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Re: Hello from Macgasm!

josh — Wed, 09 May 2007 04:31:15 -0000

Hey,

Thought I'd drop you a quick hello, and let you know who I am... My names Josh Schnell, and I have an addiction! I can't ever seem to get away from my apple! My fiancee sometimes jokes that I love it more than her! Anyway, the first mac I ever had the luxury of playing with was an original Macintosh! It was pretty exciting... but as time went on I got sucked into the <sarcasm> wonderful world of windows! </sarcasm> I finally found my way back to apple about 2.5 years ago, and I have no intentions of ever going back! I've gained quite a bit of knowledge over those couple of years... by no means do I consider myself an expert... but, I'm no noob either. I hope that I'll be able to shed some light on some of the topics that had me scratching my head in the eariler days of my adoption, and in turn help some of the newcomers shrink the already small learning curve into a seamless transition.

Josh

Re: How-to install linux apps in leopard

josh — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:29:30 -0000

This is one of the first things I did on my mac when I connected to the internet!

Re: Screensharing, and saving gas money in Leopard

josh — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:56:20 -0000

Hmm,

I'm not sure if there is a way to do that natively. Now, if you wanted to get geeky, you could always log in to your remote machine via ssh, and do it that way... maybe i'll write up a quick howto article on that. You can read my article here

Re: Connect 360, and streaming stuff from your mac to your xbox 360

josh — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:08:45 -0000

Good, You'll be able to comment then on the show, because for some reason I can't get my xbox live working... it doesn't help that my cat5 cord is mangled.

Re: Adium and multiple chat accounts

josh — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:13:19 -0000

Holy crap, I had no idea you can do that! This is awesome.

Re: Macgasm #030: Solo Edition

josh — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:42:52 -0000

Rob, thanks for the compliment about the podcast it means a lot. As for the spat with tuaw, I'm sorry that you feel that way. But, when it comes to friends and family, I'll take their side and defend them at what ever the cost. Intellectual property is a serious thing, and a number of the writers here on this blog put a lot of effort into creating the best articles that they can. When someone else takes that and then reposts it without even a mention of where it came from it leaves me extremely annoyed.

You may see it as unfounded, and you might not agree with me, but from our posting the article late friday night, and posting it to digg, then tuaw posting it in the morning with almost the exact same title, and a very similar format to the body of the article... I'm left to wonder if they got the information from us, and then reposted it. It may not be plagiarism, but I do know that if I did that at my post secondary institution, I would be getting a nice visit from the dean. Now, maybe they didn't, and maybe it is a complete coincidence...I'll never know. I still stand by my right to call them on it, and Mr. Lu gave his opinions on the matter. I'd do it again in a second. I love TUAW and will continue to use that site on a daily basis, but most people I talk to don't believe it was a mere coincidence that the articles title, and opening statements are very similar. On the flip side, a lot of the people I talk to about it also don't see the connection. So, maybe I'm reading into it a bit more than I should, and I really hope that's the case.

I don't really see an issue with me standing up for others on this site, and those associated with this community. I think it's noble, and far to often most people let others walk all over those around them. It's not gonna happen here, and I'll continue to stand up for the writers here any way I can. It has nothing to do with competition. I don't troll those boards, and I don't knock that site ever...I've directed people to their service on numerous occasions both in the podcast and in print, what they do is a great benefit to the community, and I appreciate it. Like I said earlier, I really hope there is no foundation for my arguments and that I am overreacting. I hope this might answer your questions, and concerns.

Re: Customize Pages

josh — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:33:04 -0000

Sam, I have to agree 100%. I was a bit skeptical about it, and I've had a hard time moving away from the Office package. But, in my obvious hatred for all things Microsoft these day, I've been using the iWork bundle more and more. I really need to pick up 08!

Re: Customize Pages

josh — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:14:40 -0000

Jeremy, I have to say... i have a little philosophy about I.T. Dept.'s. They know full well that if they made the switch to macs, that they'd have 1/3 of the work, and as such, would have 1/3 of the salary... ;)

Anyway, thanks a ton for the kind works about the blog, it really helps to keep us motivated. It's nice to hear people's opinions about the work we're doing :)

Re: Getting your contacts in order one Fruux at a time.

josh — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:11:23 -0000

Yeah me too, i'm really getting sick of having to manually update content in my address book... I'm really glad these guys took up this challenge.

Re: The Keynote…

josh — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:53:47 -0000

We'll those apps should be free, and they should have shipped with the original touch. The fact that they are charging for it now is a bit insulting. "Hi, we screwed up, and didn't provide you with these apps in the first place, so... everyone gets it now for free...unless you bought one already... then it's 20.00"... LAME

Re: Turn off that annoying clucking when you use the volume buttons

josh — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:51:51 -0000

Man, it's so annoying. Uggh.... CLuck, cluck, cluck........ STFU! lol

Re: Firefox releases native Mac theme for 3.0 in a nightly build.

josh — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:30:59 -0000

I'm not too sure. I haven't had a chance to give the latest nightly an install. From what I hear it's pretty risky business at this point. I'll give it a whurl on my laptop and let you know how it goes.

Re: Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and… Apple?

josh — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:41:52 -0000

I long for the day when Apple buys Microsoft... you heard it here first! ;)

Re: Got a New Mac? Learn the ups and downs of Transferring your account.

josh — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:18:31 -0000

Thanks for the kind words. We try our best to get info out there!

Re: Forklift: The Second Coming of FTP Greatness?

josh — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:41:09 -0000

@Vinny are you sure it's truely FXP, and not cached on your system before being sent to server #2 ? I tried looking into it this morning, but couldn't find any documentation on ie.

@Donald, I'd have to agree, it's one of the most stable beta's I've used in a while.

Re: Setting Up Parental Controls in Apple’s Leopard

josh — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:06:03 -0000

Hey Bill,

I haven't heard of this happening before. Does it just happen for that site? Or are you noticing the behaviour on other websites?

Re: Forklift: The Second Coming of FTP Greatness?

josh — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:31:50 -0000

@mudi, thanks for stopping by and letting us know. I'm super stoked for the final version.

Re: Turn off that annoying clucking when you use the volume buttons

josh — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:54:24 -0000

No problem. Have anything else bugging you we could work on? drop us an email. info[at]macgasm.net

Re: Intelligent Editorial: Obsolescence

josh — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:02:14 -0000

@tedious, I tend to agree with your opinion. The only thing that really pisses me off is the ipod updates. That shit is annoying! You can't deny! lol

Re: Fixing Spotlight’s issues

josh — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:32:28 -0000

Good call. Also just to clarify the .spotlight files are in the root of the volume you're looking to fix. So in my case.

cd /Volumes/MainHD
rm -r .Spotlightfile

Every volume will have a .spotlight file.

Re: Intelligent Editorial: Apple and Third Party Applications

josh — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:57:19 -0000

I know I'm super stoked at the prospect of wifi voip access. 90% of my cellular calls come when I'm at home with a wireless network available. Now, if Jobs and Co. would just give me an iPhone in Canada I'd be ecstatic.

Re: Image Editing on the Cheap.

josh — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:49:24 -0000

No problem. That's what i'm here for. Anyone else from twitter have a question? email me. jschnell[at]macgasm[dot]net

Re: Pimp out your Quicklook.

josh — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:18:07 -0000

It's a blog, and not my dissertation. Oh, and wont should be "won't".

Unless of course you mean, "accustomed or used", or "to have a habit", but somehow I don't think you did. I think you mean "will not", which is then won't.

So, where's your blog so I can comment on your shoddy grammar?

Re: Airport Express Updated to N

josh — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:01:04 -0000

My understanding is that you will only get N speeds if all the devices on the network are running on the N system. If you have B/G on the network, the speed for all machines connected will automatically downgrade to the lowest common protocol.

Re: Forklift now at 1.5.

josh — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:24:36 -0000

Yeah, the binary nights guys really seem to be on the ball. They even stopped by my original post and left a comment for me to clear up something I wasn't sure about. Pretty impressive indeed!

Re: Shovebox Giveaway Winners!

josh — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:26:48 -0000

Hopefully the shovebox application will help you out with that! lol

Re: Terminal Tip: Scan For Wireless Networks.

josh — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:15:48 -0000

The *nix shell was one of the major reasons why I switched from windows to os x a couple years ago. The only things i've found to piss me off... is the inability to switch to passive mode on my wireless card... *shudders*

Re: Stop Spotlight From Indexing Your External Drives

josh — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:47:44 -0000

Hmm... did you delete the spotlight index files off of your main drives that you want unindexed??

Re: Intelligent Editorial: Safari Being Pushed On Windows Users?

josh — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:17:25 -0000

No matter how you look at it, it's a trojan horse (the greek one, not the virii). Just because the receivers of this gift are too stupid to look inside the box, doesn't mean that it's not underhanded and sneaky.

Sadly, I just don't see most users being smart enough to a.) care about what they're clicking yes too, and b.) smart enough to know it's an application and not some kind of plugin for itunes.

I wish I was wrong about them, but I stand by my words. Anyone who cares enough about web browsers knows where to find them. I don't think this is brilliant, and I don't really see it helping to increase their browser market, so I don't really see a point. But that's just my opinion... lol.

Re: Intelligent Editorial: Apple Secrets They Don’t Want You To Know

josh — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:06:40 -0000

@patrick thanks for your concern. we've picked up two editors this week, so hopefully these things will be rectified in the future.

Thanks.

Re: Intelligent Editorial: Apple Secrets They Don’t Want You To Know

josh — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:31:38 -0000

@Don, thanks for the vote of confidence, but it has happened in a lot of other posts, so I thought it would be in our best interest to have a second set of eyes looking over everyone's work. Moving forward, I think it's better this way.

Re: Top 3 Must have applications: Random Apps, and Web Coding

josh — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:38:43 -0000

Thanks for the insights. We're going to be adding more programs in the coming days for different categories, such as backing up, like you had mentioned.

SuperDuper! will be on that list for sure.

Re: Fabrix Cases: Hand made laptop/ipod sleeves

josh — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:17:03 -0000

The shipping is $2.00 USD for an ipod case, and 9.00USD for a Laptop Case.