The Media started during the Renaissance in Europe. Right when the mechanical typeset was discovered. An information can be passed on to huge masses of people. People like Charles Dickens and Jane Austin capitalized on that by writing great books. Without the media they would have been nowhere.

The Radio was discovered in the mid 1800s and people didn’t have to read anymore. And in the early 1900s, there was TV. In the 1990s we got the internet, which we could use to search for anything we want. Free flow of information on demand, when you want it where you want it. It was texts initially, now we have got podcasts. Well, thats what podworks is about.

Now the size of the computer has been reduced to fit in your hand. And now its most popularly called a Phone. And, the Iphone is the best among all that. And I own one of those. An 8GB iPhone 3G that transfers data faster than my broadband connection used to do 4 years ago.

There are so many things that you can do with the iPhone. Its not just for talking. The apps that are available for the iPhone are simply great, and are not available on the regular PDAs or smart phones. I am a windows hater, and though iPhone doesn’t run linux, it is atleast unix based.

And just like in linux, you get an app for anything you need for iphone. I can’t list them out, the list is infinite. For example, I have been looking for an apartment at Texas to run my new home cum office for my friend who is there to handle our new venture for some time now. Something bigger and better than our current place, but in the same locality. I googled, yahooed and MSNed. Nothing happened. But I found this one result buried deep down in one of the searches. It was iphone apartment app.

I decided to give it a try, as it said it uses GPS to find you apartments. Wow. I downloaded the app, and asked my friend to do it too. He started off the app, and located a very decent place in the map, thanks to the GPS satellites, called the owner, went over, took some photos and sent it to me, which I approved instantly, and we have that place now. It was that simple. I am surprised how technology is evolving. A tiny app for iPhone is now doing what google isn’t being able to do.

Several people who are into software companies join in Indian Multi Nationals who usually have their base in California, and flee to the US to attend to some onsite project implementation or something for quite some time. When these people go as guests to the client’s places, they are given all sorts of previlleges, like a car, a decent place to stay, top calss food, and pretty good spending money. So in the weekends, they look around the city, go travelling around, look around the whole of the US at the company’s expense, and look for some consultancy who would have a good list of San Francisco jobs in their portfolio and pass on the resumes to them, and when their project at their site is complete, they just resign the job, and with the experience in hand, just join a job right there and dont come back to India.