Aussie Geek Podcast #018 :: Cait Found Her Voice
Welcome to the latest installment of the AGP! We are happy to report that Cait is back and with us this week. Trust that you enjoy the show!
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Tech News
- Give it Up for Lent
- Google Earth and Others Censored
- What Google Thinks of Twitter
- Skype Giving away SILK
- Apple’s Latest Offerings
- Social Networking to the Rescue
- Flickr Video for All
- Windows 7 News
Promo Spot
Applications
- M3: Make your mouse do tricks with multiple monitors
- iCandy: Create and read QR Codes
- LDD: AutoCad for LEGO
- MultiXFinder: Window manager extension for OS X
Firefox Extension
- Power Twitter: Adds a huge feature set to the web interface for twitter
Symbian/WinMobile App
- SkyFire: Mobile web browser featuring the full web including videos
Geek Project
Sites and Services
- Plinky: Blogging service that gives you inspiration for blogging
- Jam Legend: Guitar Hero in your browser (10 bucks for anyone that submits a video…)
- Qwitter: Track your following quitters
- TinyArro.ws: Create some of the smallest urls on earth with this service
Feedback
- Thanks Travis. The Mountain Bike Show
- Thanks Herne. Link to Herne’s Blog Post
Farewell
Featured Music
A Night in Hollywood
“A Shotgun Wedding” (mp3)
from “Darling, This Is Just the Beginning”
(Pure Noise Ent.)
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Another great episode people! Very interesting, especially that big on the end by that guy named “Herne.”
Seriously, I’d like to hear any comments people have on the Kindle 2 and other eBook devices.
Note to self: Send KD links from IODA Promonet for tunes. (I don’t know what that was he chose, it sure didn’t sound like music.)
More later.
BTW, that hum in my audio comment was because I was leaning too close to my CRTs to read my notes. It wasn’t anything to do with Dave’s edits and/or compressions.
I’m actually looking at maybe pickin up a better podcasting rig. (Then look out world!)
Loved Herne’s comments
random notes:
I love gtalk in adium and/or Slick [ on S60 ] for bot/service integration. I can see friendfeed in an IM client.
Skype! wow! We can finally have encryption and normal SIP clients with skype support. Right now fring and others have chat working but native support sounds better.
Snow leopard is mostly a performance update, or so they say… maybe something amazing will happen
I have never had anything break from an OSX update, but I use a lot of opensauce stuff.
I still need a cheap tshirt printer. I have a few QRs floating around. If you want to see more about QRs watch the MIR episode on rail/train billing. http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2009/02/mir_developers_masabi_part_2_.html
Skyfire on my E71
http://t.16×9.mobi/post/84193188/skyfire-still-improving
I banned Gary Glitter from my office!
Rockbox rox my cowon X5
the end
Haven’t got to the Herne’s bit yet as I’ve only listened to the first half. So far, so good! Welcome back Cait… it was good as the KD & The Rooster experience, but Cait adds a little something!
Can someone clear up this iPhone GPS thing once and for all? My understanding is that the “assisted” part of “assisted GPS” is on top of normal GPS, not a cut-down version. I took my TomTom from Australia to Europe which confused it so much it took 10 minutes to find a satellite to lock on to, and even starting it off 50km’s away from where you turn it off can cause a couple of minutes delay. To overcome that I thought that the “assisted” part of iPhone GPS used Cell Tower Triangulation to work out roughly where you are so it knows roughly where to look for satellites and cut down the searching time and associated processing/battery usage.
Now… I could be wrong… it has been known before! Could someone more technically minded than me confirm what I’ve said, or is that a load of rubbish?
@Tom I have looked it up to get the definitive answer and according to Apple your spot on.
http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/gps.html
Assisted GPS is full GPS but combines cell towers and WiFi to add to what a normal GPS device delivers:
AND
According to Apple the accuracy varies depending on the method, line of sight and location - indoors or outside etc.
Sorted?
Also a pretty picture here:
http://artoftheiphone.com/2008/06/10/iphone-3g-what-is-assisted-gps/
@Eric over the years, opensource (and before that, shareware, postcardware, freeware, etc) applications have proven to be more resilient to Apple OS updates.
@Tom thanks, it’s so good to be back!
@Tom & Dave I call Cell Tower Triangulation “poor man’s GPS”, so the iPhone has real GPS, as well as “poor man’s GPS” as well as poor man’s GPS over WiFi. Each technical strength combines to remove almost each systems own flaws. Collectively, Assisted GPS is about as good as it gets. Clever of Apple. So it continues to surprise me they can’t master copy and paste for the iPhone.
*waves @ Herne & skribe*
Thanks Dave & Cait! Now I know for sure!
And copy & paste… wait for version 3.0 in a few weeks. Maybe. And the full wish-list: SMS character count, Uniform gestures, Some way to lock in portrait mode… if I’m upright it’s good that it swaps to landscape when I move the phone, but if I’m horizontal (in bed!) I don’t want it to!
Just listened to the second half and the Herne speaks! Great comment from him on the Kindle, but no singing. Boo.