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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you get in touch with technology? With

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Speaker 1: tech stuff from how stuff works dot com. Hey there, everyone,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the podcast. My name is Chris Poulette. I'm

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Speaker 1: an editor at how Stuff Works, and sitting next to me,

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Speaker 1: as always is senior writer Jonathan Stricklandhi, HOWI everyone? Uh uh?

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Speaker 1: Today we want to talk about some applications and these

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Speaker 1: are very very very tiny applicate well, most of them

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Speaker 1: are very tiny applications, just a few pixels wide by

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Speaker 1: a few pixels high, right exactly. Um. In this case,

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Speaker 1: we're talking about the iPhone UM. And a few months

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Speaker 1: ago we probably wouldn't be talking about that, so uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, we really wouldn't have had much to talk

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Speaker 1: about because it was limited. But the with the birth

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Speaker 1: of the iPhone three G, the next generation iPhone, they

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Speaker 1: opened it up to everyone to create their own applications. Right.

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Speaker 1: And when we say opened it up to everyone, there's

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Speaker 1: some limitations there, but we'll get into that later. That's true.

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Speaker 1: That's let's let's focus on the positive before we jump

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Speaker 1: right into the negative. Well, the nifty thing about iPhone

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Speaker 1: and in my case, the iPod touches the ability to

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Speaker 1: use other applications. You're not just using it to make

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Speaker 1: phone calls or shoot pictures who are listening to your music. Um.

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Speaker 1: These third party applications can be anything. Um, there's a

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Speaker 1: whole list of them. You have e books, you have

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Speaker 1: productivity software, games, more games, still more games, completely useless,

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Speaker 1: but still fairly entertaining. Distractions Yep, yep. For the iPhone,

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Speaker 1: which has a GPS system, you can actually figure out

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Speaker 1: calendar software, stock you know, keep up with your stocks.

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Speaker 1: But let's let's let's let's talk about some specifics here.

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Speaker 1: I mean, okay, we've got a lot of categories here.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead, pick one of your apps to talk about.

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Speaker 1: We can do a little back and forth and if

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Speaker 1: that doesn't work and we'll we'll take it all right. Um. Well, Uh,

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Speaker 1: one of the major categories we've got that both Jonathan

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Speaker 1: And um, you know both of us use streaming internet radio. UM,

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Speaker 1: and I know that Jonathan wanted it to talk about these,

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Speaker 1: but one of my favorites, you asked, um, Pandora. Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and both of us use that on our computers and

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Speaker 1: I use it on my iPod Touch too. So if

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Speaker 1: you're wondering what Pandora is, first of all, you need

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Speaker 1: to get online and check it out. Absolutely, it is

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Speaker 1: a really interesting especially you need to check it out

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Speaker 1: The idea here is that it's part of the Musical

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Speaker 1: Genome project. And what the people behind Pandora have done

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Speaker 1: is they have analyzed music. They take a music track,

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Speaker 1: say analyze, they write down essentially every single kind of

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Speaker 1: aspect they can think of that describes that, um, that

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Speaker 1: piece of music. It's kind of like tagging a photo, right,

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Speaker 1: you know, you're tagging this piece of music, so that

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Speaker 1: you're describing it in different ways, like what you know,

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Speaker 1: what time is it recorded in, what kind of musical

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Speaker 1: in a song or a music group that you like,

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Speaker 1: and then the service looks for other musicians other songs

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Speaker 1: And it will tell you. So the iPhone application it

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Speaker 1: But there are plenty other music programs. I got two

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Speaker 1: then recanted, saying that I'm not sure if it was

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Speaker 1: a he or she. I want to say he, uh,

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Speaker 1: I thought I didn't realize thought it was all a

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Speaker 1: or she was a charge. And um, I think that

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Speaker 1: was pretty much the beginning of the end for that app. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because I think Apple said, you know what, I can

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Speaker 1: foresee a lot more of these sort of cases popping

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Speaker 1: up where people are morbidly curious and then regret it instantaneously.

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Speaker 1: Talk about buyer's remorse. Yeah, no kidding, Um, but they are.

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Speaker 1: Most of the there's actually a website. It was very elegant.

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Speaker 1: Most there's actually a website called the iPhone Application Graveyard,

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Speaker 1: which is very interesting because I had been aware that

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Speaker 1: there were a couple apps that that Apple had pulled

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Speaker 1: which is a Tetris clone. Uh, and Tetris was copyright

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Speaker 1: violation Tetris. The makers of Tetris, you know, asked him

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Speaker 1: to remove it, which he did, um uh. But there

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Speaker 1: are others, um. The big one was Podcaster Podcaster and

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Speaker 1: Maile Wrangler, both of which were basically doing they they

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Speaker 1: apples had they interfered with the functionality or you know,

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Speaker 1: when they were deplicate of existing applications. And the Podcaster one,

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Speaker 1: the interesting thing here was that it actually did something

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Speaker 1: that the iPhone can't really do on its own. It

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Speaker 1: not only lets you listen to podcasts, it lets you

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Speaker 1: download them directly over the WiFi network onto your iPhone,

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Speaker 1: which is something that that Apple it doesn't duplicate a

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Speaker 1: function because Apple doesn't let you do that. True, well,

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Speaker 1: I mean you can't you can't buy music or applications

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Speaker 1: direct and have them, you know, downloaded directly, but not podcasts, right.

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Speaker 1: So this was this was one of those issues where

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's still there's still a lot of people

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Speaker 1: it's one of those that's showing that there may be

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Speaker 1: some trouble in paradise. But other other applications were pulled

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Speaker 1: for what what appeared to be more obvious reasons. One

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Speaker 1: of them was called slasher. It basically had a hand

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Speaker 1: holding a knife, and when you use the accelerometer and

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Speaker 1: make the slashing motion, it screamed yeah uh is. Also

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Speaker 1: there was also a pull my finger, oh yes, which

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Speaker 1: is you know, well, yes, it would make it flatulent

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Speaker 1: sound if you were to pull the virtual finger and

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Speaker 1: it was pulled a rejected. Rather, it wasn't pulled, It

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Speaker 1: didn't make it into make it. It was rejected because

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Speaker 1: Apple said it had limited utility. I guess it just

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Speaker 1: didn't have that massive amount of utility that virtual Zippo has.

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Speaker 1: That's that I'm just saying. Actually, if you go to

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Speaker 1: the developer's website, not that I have, you can find

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Speaker 1: the there. There are several different fart noises that they

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Speaker 1: were using in the the app, so basically when you

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Speaker 1: touched the finger, they would make a different Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: think that's expanded utility. Yeah, well you know, well you

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Speaker 1: got that and you got hello cow. Yeah. Yeah. Consistency

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Speaker 1: is all we ask there. Then there's the the extra

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Speaker 1: expanded utility of the jailbroken iPhone um stuff like there's

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Speaker 1: actually a MAIME emulator multi Arcade Machine emulator for iPhone

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Speaker 1: for jailbroken iPhones. I'm pretty sure Apple would probably consider

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Speaker 1: that a copyright issue and would probably never let it

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Speaker 1: on the store. And there's a there's a whole host

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Speaker 1: of problems that come once you jail break your phone.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's some good things that you can do

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Speaker 1: with it, but it makes things like updates much more difficult,

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Speaker 1: especially if you don't want your phone bricked. Um And,

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Speaker 1: and there's also that the wonderful story about how Apple

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Speaker 1: has a kill switch feature where theoretically what they might

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Speaker 1: be able to do is uh to put an app

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Speaker 1: on a list that says, uh, this app is malware

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Speaker 1: and needs to be eradicated, and then through an update

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Speaker 1: they can tell all the different iPods and iPhones connected

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Speaker 1: to their system delete this application. And even if it

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Speaker 1: was something that you had to pay for, it could

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Speaker 1: go by by now. Whether or not they'll use it

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Speaker 1: as another matter, but that's got some people kind of

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Speaker 1: worried about what the future of the app app store

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Speaker 1: and apps in general on the iPhone. It's really gonna

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Speaker 1: be Yeah, yeah, that's true. Um One, last one I

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Speaker 1: was going to mention is uh something called net share

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Speaker 1: by Nell river Um. It was pulled from the app

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Speaker 1: store because it violated a T and T S terms

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Speaker 1: of service. Allowed you to turn your iPhone into a hermodum,

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Speaker 1: essentially so you can plug it in I guess, and

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Speaker 1: use it as a modem for the computer and not

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Speaker 1: so much with the okay, right, well, we talked the

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Speaker 1: heck out of this time. Oh my goodness, I think

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Speaker 1: that we might have broken a record on this one.

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Speaker 1: And the sad thing is there are thousands that we

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Speaker 1: didn't even mention. Right. Well, well we'll have to We'll

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Speaker 1: have to save that for another podcast or six. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I can't wait till we get into the Android ones.

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Speaker 1: I hope we'd like to read more about the iPhone.

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