The Wheezer Society

Art On The iPhone

Stef Kardos, an Art Director for Disney has a sketch blog at StefSketches. Recently, he's been posting sketches he's been creating on his iPhone to his Flickr account . I've tired using a sketch application on my iPod Touch, but with no retainable results. After watching a short video of David Onze creating some work via YouTube, I must reconsider.

Google Street View

There's been some controversy about Google Street View, the eye-level mapping service that lets billions of web users see, from "street view" the location they're seeking on Google Maps. Sound perfectly proper.... until you find that in along with the "street view" comes the ability to allow web users peek into gardens and through front windows - and more. The Telegraph has a great article you can read here ...

Cool, But Not As Cool As A 3G iPhone

3G iPhone Revolution To Barrel Industry

Have you ordered you 3G iPhone yet?

Not As Cool As A 3G iPhone

Beatles May Sing New iTune

CNet’s News.com blog reports that Paul McCartney has given his go ahead to make the Beatle's song catalog available on Apple’s iTunes in the coming months.

Britain’s Telegraph reports that the deal could be worth $600 million.

A spokesman for Apple Corps, the Beatles record label, would not confirm when the records would be available online and said: “The date has not yet been set.”

With McCartney's current divorce settlement still in negotiations, he may need the cash.

Tech From The Trenches

David Pogue, Mac enthusiast and columnist for the New York Times, recently posted some tech support stories in his column. Here's an example....
On one call, the caller seemed to be taking an inordinately long time to complete each instruction she was given.
Agent: Ma’am, I can’t help noticing that every time I give you an instruction, it takes a really long time before you get back to me. Is your computer that slow?
Caller: Oh, no, it’s just the stupid, stupid design of this computer. Every time I want to click something, I have to unplug the keyboard to plug in the mouse. And then every time I want to use the keyboard again, I have to unplug the mouse. Because there’s only one jack.
Agent: Ma’am, you do realize that there’s a jack on the keyboard itself? You’re supposed to plug the mouse into the keyboard, and the keyboard into the computer.
Caller: Are YOU KIDDING ME!? Oh, wait a minute—yes, I see it now! Oh, holy cow. That’s going to be so much easier!
Agent: Just out of curiosity, how long have you been using your computer that way?
Caller: Six weeks!
You can read more tales from the trenches at Pogue's NYT column

Wild Photography Brit Style

Wildlife Photography expert Sir William Douglas II shows his technique for hunting down wild game for shooting ("Snaps, my boy! Just Snaps!") You can view the video series by clicking the YouTube icon to the left.

The World Science Fiction

Fellow Wheezer Neil Sterett has been updating his SciFiVisuals.com website. Be forewarned - cool science fiction images can be addictive.

The Impossible Dream - Dulcinea

In the never ending battle for search engine domination, there's a new gal in town, and her name is Dulcinea. Huh? For those with a literary bent, you may recognize the name from Don Quixote and his "valiant but futile" quest for Dulcinea, the simple peasant woman, who in Quixote's mind is a beautiful queen. Dulcinea - the ultimate goal - the impossible dream. Of course, the correlation here is that we all have searched the internet for information, sometime in futility, sometimes wandering off aimlessly, clicking on bad links, winding up at dead ends and 404's and, like Don Quixote, never reaching the goal of finding Dulcinea.

Well, now, so it seems, that you and I can find Dulcinea, just by surfing over to Dulcinea.com. Once there, were have been promised easy tools for searching the web, "sources revealed and and secrets divulged" as they state on their website. The aim to be your "trusty sidekick" and reveal your Dulcinea. Which leads me to wonder - why they didn't name the site SanchoPanza.com?