“Accept payments. Everywhere.” Talk about revolutionizing the merch table! This has to be the coolest app yet… and yet another excuse to buy an iPad (to use their full cash register app.) Expecting my iPhone reader to arrive today…
“Mobile payments startup Square is announcing big numbers today…”
“Square offers an iPhone, Android and iPad app which allows merchants to process and manage credit card transactions with a handy little credit card swiping device that plugs into the headset/microphone jack. The device and service is the brainchild of Twitter co-founder and recently appointed product lead Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey.”
Square’s Disruptive New iPad Payments Service Will Replace Cash Registers
Square – Accept credit card payments with your mobile phone
“More than 30 years after they left Earth, NASA’s twin Voyager probes are now at the edge of the solar system. Not only that, they’re still working. And with each passing day they are beaming back a message that, to scientists, is both unsettling and thrilling.” Both spacecraft carry the Golden Record, with sounds, images and message from Earth.
Voyager Set to Enter Interstellar Space – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
This just seems amazing to me… GTranslate, developed by Edvard Ananyan, uses the power of Google to translate your Website into any one of 58 languages with a single click:
[GTranslate]
(it’s also installed throughout this site, at lower right…)
“The Hissing of Summer Lawns” on the radio? Thank you, WXPN – via TuneIn Radio app – via iPhone 4… with MapQuest for Mobile voice-guided navigation audio running simultaneously… sweet.
Gradually building a new Facebook Page, as my existing Page and existing personal Profile both having the same name causing conflicts…
New site from the Library of Congress, 10,000 rare sound recordings produced between 1901 and 1925…
…and article from USATODAY:
Documentary film on the Mellotron, very interested to check this out… looks like currently only viewable as DVD purchase from the site…
Mellotron : The Mellotron Documentary. A Film by Dianna Dillworth