Woz speaks

While many of us may now associate Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) more with an iPod than with an iMac, the Apple of old played a key role in developing a new type of computer --- a more, well, personal computer. The Fool's Mac Greer recently talked with the man behind that motherboard --- Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, the author of iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It, a book that he wrote with Gina Smith.

Web Space

[11/19/06] Google is offering web hosting via Google Page Creator. Saw this because Michael Zipf (see Anti-Virus programs) was using it to host his site.

jajah.com

We found another service for making free phone calls over the Internet; it's free to many countries and nearly free to the rest. It's Jajah.com, and using it is reminiscent of the old phone systems that used an operator to connect your call.

There's no software to download, and you don't need a high-speed Internet connection; dial-up will do. You just go to Jajah's Web site and type your phone number in a box on the screen. Then select the country you're calling and type in the phone number you want to reach. A few seconds later your phone will ring and you will hear a message telling you that Jajah is connecting your call.

-- Bob & Joy Schwabach, On Computers

Look ma, no hands!

Teenage boys and computer games go hand-in-hand.

Now, a St. Louis-area teenage boy and a computer game have gone hands-off, thanks to a unique experiment conducted by a team of neurosurgeons, neurologists, and engineers at Washington University in St. Louis.

The boy, a 14-year-old who suffers from epilepsy, is the first teenager to play a two-dimensional video game, Space Invaders, using only the signals from his brain to make movements.

-- via annleach06@TheGreatSecret