Model Airplanes
Mark 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-powered birdhouse with perch that lights up at night to attract bugs for the birds to eat.
- Submit an image to TinEyeto find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions.
- iPhone firmware 3.0 has been jailbroken, but you probably shouldn’t try it yet.
- There are lots of rumors that new iPhone models will be out this summer.
- Is this article accurate about Obama’s gift of an iPod to the Queen of England? No? How about this one?
- President Obama gave Gordon Brown a box set of DVD’s.
- One of Google’s April Fools jokes was that Google Apps can now be written in Fortran 77.
- Information and video tours of a typical Google data center.
- Flywheels are now used for Uninterruptible Power Supplies in competition to batteries. (Mark called these "gyroscopes" because he was thinking of something that spins.)
- The Apple 1 and a history of the Apple Computer Corporation.
- Nomee, TweetDeck, and PeopleBrowsr are software/websites that help you organize your feeds from various social networks.
- Wes likes the hi5 social networking system which claims to be the third largest in the world, but Mark never even heard of it. They are having a funding crisis.
- Mark couldn’t remember the free dating service with the fishy name. It’s PlentyOfFish.
- Write applications for .NET using the MONO IDE on Mac, PC or Linux.
- Mark likes the free SyncToy program from Microsoft, and mentioned it because it uses .net.
- Is voicemail obsolete?
- Mark’s favorite voicemail transcription service is VoiceCloud.
- Western Digital goes solid state, acquires Silicon Systems.
- iFart was the #1 seller in the iPhone app store.
Mark’s iPhone Applications of the week:
- Bump-Somehow it knows when you bump two iPhones together, and will transfer contact information.
- TapTapCards-Turns pictures on your iPhone into real picture postcards that are snail-mailed to your friends.
- Color Splash - give photos a dramatic look by converting them to black and white, while keeping your chosen details in color.
- iControl Cat- remote control for your cat, just like TV remotes. Mark particularly liked this because, believe it or not, he bought one of these and it didn’t work either.
- Farthoven -this sort of fart app has been done before, but Mark liked the name.