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I've often sat reading mail in, say, a sub-folder for a mailing list, and, on noticing the red badge indicator for a new message in my inbox, have flipped back to the inbox to see what it was. Pretty much every time I did this, I thought, ‘Wou...
iPhone (and iPod touch) feature request
I really would have thought this would just work. I have my music collection in iTunes on my Mac Pro. I can use my MacBook Pro, for example, to stream that music over WiFi and play it somewhere else in the house, albeit over laptop speakers. I jus...
ClickToFlash
Tired of Flash making Safari a resource hog? Install ClickToFlash. Do it now. ...
Saturday morning reboots
I woke up to find the power out to the outlets in my office. Noting briefly that I still haven't looked into getting an uninterruptible power supply to allow for graceful shutdowns, I set about booting some machines back up. Hitting power on the Ma...
iPhone 3GS + E92 BMW 335i via Bluetooth
I had been trying to pair my iPhone 3GS to my car for about 24 hours now. Having navigated my way through the menu systems on both the phone and the car, I figured it should be easy: just pick a PIN and enter it on both devices. And yet I failed. ...
iPhone: I bit the bullet
A year ago I decided to see whether I could get by with an iPod touch as a PDA. On the whole, that worked out pretty well. An additional benefit was that it let me stall for a while on my inevitable iPhone purchase. The lack of 3G network connecti...
