What's New is Old

Is it time for Droid?


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Mark and  Wes at the Le Chaval restaurant in Walnut Creek CA
Sites of interest:
- David Pogue on how the Motorola Droid is a "manly" phone.
- Apple tablet rumors again.
- How to build a Hackintosh.
- Apple Mac OSx updates flipflop on support for Atom processor.
- Recovery.gov and Layar app layer.
- Acer Liquid handheld with Android OS 1.6.
- Second Canadian cellphone carrier gets iPhone, but has to switch to GSM to do it.
- Microsoft will drop Spot watch technology in 2012.
- inPulse SmartWatch for Blackberry.
- This is probably the digital ink watch Wes was talking about.
- US losing domain name registry and non English characters for domain names.
- The Motoroa Droid in the U.S. doesn't do multi-touch.
- Hybrid cars in 1901! by Ferdinand Porsch.
- Good article for starting out with Google Wave, once you get your invitation code and a complete eBook reference guide.
- Microsoft Comic Chat stilll lives and can still be installed.
- Typeface Inspired by Comic Books Has Become a Font of Ill Will.
- At prankdial, you can send prank phone calls to your friends for free! Just select the type of prank, enter the victims phone number, and send away.
- It's very important that you get an iPhone because Blackberry, Android, and Windows Mobile can't run these apps: Metrognome, Monkey Sheep poop fight, Furious George,  Swine Flute, Mega Fart, Bed bug identifier.
- New Comcast bandwidth throttling scheme.
We had to cut off the show early at this point because the recorder battery was going dead.
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What's New is OldBy Mark & Wes