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Mark 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 could target Macs.  Everyone says not to worry because there is no incentive to write such a thing, but Mac owners do online banking, etc., just like PC owners do, and are far less likely to have their systems protected by anti-virus software.  So Mark wonders why malware authors wouldn’t go after Mac user’s passwords and other valuable info?  And how do we know this isn’t happening, since Mac owners don’t run software to look for them?
• Snow Leopard: the 64-bit reality.
• Inside the new Microsoft retail stores.  Everyone forgets that Microsoft had a retail store before.  Wes heard that the San Franciso Microsoft store will be in the old Virgin Megastore building a block from the Apple store, but we can’t find any articles saying that.  Mark thinks it would be funny if Microsoft opens their store again at the Metreon, since that is also only a block away.
• Microsoft is trying to compete with iPod’s with their new Zune HD.
• Wes said GoDaddy blocks China, but it seems like it’s China doing the blocking from time to time and our impression is that China has nothing against GoDaddy itself, but sometimes finds objectionable material on a site hosted by GoDaddy and blocks a range of ip address that includes other GoDaddy-hosted sites.
• AT&T will allow MMS for iPhone on September 25, 2009.
• Happy 40th birthday, Internet.  Watch the video!
• Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia, is a parody of Wikipedia.  This is the article that Mark couldn’t remember: Free Kevin.
• Wikipedia will test a new policy for handling updates of articles about living persons.
• Wikipedia to Color Code Untrustworthy Text.
• Wes’ stupid Blackberry can’t even run these common iPhone apps: Weekly World News, PocketMoney Launcher/Flashlight, Real Calculator, Mosquito vs Human, Full Metal Penguin, Blu Wave SAD Light Therapy Device, BustedHot (the redneck dating service), and Tickle the Beaver.
• If you’re happy and you know it, syntax error.

Wes’ iPhone Application of the week:

• Boxcar - We’ve talked about this before, but Wes is anticipating a new version which will work with Facebook and some email services.

Mark’s iPhone Applications of the week:

• Expertise : Pure Silver Analyser - Uses the magnetometer on 3gs’ to determine whether a piece of jewelry placed on the screen is pure silver, or is an alloy with ferrous metals.
• Tip Calculator Revolution - Does the same functions as any other modern tip calculator, but has a cool look and controls.
• Quickoffice Mobile Office Suite - Create, open & edit Microsoft Word & Excel files, and read PDF’s.