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“A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.” - Dr Hannibal Lecter, The Silence of the Lambs.
This week we began with the heartening tale of an iPod rescued from certain scrapping, by yours truly. Then we sprinted through the following stories, the first story being the clue for the breakneck pace…
iPhone 3GS now available -That’s right the new uber phone form Apple is here, and its a million seller in its first weekend. If you want one, get in the queue (line) behind Gareth, because he’s getting his today.
Layer – An ‘augmented reality’ app for your smartphone (Android only at the moment), using the built-in GPS and compass. It overlays information and links to the live image from your smartphone camera. Never be stuck for toilet in a strange city again.
Twitter from your Commodore 64 – Using retro gear to do something cool and interesting, is something we love on this show. You may be asking the question….WHY?? But, we say that’s kind of missing the point. So two thumbs way way up from us.
New Flash, Quicktime and Silverlight killer – No not a new super plug-in but plain old HTML. HTML 5 in fact. It’s going to include tags for audio and video, so they can be coded right in. BBC iPlayer on an iPhone gets closer, might get one then.
Blu-ray managed copy – At last a proposal to make the average law abiding citizen, feel slightly less a criminal. For wanting to back-up their legit media. Now they can make just the one copy. Aren’t those studios getting to generous.
Digital Britain – Hurrah, now us Brits get to pay a brand new tax. For the chance to have ‘superfast ‘ broadband by 2017. Wow, way to push the envelope guys.
Steve Jobs had a liver transplant – Now we know the reason for Steve’s gaunt appearance, he wanted a liver. I wonder if he followed Dr Lecter’s recipe.
Kindle to fend for itself – Jeff Bezos has stated, in effect, that the Kindle device is no more then a loss leader. To get the Kindle format established as a platform on a multitude of devices. One eBook to rule them all…
