episode 7

As you might have guessed we started the show with the news of the release of iPhone OS 3.0 bringing Cut, Copy and Paste and MMS to the iPhone. Unfortunately Apple still hasn't sorted out the whole iPhone, iTunes, App Store mess on the phone. The playback controls of podcasts has improved though with the 2x playback and the improved scrubber and 30 sec rewind. (Also no tethering available in Japan)Hiro mentioned that he got a new mobile phone address with MMS letting him email other mobile phone users in Japan without being blocked by the strict spam filters. We talked about the iPhone 3GS which although nice wasn't enough of an improvement to consider upgrading. Hiro though did want to replace his Mac Book Pro with one of the new unibody's but because he is thinking about the 15" MBP it means that he would have to put up with the glossy screen.We talked about Google Wave which combines email and IM for communication and collaboration. Hiro likes it but I am not convinced. He's in the waiting list to try it out and when we do, we'll report back to you.Next up was Layar, an augmented browser available for the Android mobile phone platform. This supplies supplemental information to you as you view the world via your phone's camera. Things like which apartment is available for rent or restaurant ratings. It is rather similar to Tonchidot's seikai camera available in Japan for the iPhone. I suggested that the companies should work together with tourist boards.Site news was next, announcing the iPhone (and other smart phones) version of the messaliberty.com site. We also implemented related posts and talked about the hosting the show, which is soon to become a podcast (fingers crossed). You'll be able to subscribe to the show to be watched on the PC, iPod or in an audio only version.We showed our new "high tech" gadget in trying to improve the audio of the show. It was a clapperboard or slate as used in the movie industry. (At the time we didn't know it but it didn't solve our problem, more about this next episode).We ended the show with Hiro's experience of Firefox 3.5 which was launched recently.As usual if you enjoyed the show please tell your friends or digg us, delicious us or twitter about us (http://twitter.com/messaliberty) (http://twitter.com/messatv). Thanks for watching!