the world’s first dog-fart app.
- Pukey Pete — quite possibly the first puke app. Mark may branch out from fart apps and become an expert on puke apps as well.
- Ocarina — turns the iPhone into a serious ancient flute-like music instrument.
- Fartarina –a mash up between Ocarina and a fart app.
- SignalScope — turns your iPhone into a powerful real-time spectrum analyzer and oscilloscope.