Summary: In this episode... * A smartphone app that is the best thing since sliced bread * If you didn’t already drink the Kool-Aid, you may not want to * Frightening news about the new Batman movie Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-Wf) for complete show notes and video from the show. http://youtu.be/fIQ2WJ6vcko Introducing the team... * Shout out to the chat room * Happy Birthday to: * 21 - Ascii Adam from the Hook Show (http://hookshow.blogspot.com/) * 22 - Lance Heath * 22 - Jack Stevens * 25 - Mark Sheppard (Wichita, Kansas) Born 1957 * 25 - Jim Guckin (http://www.jimguckinshow.com/) from Philadelphia, Pa * 26 - Patrick Norton * 26 - Daughter of Will The Computer Guy * If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki. * Join us on the Google+ hangout every Sunday night at 9:30PM ET to see and hear the show raw and unedited. Just circle Technorama Podcast, Kreg, or me and you’ll see the announcement when we join the hangout. On This Day In History for June 20, 2012 * It was on this date in 1214 that The University of Oxford (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oxford) receives its charter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter). * That same date in 1819 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1819) – The U.S. vessel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship) SS Savannah (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Savannah) arrives at Liverpool (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool), England, United Kingdom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom). She is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean), although most of the journey is made under sail. * Samuel Morse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Morse) receives the patent for, the iTap today in 1840.. His marketing team later renamed it the telegraph (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraph). * It was also today in 1877 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1877) that Alexander Graham Bell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell) installs the world's first commercial telephone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone) service in Hamilton, Ontario (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton,_Ontario), Canada (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada). * The busiest railway station in India, Victoria Terminus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chhatrapati_Shivaji_Terminus), opens today in 1887 in Bombay (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai). * June 20, 1893 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1893) – Lizzie Borden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Borden) is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother. * Toast of the Town (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toast_of_the_Town), later The Ed Sullivan Show (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ed_Sullivan_Show), makes its television debut 64 years ago today. * Also today in 1963 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963) – The so-called "red telephone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow-Washington_hotline)" is established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis). * Asteroid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid) Eureka (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5261_Eureka) is discovered June 20, 1990 * and just 9 years ago, The WikiMedia Foundation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiMedia_Foundation) is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Petersburg,_Florida). Happy Birthday goes out on this day to: * Greek-born South African astronomer John S. Paraskevopoulos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_S._Paraskevopoulos), born today in 1889 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1889) * Also born today in 1894 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1894), Lloyd Hall (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Hall) the American chemist * One of the most famous actors to play Robin Hood, Australian actor Errol Flynn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errol_Flynn) was born today in 1909
