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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. .