Safari for Windows
Hi, love the show, but you guys missed the point of Safari for Windows. A couple of folks in the forums nailed it, though. Safari for Windows targets all of the potential iPhone developers who use Windows.

It was no accident that Steve Jobs announced Safari for Windows immediately before giving us the iPhone update. Since the "API" of the iPhone is Safari, phone developers (like me) who work in Windows (like me) need the development platform.

BTW, did you notice that his pie chart had Safari displacing Firefox, but not touching IE?

Thanks,
Michael, a software guy from Dallas

So, you guys were talking about Safari on Windows today and forgot to mention its only redeemable feature: you can pull tabs off into new windows. Can't wait until Firefox or Camino steals this feature. Plus, if the Safari user share increases by just 2 percent, it will make my life a lot easier on the Mac. And another plus, Safari is awesome at the acid2 test, because that's always a useful Web page to look at.

One more thing, according to most, Safari for windows is just for Windows web-developers to test iPhone apps.

That was a big ramble--but, great show.
Andrew

Eye-Fi wireless SD cards
Hey BOL crew,
The other day you mentioned Eye-Fi's wireless SD cards for digital cameras. I've been an Eye-Fi beta tester for the past few months or so and can attest to its coolness. There are two flavors of cards: one that uploads directly to the Internet, and another that transfers pix to your computer. As Veronica mentioned, pictures CAN be uploaded directly to Flickr. The only drawback is that the cards need to be told in advance what SSID to look for, they need an open Internet connection (so no Starbucks uploads), and they kind of suck battery life. OK, so that was three drawbacks, but the card is totally worth the $100, and I only have a 512MB card. Trust me, they're cool.

Thanks!
Chip in Indianapolis

P.S. My media center Mac subscribes to Flickr's RSS feeds, so pictures can be taken and viewed on my TV via the intraweb minutes later. Very cool!

Bed of money
Hey Veronica and Tom,

Dan doesn't sleep in a bed of money. :) He works his ass off like you. And if a job's well done, there's no reason for the pay not to be chubby.

We pay US$5.6/gallon here in the EU, around US$1,500 for a new Macbook and maybe US$700 for the worst rent. Are you still complaining? ;)

Love you guys,
Dan

PS: Plug my blog, will you? I keep plugging your stuff :)

No flash on the iPhone
Hey Buzz team,
Apple said the iPhone does not have Flash YET. Also to note the PSP with "full Internet" didn't start out with flash. Right now I believe the reason for not including flash at the start is because it is rushed to the market. Updates (in these last few weeks) are coming to the iPhone daily! And they need to fix/improve key components before launch, and Flash is not their biggest priority.

Keep up the great work,

Andrew
iPhone Day 17

Data retention with search engines
You guys were questioning the retention time of data with different Internet companies in episode 493--well, actually, that isn't really that bad. I work for The UPS Store and when you fill out a PSO (parcel shipping order) which has your information (address and phone number) and the receiver's information, we are required to keep it for six years before they can be shredded/recycled, plus the information entered into the computer used to create the shipping label is stored for the life of the hard drive and is either uploaded to a central address database server or can be queried by other franchise locations. If you ask me, this is a big chance to be taking with that much information.

Great job on the podcast. (Internal Error 500 here we come!!!)
Jon

Lala
Hey guys,

Just a quick follow up to my call. I don't know about songs bought from Lala, but the mono upload to my iPod is only songs that were from my iTunes collection. Sounds like this is their way avoiding trouble as it's not a 1:1 copy of my songs. I assume purchased Lala songs are in stereo.

Cheers!
Eric in Virginia