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This week’s panel : Stu Helm, Bart Busschots, Michael King, Gazmaz and special guest Katie Floyd from the Mac Power Users and MacCore Podcasts

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This week’s panel : Bart Busschots, Stu Helm, Justin Byrne, David Shortle. Thanks to Bart for hosting us in his kitchen, we had a great time.

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This week’s panel : Stu Helm, Bart Busschots, Paul Shadwell, Nick Balaz and Joel Drapper

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You may have noticed, although probably not, that I deliberately avoided the words “Getting,” “Things,” and “Done” in the title of this review. There is a reason for this. SimpleTask is not a comprehensive GTD app. GTD has a specific meaning with specific criteria, although it has drifted away somewhat from referring to David Allen’s book. There are at least two categories of task lists, and the one most people think of is the more complex one, which involves dates and priorities and tags and contexts and such. The other one that springs to mind less often is just a list, with checkboxes and titles. SimpleTask falls into this category.

Another category it falls into is the Delicious Generation. There are many interpretations of this concept, but I like mine the best. A delicious app is one which uses nonstandard GUI to great advantage. The most famous example is Delicious Library, which departs from the standard Finder-like way of presenting large groups of items, and uses the idea of a bookshelf. Others that fit in to this category are iVolume, The Hit List, Disco, QuickPost, Tweetie, and many more. SimpleTask succeeds with this model, which makes it a pleasure to use. (more…)

Wow, I really hope I am not making a habit out of this whole blogging thing, but the people of the tech world are just making me so angry at their stupidity, that I just have to enlighten them. Today, I am referring to the iPhone 3G to 3GS upgrade cost, and AT&T’s recent cave.

*Note: In this article, I will refer to AT&T, but most of this information is applicable to any carrier*

Let’s start with the basics. The original iPhone was an unsubsidized phone. That means that you paid the entire cost of the phone, and AT&T paid Apple a certain amount over the life of the contract, and that is how Apple made a good chunk of their money. When you terminate a contract on an unsubsidized phone, AT&T only loses the amount that you were paying them for the service, which to them is all profit. So you paid for the service, and when you terminate the contract, you don’t get any more service, so AT&T doesn’t lose anything. (more…)

A while ago, on the IMP Live in New York show, my pick was a little Preference Pane called GeekTool which embeds content on your desktop. When thinking of why one should do this, an obvious reason comes to mind: observing. Whether it be CPU usage, iTunes status, or date and time, GeekTool is a great way to get an overview of different aspects of your system. But it’s also good for another thing: UI Customization.

For those of us who read LifeHacker, we’ll come across an occasion article about the Enigma Desktop, a collection of tools to provide a custom user interface that blends in with the user’s wallpaper. Sadly, the programs used to create this user interface are all Windows only applications. What is a Mac geek to do? (more…)

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This week’s panel : Bart Busschots, Stu Helm, Keaton Brant, Michael King, Josh Holat and Adam Fisher-Cox

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