Its not Tuesday, but Apple released a new wireless base station today. The AirPort Express is now available in the “n” flavor. You can share a printer wirelessly via USB, stream audio wirelessly via the audio mini jack (both analog and optical), setup a WiFi network when traveling, or extend the range of your existing wireless network. All at the faster 802.11n speeds. For more details, check out AirPort Express at Apple’s site…

Today Apple announced the availability of their iPhone SDK. Now anyone can develop applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. If you watch the iPhone Event, it will amaze you. The iPhone truely is a Macintosh just in mini form. The operating system and core libraries are those of OS X. The v2.0 firmware should be released to the public in late June at no cost to iPhone owners. For more details about this event, below are links to the Event, SDK download, and Enterprise Beta program:March 6 EventiPhone Developer Program (SDK) iPhone Enterprise Beta Program

I am back.  Been out for about a month due to a scheduled surgery.  All is well and thanks to all for their kind words and prayers…  Now back to the daily grind

The rumors are rampant prior to Macworld 2008. MacRumors.com is reporting that the upcoming release of the iPhone firmware (1.1.3) will include Copy and Paste…Read about the rumor at MacRumors.

Steve Jobs today announced on the Apple Hot News site that they will make an SDK available in February 2008 for the iPhone and iPod Touch. This will be announced during Macworld 2008. You can see his full announcement on the Hot News site.

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/

Tags: apple, sdk, iphone, ipod touch, macworld, hot news

The time frame is October 2006. My mom had seen countless doctors about concerns she had with her body. The doctors always said nothing was wrong with her but we should do this test and that test. Basically I think they just wanted to extort money from her via various tests and scans. Finally, my mom flew back to the mother country of Argentina. There she showed her results to her physician. Right away he suspected cancer. After further review, that is what they found. They then performed the necessary surgical procedures and removed the cancer. This was thankfully done without the use of chemotherapy.

She then had a recovery period to deal with which would takes months. During that process, she did get a few infections and had some additional surgeries. Each surgery postponed her return date to The States. As of now, she has one last surgery to be done. Depending on the outcome, she may be able to return to The States within 30 days or as much as 90 days.

Obviously you can image the depression that can set in trying to deal with this ordeal. Not to mention the expense on the entire family. I have had to fly there a couple of times and my father, at least 3 to 4 times. It also makes it difficult for the rest of the family to see her. This is where Ustream comes into play.

Around the beginning of April, I was on Chris Pirillo’s web site and noticed he was testing out a new service he wanted to implement. Ustream.TV. I watched him during his initial broadcast which included the breaking news of the large earthquake that hit Acapulo, Mexico. He was there live, talking to techies in Mexico as events developed. Interviewing survivors. Coverage by Chris was instant and the national news didn’t pick it up until the morning. We stayed connected for hours and have been glued to his live feed (http://live.pirillo.com) ever since.

This made me realize that I can do something for my mom with this service. To keep her hopes up and maintain a positive attitude, I decided to put together a solution that would allow family members to all communicate together, in real time. The design was pretty easy. I sent a web cam to my kids in North Carolina for their Windows XP machine, I sent my spare Apple Mac Mini to my father in California along with an iSight camera. I then sent a web cam to my sister in California for her Windows computer. I setup my MacBook Pro with a Ustream account and had been playing with Ustream for a few weeks, creating a mashup site of various streaming feeds in the Chris Pirillo Community. That then gave me the idea of creating a mashup for the family to use. I own and operate an IT company (Cadco Systems, Inc.) so I setup a site on my web server and embedded all the Ustream feeds for each family member. This now gave my mom a single page where she could hear, see, and talk back to other family members via Ustream’s service. This made my mom very happy and should give her the push she needs to fight on. Thank you Chris Pirillo and thank you Ustream.TV for your help.

Tags: ustream, streaming, video, health, chris pirillo

With the release of the latest iPhone firmware (v1.1.1), iToner no longer functions and thus you cannot add your own ringtones to the iPhone. Ambrosia Software’s president, Andrew Welch, posted a statement about where the latest iToner release stands. Its good to see that they are doing everything possible to get iToner working again for their customers. He stated that a Beta release of iToner (v1.0.3) will be coming out very soon.

Tags: ringtones, iphone

Hello fellow photographers. I had Lee Caligiuri make me a custom beanbag with TFTTF logo but this time in Nikon black and gold. I also had the zipper installed on it. It is great! I went to my local craft store and purchased the filler. I used 100% polypropylene pellets which ran about $6.99. The bag works great and is not heavy at all. Thanks Lee for the great workmanship. I highly recommend this beanbag.

Pictures of the beanbag are available at my Flickr site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cadco/sets/72157602233986595/

Tags: tripod, beanbag, photography, digital

Seattle’s NBC affiliate, King5 has a television show called Evening Magazine. They are showing video clips of events in the Pacific Northwest. They have chosen to air the footage we took at last year’s Hillsboro Air Show where a small plane lands on the world’s shortest runway while the runway atop a motor home travels at 60mph.

We have posted the video clip on YouTube and embedded it here:

Tags: hillsboro, air show, shortest runway