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How easily do you bruise?

Chris Roberts — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:56:22 +0000

[Your humble author deeply regrets his recent absence. He still loves you very, very much. -- C.R.] A couple weeks back, I was pointed in the direction of a short piece in The New York Times by Dan Mitchell. My friend-tipster was roped in by the headline, “The Thin Skin of Apple Fans,” and I too [...]

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Macgasm Tuesday: Early Edition (With Update!)

Chris Roberts — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:53:18 +0000

Executive Order Number 1: You never, ever wait until Friday to talk about something as monumental and earth-shattering as shiny, new hardware spurted forth from the bowls of Cupertino. Never, ever. As such, Macgasm Friday becomes Macgasm Tuesday, pushed out on the heels of Apple's announcement of new design. "Of what?" you ask. Read on, dear reader.

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Macgasm Friday: Late Weekend Edition

Chris Roberts — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:24:56 +0000

Hello! Chris here with the two-days late MGF. See, not that much happened this week in the world of Mac. Sure a new 2GB iPod shuffle came out, but we talked about that. There were some nifty software updates, like Handbrake and Adium, but we talked about those, too. There was lots of iPhone news, though, [...]

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Macgasm Giveaway #1: ShoveBox!

Chris Roberts — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:54:06 +0000

There comes a time when being a reader finally pays off. For you, dear Macgasm consumer, that time is now! The fine, fine folks at Wonder Warp Software have given us two licenses for ShoveBox — a product we here at Macgasm think is hella swell — to do with as we see fit. Well, [...]

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Macgasm Friday: Valentine’s Week

Chris Roberts — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:10:33 +0000

We here at Macgasm approach fruit of Cupertino with Cupid’s arrow perpetually lodged in our collective ass, but for you we’ll do our best to limit official observation of the good Saint Valentine’s day to just a week. And this here is the Valentine’s week in review. New weekly feature at Macgasm.net goes AWOL “” I was [...]

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Macgasm Friday: A Week In Review

Chris Roberts — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:32:53 +0000

While the title for this first installment of Macgasm Friday is intentionally straightforward, I’d still be remiss if I didn’t take a few words to introduce myself and tell you what this is all about. So that’s where I’ll start with this wrap-up for the last week of January, 2008. New weekly feature at Macgasm.net — I’m [...]

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