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Show Notes 6/27/09

Posted on 27. Jun, 2009 by Jordan in Show Notes

Episode 28 – 6/27/09

Hosted by Jordan Drake and Jake Brown

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In This Episode:

Tech News:

• Youtube daily mobile uploads up 400% Source Macrumors
  
• Windows 7 pricing announced Source Gizmodo
• Microsoft’s Zune HD pricing rumors Source Ars Technica

Tech Review – next gen travel:

Jordan has been out and about this week. His day trip to NYC started with a visit to Bing.com (Microsoft’s new search engine) where he found the cheapest plane ticket.

Once on the road and in the city, the iPhone 3GS took the stage as a mobile companion and performed quite well. Using features like the camera and twitter applications, Jordan was able to keep his friends and family posted on his exploits, and then using the Google maps application, he was able to keep the New Yorker’s thinking he wasn’t an out-of-towner. The built in compass kept the walking a public transit directions easy to follow and getting lost was actually a challenge. The only downside to the iPhone experience? Battery life with such heavy usage died about halfway through the day forcing Jordan to pull into a restaurant for some recharge time.

Despite the power of the iPhone as a mobile digital accessory, Jordan felt the need to bring his 17in MacBook Pro as a backup… the major concern of course with an expensive laptop is theft. To combat this, Jordan tested out the theft prevention service from Absolute Software called LoJack for Laptops. This service installs an invisible application on your computer and in the event of a theft – uses a web connection to send vital location data to the authorities to help track down your stolen device. For a base price of $49, it’s a small price to pay for a piece of mind.

Tech Review – More cool iPhone apps:

Jordan and Jake are having fun with more cool iPhone apps. Star Defense and Terminator Salvation are action packed games, while BeeJive is a near perfect… if slightly overpriced IM client. Jordan is constantly writing notes and ideas for his various projects… to keep all his thoughts organized – he combines the iPhone app Evernote with it’s desktop client counterpart (both of which are free). Evernote (which is available on windows mobile and blackberry as well as Mac and PC platforms) is a based note syncing service that keeps all Jordan’s thoughts synced across multiple platforms.

Tech Review – Throwboy Pillow:

The guys are getting snuggly with the geeky pillows from Throwboy… at Throwboy.com These geek theme pillows come at $30 a pop and are the perfect give for the geek/techie who has everything…. like us.

Tech discussion – more apps we wanna see:

Jake and Jordan dream big talking about apps they’d like to see adopt the new push notification features of the iPhone 3.0 platform.

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Tags: iphone, iphone apps, microsoft, travel, windows 7, youtube, Zune