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Portrait In Junk Food

I guess today is the day of portraits. Fast on the heals of McBush comes junk food Rosie. Without digressing into any possible implications of the chosen medium on the subject, I'll just say it's brilliant and amazing.  I love it.  And I love Rosie.  Artist Jason Mecier has also created similar portrait of other celebrities which can be seen HERE.

McBush: The Republican Nominee

Via Towleroad

McSame As Bush

Epocrates iPhone Press Release

Epocrates extends a warm thank you to the medical community for helping drive Apple’s decision to support development of Epocrates products for the iPhone. Based on your high demand and Epocrates track record, it was announced today that Epocrates has been working with Apple to make its clinical content available on the iPhone operating system.

To learn more visit: http://www.epocrates.com/iphone/compatibility/

In the meantime, you can currently access Epocrates free online drug reference at m.epocrates.com with an Internet or WiFi connection.

**If you have already installed Apple’s iPhone or iTouch January update, you can now add an Epocrates Online shortcut to your home screen. To do this visit m.epocrates.com, click on the + sign at the bottom of the page. In the menu that appears, touch “Add to home screen”. Enter a name for the icon, then touch “Add” in the upper right corner.

Best wishes!

The Epocrates Team
http://www.epocrates.com

Breaking News: EPocrates Officially On iPhone!

If you haven't heard, this morning was the announcement of the Apple software developers kit for the iPhone, and on hand for a live demo was EPocrates!  Finally, it's been made official: Epocrates will begin creating a downloadable version of its software for the iPhone.

Epocrates, Inc. was one of only five companies, including Salesforce.com, AOL, EA and Sega, to be highlighted by Steve Jobs during the iPhone Software Roadmap media briefing. They demoed a searchable drug database, along with pictures of pills to aid in drug identification - the first for any mobile device. Does this mean that the GeeknNUZ petition helped to convince Apple of the importance of support from the medical community?  I hope so.  Again, a big shout out to everyone who supported the petition!

For the time being, Epocrates has just released an iPhone optimized version of it's web-based drug databse search. Try it out by navigating your iPhone browser to http://online.epocrates.com/public/mobile/iphone/

To watch the Apple iPhone SDK conference in its entirety click HERE.

Kadoink Me!

I was at the first ever Texting 4 Health conference at Stanford University last week and saw a presentation by a San Francisco startup called Kadoink.  The premise is if you can blog it, why not speak it instead?  After you create a Kadoink widget, you can post it to your favorite social networking site, or to your own blog, and people can access your rants, music clips, or anything you want them to hear via their cell phones.  You can even call up a buddy (or conference call a few of them) and record that conversation so the rest of your friends can hear it. Check it out and let me know what you think!

Fingers Crossed For ePocrates on iPhone

With the iPhone SDK looming, developers are waiting with bated breath for all the details on March 6, 2008.  I am particularly excited as it's almost a culmination of months of effort to help petition one of my favorite programs onto the iPhone.  Epocrates is a medical program that's used by thousands of health professionals on a daily basis.  It's an invaluable tool that provides instant drug information - and more - without having to be tied down to a computer.  I just want to thank everyone who has signed the petition!

As well, I just did a brief interview with ePocrates last week in regards to the iPhone SDK release and they seem to be very excited to port over ePocrates to the iPhone!  More news to follow as details about the SDK emerges.

Yamaha BODiBEAT Gets Your Jog On

The Yamaha BODiBEAT MP3 player uses an accelerometer and a heart rate monitor to determine your workout speed and accordingly matches songs to your pace.  For example, when you run faster, the music gets faster.  I'll hold judgment on this one until I can actually try it.  It may be interesting.

Macbook Air Gone Bad...Very Bad

It don't matter if you've got the money or not...bad taste is bad taste.  Feast your eyes on this gloriously hideous Macbook Air done up in gold-plated crystals.  Only eighteen of these "Golden Age" ugmo Airs will be made and sold at Selfridges.  Via Shiny Shiny.