The Macgasm Podcast and Blog.

28. June 2008

Macgasm 040: A Conversation with Mitch Breitweiser

Mitch is one of the artistic geniuses at Marvel Comics. Mitch gained a lot of fanboy buzz with his covers and pencils for the “Drax the Destroyer” and “Captain America: The Chosen” miniseries’. Mitch was nice enough to join us to talk about comic books, his creative process, and how it centers around his Apple [...]

24. June 2008

By: Trish Robinson

Geek Giveaway

We all know that geeks are the new black, right? Women like geeks. Forget those muscular football players and the chiseled faces of the hot movie stars. I am here to tell you a little secret: Women dig big brains. Some male geeks have already discovered this secret but a lot of you are [...]

23. July 2008

VMware has a nice little “feature” called unity mode.

With the advent of the Intel Mac line there came a huge roar from people wanting to run XP and other operating systems virtually on their Apple machines. A couple of companies came out swinging, and in my opinion, VMware has come out on top. There is a nifty little feature that lets you run [...]

21. July 2008

One week without a dataplan.

I’m not a novice, and I’m certainly not the “typical” iphone user; however, it has been my first week with one, so I could be slated into the “beginner” category if you want to be all particular about it. For me, I decided against the dataplan that Rogers was pushing on their customers, and [...]

19. July 2008

iPhone/iPod Touch 2.0 and AIM 1.0 App Crashing

Were you one of those who decided to take the plunge with the 2.0 firmware and install a whole bunch of apps, including the AOL Instant Messaging App? Well I did, and it worked for a bit, but now it just seems to crash upon launch. Well I think I have figured out [...]

19. July 2008

Rearrange your menu bar…kind of!

Did you know that you can kind of rearrange your menu bar? I sure as heck didn’t until Tom Leroux and I were trying to figure out how to remove the mobile me icon up there near the spotlight hinterland. Apparently you can move around all the native apple menu bar icons. [...]

16. July 2008

ChordMate: Taking the guitar digital

For Father’s Day this year, my siblings and I decided to get my father a guitar. He’s always wanted to play, and he’s never really gotten around to teaching himself or picking one up. But, there’s a slight problem. None of us live at home anymore, so teaching him how to play [...]

14. July 2008

But, Apple Dumbifies their software.

Sometimes I forget that a tech divide exists between me and the world around me. This seems to become more and more obvious as I get further and further into this website. For me and most of the people I converse with on a daily basis, technology is simple. Sure, we are [...]

14. July 2008

Use the 1st Gen iPhone as a spare?

Being the curious person that I am, I wanted to see if I could use my iPhone 1st Gen as an emergency backup for my iPhone 3G. At least with AT&T I was not able to do it, without having to sync to iTunes. But alas, no dice. You cannot do this [...]

14. July 2008

Your Grampy’s iPhone 3G Launch Story

When I was your age, we didn’t have the cellular telephones. We had our American Telephone & Telegraph branded black rotary phones, and we were happy to have them. Mind you, we didn’t have our own telephone line. We had to share it with the nice elderly folks next door that went by the names [...]

13. July 2008

iPhone coverage, and Rogers turnarounds.

First things first. I don’t feel that the best way to cover something is to recycle stories from around the internet. I’m sure, as a reader, you really hate it when you read the same crap on hundreds of blogs, all linking to the same story, with the same content, and the same [...]

13. July 2008

iPhone 3G and Firewire Charging

I am not sure how many readers still have a firewire iPod charger, but I do. It’s from my 1st Generation 4GB Green iPod Mini. And with that I was thinking about it for a little bit earlier and wondered if the iPhone 3G can support charging over firewire. I knew it wouldn’t support syncing, [...]

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