In a scathing indictment of Apple’s MobileMe service, the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg calls the service “far too flawed to be reliable.”
The US$99 per year service – which is supposed to push contacts, calendars and email from iPhone to computer – has been hobbling along on one leg since it’s admitted “rocky start” when [...]

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During Apple’s Q3 conference call Monday, along with App Store updates, Apple’s Chief Operating Officer, Tim Cook, announced that the iPhone 3G would launch in 20 more countries/regions on August 22nd, some six weeks after the initial 22 country launch back on July 11th.

While we’ve previously known that some 70+ countries would launch during 2008, [...]

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I wanted an easy way to download a single enclosure from a podcast feed everyday. I also didn’t want to use iTunes, because this download would need to sync with my Palm Centro for an alarm, and iTunes stinks at exporting things. So I used Automator and iCal to do it. I thought I would save someone else the trouble by listing the steps here. This is the feed URL I was interested in: http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510101 — the single enclosure is a daily poem in the form of an MP3 file.

Here are the Automator steps:

1. Internet » Get Specified URLs (here is where you put the feed URL)
2. Internet » Get Enclosure URLs from Articles
3. Internet » Download URLs (specify a folder to save the MP3 to)

That’s it! You now have the podcast without using any extra apps. I also have Automator (after a five-second pause) get the new file, rename it to daily poem, and move it to a new folder. It then gets synced to my Palm with the Missing Sync…

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TabView makes it possible to view and print PowerTab tablatures with your Mac.

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Version: 1.21
License: Shareware

Changes

In this version, MIDI playback can be paused. A Pause button is available among those that can be added to the toolbar.

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Unslow

[vpod.tv ctoudic/527221]

Everyone

[vpod.tv ctoudic/527213]

Work Friendly
[vpod.tv ctoudic/527205]

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This hint is for those who have a primary email address, say a@default.com, and would like to use this email address, but would like the ‘push’ aspects of their MobileMe account, say a@me.com. It would be useful to be able to send email from a MobileMe account, but have a@default.com show up by default as the From address. This hint is similar tothis previously-posted hint, in that one can set their primary email address to forward a copy to their MobileMe account. However, this previous hint does this, but only by subscribing to their MobileMe account as a standard IMAP account, which would not use push.

For this hint, one also needs an additional Gmail account (which may or may not be the primary email address) — assume this account is a@gmail.com. and one would need to subscribe to that within the iPhone as well. Under the Mai…

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If you’re like me, then you have multiple Macs with IR sensors in the same room. What happens when you push the menu button on your Apple remote? Chances are it will launch Front Row on every Mac in the room. I had this problem until I discovered Apple remote pairing.

To pair your remote with a specific Mac or Apple TV, just hold down the menu and the next (fast forward) buttons for 5 seconds making sure you’re within 5 inches of the IR sensor on the device.

You can unpair a remote by going into System Preferences (Apple menu > System Preferences) and click security. From the Security System Preference pane, select the “Unpair” button at the bottom the preference pane.

Lastly, you can disable the use of remotes all together. To do this, head back to the Security System Preference pane and click the check box labeled “Disable remote control infrared receiver.” This will keep rogue remotes away from your Mac.

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Easy to use nutrition tracking and analysis application for Mac OS X

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Version: 1.1
License: Shareware

Changes

Calories 1.1

Custom Foods

• Add your own foods to the food database
• Create new foods (recipes) from a collection of foods

Metric Measures

• Calories now supports gram and milliliter measures

Improved Reporting

• Nutrient inspector now shows nutrient averages for week, month and year for all nutrients
• Only past days are taken into account, current and future days, which are likely incomplete, don't distort the report

Printing

• Print your daily diet

Improved Search

• Much better search algorithm, find foods faster!

Localized Date & Time

• Dates are now shown in your language and date format
• Week starts now on Sunday or Monday, depending on your locale preferences

Relaxed Demo Limitation

• Only the number of foods in you journal counts, i.e. if you hit the 100 foods limitation, remove some foods from past days from your journal and continue using Calories

Automatic Updates

• Calories now incorporates the excellent Sparkle Framework for automatic updates

Further Enhancements

• Buy Online and Calories Registered menu items are now hidden, when registered

Bug Fixes

• No known bugs!

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I recently hooked up an Airport Express with speakers connected so that I could stream music to it from any of my computers. When I purchased it, I didn’t realize that by default OS X only lets you stream music from iTunes to it, not any application. I wanted to stream music over [...]

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iPod killers have come and gone, and come and gone, and come and well, lingered on like an unwanted wart. iPod killing is an old game and no one seems interested in displacing the thing anymore, now all attention has turned to creating an iPhone…

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