In response to Microsoft’s announcement of their free Microsoft Security Essentials anti-virus software, Symantec Norton posted a commercial on YouTube dubbed You Get What You Pay For.

Norton’s point is that free software is limited for all sorts of reasons, like it won’t scan email, or web pages for phishing, or email, and you don’t get free support, but almost none of that is true. In fact, none of it is true. The free support might be true in some cases, but most often it is provided by other users of the software, and the support is often better than that obtained directly from Norton. Even Norton’s software is so bloated, and slows PCs down so much, that years ago I switched to McAfee, and have never been happier.

Probably realizing their commercial can’t hold water, Norton took the ad down within days.

Bionic Eye is an App developed for the iPhone 3GS by Dutch startup Layar. The app allows you to visualize nearby points of interest. The POI database is currently at 100,000, but the next version, coming soon, promises more POI, and faster loading.

Bionic Eye does not require any network connection, but it will work on the iPhone and iPod Touch with some functionality limited for older firmware.

The versions available are listed below by country:

Bionic Eye USA
Bionic Eye UK
Bionic Eye France
Bionic Eye Tokyo

Dan Ross took an old singing Big Mouth Billy Bass fish, implanted an MBED chip, and added an SD card with .wav files to allow the fish to speak. That was kind of boring, so he came up with a different idea.

Dan’s new idea was to hook the fish up to an Ethernet cable, pull in Tweets from Twitter, and say the tweets out loud. Currently the fish is offline.

In case you thought the Apple Netbook didn’t exist, watch this video to see an iPhone 3GS transform into an Apple Netbook.

Someone with a free weekend took the time to make a music video with music composed only from sounds found on Windows XP and Windows 98. Most people will recognize many of these sounds, which proves how integrated the Microsoft operating systems have been in our lives over the years.