Technology Sunday!

I'll start with this:
• The LDS Church authorities have been pretty strict in the past about cameras in their services. But what about taking video of little Bryghtyn giving a primary talk using the smartphone? Snapping pics of newly minted sister missionary Chastidee giving a farewell talk? Just asking.

• After four months of iPhone 3GS usage, here is my short list of must-have third-party apps:
TweetDeck -- Twitter client
Facebook -- Better than the full browser version
Photogene -- Photoshop for the iPhone (Though the newly released official Photoshop app ain't half bad.)
Shazam -- Wikipedia says: "The 'acoustic fingerprints' used by Shazam are based on spectrograms that have been generalized to a group of peak intensity frequencies." All I know is that I hold it up during a song and it tells me what it is.
Mocha VNC -- You're not going to play Call of Duty 4 with it, but VNC over the iPhone is still nifty when you need to access the Big Iron.
Glyder -- Beautiful, relaxing, challenging game in which you fly around on steampunk wings.

• I'm fiddling around with a few other apps, including "augmented reality" releases Layar and Wikitude that use the camera to show you additional information when you point it at something or show you where people are tweeting from. They're novel for sure, but I'm not sure that I'm going to be using them regularly.

• The Large Hedron Collider (aka we'll all be eating black holes for breakfast) gets colder than deep space to prep for relaunch. Of course, it's entirely possible that those pesky Higgs Boson particles don't want to be discovered. Jerks.

And if none of that stuff is interesting, check the sweet, sweet photo set of Barack Obama in 1980.