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The creators of Tweetie and Borange are proud to present Textie Messaging, the unlimited texting app for iPhone and iPod Touch. If you and a friend both have iPhones but are still paying to text each other, we definitely recommend you try using Textie Messaging instead - and communicate for free.

Textie lets you send messages to any other Textie user, any email address, and even to most U.S. mobile phones. Replies come straight back to the app, so you can use Textie with anyone, whether they have the app installed or not.

Textie is beautiful, fast, and easy to use - a natural extension to your iPhone. All messages are free-text and pictures. Especially between two iPhones, Textie offers an unparalleled user experience.

This full original version of Textie is sponsored by a seamless integration with Fusion Ads' new Touch Network; the version with ads is free, or you can switch them off for $1.99.

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this looks interesting

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rickwebb's tumblrmajig (The Never Call: There are some people who love to...)

"The Never Call: There are some people who love to text so much that the phone part of their cell phone has become completely obsolete. They’re like Tobias Funke the never-nude from Arrested Development, except instead of refusing to take off the last bit of clothing for a completely irrational reason, they are scared of a wonderful and time-honored mode of communication."

The Nine Types of Text Messaging Monsters - Texting - Gawker

oh that is me. to a tee.

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I am one of those people. But let me explain something to you. The telephone was an aberation in human development. It was a 70 year or so period where for some reason humans decided it was socially acceptable to ring a loud bell in someone else’s life and they were expected to come running, like dogs. This was the equivalent of thinking it was okay to walk into someone’s living room and start shouting. it was never okay. It’s less okay now. Telephone calls are rude. They are interruptive. Technology has solved this brief aberration in human behavior. We have a thing now called THE TEXT MESSAGE. It is magical, non-intrusive, optional, and, just like human speech originally was meant to be, is turn based and two way. You talk. I talk next. Then you talk. And we do it when it’s convenient for both of us.

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let it ring...

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Barting to the City

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xkcd: Dangers

Dangers

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MobileMe Gallery - ContactZ 2010 #Filemaker

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I have been continually updating my ContactZ #Filemaker template - here are the latest screen shots. Next, a demo screencast to show the latest features live!

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New Applepress out for perusal

April 28th, 2010 | Author: mclasen

The May Issue can be downloaded here:
In this issue:

• Photo Contest Winner
• Inside the MacClinic
• May Freebies
• Make Your Own Photobook
• Read Our Blog With RSS (adapted from this blog)
• Last Chance to Win iPad Raffle

As well as my monthly ambling, enjoy!

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Somehow I have become president of my local Apple user group DVMUG - here is our monthly newsletter in which I get to be on the front page every month - imagine that!

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Scott Adams Blog: That Lost 4G Phone 04/26/2010

That Lost 4G Phone

Apr 26, 2010 General Nonsense | Notify

Two questions I am often asked:

1. How far in advance do you work?
2. How quickly can you publish a comic on a current event?

Today I will indirectly answer both questions by talking about something else entirely. I assume you've all been following the story of the Apple engineer who left a prototype 4G iPhone at a beer garden. I found this story too delicious to resist, but I worried that the story would become stale before my comics would work through the pipeline. I think the soonest I can get something published is in about a month, perhaps a bit sooner, but I've never tested it.

I drew two comics while considering my options. In the end, I thought it wasn't worth the extra friction to push them to the front of the line. And it would be June 18^th before they ran in their normal position, which seemed too far in the future. So here now, exclusively for you blog readers, the totally unfinished first drafts of those comics.  You will never see these in newspapers.

Take a moment to marvel at the fact that I didn't need to add anything to the story as it has been told in the media. All it really needed was Wally. I don't think any of us will ever know what really happened. I based the comic on the media's speculation of events. Remember that I'm in the parody business and not the truth business.

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In case you missed it - heh

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POD

Saturday night, bath night

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Light Painting with Moth Trails | Photojojo

Light Painting with Moth Trails

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OMG, it’s finally Spring!!! Get ready for the warm, lazy, insect-laden nights ahead!

Don’t wrinkle your nose — buggy nights are the best! Once you train flying insects to do your photographic bidding, that is.

Long exposures make moth trails show up as squiggles of light in your night photos: like light painting with bugs!

Grab a tripod and keep reading to learn how to harness the power of the insect kingdom!

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I so have to try this

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Evil Witch from Snow White added to Apple logo on back of iPad - Boing Boing

Evil Witch from Snow White added to Apple logo on back of iPad

Mark Frauenfelder at 11:16 AM April 22, 2010

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For the Disneyphiles out there, you know who you are

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Apple Is Attracting New Mac And iPhone Users By the Millions | Cult of Mac

Apple Is Attracting New Mac And iPhone Users By the Millions

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4:38 pm, April 20th, 2010, Leander Kahney

Apple is sweeping up PC switchers and new iPhone users by the millions.

Take the 8.75 million iPhones Apple sold in the March quarter. Add them to the 42.4 million sold at the end of the last quarter. That makes 51.15 million iPhones sold to date. That’s a lot of iPhone users.

Also consider that half of the Macs sold in the quarter from Apple stores were to people who have never owned a Mac.

The March quarter was Apple’s best ever for iPhone sales, racking up more than double the number of units sold in the same quarter last year. Mac unit sales are up 33 percent. Apple is projecting similar numbers for the next quarter.

And there’s no end in sight. On the analyst conference call right now, Apple COO Tim Cook is talking about increased retail distribution points (like Radio Shack) and the massive growth opportunities in China. And all this during a recession.

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you go Steve

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Instant Surveys with Filemaker and Google Docs

Filemaker 11 is awesome and one of the best ways to learn advanced techniques such as web survey with Google Docs to instant charting is Filemaker Magazine dot come such as their latest article on graphing magic.
http://www.filemakermagazine.com/videos/survey-graphing-magic.html
Simply amazing. Ask me about how to do your survey.

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9GAG - Alice in Zombieland

• http://www.threadless.com/submission/266913/Alice_in_Zombieland
• alice in wonderland zombie creative awesome illustration tee
• chrisguitar00vilebenderesthero0nieatrocityblueberryvoodoorichardandrewmaeshloraquetopilydhprintronix103 other people

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heh tim burton should have done this movie

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SanFranDae

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Winscape: Apple-powered fake windows

Winscape: Apple-powered fake windows

by Mike Schramm (RSS feed) on Apr 16th 2010 at 10:00PM

Just in time for the weekend, here's a technology that's arrived before its time, I think. Winscape is a set of two plasma televisions set up behind window panes, and hooked up to a Mac Pro. The Pro is running the custom Winscape software, which controls the "view" out of the windows according to a sensor (they show it in the video above attached to a baby, and it actually looks really large and pretty unwieldy). So as the sensor moves around the room, the view changes, as if you were moving angles while looking out of the windows to get a different view.

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link from Tom Bacon DVMUG

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iPad DRM endangers our rights | DefectiveByDesign.org

Pad DRM endangers our rights

Espanol | Italiano

Mr. Jobs,

DRM will give Apple and their corporate partners the power to disable features, block competing products (especially free software) censor news, and even delete books, videos, or news stories from users' computers without notice-- using the device's "always on" network connection.

This past year, we have seen how human rights and democracy protestors can have the technology they use turned against them. By making a computer where every application is under total, centralized control, Apple is endangering freedom to increase profits.

Apple can say they will not abuse this power, but their record of App Store rejections and removals gives us no reason to trust them. The iPad's unprecedented use of DRM to control all capabilities of a general purpose computer is a dangerous step backward for computing and for media distribution. We demand that Apple remove all DRM from its devices.

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We Want our iPad rights NOW

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Sign for the US Border: unprovoked beatings ahead - Boing Boing

Sign for the US Border: unprovoked beatings ahead

Cory Doctorow at 5:45 PM April 16, 2010

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lovely no?

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MacBook Pros UPDATED!!! — Finally | Cult of Mac

MacBook Pros UPDATED!!! — Finally

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7:45 am, April 13th, 2010, Leigh McMullen

As we reported eariler the Apple Store was closed this morning when I went for my ‘O-Dark-Thirty’ run, and as anticipated, we’ve got new i5 and i7 Macbook Pros to enjoy. I will be picking one up today if possible and will give a full rundown later in the week for an in-depth hands on.

Pricing looks great too, with $200 off the 17″ model. The 17″ configured as I’d buy it with an i7, is just $200 more (or in other words back to the original pricing).

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Better & faster always appreciated

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A community-built collection of OS X hints - Mac OS X Hints

Vote Saved Your vote was saved for the poll "Expose_and_Spaces" Expose_and_Spaces 1/2: How often do you use Spaces? Regularly - it's essential! 900 (37.56%) Quite often - many times a day 246 (10.27%) A few times a week 171 (7.14%) Rarely 290 (12.10%) Never 789 (32.93%) 2/2: How often do you use Exposé? Regularly - it's essential! 1,111 (46.37%) Quite often - many times a day 452 (18.86%) A few times a week 314 (13.11%) Rarely 326 (13.61%) Never 193 (8.06%) Other polls | 2,398 votes | 34 comments

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use it or don't

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A community-built collection of OS X hints - Mac OS X Hints

Vote Saved Your vote was saved for the poll "Expose_and_Spaces" Expose_and_Spaces 1/2: How often do you use Spaces? Regularly - it's essential! 900 (37.56%) Quite often - many times a day 246 (10.27%) A few times a week 171 (7.14%) Rarely 290 (12.10%) Never 789 (32.93%) 2/2: How often do you use Exposé? Regularly - it's essential! 1,111 (46.37%) Quite often - many times a day 452 (18.86%) A few times a week 314 (13.11%) Rarely 326 (13.61%) Never 193 (8.06%) Other polls | 2,398 votes | 34 comments

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use it or don't

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Loper OS » Non-Apple’s Mistake

Non-Apple’s Mistake

I’ve been patient, I’ve been gracious
And this mountain is covered with wolves
Hear them howling, my hungry children
Maybe you should stay and have another drink and think about me and you.
Jonathan Coulton, “Skullcrusher Mountain”

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The howls of protest coming from iPhone and iPad developers are loud and shrill, and are sure to grow louder and shriller as their Golden Cage grows smaller and smaller, as I’m certain it will.

The Golden Cage is indeed a cage, and a strong one.  Yet it has no door.   Still the poor imprisoned wretches continue, on their own free will and in battalion strength, to pack subway-rush-hour-tightly into their curious prison.  I suggest that the jailbirds’ grievances should lie not with their jailers, but with the outside world, which offers them so little.

It appears that no one (not PG, either) has a grasp of the real problem behind Apple’s tyranny.  At any rate, no one is talking about it.  It is quite true that Apple’s new App Store policies are exactly the kind of behavior one might expect from a tyrannical monopoly.  But, having cornered no markets, Apple is not a monopoly.  Or is it?

I argue that Apple now has not one but two monopolies:

I)    A nearly-total monopoly on computer (and pocket computer) systems designed with good taste.
II)  A total monopoly on the Microsoft-free, hassle-free personal computer. [1]

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very interesting points

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Video: Cat Vs. iPad - Boing Boing

Video: Cat Vs. iPad

Brandon Boyer at 6:30 AM April 14, 2010

Eric Rautio's cat Iggy goes paws-on with the iPad and discovers he loves the Noby Noby Boy app almost as much as we do. Time to add an entire new species to the list of who Noby is for? [via TPHD]

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iPad: fated to be HUGE with cat lovers

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How to print from an iPad

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