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iPhone Camera + Telescope = Great Moon Pictures?

March 21, 2010

These are photos taken hand held with an iPhone held over the eyepiece of my telescope last night. Now my scope is a pretty good one – a 16 inch reflector, almost 7 foot long, with an excellent eyepiece (Pentax). The scope is a Meade Starfinder with a Dobsonian mount.

I don’t get a [...]

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Here’s three things I never thought I’d say about my iPhone

March 20, 2010

*** Guest post – Joshua Schnell is the Founder of Macgasm.net, a website dedicated to providing tips and tricks to Mac users.
When the iPhone came out, I had a long list of worries. My worries were serious enough that I almost didn’t purchase the 3G model when it finally came out up here in Canada [...]

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Hurrah – AT&T Not Failing or Sucking at SXSW

March 15, 2010

Image Source: Gizmodo
South by Southwest (SXSW) is a big event for my hometown of Austin each year, a linked set of film, music and interactive festivals that take place here each March and draw lots of music and film fans as well as tons of techies and geeks. That latter group has been known [...]

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iPhone: now with 80,000 more apps than Facebook

March 15, 2010

I’m still of the opinion that Facebook shouldnt have any stinking apps because I hate all the extra noise they generate. They make people’s profiles a nightmare to browse, they generate all sorts of fake notifications that require you to install an app to find out if anything was really sent, and I think they [...]

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Review: Feng Shui Game for the iPhone

March 14, 2010

Feng Shui Game markets itself as a game built around keeping the positive energy. At heart, it’s a game of memory based on feng shui and keeping the balance.
The game features five elements: fire, water, metal, earth, and tree. Each element destroys another and gets destroyed by another. Fire, for example, gets fed by [...]

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Homer Simpson vs. iPhone – Spoiler, Homer Wins

March 7, 2010

Homer doesn’t react well to that particular incoming caller. Good stuff – click the image to jump to the video.
Via: iPhoneFreak

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Care to de-brand your iPhone while you polish it?

March 4, 2010

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Here’s a trick that has really piqued my interest: Slashgear (via @lgreenberg) just reported on a way to de-brand your iPhone’s back and remove any scratches to the casing at the same time. The de-branding is actually a byproduct of the scratch removal process (buffing the back of [...]

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How do you read the news on your iPhone?

March 4, 2010

This post is partly a question posed to our lovely studio audience (*applause sign*), but we’ve also taken the liberty of assembling thoughts on how various members of the JAiB team catch up with news on the iPhone. Apps are named, but the responses mainly focus on how our team prefers to read or interact [...]

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Site Stuff: A Word from Our Sponsors

February 27, 2010

Image Source: savagechickens.com
Just a quick post to let you know that starting tomorrow we will be running some sponsored posts here on JAiB. This is a subject I’ve thought about for a long while, and discussed with friends and colleagues before deciding that we’ll do these.
Right off the bat, I want to mention [...]

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