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… with a two-year contract, of course. Oh, and the iPhone isn’t listed.

via @internhack

It’s free in the App Store.

In this episode of Ungeniused, Myke and I talk about frying pans, Teflon and its nerdy creator, Roy J. Plunkett.

Steven Heller:

In 1986 Jobs approached Rand to design the logo for his NeXT educational computer company. After obtaining permission from IBM, Jobs offered Rand a handsome sum to develop a logo for a product that was not yet public. The only thing Rand knew was that the mysterious NeXT computer was a black cube.

This is a great article for any design or Apple nerds.

via @carlfoxiv

That logo really does feel dated.

I’d like to congratulate my buddy Myke Hurley on launching 70Decibels, a new network for his excellent podcasts.

If you’ve never checked out Myke’s podcasts, this really is the time. The Bro Show and Enough - The Minimal Podcast are two of my favorite technology shows. The App Orchard with Joshua Schnell of Macgasm is excellent, as is Myke’s own show, The Hurley Bird. Need a laugh? Check out 11 Minutes. I laugh every time I listen.

As a quick side-note, the world-famous Ungeniused podcast has moved to the network’s new site as well.

Myke is a fantastic podcaster, and has assembled an amazing network of hosts and shows. I’m proud to be a part of it, and couldn’t be more happy for my friend starting his new adventure.

Seriously, this is why we have editors.

Jacqui Cheng:

Thanks to the early delivery of some German iPhone 4S devices, the first benchmarks of the A5-powered phone are now in. According to these early tests, it looks as if the new A5 processor in the iPhone 4S is running at 800MHz—slightly slower than the iPad 2’s 1GHz A5 processor, but 68 percent faster than the iPhone 4’s 800MHz A4 processor.

So the iPhone 4S is nearly as fast as the iPad 2, and a lot faster than the iPhone 4. What a turd.

I’m happy to announce that starting the first week of November, I will be offering RSS sponsorships here on 512 Pixels. I’m also happy to announce that I’ve joined a brand-new RSS sponsorship network named The Syndicate to make this better than it could ever be if I was working on my own.

The Syndicate is a network of technology, design, development, and business writers offering RSS sponsorships on some of the best-known sites in our corners of the Internet.

The network reaches a healthy audience of tech- and design-savvy nerds who have an affinity for fine software and products.

Here are some quick stats on the network:

• Network members include Marco.org, Asymco, The Brooks Review, ShawnBlanc.net and others.
• 92,000 RSS feed subscribers.
• More than 1.3 million monthly page views.

If you advertise with The Syndicate, your company, product or service is posted across all of the network sites during the week of your sponsorship. The network’s readership is creative, influential, and entrepreneurial, so you know you’re hitting the audience you want, in an effective and affordable way. If you want all the sites to post on the same day, there’s an option for that, as well. You might even get Ben Brooks to get a tattoo of your logo.¹

Want more information? Check out The Syndicate’s website to learn more.

Federico Viticci:

The Omni Group released two updates for its OmniFocus app for iPhone and iPad today, adding several bug fixes and improvements, iOS 5 compatibility, and a new Location Reminders feature that leverages iOS 5′s geo-fencing APIs to send you a reminder when you’re in the right area to complete an action. The same technology is used by Apple in Reminders, a new native app in iOS 5.

I’ve been playing with Reminders for this very purpose. Silly me — I knew the Omni Group would keep me from straying.