Cameron Diaz loves surfing — because it makes her feel “in touch” with God.

The My Sister’s Keeper star is a mad wave rider having learned to surf while shooting Charlie’s Angels.

And Cameron says she has to keep up her beach fun to satisfy her spiritual as well as thrill-seeking needs.

“It’s funny everyone sees me as a surfer girl because I grew up in California but as a child I never surfed because I had no one to teach me and I didn¹t even have a surf board,” says Cameron. “I love it now though. It’s very spiritual for me. It’s like being directly in touch with God. It’s so healing and amazing.”

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Santa Cruz — A family in Soquel has collaborated to develop an Apple iPhone application that determines how fast the wind is blowing.

The Wind Meter application the Dillers developed uses the microphone on the iPhone to convert the volume of the wind into an accurate measure of the wind speed.

“I thought if stronger wind makes a louder noise on a video camera mic, why not pick that same noise on the iPhone microphone and put it to good use?” said Jon Diller, who presented the idea to the rest of his family.

Diller was initially interested in developing a wind application because of his need to determine the wind speed for his kite surfing hobby.

“When you go kite surfing knowing the wind speed is important because it tells you how big of a sail you should use,” he said. “And there are so many sports where it’s important to know how hard the wind is blowing.”

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