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joshschnell - who has written 296 posts on Macgasm.

Well, I'm pretty much addicted to all things Apple, and Twitter. That's probably all you really need to know. If I'm not posting here, I'm probably wasting time on Twitter.

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Santa Steve to make an appearance on the 14th?

Friday, October 10, 2008

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Well the time is almost upon us. We’ll soon know what the “brick” is, we’ll know what new laptops look like, and more importantly we’ll see some new price points. It’s the price points that have me the most curious. Rumors are swirling around that we will see, for the first time ever, laptop models [...]

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After all you already have a remote.

Thursday, October 9, 2008

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A couple months back I was asked on Twitter about using a not so “Mighty Mouse” as a keynote clicker to navigate slides. While it works, it is kind of a pain. Those “Mighty Mouse” peripherals are not exactly ergonomic. I’ve often thought about the possibilities of using the Apple remote that [...]

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Fring and by extension Skype has made it to the iPhone.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

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Fring is your all in one communications application. It lets you connect to aim, msn, icq, gtalk, as well as a whole slew of other options, but most notably, it lets you connect to skype. To make calls. On your iPhone. How game changing would that be?

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Turn a paperclip into an iPhone/Touch stand.

Saturday, October 4, 2008

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Interesting article from lifehacker about a guy who ingeniously made a stand out of a paperclip. Someone get this guy an engineering degree. Here’s the challenge, how would you improve on this design with things you could find around your desk? Here’s the video from lifehacker.

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Visualhub/Audialhub/iSquint Discontinued.

Friday, October 3, 2008

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Two of my favorite applications have gone the way of the dotto. Techspansion has closed their doors and stopped selling their applications. No idea why, but if I find out what’s going down I’ll be sure to post a follow-up. Hopefully, as Adam Christianson said, they will make them open source. I’m sorry [...]

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