When Apple announced the iPad, there was a remarkable amount of speculation surrounding the product as a whole. I had waited my fair share of time to not only let the hype settle, but also to have At&t single handily put a cap on the data usage (sarcastic). After playing with my iPad 3G for a few weeks now I truly can have a feel and overall understanding of the inventible future of this product. When I first powered on my iPad and slid to unlock the device I took a good long, 30 second look at the “home-screen” if you will. This alone had made me think that if Apple as device developer wants to make the iPad more personal and not look like an a iPod touch on Viagra it needs to allow far more customization on the home screen.
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Dec 09
Tweet from Terminal
Now if you know me (and you probably do) you know that I love the Twitter service and I am an avid Tweeter. After stumbling upon a blog post online I found how to use the terminal utility within Mac OS X to send out tweets to Twitter. Here’s how to use this fun magic trick.
In Terminal type the following replacing the specific data as you need.
curl -u username:password -d status="message" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
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Dec 09
New Years resolutions
- Build a social network
- Redesign my blog
- Use more web services (web apps)
- Use 1-hour of my time to study, or practice 1 subject from school
- Have a few Meetups with social media friends from twitter
- Be a speaker at a few technology events
- Build an iPhone App
- Start a tech-related podcast
- Build a better community around ‘Tommy Fishback’
- Invest in domain purchases
- Write a book
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Dec 09
What is Apple’s next step with Lala?
With Apple’s recent aqusition of the music streaming service “Lala”, we wonder and ponder what will Apple’s next step with the service or will the shut it down and leave it in the dark?
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Nov 09
Digital Greetings & Happy Thanksgiving
“Be thankful for what you are, but be hopeful for what you may become.” – Tommy Fishback
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Nov 09
Goals
This is my temporary list of goals that I would like to achieve, they all have the same focus “the internet”. So I am taking steps to accomplish the following goals; and I am currently organizing my ideas and thoughts about the individual projects.
- Launch a nonprofit organization
- Create an iPhone app
- Build a location-based social network
- Start a tech-related podcast
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Nov 09
iPhone features that are missing, that need to be there
The list
- Ability to search recent calls by city ( ex search miami, and pull up all the recent calls involving a miami area code)
- Quick respond – ability to respond to text messages by a push notification pop up window
- Universal search – ability to use the search box on the home screen to search google, and the web
- Ability to save email attachments
- Notifications bar
- Use voice search to search the web
- Ability to sync with your mac (wirelessly) via bluetooth
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Nov 09
Essential Mac apps
I have compiled a list of a few essential mac apps that I use on a daily basis.
- Hulu Desktop – With the Hulu desktop, it transforms your mac intro the essential set top box. It’s powered by the wide variety of diverse content on Hulu, and brings it to your mac desktop. Use your Apple remote to navigate the menus and watch your favorite movies and tv shows with ease and simplicity.

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Nov 09
Is the sky the limit?
If the sky is the limit, then how do astronauts over achieve?
-Tommy Fishback
