• It was closest related to the NES
• The color screen was NOT backlit
• The color screen could have 56 simultaneous of it’s palette of 32k colors
• This has a Z80 processor
• This runs on 2 AA batteries for (weeks, months, forever?)
• The screen was 160×144

So now, you can see my video on Youtube (click for 720P HD!):

In this book, Freedom, the daemon continues, and in this (final) part of the story we see that the daemon has advanced from a niche terror to a social network which is almost entirely powered by the people on the “darknet.”

I started reading this book on January 7, the day it was first available on Kindle, and finished in less than 72 hours later, on Sunday night.  I enjoyed the whole story, and will now go back to read the whole series again, probably next semester for english, knowing how it ends.  If you want to know more you can check out this Google TechTalk with Daniel Suarez (Author) and the author’s site, thedaemon.com.

Freedom is available on:

• Audible for $27.97, $19.58 for members, or 1 credit.  (BTW, using the same great narrator as in Daemon!)
• Amazon Kindle for $16.82
• Amazon hardcover for $17.72
• Chapters (hardcover) for $22.10
• Kobo for $18.29

More information from The Publisher (from Chapters)

The propulsive, shockingly plausible sequel to “New York Times” bestseller “Daemon,” the “Greatest. Techno-thriller. Period.”*
*William O’Brien, former director of cybersecurity and communications systems policy at the White House
2009 saw one of the most inventive techno-thriller debuts in decades as Daniel Suarez introduced his terrifying and tantalizing vision of a new world order. “Daemon” captured the attention of the tech community, became a national bestseller, garnered attention from futurists, literary critics, and the halls of government-leaving readers clamoring for the conclusion to Suarez’s epic story.
In the opening chapters of “Freedom(tm),” the Daemon is well on its way toward firm control of the modern world, using an expanded network of real-world, dispossessed darknet operatives to tear apart civilization and rebuild it anew. Civil war breaks out in the American Midwest, with the mainstream media stoking public fear in the face of this ‘Corn Rebellion’. Former detective Pete Sebeck, now the Daemon’s most famous and most reluctant operative, must lead a small band of enlightened humans in a populist movement designed to protect the new world order.
But the private armies of global business are preparing to crush the Daemon once and for all. In a world of conflicted loyalties, rapidly diminishing government control, and a new choice between free will and the continuing comforts of ignorance, the stakes could not be higher: hanging in the balance is nothing less than democracy’s last hope to survive the technology revolution.

This was the first book I read using Kindle for iPhone, and subsequently finished using Kindle for PC. Whenever I read a section I synced it up to Amazon and it was completely seamless to move between PC and iPhone, and presumably the Kindle (device).

I paid $8.39 USD for this Kindle book at Amazon. It was delivered instantly. I was happy.

Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why a chimp fetus resembles a human being? And should that worry us? There’s a new genetic cure for drug addiction–is it worse than the disease?

What’s coming Next? Get a hint of what Michael Crichton sees on the horizon in this short video clip: high bandwidth or low bandwidth
We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps, a time when it’s possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars and to test our spouses for genetic maladies.

We live in a time when one fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes…

Devilishly clever, Next blends fact and fiction into a breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems and a set of new possibilities can open at every turn.

Next challenges our sense of reality and notions of morality. Balancing the comic and the bizarre with the genuinely frightening and disturbing, Next shatters our assumptions and reveals shocking new choices where we least expect.

The future is closer than you think.

From Amazon.com

This book costs, $8.39 at Amazon.com, and equates to 560 pages.
This is also available at Audible for $24.48 (or one credit) for ~14 hours of book.

5/5 for sure!

First off, the best place I’ve found to get GM scripts is userscripts.org, a (mostly) free and open-source community.

• YouTube Auto Buffer & Auto HD & Remove Ads (link here) – this delivers what it’s name promises.
• Gmail Unread Message Count in Favicon (link here) – I’ve used this for YEARS with Gina Trapani (@ginatrapani) ’s Better GMail FireFox extension too, however it works great in Chrome without Better GMail.
• PDF/PPT/TIF view in Google Docs (link here) – This is THE plugin I can’t live without for Windows; I use my laptop as a sidekick to my desktop and don’t want to mess it up with Adobe Reader and files on the hard disk.  This script opens PDF links that you click on in Google Docs viewer.

The problem that the authors, Scot Hacker, Henry Bortman, and Chris Herborth, faced was the BeOS climate was always rapidly evolving and changing. How they solved this problem was to write their chapter segments then tie them together and allow the engineers to elaborate what they think is important. There are thirteen interviews and a foreword by Jean-Louis Gassee, the CEO and founder of Be Inc and former head of Macintosh development.

BeOS came onto my radar because Apple considered purchasing them in the nineties as a quick-way into a new operating system. We do know that NextStep won over Be, but it has an interesting and quirky history.

This book is only available through trade as this book was published in 1998 and doesn’t seem to have been updated since.

The BeOS Bible is available “new” on Amazon from $8.76.

The book’s original website is currently maintained with permission from PeachPit Press and includes many chapter excerpts at birdhouse.org.

(Publisher’s Summery)

The BeOS Bible is the largest, most complete guide to using, configuring, tweaking, and understanding BeOS — the world’s most efficient and intelligently designed operating system. BeOS is optimized from the ground up to excel at handling high-bandwidth audio/visual tasks (some call it “The poor man’s SGI”), and is radically fast, no matter what you’re doing. But being media-optimized doesn’t mean you can’t get your daily work done in BeOS too — the system makes even general productivity tasks a joy, thanks to features like fine-grained pervasive multithreading, a fully scriptable architecture, a sophisticated inter-application messaging model, symmetric multiprocessing, and real-time handling of all tasks.

GPush is a simple app that fills a massive void in my life: push GMail on the iPhone. This app was demonstrated on July 7 by TechCrunch and has finally been accepted into the App Store (yesterday, July 17). This app does what it does by using GMail’s IMAP Idle function on the developers’ servers and uses Apple’s push notification service (which means that you need iPhone OS 3.0). When I originally heard of this App I pictured a separate GMail client that wouldn’t rely on the built-in Mail.app. Instead this app just requires you to open it once to type in your GMail credentials (and this also works for Google App accounts) and leave the icon somewhere visible on your iPhone. From then on you get a popup message when you receive a new message and an app-icon balloon notification to display the current unread message count (which is why you want the icon handy) and never have to open it again.

I am slightly unhappy that the notification doesn’t behave like the SMS app. If you have an iPhone then you’ve experienced how the “slide to unlock” on the home screen changes to “slide to reply” if there’s a new text message. After sliding and unlocking the phone then the SMS app opens and navigates to the new message, however possibly due to technical restriction, the GPush notifications don’t open Mail.app or Safari to your GMail inbox; it just gives you a heads-up.

This app is the best (and currently only) method to get the iPhone to do push GMail.

This app is available in the App Store for $0.99 and you can get more information about this app from the developers’ site.

**As of writing this, GPush is #15 on the Canadian App Store’s top paid apps and #1 on the top paid productivity apps in Canada.

I remember playing this classic PC game in 1998 on a Pentium 3 in 800×600 in 256 color-mode.  This is among the most addictive games I’ve ever played—both on the PC eleven years ago and today.  This game is a turn-based war game with teams: the teams alternate playing while cycling through each player’s characters, which happen to be worms with cute, catchy high-pitched catch phrases and heavy munitions.  This game makes use of multi-touch gestures and allows you to play your own music in the background with or without game sounds.

You can get this game in the App Store for $4.99.

Since the early days of jailbreaking the apps that allow the iPhone to be a web or file host has been popular, and this app gives you that, and access to your iDisk, for free.  This is the free, ad-supported sibling to Discover Pro, and offers the user WebDAV sharing with optional user permissions and password protection.  Without doing any configuration you can use a WebDAV client (Mac OS X Finder, many Linux distributions’ file manager, Transmit, etc…).  Users of this app which are connected to the same WiFi network are able to share files and this app is also a client to MobileMe’s iDisk or the Discover Server, a free Windows/Mac download from the developer’s website (which is currently inaccessible as of writing this). [For clarification, this app will work with or without internet access, however you can only share files when it is connected to WiFi.]

You can get this app for free in the App Store.

Developer’s Website

This app has been available since the early days of the App Store, however the whole time, it has seemed to be the best of the streaming audio applications available, however the interface is slightly less than intuitive.FStream has a built-in library of presets including ShoutCast and the iTunes presets, however there is functionality to add in a custom feed.  I’ve really only ever used this app to receive the TWiT.am audio feed (twit.am/listen).  I am aware that there is a specialized TWiT.am app in the App Store, however it doesn’t seem to be as resilient to a slower connection (*cough* EDGE *cough*) as FStream.

You can get FStream in the App Store for free.  It is compatible with the iPod Touch and iPhone (3.0 not required.)

I love this app!

I have loved this the idea of text messaging on cell phones since day one because they are push, all of your messages are congregated in one spot, and there isn’t a ‘status’–you’re always “online”. This app brings those metaphors to all of your instant messaging services (literally, all of them; it supports Twitter, Windows Live Messenger, AOL, Google Talk, XMPP, Skype, …

).

An interesting feature of this app is a built-in web browser, of course it’s just a Safari viewer, but it allows you to have a more functional chat experience because when the app is re-opened it has to re-authenticate with all of the services and the IM+ services. This re-connection process takes about fifteen seconds to one minute (depending on the quality of your connection and number of services).

This app is available in the App Store for $4.99 and is compatible with the iPhone and iPod Touch.

…And this is what iPhoneApplicationList.com has to say about this app: